Environmental Politics and Policy

A Bibliography for Teaching and Research

Prepared by Dave Robertson, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Last Updated: August 4, 2009

Contents: Basic Texts and Overviews / Journals / Maps / Environmental History / Political Ecology / Economics and Sustainability * The Tragedy of the Commons / Science, Technology, & Risk / Philosophical Views and Commentary / Environmental Politics in the United States / U.S. Regions / The U.S. Conservation Movement / U.S.-Foreign Comparison / Federalism / Congress / Presidents /  Bureaucracy * U.S. Army Corps of Engineers *  Tennessee Valley Authority / Courts & Law / Media / Public Opinion /  Environmental Interests /  Greens / Labor, Unions, Employment & Environment /  Business / Energy * Coal * Oil * Solar Power * Nuclear Power * Electricity /  NEPA / Air Pollution / Global Warming / Water Resources * Missouri River * Mississippi River * Great Lakes * Wetlands * Oceans / Water Pollution / Toxics and Toxic Waste / Superfund / Nuclear Waste / Solid Waste / Land Use & Private Property / Sustainable Metropolitan Growth & Urban Sprawl / Forests / Public Lands / National Parks / Environmental Justice / Endangered Species & Biodiversity / Animal Rights / International & Comparative Problems and Policy Making / Population

Selected Environmental Politics & Policy websites

Basic Texts and Overviews

• Marc Allen Eisner, Governing the Environment: The Transformation of Environmental Regulation (Lynne Rienner, 2006).
• Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary O'Leary, Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities (MIT Press, 2004)
• Walter A. Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy, 7th ed. (CQ Press, 2007)
• Zachary Smith, The Environmental Policy Paradox, 4^th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2004)
• Michael E. Kraft, Environmental Policy and Politics, 3rd ed. (Longman, 2004)
• Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary O'Leary, eds., Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Cahllenges ,Choices, and Opportunities (MIT Press, 2004)
• Steven Cohen, Understanding Environmental Policy (Columbia UP, 2006).
• Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• Glen Sussman, Byron W. Danes, and Jonathan P. West, American Politics and the Environment (Longman, 2002)
• Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Environmental Policy, 5th ed.  (CQ Press, 2002)
• Nico Nelissen, Jan van der Straaten, and Leon Klinkner, eds., Classics in Environmental Studies: An Overview of Classic Texts in Environmental Studies (International Books, 1997)
• Lawrence S. Rothenberg, Environmental Choices: Policy Responses to Green Demands (CQ Press, 2002)
• Judith A. Layzer, The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy (CQ Press, 2002)
• David Howard Davis, American Environmental Politics (Nelson-Hall, 1998)
• Daniel J. Fiorino, The New Environmental Regulation (MIT, 2006)
• Lynton K. Caldwell and Robert V. Bartlett, eds., Environmental Policy : Transnational Issues and National Trends (Quorum Books. 1997).
• James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence, 2nd ed (Duke UP, 1995).
• Daniel J. Fiorino, Making Environmental Policy (California UP, 1995).
• Donald T. Wells, Environmental Policy: A Global Perspective for the Twenty-First Century (Prentice Hall, 1997)
   
• Lester Brown, et al, The State of the World (annual)
• World Resources Institute Earthtrends
• Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2^nd ed.,[comparative - Europe] (Cambridge UP, 2007)
• Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows, Limits to Growth (Chelsea Green, 2004)
• Mostafa K. Tolba, Saving Our Planet: Challenges and Hopes (Chapman and Hall, 1992)
• Council on Environmental Quality, Environmental Quality (U.S. Government Printing Office).
• European  Environmental  Agency, The European Environment: State and Outlook, 2005

 

Journals

• Environmental Politics
• Global Environmental Politics
• Environmental History
• Journal of Environmental Law
• Natural Resources Journal
• Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
• Energy Policy
• Environment and Planning
• Journal of Environmental Management
• Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
• Ecological Economics
• Ecology Law Quarterly
• Harvard Environmental Law Review
• EPA Journal
• Population and Environment
• Population
• Environment and Behavior
• Resources Policy
• Land Use Policy
• Marine Policy
• Food Policy
• Journal of Environment and Development
• Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy

 

Maps

• Conservation and Environment Maps, Library of Congress / EPA Enviromapper
• Charting North America: Maps from the Slaughter Collection (New York Public Library)
• World Resources Institute Earthtrends

 

Environmental History (see also specific topics)

• H-Environment / Environmental History Web Resources (Berkeley)
• Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz, eds., The Environment and World History (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009)
• Shepard Krech III, J.R. McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (Routledge, 2004)
• Adam Markham, A Brief History of Pollution (St. Martin's 1994).
• Richard N.L. Andrews, Managing the Environment, Managing  Ourselves:  A History of American Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. (Yale UP, 2006)
• Kendall E. Bailes, ed. Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective (Lanham, MD: 1985)
• Samuel P. Hays, Explorations in Environmental History: Essays by Samuel P. Hays (U of Pittsburgh, 1998)
• Char Miller and Hal Rothman, eds, Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh, 1997).
• Donald Worster, ed., The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History (Cambridge, 1988)
• Clive Ponting, A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilization (Penguin)
• John F. Richards, The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (U of California Press, 2003)
• Donald Worster, The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (Oxford, 1993).
• John Young, Sustaining the Earth: The Story of the Environmental Movement - Its Past Efforts and Future Challenges (Harvard, 1990)
   
• William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (W.W. Norton, 1991) and Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Hill and Wang, 1983; 20th anniversary ed., 2003)
• Carolyn Merchant, American Environmental History (Columbia U Press, 2007) and The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (Columbia UP, 2002).
• Samuel P. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the US, 1955-1985
• Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (Oxford UP, 2002).
• Martin Melosi, Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980)
• Daniel Eli Burnstein, Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City (U of Illinois Press, 2006).
• William Deverell and Greg Hise, ed., Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (U of Pittsburgh Press)
• Harold L. Platt, Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago (U of Chicago Press, 2004).
• John Opie, Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States (International Thomson Publishing, 1998)
• Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin, Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies (University of Washington Press, 1998)
• Virginia J. Scharff, ed., Seeing Nature Through Gender (U Press of Kansas, 2003).
• Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll, ed. "To Love the Wind and Rain:" African Americans and Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh Press)
• Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik, Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996) [Ballinger-Pinchot, Hetch Hetchy, Donora Smog]
• Andrew Kirk, Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalogue and American Environmentalism (UP of Kansas, 2007)
• Andrew Szasz, Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)
• Journals: Environmental History * Environment and History

 

Economics and Sustainability

• World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future [the Bruntland Report] (Oxford, 1987)
• President's Council on Sustainable Development, Towards a Sustainable America (1999)
• Joy E. Hecht, National Environmental Accounting: Bridging the Gap Between Ecology and Economy (Resources fo the Future, 2004)
• Mark Sagoff, Price, Principle, and the Environment (Cambridge UP, 2004)
• James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale UP, 2008)
  Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (Island Press/Shearwater, 2004)
• Robert L. Nadeau, The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics has Failed the Environment (Columbia UP, 2003)
• Ann Hooker Clarke, "Understanding Sustainable Development in the Context of Other Emergent Environmental Perspectives," Policy Sciences 35:1 (2002): 69-90
• Special issue, International Political Science Review, "The Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Concepts, Policies, and Arenas," 20:2 (April, 1999).
• Robert Costanza, ed., Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability (Columbia University Press, 1991).
• Wallace E. Oates, ed. The Economics of the Environment (Edwin Elgar, 1992).
• Douglas E. Booth, The Environmental Consequences of Growth: Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline (London: Routledge)
• Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
• Raino Malnes, Valuing the Environment (St. Martin's, 1995).
• James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale UP, 2008)
• Roger Dower et al, Frontiers of Sustainability: Environmentally Sound Agriculture, Forestry, Transportation, and Power Production (Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1997)
• Harmut Bossel, Earth at a Crossroads: Paths to a Sustainable Future (Cambridge UP, 1998).
• John F. Steiner and Stahrl Edmunds, "Economy-Ecology Conflict: Analysis, Examples, and Policy Approaches" in James E. Post, ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 3 (JAI Press, 1981).
• Frank Fischer and Michael Black, eds.  Greening Environmental Policy: The Politics of a Sustainable Future? (St. Martin's, 1995).
• Neil Cunningham and Peter Grabosky, with Darren Sinclair, Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy (Clarendon Press, 1998)
• Roger D. Congleton, ed., The Political Economy of Environmental Protection: Analysis and Evidence (University of Michigan Press, 1996)
• Lester W. Milbrath, Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our War Out (SUNY, 1990)
• Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (Random House, 1971).
• John S. Dryzek, Rational Ecology: Environment and Political Economy (Blackwell, 1987)
• Michael S. Greve and Fred L. Smith, eds., Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Greenwood, 1992)
• Terry L. Anderson and R. Donald Leal, Free Market Environmentalism (Pacific Research Institute, 1991)
• Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill, eds. The Political Economy of the American West (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994)
• American Behavioral Scientist, Special Issue on "Barriers to Wiser Agreements between Environmental and Economic Concerns, 42:8 (May, 1999).

