Environmental Studies Books
Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema
This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while... (more)
The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice, Social Movements
Why, despite all we know about the causes and harms of global heating, has so little effective action been taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and what we can do to change that? This book explains... (more)
The Climate Book
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.
You might think it's an impossible task:... (more)
Ecological and Climate-Conscious Coaching: A Companion Guide to Evolving Coaching Practice
This book takes you on a seven-day journey with your guides: 60 coaches and thought-leaders from around the world. Through storytelling, poetry and other creative approaches, readers can follow this... (more)
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike,... (more)
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
'A poignant, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land, this should be conservation's salvation; this should be its future; this is a new hope' - Chris Packham
In Wilding,... (more)
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Harvard's acclaimed geologist charts Earth's history in accessible style (AP) A sublime chronicle of our planet. -Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds... (more)
Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture
Humankind has the capacity and know-how to create Earth-honoring cultures in a new way for new times. Through tapping into ancestral memories, taking what's best from the human potential movement,... (more)
Touching the Jaguar
This eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be human on this magnificent planet, "Deepak Chopra"
When New York Times bestselling author John Perkins was a young... (more)
Your Guide to Forest Bathing (Expanded Edition): Experience the Healing Power of Nature Includes 50 Practices Plus Space for Journal Entries and Reflections
The bestselling guide to forest bathing with a new section of hands-on forest bathing practices and space for journal entries and reflections. Simply being present in the natural world, with all of... (more)
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world. Here is... (more)
Very Short Introduction for Curious Young Minds: The Causes and Impact of Climate Change
This title is part of the important new series from Oxford which provides accessible introductions to the ideas, facts, and vocabulary behind an absorbing range of subjects. Meticulously researched... (more)
Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice
Environmental Ethics offers an up-to-date and balanced overview of environmental ethics, focusing on theory and practice. Written in clear and engaging prose, the book provides an historical... (more)
Environmental Politics and Policy
This book provides systematic coverage of the key concepts in the study of environmental politics; the evolution of environmental thinking; the national and international actors involved in... (more)
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a... (more)
Racing Green: How Motorsport Science Can Save the World
Racing Green is the story of how advances in motorsport science are changing the world, helping it become smarter and more environmentally friendly. Motor racing is already one of the most... (more)
The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now
An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warming.
Climate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet despite growing... (more)
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis. Tracing the threats to our future... (more)
The Burning House: A Buddhist Response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency
We are living in an age of climate and ecological emergency. Buddhist teacher and Nonviolent Communication trainer Shantigarbha suggests practical ways to make a difference. With personal stories,... (more)
The Environmentalist Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis
In The Environmentalist's Dilemma, award-winning journalist Arno Kopecky zeroes in on the core predicament of our times: the planet may be dying, but humanity's doing better than ever. To acknowledge... (more)
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species
Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees to enormous one-crop fields, we continue to try to... (more)
How to Think about the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living
Coping with the climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face as a species. We know the main task is to reduce our emissions as rapidly as possible to minimise the harm to the world's population... (more)
Footprints
A Times Book of the Year and A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year.
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils - industrial, chemical,... (more)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Frontline Report on Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a... (more)
Silent Spring
Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring... (more)
Earth Spirit: Healthy Planet - Global meltdown or global healing
Healthy Planet offers a clear and concise overview of the global ecological crisis that humanity has brought upon itself, and what options we still have to save a benevolent climate, to restore... (more)
Earth Spirit: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Hope - Relearning Environmental Connectiveness
For 14,000 years, the Indigenous people of Southern New England survived and thrived despite experiencing extreme and dramatic climate and environmental changes. Like our present and near future,... (more)
Climate: Soul of the Earth
In this original book, Dennis Klocek considers climate to be an expression of Gaia, and presents climate as the soul of Earth within which human beings live and develop. The cosmic destiny of Earth,... (more)
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Can capitalism survive climate change? Can humanity? The environmental crisis under way is unique in human history. It is a true existential crisis. Those alive today will decide the fate of... (more)