Environmental Studies Books
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)
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
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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)
Uncanny and Improbable Events
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of... (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)
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)