 

The Tragedy of the Commons

• Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science 162 (December 13, 1968), 1243-1248.
• David Feeny et al, “The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-Two Years Later,” in Ken Conca, Michael Alberti, and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, eds., Green Planet Blues (Westview Press, 1995)
• John A. Baden and Douglas S. Noonan, Managing the Commons, 2^nd ed. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998)
• Susan J. Buck, The Global Commons: An Introduction (Island Press, 1998)
• Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990). 

 

Science , Technology, & Risk (& debates over the use of science in environmental issues)

• Kerry H. Whiteside, Precautionary Politics: Principle and Politics in Confronting Environmental Risk (MIT, 2006)
• Mark R. Powell, Science at EPA: Information in the Regulatory Process (Resources for the Future Press, 1999)Dade W. Moeller, Environmental Health, 3rd ed. (Harvard UP, 2004)
• Stephen Bocking, Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers UP, 2004)
• Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Cambridge UP, 2001)
• James Rogers Fleming and Henry A. Gemery, eds., Science, Technology, and the Environment: Mutlidisciplinary Perspectives (University of Akron Press, 1994).
• Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (Shearwater Books, 1998)
• Williams Leiss and Douglas Powell. 2004. Mad Cows and Mother's Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk Communication. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.

 

Philosophical and Ethical Views

• Andrew Dobson, Green Political Thought, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 1995)
• Charles Krebs, The Ecological World View (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008)
• Robert Goodin, Green Political Theory (Polity/Blackwell, 1992)
• Michael E. Zimmerman, ed., Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Prentice Hall, 1993)
• Joseph R. Des Jardins, Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy (Wadsworth, 1993)
• Holmes Rolston, Environmental Ethics (Temple, 1988)
• Bob Pepperman Taylor, Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America (UP of Kansas, 1992)
• Roderick Nash, A History of Environmental Ethics (Wisconsin, 1989)
• John McPhee, Encounters with the archdruid (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971)
• Robert Kirkman, Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science (Indiana UP, 2002)
• Catherine M. Raoch, Mother / Nature: Popular Culture and Environmental Ethics (Indiana UP, 2003)
• Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds., The Moral Authority of Nature (U of Chicago Press, 2003)
• Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (Oxford, 1949, 1968)
• Susan L. Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of and Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests (U of Wisconsin, 1974)
• Kurt Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work (U of Wisconsin Press, 1988)
• Michael Egan, Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism (MIT Press, 2007)
• John Barry, Environment and Social Theory (London: Routledge, 1999)
• Matthew Alan Cahn, Environmental Deceptions: The Tension Between Liberalism and Environmental Policymaking in the United States (SUNY)
• Marian R. Chertow and Daniel C. Esty, eds., Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (New Haven: Yale UP, 1997).
• David Oates, Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature (Oregon State UP, 2003)David Oates, Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature (Oregon State UP, 2003)
• J.E. Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford, 1987)
• Tom Regan, ed. (1984), Earthbound: New Introductory Essays in Environmental Ethics (Random House).
• Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (Harper and Row, 1980)
• Phillip F. Cramer, Deep Environmental Politics: The Role of Radical Environmentalism in Crafting American Environmental Policy (Praeger, 1998).
• Dave Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior (Crown Books).
• Ariel Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern (St. Martin's, 1997).
• Greta Gaard, Ecofeminism (Temple University Press, 1993).
• Karen J. Warren, ed., Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature (Inidana UP, 1997)
• Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein, Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism (Sierra Club, 1990).
• Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (SUNY, 1992).
• George Sessions, ed. Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism (Shambala)
• Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology (Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, 1985)
• Victor Ferkiss, Nature, Technology, and Society: The Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis (New York University Press, 1995).
• Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (SUNY, 1992).
• Dixy Lee Ray, Trashing the Planet (Regnery, 1990)
• Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
• Julian Simon, "Global Confusion, 1980: A Hard Look at the Global 2000 Report" The Public Interest (Winter, 1981)
   
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• Andrew McMurray, Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the System of Nature (U of Georgia Press, 2003)
• George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature: or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (C. Scribner and Co., 1864) and  The Earth as Modified by Human Action: A New Edition of Man and Nature (1878; Project Gutenberg Online text)
• David Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation (U of Wisconsin Press, 2000)
• Thurman Wilkins, John Muir: Apostle of Nature (Oklahoma, 1995).
• Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison, John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures (U of New Mexico Press, 2005)
• Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Penguin, 2007).
• Gordon K. Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist (Indiana University Press, 1995).
• Al Gore, Earth in the Balance (Houghton Mifflin, 1992)
   
• Roger S. Gottlieb, A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future (Oxford UP, 2006)
• Thomas R. Dunlap, Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as a Religious Quest (U of Washington Press, 2005)

• Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett, Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality (MIT Press, 2005)

Politics and Political Ecology

• Journal of Political Ecology
• Roderick P. Neumann, Making Political Ecology (Oxford UP, 2005)
• Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon, eds., Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups (Rutgers UP, 2004)
• Martin Nie, "Drivers of Natural Resources-Based Political Conflict," Policy Science 36 (2003): 307-341.
• Andrew Dobson and Derek Bell, eds., Environmental Citizenship (MIT Press, 2005)

 

Environmental Politics in the United States

• Walter Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy, 5th ed. (CQ Press, 2001)
• Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, Environmental Policy, 5th ed (CQ Press, 2002)
• David Howard Davis, American Environmental Politics (Nelson-Hall, 1998)
• James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence (Duke, 1989)
• Carolyn Merchant, ed., Major Problems in American Environmental History (D.C. Heath, 1993)
• Roderick Frazier Nash, American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History (McGraw-Hill, 1990)
• Michael J. Lacey, Government and Environmental Protection: Essays on Historical Developments Since World War II (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1991)
• Daniel J. Fiorino, Making Environmental Policy (University of California, 1995).
• J. Clarence Davies and Jan Mazurek, Regulating Pollution: Does the U.S. System Work? (Washington: Resources for the Future, 1997)
• David Vogel, Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 1995).
• Mark Dowie, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century (MIT Press, 1995)
• Bill Christofferson, The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator  Gaylord Nelson (U of Wisconsin  Press)
  
  Policy Process / Agenda Setting
• Anthony Downs, “Up and Down With Ecology: The ‘Issue-Attention Cycle,’” The Public Interest, 28 (Summer 1972), 38-50
• Robert Repetto, ed., Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy (Yale UP, 2006)

 

U.S. Regions and States

• William Cronin, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (WW Norton, 1991)
• Richard W. Judd and Christopher S. Beach, Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002).
• Dan Flores, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rock Mountains. (Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
• James Sherow, ed., A Sense of the West: An Environmental History Anthology (University of New Mexico Press, 1998).
• Stephen Trimble, The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin (University of Nevada Press, 1999).
• James W. Hulse, Nevada’s Environmental Legacy: Progress or Plunder (U of Nevada Press, 2009)
• Kathryn Morse, The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (University of Washington Press, 2003)

 

