Recommended Books
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THE EARLY MOVEMENT
Silent Spring
By Rachel Carson (1962)
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There By Aldo Leopold (1949)
Man and Nature
By George Perkins Marsh (1864)
Breaking New Ground
By Gifford Pinchot
John Muir: Nature Writings
By John Muir (ed. by William Cronon) (1997)
Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency
By Samuel P. Hays (1959)
A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement
By Philip Shabecoff (2003)
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World
By J.R. McNeill (2000)
Walden
By Henry David Thoreau
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
By Donald Worster (2d ed. 1994)
Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century
By Daniel B. Botkin (1990)
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
By David Quammen (1997)
Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth’s Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise
By Michael L. Rosenzweig (2003)
PUBLIC LANDS HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
By Timothy Egan (2009)
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
By Wallace Stegner (first published 1954)
Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West
By Charles Wilkinson (1993)
“It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own”: A New History of the American West
By Richard White (1993)
Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks
By Joseph L. Sax (1980)
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
By Patricia Nelson Limerick (1987)
This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West
By Daniel Kemmis (2001)
Keeping Faith with Nature: Ecosystems, Democracy, and America’s Public Lands
By Robert B. Keiter (2003)
Water Law and Policy
Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
By Richard White
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By Marc Reisner
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
By Donald Worster
Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters
By Robert Glennon
Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About It
By Robert Glennon
Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics
By Holly Doremus & A. Dan Tarlock (2008)
ENVIRONMENT AND VALUES
Wilderness and the American Mind
By Roderick Nash (4th ed. 2001)
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
By William Cronon (1996)
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
The Making of Environmental Law
By Richard J. Lazarus (2006)
Eco-pragmatism: Making Sensible Environmental Decisions in an Uncertain World
By Daniel A. Farber (2000)
GLOBAL WARMING
Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming
By Anthony Barnosky (2009)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
By Elizabeth Kolbert (2006)
The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Planet and What it Means for Life on Earth
By Tim Flannery (2001)
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTALISM
The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon
By Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn (1989)
AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALISM
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality
By Robert Bullard (1990)
From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
By Luke W. Cole & Sheila R. Foster. (2001)
HUMAN & ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT: A HISTORY
Guns, Germs & Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
By Diamond, Jared (1997)
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
By Michael Pollan (2001)
POLITICS & THE ENVIRONMENT
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power
By Daniel Yergin
POPULATIONS & NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
By Donella H. Meadows et al
TEXTBOOKS
Environmental Law in a Nutshell
By Daniel A. Farber & Roger W. Findley (2008)
Disasters And the Law: Katrina And Beyond
By Daniel A. Farber (2006)
CASEBOOKS
Cases and Materials on Environmental Law (7th ed.)
Dan A. Farber, Jody L. Freeman, Ann E. Carlson and Roger W. Findley
Environmental Policy Law: Problems, Cases and Readings (5th ed.)
By Holly Doremus, Albert C. Lin, Ronald H. Rosenberg, & Thomas J. Schoenbaum (2008)
