Environmental Studies Books
Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining Our World and Ourselves
Climate crisis disrupts the beliefs, values and behaviors of contemporary societies, sparking potential for radical changes in culture and consciousness. Drawing upon her experience as a Jungian... (more)
Earth Spirit: Confronting the Crisis - Essays and Meditations on Eco-Spirituality
If the human species has an evolutionary purpose that purpose is delight. Aren't we constituted to experience and express conscious delight in the immensity and intimacy of creation, the diversity,... (more)
To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning
Summary
Why environmental learning is crucial for understanding the connected challenges of climate justice, tribalism, inequity, democracy, and human flourishing.
How can we respond to the... (more)
The World We Once Lived In
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
From the Congo Basin to the traditions of the Kikuyu people, the lucid, incisive writings in The World We... (more)
We Belong to Gaia
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
James Lovelock's We Belong to Gaia draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable... (more)
The Most Dammed Country in the World
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail... (more)
The Last Tree on Easter Island
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing... (more)
An Idea Can Go Extinct
An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's entire atmosphere, the weather and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending... (more)
Food Rules
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
Food Rules, Michael Pollan's wise and witty critique of the western industrialised diet, distils the wisdom... (more)
Every Species is a Masterpiece
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
Every Species is a Masterpiece brings together some of Edward O. Wilson's most profound and significant... (more)
The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah, the celebrated pioneer of the 'do-nothing' farming method reflects on... (more)
The Clan of One-Breasted Women
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
With honesty, passion and heart, Terry Tempest Williams's essays explore the impact of nuclear testing, the... (more)
The Crisis of Climate Change: Weather Report
This volume outlines the specific conditions and responses to climate change in India. It discusses various aspects of the planetary crisis that have acquired widespread global urgency: global... (more)
Introduction to the Environmental Humanities
In an era of climate change, deforestation, melting ice caps, poisoned environments, and species loss, many people are turning to the power of the arts and humanities for sustainable solutions to... (more)
Learning to Live with Climate Change: From Anxiety to Transformation
This imaginative and empowering book explores the ways that our emotions entangle us with climate change and offers strategies for engaging with climate anxiety that can contribute to social... (more)
Critical Realism, Environmental Learning and Social-Ecological Change
Southern Africa, where most of these book chapters originate, has been identified as one of regions of the world most at risk of the consequences of environmental degradation and climate change. At... (more)
COVID-19 and Emerging Environmental Trends: A Way Forward
The extensive safety restrictions imposed globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic have brought significant changes to almost all environmental parameters. The largest pandemic of the century has left... (more)
Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism
This book discusses how to develop green transitions which benefit, include and respect marginalised social groups.
Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism explores the challenge of taking... (more)
The Roots of Modern Environmentalism
Originally published in 1984, The Roots of Modern Environmentalism provides a historical, philosophical and ideological background to environmentalism.
Topics covered include, the roots of... (more)
Climate Change Ethics for an Endangered World
This innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, climate justice, environmental policy and environmental ethics. (more)
Political Responsibility for Climate Change: Ethical Institutions and Fact-Sensitive Theory
This book offers new perspectives on how social and political institutions can respond more effectively to climate change.
Theresa Scavenius presents a concept of moral responsibility that does... (more)
Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse
The book argues that, in the era of climate change when humans are facing the prospect of species extinction, new ideas and new forms of expression are required to address what the novelist Amitav... (more)
Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID: A Complex Realist Approach
This book uses a complex realist frame of reference to understand the character of social-cultural-economic-political-ecological systems. (more)
Climate Realism
This book sets forth a new research agenda for climate theory and aesthetics for the age of the Anthropocene. (more)
A Theory of Environmental Leadership: Leading for the Earth
By rigorously analyzing and leveraging this polarity, this book outlines an innovative theory of eco-leadership together with some of its confronting-but-necessary measures. (more)
Recent Advances and Issues in Environmental Science
Environmental Science integrates physical and biological sciences to the study of the environment, with the goal of solving today's environmental challenges. Many of these challenges tie into a... (more)