The U.S. Conservation Movement

• The Evolution of the U.S. Conservation Movement from the U.S. Library of Congress.
• Stradling, David, ed., Conservation in the Progressive Era (U of Washington Press, 2004)
• Stephen Fox,  The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986)
• David  Stradling, ed. Conservation in the  Progressive Era: Classic Texts (U of Washington Press, 2004)
• Char Miller, Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism (Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001).
• Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conservation (University of Washington, 1910) and Breaking New Ground (Harcourt, Brace, 1947).
• Harold K. Steen, ed., The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot (Forest History Society, 2001).
• Samuel P. Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920 (Harvard University Press, 1959).
• Robert Righter, The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism (Oxford UP, 2005)
• Brian Balogh, “Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot’s Path to Progressive Reform,” Environmental History 7:2 (April 2002): 198-225
• Elmo Richardson, The Politics of Conservation: Crusades and Controversies, 1897-1913 (University of California Press, 1962).
• Wallace Stegner, John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Houghton Mifflin, 1954).
• Donald Worster, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (Oxford UP, 2001)
• Donald C. Swain, Federal Conservation Policy, 1921-1931 (University of California Press, 1963)
• Whitney R. Cross, "W J McGee and the Idea of Conservation," Historian 15 (1953): 148-162.
• Louis S. Warren, The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale University Press, 1997).
• Douglas Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (HarperCollins, 2009)
• James L. Penick, Progressive Politics and Conservation: The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair (Loyola University Press, 1968)
• Lee Clark Mitchell, Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth Century Response (Princeton University Press, 1981)
• Edgar B. Nixon, ed. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911-1945 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1957)
• Sarah Phillips, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America and the New Deal (Cambridge U Press, 2007)
• A.L. Riesch Owen, Conservation Under F.D.R. (Praeger, 1983)
• Neil M. Maher, “A New Deal Body Politic: Landscape, Labor, and the Civilian Conservation Corps,” Environmental History 7:3 (July 2002): 435-461
• John F. Reiger, American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation, 3rd ed. revised (Oregon State UP, 2000)
• Mark V. Brown, Jr., “Science, Sentiment, and the Specter of Extinction: Reconsidering Birds of Prey during America’s Interwar Years,” Environmental History 7:1 (January 2002): 69-98
• Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 4th ed. (New Haven: Yale, 2001).
• Robin W. Winks, Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation (Island Press, 1997)

 

U.S. / Foreign Comparison

• Lyle A. Scruggs, "Institutions and Environmental Performance in Seventeen Western Democracies," British Journal of Political Science 29 (1999): 1-31.
• David Vogel, National Styles of Regulation : Environmental Policy in Great Britain and the United States (Cornell UP, 1986).
• John S. Dryzek, Christian Hunold, David Schlosberg, with David Downes and Hans-Kristian Hernes, “Environmental Transformation of the State: the USA, Norway, Germany, and the UK,” Political Studies 50:4 (September 2002): 659-682
• Cynthia H. Enloe, The Politics of Pollution in a Comparative Perspective (New York: David McKay, 1975)
• L. Lundqvist, The Hare and the Tortoise
• Susan Rose-Ackerman, Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States (Yale UP, 1995).

• Pradyumna P. Karan and Unryu Suganuma, eds., Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan (UP of Kentucky, 2008)

   

U.S. Constitution and Law

• Robert Meltz, Constitutional Bounds on Congress' Ability to Protect the Environment (Nova, 2003)
• David Wilkinson, Environment and Law (Routledge, 2002)
• Nancy K. Kubasek and Gary S. Silverman, Environmental Law (Prentice-Hall, 2007)
• Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles A. Caldart, Environmental Law, Policy and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda (MIT Press, 2008)

 

Federalism

• Lawrence S. Rothenberg, “National or Local Control? Conflicts over Environmental Federalism,” Ch. 6 in Environmental Choices: Policy Response to Green Demands (CQ Press, 2002)
• Peter J. May and Chris Koski. “State Environmental Policies: Analyzing Green Building Mandates.” Review of Policy Research 24:1 (January 2007): 49–65.
• Tomas M. Koontz, Federalism in the Forest: National versus State Natural Resource Policy (Georgetown UP, 2003)
• William Lowry, The Dimensions of Federalism: State Governments and Pollution Control Policies (Duke UP, 1992)
• Evan J. Ringquist, Environmental Protection at the State Level: Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution (M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
• Denise Scheberle, Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation 2nd ed. (Georgetown University Press, 2004)
• Neal D. Woods. “Interstate Competition and Environmental Regulation: A Test of the Race-to-the Bottom Thesis,” SocialScience Quarterly 87:1 (March 2006): 174-189
• Tomas M. Koontz, Federalism in the Forest: National versus State Natural Resource Policy (Georgetown UP, 2002)
• Richard L. Revesz, "Federalism and Environmental Regulation: A Public Choice Analysis," Harvard Law Review  115:2 (December 2001), 555-641.
• Wallace E. Oates and Robert M. Schwab, “Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing,” Journal of Public Economics 33(1988): 333-354.
• Kenneth M. Holland, F.L. Morton, and Brian Galligan, Federalism and the Environment: Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, and the United States (Greenwood, 1996)
• Zachary A. Smith, Environmental Politics and Policy in the West (Kendall Hunt, 1993)
• Dave Dempsey, Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader (U of Michigan Press, 2003)
• David M. Hedge and Michael J. Scicchitano, "Regulating in Space and Time: The Case of Regulatory Federalism," Journal of Politics 56:1 (February 1994).

 

 

Congress

Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives: Ways and Means, Appropriations, Commerce, Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure

Committees of the U.S. Senate: Finance, Appropriations & Subcommittees, Energy and Natural Resources, Environment and Public Works, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Commerce, Science, and Transportation

• Charles Milazzo, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972 (UP of Kansas, 2006).

• Bill Christofferson, The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson (U of Wisconsin Press, 2004)

• Steven C. Schulte, Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West (U of Colorado Press, 2002)

 

Presidents

• Council on Environmental Quality (1970)
• J. Brooks Flippen, Nixon and the Environment (U of New Mexico Press, 2000)
• Randall Lutter and Jason F. Shogren, Painting the White House Green: Rationalizing Environmental Policy Inside the Executive Office of the President (Resources for the Future, 2004)
• Jacqueline Vaughn and Hanna J. Cortner, George W. Bush's Healthy Forests: Reframing the Environmental Debate (UP of Colorado, 2005)
• Tarla Rae Peterson, ed., Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology (Texas A&M UP, 2004).

Bureaucracy

• U.S. Department of the Interior (1849) / U.S. Department of Agriculture (1889)
• The U.S. Forest Service (1905) / The National Park Service (1916)
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1940), The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (1946)
• Environmental Protection Agency (1970)
• Richard W. Waterman, Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004)
• Jeanne Nienaber Clarke and Daniel C. McCool, Staking Out the Terrain : Power and Performance among Natural Resource Agencies (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996)
• Marc J. Landy, Marc J. Roberts, and Stephen R. Thomas, The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong Questions, From Nixon to Clinton (Oxford, 1994).
• Steven Croley, "White House Review of Agency Rulemaking: An Empirical Investigation," University of Chicago Law Review 70:3 (Summer, 2003), 821-885
• Jeanne Neinaber Clarke and Daniel McCool, Staking Out the Terrain: Power and Performance Among Natural Resources Agencies, second ed. (SUNY, 1996)
• Robert F. Durant, The Greening of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change (Georgetown UP, 2007)

 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers / ACE Mississippi Valley Division / ACE Northwestern Division
• Arthur Maas, Muddy Waters: The Army Engineers and the Nation's  Rivers (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951)
• William H. Goetzmann, Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863 (Yale University Press, 1959).
• Forest G. Hill, Roads, Rails & Waterways: The Army Engineers and Early Transportation (University of Oklahoma Press, 1957).
• Charles F. O’Connell, Jr., “The Corps of Engineers and the Rise of Modern Management, 1827-1856,” in Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience, ed. Merritt Roe Smith (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985), pp. 87-116.
• Jamie W. Moore and Dorothy P. Moore. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Evolution of Federal Flood Plain Management Policy, (Boulder: University of Colorado Institute of Behavioral Science, 1989).
• Frank N. Schubert, ed. The Nation Builders: A Sesquicentennial History of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1838 1863, Fort Belvoir, Virginia: Office of History, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1988.
• Todd Shallat, Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (University of Texas Press, 1994).
• Paul K. Walker, Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775 1783, (Washington, D.C., Historical Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1981).

 

Tennessee Valley Authority

• The Tennessee Valley Authority  website
• Philip Selznick, TVA and the Grass Roots (University of California Press, 1949).
• Erwin C. Hargrove, Prisoners of Myth: The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990 (Princeton, 1994)
• Richard A. Colignon. 1996. Power Plays: Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the TVA. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• Steven M. Neuse, David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal (University of Tennessee Press, 1996).
• W. U. Chandler, Myth of TVA: Conservation and Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1933–1983 (1984).

• Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowny, TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area (U of Tennessee Press, 1982)

• Nancy L. Grant, TVA and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo (Uy of Tennessee Press, 1990)

 

Courts & Law

• Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law (U of Chicago Press, 2004)
• David Wilkinson, Environment and Law (Routledge: 2002)
• Thomas More Hoban and Richard Oliver Brooks, Green Justice: The Environment and the Courts (Westview, 1996)
• R. Shep Melnick, Regulation and the Courts (Brookings, 1983).

