Environmental Studies Books
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)
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)
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time (Routledge Studies in Sustainability)
Beyond those interested in the Arctic, this book will also be of great value to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, and identity and environmental politics. (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures
The contributors to this volume focus on a critical approach to power and issues of environmental injustice across time, space, and context, drawing from twelve national contexts: Austria,... (more)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals... (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)
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)
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)
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 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)
Communicating Sustainability
This book offers tools to help make complex systems and nuanced, abstract ideas concrete and comprehensible to the broadest range of people. The goal of communication, and of this book, is to build... (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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
Environmental Values
Written in a clear and accessible style for an interdisciplinary audience, this volume will be ideal for student use in environmental courses in geography, economics, philosophy, politics and... (more)
Transdisciplinary Research and Practice for Sustainability Outcomes
As Emeritus Professor Valerie Brown AO notes in her Preface, this book moves transdisciplinary inquiry into the academic and social mainstream. (more)