List of environmental books

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Humans have been writing about the environment for centuries, and the environment has figured prominently as a theme in both Western and Eastern philosophies. Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science, which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement, which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's impact on the environment, have been highly influential. The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring has been regarded as particularly important in popularizing environmental science and helping to launch the modern environmental movement.[1] The emergence of the environmental humanities, including fields like environmental history, has also been important in bridging divides between the sciences and humanities and encouraging further interdisciplinary approaches. The environment also features prominently in much fictional literature.

This page is a list of environmental books. In this context they are notable books that feature the

environment
as a major theme, including human impacts on the environment.

Non-fiction environmental books

Non-fiction accounts are ones that are presented as factual, although often in the context of subjective argument. Non-fiction environmental books may, for example, be the products of scholarly or journalistic work. The books in this list include fields and styles such as anthropology, conservation science, ecology, environmental history, lifestyle, and memoirs.

Title Author(s) Year Theme(s) and subtheme(s) ISBN(s)
I’m A Climate Optimist: An Easy Guide to Lead a Sustainable Life Aakash Ranison 2023 Climate Change & Sustainable Lifestyle
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann 2005 Indigenous population and land use
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Charles C. Mann 2011 Ecological imperialism
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
Candace Savage 2012 Landscape history
A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939 Jennifer Hubbard 2006 Fisheries management
A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America Anya Zilberstein 2016 Climate change; colonialism
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler 2012 Various themes
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
Clifford Geertz 1963 Agriculture; Indonesia
All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management Carmel Finley 2006 Fisheries management; conservation
All We Can Save Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson (eds.) 2020 Essays, poetry
Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility Christopher A. Simon 2006 Energy
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver 2007 Local food
AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors 1968 Pollution: air pollution
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming Nigel Lawson 2008 Global warming
Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants Milton R. Beychok 1967 Waste: oil refinery and petrochemical wastewaters
Atlas of Our Changing Environment United Nations Environment Programme 2005 Climate change
Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada
Stephen J. Pyne 2007 Wildfires; Canada
Babylon's Ark, The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence 2007 Wildlife conservation
Beyond the Limits
Jorgen Randers
1992 Population
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak Kenneth S. Deffeyes 2006 Energy
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
Jeff Goodell 2006 Pollution
A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis Ian Lowe 2005 Various themes
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It Ken Alibek 1999 Biological weapons
Black Faces, White Spaces Carolyn Finney 2014 Environmental justice; racism
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming Paul Hawken 2007 Environmentalism
The Blue Economy Gunter Pauli 2010 Technology: biomimetics
A Blueprint for Survival Edward Goldsmith and Robert Allen 1972 Survival
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Gloria Anzaldúa
1987 Chicanx theory; borderlands
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013 Botany, Indigenous knowledge
Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan Jakobina K. Arch 2018 Whaling; sustainability
Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins 1982 Energy
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici 2004 Ecofeminism
Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System Jim Harding 2007 Uranium mining; nuclear power
The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era Jeremy Leggett 1999 Global warming
Catastrophe: Risk and Response Richard Posner 2004 Various themes
Challenging the Chip
David Naguib Pellow
2006 Waste: electronic waste
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England William Cronon 1983 Land and water: hunting and fishing
The Chilling Stars Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder 2003 Climate change: cosmic rays
Cinderella of the New South: A History of the Cottonseed Industry, 1855-1955 Lynette Boney Wrenn 1995 Agriculture
A Civil Action Jonathan Harr 1996 Pollution: water pollution
The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder 2007 Clean technology
Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change
L. Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohen
2011 Climate change; capitalism
Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options Marilyn A. Brown and Benjamin K. Sovacool 2011 Climate change mitigation and global energy security
Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand
Haydn Washington and John Cook; foreword by Naomi Oreskes
2011 Climate change denial
Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action David Spratt and Philip Sutton 2008 Global warming
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope 2017
sustainable cities
Climber's Paradise: Making Canada's Mountain National Parks, 1906-1974 PearlAnn Reichwein 2014 environmental history, mountaineering, history of Canada, national parks
The Coal Question William Stanley Jevons 1865 Coal; peak coal
Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love Michael Shnayerson 2008 Mining: mountain removal mining
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond 2005 Various themes
The Colors of Nature
Alison H. Deming
and Lauret E. Savoy
2011 Nature writing
The Columbian Exchange Alfred W. Crosby 1972 Columbian exchange
The Coming Global Superstorm Art Bell and Whitley Strieber 1999 Global warming
Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture International Water Management Institute and Earthscan 2007
agricultural hydrology
hardback
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
Dave Foreman
1991 Earth First!; environmental activism
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists
Michael Brower and Warren Leon 1999 Consumerism
Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy Benjamin K. Sovacool 2011 Energy: nuclear energy
A Contract with the Earth
Terry L. Maple
2007 Environmental protection and restoration
The Control of Nature John McPhee 1989 Geoengineering
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming Bjørn Lomborg 2007 Global warming