 

Media

• Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik, Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996)
• Thomas A. Birkland, After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1997).

 

Public Opinion

• Deborah Lynn Guber, The Grassroots of a Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment (MIT Press, 2003)

 

Interest Groups / Greens

• Christopher J. Bosso, Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (UP of Kansas, 2005)
• Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda-Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006)
• Robert J. Duffy, The Green Agenda in America Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty-First Century (U of Kansas Press, 2003).
• Stephen Fox,  The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986).
• John Miles, Guardians of the Parks: A History of the National Parks and Conservation Association (Taylor and Francis, 1995)
• Benjamin Kline, First Along the River: A Brief History of the US Environmental Movement, 3rd ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007;yh)
• Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006)
• Elizabeth Bomberg, Green Parties and Politics in the European Union (Routledge, 1998). Michael O'Neill, Green Parties and Political Change in Contemporary Europe: New Politics, Old Predicaments (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997)
• Greta Gaard, Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (Temple, 1998)
• Russell J. Dalton, The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe (Yale, 1994)
• Kenneth A. Gould, Allan Schnaiberg, and Adam S. Weinberg, Local Environmental Struggles: Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production (Cambridge UP, 1996).
• John C. Pierce, Mary Ann E. Steger, Brent S. Steel, and Nicholas P. Lovrich, Citizens, Political Communication, and Interest Groups: Environmental Organizations in Canada and the United States (Praeger, 1992)
• Anna Bramwell, The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West (Yale, 1994).
• Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer, Green Backlash: The History and Politics of the Environmental Opposition in the U.S. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997).
• Dick Rochardson and Chris Rootes, The Green Challenge: The Development of Green Parties in Europe (London: Routledge, 1995).
• Timothy Doyle, Environmental Movements in Majority and Minority Worlds (Rutgers UP, 2004).
• Thomas Bernauer and Ladina Caduff, "In Whose Interest? Pressure Group Politcs, Economic Competition and Environmental Regulation," Journal of Public Policy 24:1 (January-April 2004): 99-126

 

Labor, Unions, Employment and the Environment

• Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment / Apollo Alliance
• Brian Mayer, Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities (Cornell UP, 2008)
• Brian K. Obach, Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground MIT Press, 2004)
• Frederick H. Buttel, Charles C. Geisler, and Irving W. Wiswall, Labor and the Environment: An Analysis of and Annotated Bibliography on Workplace Environmental Quality in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1984)

• Brian Mayer, Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities (Cornell UP, 2008)

• Chad Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States  (U of North Carolina Press, 2008)

• Just Transition
• Worldwatch Institute, "Working for the Environment: A Growing Source of Jobs"
• Labour Environmental Alliance Society (Canada)

 

Business

• Michael E. Kraft and Sheldon Kamieniecki, eds., Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the American Political System (MIT Press, 2007).
• David  Vogel, The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility (Brookings Institution, 2005)
• David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell, eds., The Business of Global Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2004)
• Neil Cunningham, Robert A. Kagan, and Dorothy Thornton, "Social License and Environmental Protection: Why Businesses Ho Beyond Compliance," Law and Social Inquiry 29:2 (Spring, 2004): 307-342
• Joshua Karliner, The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization (Sierra Club, 1997).
• Alfred A. Marcus, "Business Demand for Regulation: An Exploration of the Stigler Hypothesis" in Post, James E. ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 13, (JAI Press, 1985).
• Thomas G. Marx, "Linking Political Strategy and Competitive Strategy: A Synthesis" in Post, James E. ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 13 (JAI Press, 1992).
• Russo, Michael V. (1992),"Managing Regulatory Tensions: Changing Patterns of Public Policies and Political Strategies" in Post, James E. ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 13, Greenwich: JAI Press, Inc
• Denis Smith, Business and the Environment (St, Martin's 1994).
• Livio D. Desimone and Frank Popoff, Eco-Efficiency: The Business Link to Sustainable Development (MIT, 1997)
• Bruce L. Hay, Robert M. Stavins, and Richard H.K. Vietor, eds., Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms (Resources for the Future, 2005)

 

Energy

• David Howard Davis, Energy Politics, 4th ed. (St. Martin's, 1993)
• Walter Rosenbaum, Energy, Politics, and Public Policy (CQ Press).
• Office of Technology Assessment, Building Energy Efficiency (1992)
• Bush Administration Energy Plan, 2001  
   
• Vaclav Smil, Energy in World History (Westview, 1994)
• David Lewis Feldman, ed. The Energy Crisis: Unresolved Issues and Enduring Legacies (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996)
• Martin V. Melosi, Coping With Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America, 1820-1980 (New York: Newberry Awards Records, 1985).
• John G. Clark, Energy and the Federal Government: Fossil Fuel Policies, 1900-1946 (U of Illinois, 1987)
• Richard H.K. Vietor, Energy Policy in America Since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations (Cambridge, 1984)
• Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryert, A History of Industrial Power in the US, 1789-1930
• Peter Huber and Mark Mills, The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, 2005)
• Ann Norton Greene, Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008)
   

Coal

• Barbara Freese, Coal:  A Human History (Perseus Publishing, 2003)
• James P. Johnson, The Politics of Soft Coal (Illinois, 1979).
• William Graebner, Coal Mining Safety in the Progressive Era: The Political Economy of Reform (U of Kentucky Press, 1976).
• John R. Bowman, Capitalist Collective Action: Competition, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Coal Industry (Cambridge, 1989)
• Price V. Fishback, Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930 (Oxford, 1992).
• Ben Fine, The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (Routledge, 1990).
• Andrew S. McFarland, Cooperative Pluralism: The National Coal Policy Experiment (Kansas, 1993)

 

Oil

• Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Simon and Schuster, 1990)
• Francisco Parra, Oil Politics: A Modern History of Petroleum (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
• G. John Ikenberry, Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (Cornell, 1988)

• Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien, Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry (U of North Carolina Press, 2000)

• David S. Painter, Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of US Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1986)

• Hugh S. Gorman, Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry (U of Akron Press, 2001)

• Robert Engler, The Brotherhood of Oil (1977)
• Norman E. Nordhauser, The Quest for Stability: Domestic Oil Regulation, 1917-1935 (New York: Garland, 1979)

• Karen Merrill, The Oil Crisis (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, forthcoming)

• Robert L. Bradley, Jr., Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).

• William R. Childs, The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Texas A&M University Press, 2005).

• David Prindle, Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission (U of Texas Press, 1981)

• Anthony Sampson, The Seven Sisters (Bantam Books, 1976)
• Jo Ann Stiles, Judith Linsley, and Ellen Rienstra, Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901 (Texas A&M University Press, 2001).
• John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle, The Gas Station in America (Johns Hopkins, 1994)
• Leonardo Maugeri, The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resource (Praeger, 2006)
• Jerry McBeath, Matthew Berman, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Mary F. Ehrlander, The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals Vs. the State (Lynne Reinner, 2008)
• Toyin Falola and Ann Genova, The Politics of the Global Oil Industry: An Introduction (Praeger, 2005)
• Jonathan C. Brown, Oil and Revolution in Mexico (U of California Press, 1993)
• Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and Bernadette West, Oil and Development in Venezuela during the 20th Century (Praeger, 2004)
   
• Paul R. Josephson, Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine (Johns Hopkins UP: 2007).

 

Solar Power

• Daniel M. Berman and John T. O'Connor, Who Owns the Sun? People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1997)

 

Nuclear Power

• Steven Mark Cohn, Too Cheap to Meter: A Economic and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuclear Dream (SUNY Press, 1997)
• Robert J. Duffy. 1997. Nuclear Politics In America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press)
• Brian Balogh, Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945-1975 (New York: Cambridge University Press)
• John L. Campbell: The Collapse of an Industry: Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy (Cornell, 1988)
• Thomas Raymond Wellock, Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 (U of Wisconsin, 1998).
• Joseph J. Morone and Edward J. Woodhouse, The Demise of Nuclear Energy? Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology (Yale UP, 1989)
• Joan Aron, Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant (U of Pittsburgh, 1998).

 

Electricity

• Mary M. Timney, Power for the People: Protecting States' Energy Policy Interests in an Era of Deregulation (M.E. Sharpe, 2005)
• Martha Caldwell Harris, ed. Energy Market Restructuring and the Environment: Governance and Public Goods in Globally Integrated Markets (University Press of America, 2002).

