Environmental Studies Books
Go Lightly: How to travel without hurting the planet
This sustainable travel handbook inspires readers to explore our fascinating planet without causing it further harm. Ten chapters help you go lightly, including how to choose the least impactful... (more)
No. More. Plastic: What you can do to make a difference
Discover what you can do to save the planet from plastic.
Start now. All it takes is 2 minutes of your time. Once, plastic was the miracle material. Now it's the monster. We all need to cut... (more)
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to... (more)
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible?
The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree on a set of values... (more)
Environment
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is the environment? This elusive object that impacts us so profoundly - our odds to be... (more)
Love Earth Now: The Power of Doing One Thing Every Day
Love Earth Now invites us to explore our thoughts and feelings about the waste and negative environment impacts we see daily. Author Cheryl Leutjen draws from her experience as an engineering... (more)
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural world created by the fossil fuel industry, climate change is all around us, all the time,... (more)
Hot Mess: What on earth can we do about climate change?
We are currently facing a global climate emergency. You've probably noticed. But why does the end of the world need to be so depressing? Hot Mess aims to both lighten the mood and enlighten... (more)
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it taken so long for the crisis to be recognised? Here, for the first... (more)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate: Third Edition
This third edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect the large changes in scientific knowledge and policy debates on climate change since the previous edition in 2009. It provides a concise... (more)
The Physics of Climate Change
The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world's most respected physicists and science popularizers, cuts... (more)
Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction
In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through the school strikes led by Greta Thunberg, groups like Extinction Rebellion, the IPCC's recent high impact... (more)
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
Originally published in 2011 Revised and updated throughout: including the carbon footprint of things that didn't exist a decade ago, including a Zoom call, a smartphone, and cryptocurrencies. At... (more)
The End of Nature
One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars 'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate... (more)
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating... (more)
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
It is worse, much worse, than you think.
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is... (more)
Nature and Selected Essays
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own... (more)
The World Without Us
On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go. What if mankind disappeared... (more)
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
Gen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice.
A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The "climate... (more)
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects
Deepening global crises surround us. We are beset by climate change, fracking, tar sands extraction, GMOs, and mass extinctions of species, to say nothing of nuclear weapons proliferation and... (more)
Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief
We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and... (more)
The Essential Guide to Forest School and Nature Pedagogy
This book is a complete guide to Forest School provision and Nature Pedagogy and it examines the models, methods, worldviews and values that underpin teaching in nature. Cree and Robb show how a... (more)
Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety: Sustainable Action for Your Mental Health and the Planet
It's hard to watch the news, scroll through social media, or listen to the radio without hearing or seeing something disturbing about the climate emergency. This can trigger all sorts of emotions:... (more)
Sustainable Action: Overcoming the Barriers
In this timely exploration of sustainable actions, Christian Berg unpacks the complexity in understanding the barriers we face in moving towards a sustainable future, providing solution perspectives... (more)
The Sustainability Mindset Principles: A Guide to Developing a Mindset for a Better World
This book introduces for the first time the 12 Principles for a Sustainability Mindset, presenting a framework to address the complexity of a mindset in bite-size components. (more)
Sustainable Lifestyles after Covid-19
This book takes an in-depth look at Covid-19-generated societal trends and develops scenarios for possible future directions of urban lifestyles.
Drawing on examples from Brazil, China, and... (more)
Beyond Recycling
Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about sustainability. It examines and challenges assumptions about why we... (more)
Transformative Pathways to Sustainability: Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts
Transformations to sustainability are increasingly the focus of research and policy discussions around the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the different roles played by transdisciplinary... (more)
What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?
The culmination of over three decades of writing by environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington, this book examines the global environmental crisis and its solutions.
Many of us know... (more)
The Psychology of Climate Change
The Psychology of Climate Change explores the evidence for our changing environment, and suggests that there are significant cognitive biases in how we think about, and act on climate change. The... (more)