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things Michael Braungart and William McDonough 2002 Sustainability; production
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory
Brittany Luby 2020 Indigenous history; hydro power
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
Carolyn Merchant 1990 Environmental history and history of science
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Laura J. Martin 2022 History of science; ecological restoration ISBN 9780674979420
The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud Lawrence Solomon 2008 Global warming: denial
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness Edward Abbey 1968 Memoir; conservation
Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison Jane Hightower 2008 Toxic waste
The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What's Blocking Clean Power in the United States Benjamin K. Sovacool 2008 Energy
The Discovery of Global Warming Spencer R. Weart 2003 Global warming: history of scientific discoveries
Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination Julie Cruikshank 2014 Anthropology; Indigenous History; Colonialism
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Kate Raworth 2017 Economics; Doughnut (economic model); sustainability
Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation Andri Snær Magnason 2006 Energy: hydropower
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet Bill McKibben 2010 Climate change
Earth from the Air Yann Arthus-Bertrand (photographer) 2010 Aerial landscape photography
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit Al Gore 1992
Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer 2009 Food industry
Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching
Dave Foreman
and Bill Haywood (editors)
1985 Activism; direct action
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Alfred Crosby
1986 Ecological imperialism; introduced species: epidemics
Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems Michael Begon, Colin R. Townsend, and John L. Harper 2006 Ecology
The Economical Environmentalist Prashant Vaze 2009 Lifestyle
Ecotage! Sam Love 1972 Activism; direct action
Encounters at the Heart of the World Elizabeth A. Fenn 2014 Environmental history
Encounters with the Archdruid John McPhee 1971 Environmentalism; David Brower
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
Charles Clover 2004 Overfishing
The End of Nature Bill McKibben 1989 Global warming
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World Paul Roberts (author) 2004 Energy
Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation
Alison J. Stattersfield, Michael J. Crosby, Adrian J. Long, and David C. Wege 1998 Wildlife conservation
Endgame
(two volumes)
Derrick Jensen 2006 Anti-civilization
Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown (editors) 2007 Energy
Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy
Hermann Scheer 2006 Energy
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology K. Eric Drexler 1986 Nanotechnology
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Merlin Sheldrake 2020 Mycology
Entropy: A New World View Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard 1980 Resource conservation
Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well
Terry Lee Anderson and Donald R. Leal
1997 Free-market environmentalism
Environmental Principles and Policies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction Sharon Beder 2006 Various themes
An Essay on the Principle of Population Thomas Robert Malthus 1798 Population
The Everglades: River of Grass Marjory Stoneman Douglas 1947 Nature conservation
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
P. Sainath
1996 Economics; development
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850–1920 (collection of books and other publications) Conservation movement
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
Paul Fleischman 2014 Various themes
Factor 5: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Increase in Resource Productivity Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, et al. 2009 Resource efficiency
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy Philip L. Fradkin 1989 Radiation exposure; nuclear weapon tests
Famine 1975! America's Decision: Who Will Survive?
William Paddock,
Paul Paddock
1967 Overpopulation: food security
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott 2014 Factory farming; fish farming
The Fate of the Earth Jonathan Schell 1982 Nuclear disarmament
Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret Duff Wilson 2001 Waste: toxic waste recycled in fertilizer
Feral: Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding
George Monbiot 2013
Re-wilding
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change Elizabeth Kolbert 2006 Climate change: causes and effects
Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown Javier Auyero and Débora Swistun 2008 Environmental justice; pollution
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait Bathsheba Demuth 2019 Environmental history; Beringia
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It 2009 Food industry
The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution Henry I. Miller, Gregory Conko 2004 Agriculture: genetically modified food
Free Market Environmentalism
Terry L. Anderson, Donald R. Leal 2001 Environmental economics
Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion (4th edition) Milton R. Beychok 2005 Air pollution; atmospheric dispersion modeling
The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development Sakiko Fukuda-Parr 2006 Genetically modified organisms
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World
Steven Berlin Johnson
2006 Pollution: water pollution
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
Megan Black 2018 Environmental history; U.S. imperialism
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism Sharon Beder 1997 Anti-environmentalism and free-market environmentalism
God is Red: A Native View of Religion Vine Deloria Jr. 1973 Environmental degradation; anthropocentrism
The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans Mark Lynas 2011 Various themes
The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management Pat Hutchings, Mike Kingsford, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg 2008 Great Barrier Reef
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Amitav Ghosh 2016 Climate change
The Green Bible 2008 Religion
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems Van Jones 2008 Economics
The Green Crusade
Charles T. Rubin 1998 Environmentalism
Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism
Ozzie Zehner 2012 Consumerism and renewable energy
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage Daniel C. Esty 2006 Business
Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy Mark Diesendorf 2007 Energy
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence Robert Bryce 2008 Energy: renewable energy
Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis Jeremy Leggett 2005 Energy
Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada
Andrew J. Weaver
2004 Climate change: effects in Canada
Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World