National Environmental Policy Act

• Matthew J. Lindstrom and Zachary A. Smith, The National Environmental Policy Act: Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference, and Executive Neglect (Texas A&M UP, 2001)

Air Pollution

• Charles O. Jones, Clean Air: The Policies and Politics of Pollution Control (Pittsburgh, 1975)
• Scott Hamilton Dewey, Don't Breathe The Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970 (Texas A&M UP, 2000)
• E. Melanie DuPuis, Smoke and Mirrors: the Politics and Culture of Air Pollution (New York UP, 2004)
• Gary C. Bryner, Blue Skies, Green Politics (CQ Press, 1993)
• James L. Regens and Robert W. Rycroft, The Acid Rain Controversy (Pittsburgh, 1988).
• Bruce A. Ackerman and William Hassler, Clean Coal/Dirty Air Or, How the Clean Air Act Became a Multibillion-dollar Bailout for High Sulphur Coal Producers and What Should Be Done About It (Yale UP, 1981)
• R. Shep Melnick, Regulation and the Courts (Brookings, 1983).
• Sudhir Chella Rajan, The Enigma of Automobility: Democratic Politics and Pollution Control (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996).
• Douglas S. Eisinger, Smog Check: Science, Federalism, and the Politics of Clean Air (Resources for the Future, 2009)
• Wyn P. Grant, Autos, Smog and Pollution Control: The Politics of Air Quality Management in California (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995)
• Stephen Mosley, The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian  Manchester (Routledge, 2008)

 

Climate Change / Global Warming

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• IPCC 2007 Report: The Physical Science Basis / Mitigation / Policy-Makers' Summaries: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities
• IPCC 2001 Policy Makers’ Summaries: The Scientific Basis / Impacts / Mitigation
• Stewart J. Cohen with Melissa W. Waddell, Climate Change in the 21st Century (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2009)
• Kerry Emanuel, What We Know About Climate Change (MIT Press, 2007)
• Ernesto Zedillo, ed. Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto (Brookings, 2007)
• Barry G. Rabe, “Beyond Kyoto: Climate Change Policy in Multilevel Governance Systems” Governance 20:3 (July 2007): 423–444

• Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Bloomsbury USA, 2006)

• David G. Victor, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Princeton UP, 2004)

• David G. Victor, Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options (Brookings Institution, 2004)
• James Gustave Speth, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, 2^nd ed. (Yale UP, 2005)
• David Michel, ed., Climate Policy for the 21st Century (Brookings Institution, 2004)
• Warwick J. McKibben and Peter Wilcoxen, Climate  Change after Kyoto: Blueprint for a Realistic Approach (Brookings Institution, 2002)
• Barry G. Rabe, Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Stealth Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings, 2003)
• James Gustav Speth, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (Yale UP, 2004)
• Spencer R. Weart, The Discovery of Global Warming (Harvard University Press, 2003)
• Mark Lynas, High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis (Picador, 2004).
• John Theodore Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing (Cambridge UP, 1997)
• Ross Gelbspan, Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster (Basic, 2004)

• Jon Birger Skjaerseth and Tora Skodvin, Climate Change and the Oil Industry: Common Problems, Different Strategies (Manchester UP, 2004).

• Ross Gelbspan, The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997).
• John Firor, The Changing Atmosphere: A Global Challenge (Yale UP, 1990).
• Ian H. Rowlands, The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change (St. Martin's, 1995).
• Matthew Paterson, Global Warming and Global Politics (Routledge, 1996).
• J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks,  A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politcs, and Climate Policy (MIT Press, 2006)
• Stephen H. Schneider, Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose (Basic, 1997)
• Thomas Schelling, "Some Economics of Global Warming," American Economic Review 82:1 (March, 1992), 1-14
• Jon Birger Skjaeseth and Tora Skodvin, Climate Change and the Oil Industry (Manchester UP, 2003)
• Jeremy K. Leggett, The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of  the Oil Era (Routledge, 2001)
• William F. Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (Princeton UP, 2005)

 

Water Resources

• Donald J. Pisani, To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1948-1902 (U of New Mexico Press, 1992); Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920 (UP of Kansas, 1996) and Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 (U of California Press, 2002)
• U.S. Department of the Interior, The Bureau of Reclamation: Origins and Growth to 1945

• Daniel McCool, Command of the Waters : Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development, and Indian Water (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987). 

  Karen M. O'Neill, Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control  (Duke UP, 2006).
• William M. Lewis, Jr., ed., Water and  Climate in the Western United States (UP of Colorado, 2003)
• Diane Raines Ward, Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst (New York: Riverhead Books, 2002)
• Peter Rogers, America's Water: Federal Roles and Responsibilities (MIT Press, 1993)
• Douglas Helms and Susan L. Flader, eds. The History of Soil and Water Conservation  (Agricultural History Society, 1985)
• Andrew A. Dzurik, Water Resources Planning, rev. ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).
• William R. Lowry, Dam Politics: Restoring America's Rivers (Georgetown UP, 2003)
• John Warfield, Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park (Pantheon Books, 2005)
• Patrick McCully, Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams (London: Zed Books, 1997).
• Howard R. Ernst, Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science , Politics, and the Struggle to Save the Bay (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
• Theodore Steinberg, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (U of Massachusetts, 1994)
• Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West (Pantheon, 1985)
• Daniel Tyler, Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts (U of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
• Michael C. Robinson, Water for the West: The Bureau of Reclamation (Chicago: Public Works Historical Society, 1979)

• Norris Hundley Jr., The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West, 2nd ed. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009)

• Daniel C. McCool, ed., Waters of Zion: The Politics of Water in Utah, (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1995).

• John. O. Baxter. 1997. Dividing New Mexico's Waters, 1700-1912 (U of New Mexico Press).
   
• Vivienne Bennett, The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996).
• Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller, Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions (McGill-Queens UP, 2008)
• Mark Cioc, The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 (U of Washington Press, 2005)
• Andrew C. Mertha, China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change (Cornell UP, 2008)
   

Missouri River

• Bill Lambrecht, Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River (St. Martin's 2005)
• N.G. Benson, ed. The Missouri River: Their Resources; Their Uses, and Values (American Fisheries Society, North Central Division, 1988).
• John E. Thorson, River of Promise, River of Peril: The Politics of Managing the Missouri River (University of Kansas Press, 1994).
• Robert Kelley Schneiders, Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri (University Press of  Kansas, 1999) and Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone and Upper Missouri (University Press of  Kansas, 2003).
• Daniel B. Botkin, Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark.  New York: G. Putnam and Sons, 1995.
• Peter Carrels, Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War  (U of Nebraska Press, 1999).
• Lawson, Michael.  Damned Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980.  Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1982.
• National Research Council [Committee on Missouri River Ecosystem Science, Water Science and Technology Board].  The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery.  (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2002) <http://www.nap.edu/books/0309083141/html>
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  Missouri River Main Stem Reservoir System Reservoir Regulation Manual [the “Master Manual”]  (Omaha: U.S. Army Engineer Division, Missouri River Corps of Engineers, 1988).
• U.S. General Accounting Office.  Water Resources: Corp’s Management of the Ongoing Drought in the Missouri River Basin, GAO/RCED-92-4 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1992).

 

Mississippi River

• Mississippi River Research Consoritium / Mississippi River Basin Alliance / Louisiana Universities Marine Consotium
• Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History," in The Frontier in American History (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967).
• Calvin R. Fremling, Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times ( U of Wisconsin Press)
• John O. Anfinson, The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi (U of Minnesota Press, 2003).
• John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997).
• Andrew H. Malcolm, Mississippi Currents: Journeys Through Time and a Valley (Morrow, 1997)

 

Gulf of Mexico / Eutrophication

• Joan Iverson Nassauer, Mary V. Santelmann, and Donald Scavia, eds., From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental  Implications of Alerternative Agricultural Futures (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007)

 

Great Lakes 

• Great Lakes Research Consortium / Great Lakes Information Network
• Dave Dempsey, On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century (Michigan State UP, 2004)
• Terence Kehoe, Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation (Northern Illinois UP, 1997)
• William Ashworth, The Late, Great Lakes: An Environmental History  (Wayne State UP, 1987)
• Margaret Beattie Bogue, Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933 (U of Wisconsin Press, 2000)
• Clifford  H. Mortimer, Lake Michigan in Motion: Responses of  An Inland Sea to Weather, Earth-Spin, and Human Activities (U of Wisconsin Press)

 

Everglades

• Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
• Marion Belanger, Everglades: Outside and Within (U of Georgia Press, 2009)

• Jack E. Davis, An Everglades Province: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century (U of Georgia Press, 2009)

  Lance Gunderson and Stephen S. Light. “Adaptive Management and Adaptive Governance in the Everglades Ecosystem.” Policy Analysis 39:4 (December 2006): 323-334.