Charles, Prince of Wales, with Tony Juniper, Ian Skelly
2010 Climate change and agriculture
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science Ian Plimer 2009 Global warming
Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do
Joseph J. Romm
2006 Global warming
High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future
Guy Pearse 2007 Global warming
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines Michael E. Mann 2012 Climate change: hockey stick graph
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
2008 Sustainable development
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Stopping Climate Change Chris Goodall 2007 Consumerism
Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future Mark Diesendorf and Clive Hamilton 1997 Ecological economics
The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health Randall Fitzgerald 2006 Food industry
The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate
Joseph J. Romm
2004 Climate change
The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives On a Cleaner Planet Indur M. Goklany 2007 Environmental skepticism
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It Al Gore 2006 Global Warming
An Introduction to Sustainable Development Peter P. Rogers, with Kazi F. Jalal, John A. Boyd 2007 Sustainable development
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Andrea Wulf 2015 History of ecology
It's a Matter of Survival Anita Gordon, David Suzuki 1991 Survival
Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World Tom Rand 2010 Renewable energy: solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy, and more
Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed Matt Peacock 2009 Asbestos in construction: fibrosis
Last Chance to See Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine 1990 Wildlife conservation
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder Richard Louv 2005 Nature deficit disorder
Latin American World Model
Amilcar Herrera, Hugo Scolnick, et al. 1976 Ecology Population
The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters Annette Kolodny 1984 Ecofeminism
The Legacy of Luna Julia Butterfly Hill 2000 Forest conservation
Life in 2050 Ulrich Eberl 2011 Various themes
The Limits to Growth Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrens III 1972 Population; economic growth
Living in the Hothouse: How Global Warming Affects Australia Ian Lowe 2005 Climate change
The Living Soil Lady Eve Balfour 1943 Organic farming
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century James Howard Kunstler 2005 Various themes
The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment Helen M. Rozwadowski, David K. van Keuren 2004 Ocean environment; envirotech
Making Peace with the Planet Barry Commoner 1990 Sustainable production
Man and Nature George Perkins Marsh 1864 Environmental degradation
Managing Urban America David R. Morgan, Robert E. England, John Peter Pelissero 1979 Urban planning
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter 2003 Megaprojects
Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
Christine M. DeLucia 2018 Indigenous history
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway 2010 Climate change denial; politics; lobbying
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World David Maybury-Lewis 1992 Tribal cultures and modernity (book companion to documentary series)
Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement Susan Rimby 2012 Environmental History, Conservation, Progressive Era, Women's History
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Alex Epstein 2014 Energy: fossil fuels
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Anna Tsing 2015 Ethnography; Matsutake
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins 1999 Ecosystem services: full-cost accounting
A Nature Conservation Review (2 volumes) Derek Ratcliffe 1977 Nature conservation
Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada Claire Elizabeth Campbell 2017 Historic sites; human and environmental history
The Navajo People and Uranium Mining Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, Esther Yazzie-Lewis 2006 Mining: uranium mining
The New Green Consumer Guide Julia Hailes 2007 Consumerism
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference Greta Thunberg 2019
Global warming
; climate crisis
Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy
Amory B. Lovins, John H. Price
1975 Energy
Nourishing the Planet
Agriculture: sustainable agriculture
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan 2006 Food industry
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Eduardo Galeano 1971 Latin America; mining
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth Buckminster Fuller 1968 Spaceship Earth; conservation
Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl 1991 Various themes
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Al Gore 2009 Climate change
Our Plundered Planet
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr.
1948 Environmental degradation; soil
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution Francis Fukuyama 2002 Biotechnology
Our Stolen Future Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers 1996 Endocrine disruptors
Our Synthetic Environment
Murray Bookchin (pseudonym "Lewis Herber") 1962 Pesticides
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Kevin Kelly (editor) 1994 Various themes
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil David Goodstein 2004 Energy
The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 Christine Keiner 2009 Conservation
The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg 2003 Energy
The Pesticide Question: Environment, Economics and Ethics David Pimentel (scientist), Hugh Lehman (editors) 1993 Pesticides
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard 1974 Nature narrative
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate William Ruddiman 2005 Various themes
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters Kate Brown 2013 Environmental history; energy; nuclear power
Political Animals and Animal Politics Marcel Wissenburg, David Schlosberg 2014 Animal welfare: animal ethics and environmental politics
The Population Bomb Paul R. Ehrlich 1968 Population
Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits Steven W. Mosher 2008 Population
Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
Richard Heinberg 2004 Energy
Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future Robert Bryce 2010 Energy
Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement David Pellow and Bob Brulle (eds) 2005 Environmental justice
Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation Verity Burgmann 2003 Social movements; Australia
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
Donna Haraway 1990 History of science and biology
Prosperity Without Growth Tim Jackson (economist) 2009 Environmental economics
Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
Cindy Ott 2012 Environmental history; Pumpkin
Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation C. J. Bibby, et al. 1992 Biodiversity conservation
Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option Ian Lowe 2007 Various themes