 

Wetlands

• William M. Lewis, Wetlands Explained : Wetland Science, Policy, and Politics in America (Oxford UP, 2001)
• Ronald Keith Gaddie, James L. Regens, Regulating Wetlands Protection: Environmental Federalism and the States (State University of New York Press, 1999)
• Ann Vileisis, Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands (Island Press, 1999)

 

Oceans

• NOAA Ocean Explorer
• Dorrik Stow, Oceans: An Illustrated Reference (U of Chicago Press, 2005)
• Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea (Island Press, 2007)
• Rosemay E. Ommer, Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring Social-Ecological Health (McGill-Queens UP, 2007)
• Biliana Cecin-Sain and Robert W. Knecht, The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy: Choices for the Next Century (Island Press, 1999).
• Elisabeth Mann Borgese, The Oceanic Circle: Governing the Seas as a Global Resource (United Nations University Press, 1999)
• Boyce Thorn-Miller, The Living Ocean: Understanding and Protecting Marine Biodiversity (Island Press, 1999)
• Rögnvaldur Hannesson, The Privatization of the Oceans (MIT Press, 2004)
• Peter M. Haas, Saving the Mediterranean: The Politics of International Environmental Cooperation (Columbia University Press, 1990)

 

Water Pollution

• Center for Watershed Protection / Nonpoint eduction for municipal officials
• Susan Hunter and Richard W. Waterman, Enforcing the Law: The Case of the Clean Water Acts (M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
• Bruce M. Owen, David A. Argue, Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth, Gloria J. Hurdle, and Gale Mosteller, The Economics of a Disaster: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (Greenwood Press, 1995).
• Werner Troesken, Water, Race, and Disease (MIT Press, 2004)

 

Toxics & Toxic Waste

• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962)
• Priscilla Coit Murphy. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring (U of Massachusetts Press, 2005)
• Ronald Brickman, Sheila Jasanoff, and T. Ilgen, Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the United States (Cornell, 1985)

• James T. Hamilton, Regulation through Revelation: The Origin, Politics, and Impacts of the Toxics Release Inventory Program (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

• Bruce E. Johansen, The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future (Praeger, 2003)
• Peter N. Skinner and Craig E. Colten, The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste Before EPA (U of Texas Press, 1995)
• Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (University of California Press, 2002)
• Christian Warren, Brush With Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000)
• Werner Troesken, The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster (MIT Press, 2006).
• Devra Davis, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution (Basic Books, 2002)
• Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (Cambridge UP, 2001)
• Michael R. Reich, Toxic Politics: Responding to Chemical Disasters (Cornell, 1991)
• James P. Lester and Ann O'M. Bowman, The Politics of Hazardous Waste Management (Duke, 1983).
• Leonard G. Cole, Element of Risk: The Politics of Radon (Oxford, 1993).
• Thomas Shevory, Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle Against the WTI Incinerator (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Love Canal

• Elizabeth D. Blum, Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism (UP of Kansas, 2008)
• Adeline G. Levine, Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People (Lexington, 1982).
• Peter Neushul, "Love Canal: A Historical Review," Mid-America 69 (Oct, 1987)
• Norman Nosenchuck, "New York: The Cleanup of Love Canal," EPA Journal 11

Superfund and Hazardous Waste Siting

• John F. Mahon, "Corporate Political Strategies: An Empirical Study Of Chemical Firm Responses To Superfund Legislation" in James E. Post, ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 3, (JAI Press, 1983).
• Robert T. Nakamura and Thomas W. Church, Taming Regulation: Superfund and the Challenge of Regulatory Reform (Brookings, 2003)
• Daniel Mazmanian and David Morell, Beyond Superfailure: America's Toxics Policy for the 1990s (Westview, 1992)
• Harold C. Barnett, Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma (U of North Carolina Press, 1994)
• Barry G. Rabe, Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States (Brookings, 1994)
• Don Munton, ed., Hazardous Waste Siting and Democratic Choice (Georgetown University Press, 1996)

Pesticides

• Christopher Bosso, Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue (1987)
• Pete Daniel, Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World Ward II South (LSU Press, 2005)
• John Wargo, Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Use from Pesticides (Yale, 1996)
• Mark L. Winston, Nature Wars: People vs. Pests (Harvard UP, 1997)
• Joshua Blu Buhs, The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America (U of Chicago Press, 2004)

 

Nuclear Waste

• Riley E. Dunlap, Michael E. Kraft, and Eugene A. Rosa, eds., Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views of Repository Siting (Duke University Press, 1993).
• Joseph V. Rees, Hostages of Each Other: The Transformation of Nuclear Safety since Three Mile Island (University of Chicago, 1994)
• James Flynn et al., One Hundred Centuries of Solitude: Redirecting America's High-Level Nuclear Waste Policies (Westview, 1995)
• Jeffrey S. Hill and Carol S. Weissert, "Implementation and the Irony of Delegation: The Politics of Low-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal," Journal of Politics 57 (May, 1995).

 

Solid Waste & Sanitation

• Ecycle Missouri

• Martin Melosi, Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, 1880-1980 (Texas A&M UP, 1981); “Down in the Dumps: Is There a Garbage Crisis in America?" Journal of Policy History 5 (1993): 100-127; The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America  from Colonial Times to the Present (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000); Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2001)

• John Duffy, The Sanitarians: A History of the American Public Health (U of Illinois Press, 1990)
• Daniel Eli Burnstein, Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City (U of Illinois Press, 2006)
• Larry S. Luton, The Politics of Garbage, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).
• Matthew Grandy, Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste (St. Martin's, 1994).
• Daniel Imhoff and Roberto Carra, Paper or Plastic? Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World (Sierra Club Books, 2004)
• John Tierney, "Recycling is Garbage," New York Times Magazine, June 30, 1996, pp. 24ff.
• Frank Ackerman, Why Do We Recycle? Markets, Values, and Public Policy (Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1997)

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Land Use & Private Property

• John C. Weaver, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 (Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2006)
• Anne Mackin, Americans and Their Land (U of Michigan Press, 2006)
• Douglas Helms and Susan L. Flader, eds. The History of Soil and Water Conservation  (Agricultural History Society, 1985)
• Jamie L. Bronstein, Land Reform and Working Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 (Stanford UP, 1999)
• Paul W. Gates, Allan G. Bogue and Margaret B. Bogue, eds., The Jeffersonian Dream: Studies in the History of American Land Policy and Development (University of New Mexico Press, 1996).
• Steven Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth Century America (Hill & Wang, 2002)
• Agricultural History Society
• Geoff Cunfer, On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment (Texas A&M UP, 2005)
• J. L. Anderson, Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945–1972 (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008)
• Joan Iverson Nassauer, Mary V. Santelman, and Donald Scavia, eds. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Evironmental Implicaitons of Alternative Energy Futures (Resources for the Fture, 2007)
• Terence J. Centner, Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape (U of Illinois Press, 2004)
• Philip L. Jackson  and Robert  Kuhlken, A Rediscovered Frontier: Land Use and Resource Issues in the New  West (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)
• Elizabeth Glass Geltman, Recycling Land: Understanding the Legal Landscape of Brownfield Development (U of Michigan, 1997).
• Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley, eds., A Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996)
• Harvey M. Jacobs, ed. Who Owns America? Social Conflict over Property Rights. (U of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
• John Echeverria and Raymond Booth Ely, eds., Let the People Judge: Wise Use and the Private Property Rights Movement (Island Press, 1995)
• Bruce Yandle, Land Rights: The 1990s Property Rights Rebellion (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995)
• Martin A. Garrett, Jr., Land Use Regulation: The Impacts of Alternative Land Use Rights (Greenwood, 1987).
• Richard Brewer, Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America (Dartmouth College / University Press of New England, 2003).
• William A. Fischel, Regulatory Takings: Law, Economics, and Politics (Harvard University Press, 1995).
• Richard Allen Epstein, Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard, 1985)
• Ellen Frankel Paul, Property Rights and Eminent Domain (Transaction, 1987).
• Douglas R. Porter, Managing Growth in America's Communities (Island Press, 1997).
• Rutherford H. Platt, Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy (Island Press, 1997).
• Alfred Runte, Allies of the Earth: Railroads And the Soul of Preservation (Truman State UP, 2006).