The Real Global Warming Disaster (Is The Obsession With 'Climate Change' Turning Out To Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?) Christopher Booker 2009 Global warming
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment James Gustave Speth 2004 Environmentalism
Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England
Diana Muir
2000 Agriculture and fossil fuels
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place Terry Tempest Williams 1991 Various themes
Renewable Electricity and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability Godfrey Boyle 2007 Energy
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change Clive Hamilton 2010 Climate change: climate change denial
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we Can Still Save Humanity James Lovelock 2007 Various themes
Risk Governance: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World [1]Ortwin Renn 2008 Risk
River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin Stephen Most 2006 Various themes
The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right John Cronin (environmental author) and
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (foreword by Al Gore
)
1997 Pollution: water pollution
Road to Survival William Vogt 1948 anti-capitalist environmentalism
The Sacred Balance David Suzuki 1997 Various themes
A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold 1949 Nature conservation
Science Under Siege: The Politicians' War on Nature and Truth
Todd Wilkinson
1998 Politics
Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate Leonie Joubert 2007 Climate change
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change Clive Hamilton 2007 Climate change: Kyoto Protocol and Australian politics
The Sea Around Us Rachel Carson 1951 Marine biology
Secrets and Lies
Nicky Hager and Bob Burton 1999 Anti-environmentalism
Selling Solar: The Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets Damian Miller 2009 Energy
Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 Joy Parr 2010 Environmental history; embodied history
Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake Lianne C. Leddy 2022 Environmental history; Indigenous history ISBN 9781442614376
The Shamba Raiders: Memories of a Game Warden Bruce Kinloch 1972 Wildlife conservation
Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay Claire Elizabeth Campbell 2004 environmental history, history of Canada
A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright 2004 Environmental history
Siberia, Siberia Valentin Rasputin 1991 Environmental degradation
Silence of the Songbirds Bridget Stutchbury 2007 Various themes
Silent Spring Rachel Carson 1962 Pesticides; conservation
Silent Spring & other writings on environment Rachel Carson 2018 Environmental science
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas 2007 Climate change
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 Extinction: human activities
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World Bjørn Lomborg 2001 Various themes
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered E. F. Schumacher 1973 Various themes
Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size Amory Lovins, et al. 2002 Economics
State of the World Worldwatch Institute 1984–
(annual)
Global environmental challenges Various (see article)
State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability Erik Assadourian, et al. 2010 Sustainability and consumerism
States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century Tina Loo 2006 Environmental history; conservation; Canada
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene Donna Haraway 2016 Environmental change; pollution
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming Chris Mooney 2007 Global warming
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity James Hansen 2009 Climate change: fossil fuels
Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions
Joseph J. Romm
2010 Various themes
Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization Ward Churchill 1993 Various themes
Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges Herbert Girardet (editor) 2007 Various themes
Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming
Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick 2002 Global warming
Tasmania's Wilderness Battles: A History Greg Buckman 2008 Wilderness
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet (first edition) or Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate
(second edition)
Chris Goodall 2008 (1st ed.);
2009 (2nd ed.)
Various themes
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Naomi Klein 2014 Climate change; economics
This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha 1992
natural resources in India
A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World Peter Tertzakian 2007 Energy
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Dan Fagin 2013 Pollution: cancer cluster
Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy David Vogel 1995 Environmental regulation
Twisted: The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial Ian G. Enting 2007 Climate change: environmental skepticism
The Ultimate Resource
Julian Lincoln Simon
1981 Resources
Unbowed: A Memoir
Wangari Maathai
2007 Environmentalism
The Unfinished Twentieth Century Jonathan Schell 2001 Energy: nuclear energy
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years
Siegfried Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery
2006 Global warming: natural causes
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization Thomas Homer-Dixon 2006 Various themes
Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Web of Ecological-Societal Crisis Joseph C. Arcos, Mary F. Angus, and Frederick J. DiCarlo, eds. (18 contributors) 2005 Ecological and social crisis
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854 Lifestyle
Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami Sonali Deraniyagala 2013 Natural disaster: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change Tim Flannery 2005 Climate change
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet Heidi Cullen 2010 Climate change
Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba
Shannon Stunden Bower 2011 Agriculture, environmental history
When Corporations Rule the World David Korten 1995 Anti-globalization; economics
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto Stewart Brand 2009 Various themes
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity Mike Hulme 2009 Climate change
Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice Cormac Cullinan 2003 Environmental justice
Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank Andrew Beattie and Paul R. Ehrlich 2001 Biodiversity
Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures
Richard Leakey and Virginia Morell 2001 Wildlife conservation
The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores Archie Carr 1956 Conservation: wildlife conservation
Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security Amory Lovins 2005 Energy
Wintergreen Robert Michael Pyle 1987 Logging
The World Without Us Alan Weisman 2007 De-population; the natural world
Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up & Maintain a Worm Composting System Mary Arlene Appelhof 1982
Vermicomposting
; waste management