 

Sustainable Metropolitan Growth & Urban Sprawl

• President's Council on Sustainable Development - Final Report
• Northwest Environment Watch / Smart Growth Online
• U.S. Green Building Council
• Matthew E. Kahn, Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment  (Brookings, 2006)
• Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
• Russ Lopez and H. Patricia Hynes, "Sprawl in the 1990s: Measurement, Distribution, and Trends," Urban Affairs Review 38:3 (January 2003): 325-355
• Gregory D. Squires, ed. Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses (Urban Institute Press, 2002)
• Wim Wiewel and Joseph Persky, Suburban Sprawl: Private Decisions and Public Policy (M.E. Sharpe, 2002)
• Elizabeth A. Johnson and Michael W. Klemens, Nature in Fragments: The Legacy of Sprawl (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).
• Donald Shoup, The High Cost of Free Parking (U of Chicago Press, 2005).
• Dom Nozzi, Road to Ruin: An Introduction to Sprawl and How to Cure It (Praeger Publishers, 2003)
• Peter Calthorpe, William Fulton, Robert Fishman, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl (Island Press, 2001)
• Alex Marshall, How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken (U of Texas Press, 2001)
• Jonathan Barnett, The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region (Harper Collins, 1995).
• Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie, Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl (Henry Holt & Co., 1997)
• Douglas Kelbaugh, Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design
• Timothy Beatley and Kristy Manning, The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy and Community (Island Press, 1997)
• Richard Hogan, The Failure of Planning: Permitting Sprawl in San Diego Suburbs, 1970-1999 (Ohio State U Press, 2003).
• John Punter, The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design (U of British Columbia Press, 2003).
• Robert D. Bullard, ed., Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (MIT Press, 2007)
• Robert J. Johnston and Stephen K. Swallow, eds., Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy (Resources for the Future, 2006)

 

Forests

• Char Miller, ed., American Forests: Nature, Culture, Politics (U of Kansas, 1997).
• William G. Robbins, Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the United States Lumber Industry, 1890-1941 (Texas A & M Press, 1982)
• Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgment (U of Chicago Press, 2006)
• Catherine Henshaw Knott, Living with the Adirondack Forest: Local Perspectives on Land Use Conflicts (Cornell University Press, 1998).

• James Willard Hurst, Law and Economic Growth: The Legal History of the Lumber Industry in Wisconsin, 1836-1915 (Belknap Press, 1964)

• Paul W. Hirt, Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests Since World War II (University of Nebraska Press, 1994)
• Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006).
• Susan R. Schrepfer, The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of the Environmental Reform, 1917-1978 (U of Wisconsin Press, 2003).
• David Harris, The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California's Ancient Redwoods (Sierra Club, 1996).
• Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (U of Washington Press, 1995)
• Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis (U of Chicago Press, 2002)
• Alston Chase, In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology (Houghton Mifflin)
• William B. Botti and Michael D. Moore, Michigan's State Forests: A Century of Stewardship (Michigan State UP, 2006)
• Agnes M. Larson, The White Pine Industry in Minnesota: A History (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)

 

Public Lands

• Paul Wallace Gates, History of Public Land Law Development (Washington: GPO: 1968) and Fifty Million Acres: Conflicts Over Kansas Land Policy, 1854-1890 (Atherton Press, 1966)
• Roy M. Robbins, Our Landed Heritage: The Public Domain, 1776-1936 (Princeton University Press, 1942).
• Christopher McGrory Klyza, Who Controls Public Lands? Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
• Gordon Morris Bakken, The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects (University of New Mexico Press, 2008)
• Paul Culhane, Public Lands Politics: Interest Group Influence on the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management
• James Willard Hurst, Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century United States (U of Wisconsin Press, 1956)

• Martin Nie, The Governance of Western Public Lands: Mapping Its Present and Future (UP of Kansas, 2008)

• Marion Clawson, The Land System of the United States (U of Nebraska Press, 1968) and The Federal Lands Revisited (Johns Hopkins UP, 1983).
• Everett Dick, The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal (U of Nebraska Press, 1970)
• Daniel Feller, The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics (U of Wisconsin Press, 1984)
• Malcolm J. Rohrbough, The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837 (Oxford UP, 1968)
• E. Louise Peffer, The Closing of the Public Domain: Disposal and Reservation Policies, 1900-1950 (Stanford UP, 1951)
• Karen Merrill, Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property between Them (U of California Press, 2002)
• Robert H. Nelson, Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995)
• Charles Davis, ed., Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997)
• R. McGreggor Cawley, Federal Lands, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993).
• C. Brant Short, Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984 (Texas A&M UP, 1989)
• William K. Wyant, Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement (U of California Press, 1982).
• Brent S. Steel, ed., Public Lands Management in the West (Praeger, 1997).
• Philip Foss, Politics and Grass: The Administration of Grazing on the Public Domain (Seattle: U of Washington Press, 1960).
• Wesley Calef, Private Grazing and Public Lands: Studies of the Local Managment of the Taylor Grazing Act (University of Chicago Press, 1960).
• Dorothy Bradley and Helen Ingram, "Science vs. the Grass Roots: Representation in the Bureau of Land Management," Natural Resources Journal (Summer, 1986).
• William Perry Pendley, The War on the West: The Fight for Survival on America's Great Frontier (Regnery Publishing, 1994).
• Paul F. Starrs, Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 1998).
• John A. Baden and Donald Snow, eds. The Next West: Public Lands, Community, and Economy in the American West (Island Press, 1997)
• Charles Wilkinson, Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (Island Press, 1994).

National Parks & Wilderness

• Lary M. Dilsaver, America's National Park System: The Critical Documents (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994).
• William R. Lowry, The Capacity for Wonder: Preserving National Parks (Brookings. 1994)

• Richard Grusin, Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks (Cambridge UP, 2004)

• Alfred Runte, National Parks: The American Experience (U of Nebraska Press, 1979).

• Richard Sellars, Preserving Nature in National Parks (Yale UP, 1997).

• Kathy S. Mason, Natural Museums: U.S. National Parks, 1872-1916 (Michigan State University Press, 2004).

• Polly Welts Kaufman, National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History (U of New Mexico Press, 1996)

• Gary E. Machlis and Donald R. Field, eds., National Parks and Rural Development: Practice and Policy in the United States (Island Press, 2000).

• Mark Daniel Barringer, Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature (UP of Kansas, 2002).
• Judith L. Meyer, The Spirit of Yellowstone: The Cultural Evolution of a National Park (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996)
• Stephen J. Pyne, How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History (New York: Viking, 1998).
• Robert Righter, Crucible for Conservation: The Creation of Grand Teton National Park (Colorado Associated University Press, 1982).
   
• Russell Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, Patricio Robles Gil, John Pilgrim, Gustavo Fonseca, Thomas Brooks, and William R. Konstant, Wilderness: Earth’s Last Wild Places (University of Chicago Press, 2003).
• Craig Allen, The Politics of Wilderness Preservation (Greenwood Press, 1982).

• Michael P. Nelson and J. Baird Callicott, The Wilderness Debate Rages On: Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate (U of Georgia Press, 2009)

• Craig W. Allin, The Politics of Wilderness Preservation (U of Alaska Press, 2008)
• Doug Goodman and Daniel McCool, eds., Contested Landscape: the Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1999)
• Paul S. Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (U of Washington  Press, 2002)
• Mark Harvey, Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act (U of Washington Press,  2005)

• Analysis of Crude Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Roger Kaye, Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (U of Alaska Press, 2006)

 