Fiction environmental books

Fiction environmental books feature the environment as a prominent theme. Books in this list include fields such as children's literature, eco-fiction, fantasy, and science fiction.

Title Author(s) Year(s) Theme(s) ISBN(s)
American War Omar El Akkad 2017 Climate change
Antarctica Kim Stanley Robinson 1997 Nature conservation
The Appeal John Grisham 2008 Pollution: water pollution
The Back of the Turtle Thomas King 2014 Defoliants
Blockade Derek Hansen 1998 Logging
Caballero: A Historical Novel
Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh
1996 borderlands
The Caretaker Trilogy (series) David Klass 2006;
2008;
2009
Nature conservation
Carpentaria Alexis Wright 2006 indigenous studies; Australia; settler colonialism
Coal Audre Lorde 1976 poetry collection
The Cool War Frederik Pohl 1981 Energy; fossil fuel depletion
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk 2009 Animal welfare; hunting
Earth Abides George R. Stewart 1949 Disease and population
The Earthquake in Chile Heinrich von Kleist 1807 Earthquakes
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston Ernest Callenbach 1975 Various themes
Ecotopia Emerging Ernest Callenbach 1981 Various themes
Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver 2012 Climate change
The Forgotten Enemy Arthur C. Clarke 1949 Climate change
Freedom Jonathan Franzen 2010 Various themes
A Friend of the Earth
T. Coraghessan Boyle
2000 Various themes
The Green Brain Frank Herbert 1966 Ecosystems: insects almost extinguished
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Hoot Carl Hiaasen 2002 Wildlife conservation
The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh 2004 South Asia; environmental transformation
Ishmael Daniel Quinn 1992 Human-animal relations; sustainability
The Last Man
Mary Shelley 1826 Pandemic; global catastrophic risk
The Lorax Dr. Seuss 1971 Various themes
MaddAddam Margaret Atwood 2013 Climate change; ecological degradation
Make Room! Make Room! Harry Harrison 1966 Population
The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 indigenous studies; climate change
The Mockery Bird Gerald Durrell 1981
Lazarus taxa
The Monkey Wrench Gang Edward Abbey 1975 Eco-terrorism
Mother of Storms John Barnes 1994 Climate change: giant hurricane caused by nuclear explosion
Old MacDonald Had a Farm Mike Resnick 2001
Genetically engineered animals
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 2003 Climate change; ecological degradation
Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler 1993 Ecological collapse; adaptation
Parable of the Talents Octavia Butler 1998 Ecological collapse; adaptation
A Planet for the President Alistair Beaton 2004 Various themes
Plume Kathleen Flenniken 2012 Poetry collection
Process of Elimination Carolyn Keene 1998 Mystery
Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver 2000
Rainforest Jenny Diski 1987
Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 2011 Environmental justice
So Far from God Ana Castillo 1993 Environmental justice
State of Fear Michael Crichton 2004 Various themes
Under the Feet of Jesus Helena María Viramontes 1995 Environmental justice, Chicanx
The Winter Vault Anne Michaels 2009 dams; inundated landscape; Egypt
The Word for World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 Colonialism
The Year of the Flood Margaret Atwood 2009 Climate change; ecological degradation
Zodiac Neal Stephenson 1988 Toxic waste

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