Environmental Justice

• Environmental Justice Resource Center / EPA Office of Environmental Justice
• Environmental Justice journal
• David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
• M. Schootman, E.M. Andresen, F.D. Wolinsky, T.K. Malmstrom, J.P. Miller, and D.K. Miller, “Neighborhood conditions and risk of incident lower-body functional limitations among middle-aged African Americans,” American Journal of Epidemiology 163:5 (2006 Mar 2006):450-458.
• Edwardo Lao Rhodes, Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm (Indiana UP, 2003)
• Christopher Foreman, The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice (Washington: Brookings, 1998).
• David E. Camacho, ed., Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998).
• Commission for Racial Justice, Toxic Wastes and Race: A National Report on the Racial and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites (New York: United Church of Christ, 1987).
• Daniel Faber, ed., The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States (New York: Guilford Press, 1998)
• Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (Crown Publishers, 1995)
• Barabara L. Allen, Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor  (MIT Press, 2003)
• David Naguib Pellow, Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (MIT press, 2002)
• Steve Lerner, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Lousiana's Chemical Corridor (MIT, 2004).
• J. Tom Boer, Manuel Pastor, Jr., James L. Sadd, and Lori D. Snyder, "Is There Environmental Racism? The Demographics of Hazardous Waste in Los Angeles County," Social Science Quarterly 78:4 (December, 1997): 793-810.
• Evan J. Ringquist, "Equity and the Distribution of Environmental Risk: The Case of TRI Facilities," Social Science Quarterly 78:4 (December, 1997): 811-829.
• U.S. General Accounting Office, Hazardous and Nonhazardous Waste: Demographics of People Living Near Waste Facilities (U.S. GPO, 1995).
• Michael L. Edelstein, Poisoned Places: Seeking Environmental Justice in a Contaminated World (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998).
• Andrew Hurley, Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
• Robert D. Bullard, ed. Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (Sierra Club Books)
• Robert D. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (Westview, 1994).
• Robert D. Bullard, ed., Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (South End Press)
• Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz, eds., Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995)
• Bunyan Bryant, ed. Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, Solutions (Island Press, 1995)
• Bunyan Bryant and Paul Mohai, eds., Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992)
• "Special Issue on Toxic Torts and Environmental Justice," ed. Steve Kroll-Smith and Saundra D. Westervelt, Lwa & Policy 26:2
• Jim Schwab, Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America (Sierra Club Books, 1994)
• Andrew Szasz, Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and The Movement for Environmental Justice (University of Minnesota)

 

Endangered Species / Biodiversity

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program / Marine Mammal Commission
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Hal Glen Borland, The History of Wildlife in America (National Wildlife Federation, 1975).
• Shannon C. Petersen, Acting for Endangered Species: The Statutory Ark (UP of Kansas, 2002)
• Niles Eldredge, Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis (Princeton, 1998).
• Anthony B. Anderson and Clinton N. Jenkins, Applying Nature's Design: Corridors as a strategy for Biodiversity Conservation (Columbia UP, 2006)
• Craig W. Thomas, Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity (MIT Press, 2003)
• Richard J. Tobin, The Expendable Future: U.S. Politics and the Protection of Biological Diversity (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990).
• David Takacs, The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise (Johns Hopkins, 1996).
• Vandana Shiva, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (Boston: South End Press, 1997).
• Timothy M. Swanson, ed., The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
• Thomas Dunlap, Saving America's Wildlife (Princeton, 1988)
• Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Cambridge UP, 2000).
• Michael Robinson, Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves  and the Transformation of t he West (UP of Colorado, 2005)
• Elizabeth Hanson, Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos (Princeton UP, 2002)
• William J. Snape III, ed., Biodiversity and the Law (Island Press, 1995)
• Francesca Griffo and Joshua Rosenthal, eds., Biodiversity and Human Health (Island Press, 1997)

 

Biotech and Genetic Engineering

• Dave Toke, The Politics of GM Food: A Comparative Study of the UK, USA, and EU (London: Routledge, 2004)
• Lisa Nicole Mills, Science and Social Context: The Regulation of Recombitant Bovine Growth Hormone in North America (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002)
• Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr., First the Seed: The  Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, second ed. (U of Wisconsin Press)

 

Animal Rights

• Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Men, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy (New York: St. Martin's, 2002)
• Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (U of California, 1983).
• Peter Singer and Tom Regan, eds., Animal Rights and Human Obligations (Prentice Hall, 1976).

 

International Problems and Policy Making / Comparative Problems and Policy Making

• United Nations Environment Programme / Commission for Environmental Cooperation for North America
• Miranda Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. Van Deveer, eds., Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2009)
• Dennis L. Soden and Brent S. Steel, eds., Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration (NY & Basel: Marcel Dekker, 1999).
• Sheilan Jasanoff and Marybeth Long Martello, eds., Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2004)
• John C. Dernbach, ed. Stumbling Toward Sustainability (Washington: Environmental Law Institute, 2002)
• Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives, and Practice (CQ Press, 2003)
• Gareth Porter and Janet Welsh Brown, Global Environmental Politics, 2nd ed. (Westview, 1995)
• Richard J. Smith, Negotiating Environment and Science: An Insider's View of International Agreements, from Driftnets to Space Stations (Resources for the Future, 2009).
• Daniel C. Esty and Maria H. Ivanova, eds. Global Environmental Governance: Options & Opportunities (Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 2002)
• Luc Ferry, The New Ecological Order (Chicago, 1995). [Deep Ecology]
• Rodney R. White, North, South, and the Environmental Crisis (Toronto, 1993).
• Paul G. Harris, ed, The Environment, International Relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Georgetown UP, 2002)
• Otmar Höll, Environmental Cooperation in Europe (Westview Press, 1994)
• Udai Desai, ed., Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries (SUNY Press, 1997)
• Craig N. Murphy, International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850 (Oxford, 1994)
• Oran Young, International Governance: Protecting the Environment in a Stateless Society (Cornell UP).
• Tony Brenton, The Greening of Machiavelli: The Evolution of International Environmental Politics (London: Earthscan Publications, 1994).
• Stephen O. Anderson and K. Madhava, Protecting the Ozone Layer: The United Nations History. (London: Earthscan Publications, 2003).
• John E. Carroll, ed., International Environmental Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
• Jessica Tuchman Matthews, ed., Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership (Norton, 1991)
• Ken Conca, Michael Alberty, and Geoffry D. Dabelko, eds., Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg, 3rd ed. (Westview Press, 2004).
• Marvin S. Soroos, Beyond Sovreignty: The Challenge of Global Policy (University of South Carolina Press, 1986)
• Timothy Swanson, Global Action for Biodiversity: An International Framework for Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (Island Press, 1997).
• Theme Issue: Red, White, and Green: Canada-U.S. Environmental Relations, American Review of Canadian Studies 27:3 (Autumn, 1997).
• Carolyn Deere and Daniel C. Esty, eds. Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade (MIT Press, 2002)
• Kevin P. Gallagher, Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond (Stanford UP, 2004)

Comparative

• Norman J. Vig and Michael G. Faure, eds. Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United Sates and the European Union (MIT Press, 2004)
• Christoph Knill and Duncan Liefferink, Environmental Politics in the European Union: Policy-Making, Implementation and Patterns of Multi-Level Governance (Manchester UP, 2007)
• Lillana B. Androva, Transnational Politics of the Environment: The European Union and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (MIT Press, 2003).
• Winston Harrington and Richard D. Morgenstern, eds., Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments in the United States and Europe (Resources for the Future Press, 2004).
• Éric Montpetit, Misplaced Trust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada (U of British Columbia Press, 2003)
• Rudiger K. Wurzel, Environmental Policy-Making in Britain, Germany and The European Union: The Europeanisation of Air and Water Pollution Control (Manchester UP, 2002).
• Albert Weale, G. Pridham, M. Cini, D. Konstadakopulos, M. Porter and B. Flynn, Environmental Governance in Europe: An Ever Closer Ecological Union? (Oxford UP, 2000)
   
• Eugene Lee and Anthony Perl, eds., The Integrity Gap: Canada's Environmental Policy and Institutions (U of British Columbia Press, 2003)
• David R. Boyd, Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy  (U of British Columbia Press, 2003)
• Carsten Daugbjerg and Anders Branth Pedersen, "New Policy Ideas and Old Policy Networks: Implementing Green Taxation in Scandanavia," Journal of Public Policy 24:2 (May-August 2004): 219-249
• Lennart J. Lundqvist, Sweden and Ecological Governance (Manchester UP, 2004)
• Graeme Hayes, Environmental Protest and the State in France (Palgrave, 2002)
• Gordon J. MacDonald, Daniel J. Nielson, and Marc A Stern, Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective (Westview, 1996).
• Reinaldo Funes Monzote, From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
• Uday Desai, ed. Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries: Economic Growth, Democracy, and Environment (SUNY, 1998)

 

Population

• Bill McKibben, Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families (Simon and Schuster, 1998).
• William Ophuls and A. Boyan, Jr. Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited (W.H. Freeman, 1992)
• Jason L. Finkle and C. Alison McIntosh, eds., The New Politics of Population: Conflict and Consensus in Family Planning (Oxford, 1994).
• Paul R. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (Ballantine Books, 1983)

 

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