A partial list of books considered acceptable for reading/review in GE 403 “Conservation of Natural Resources” Spring 2005 Some of these I have read and can comment on, others I’d very much like to read.... ENJOY!
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Sand CountyAlmanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by ALDO LEOPOLD
Desert Solitaire
by EDWARD ABBEY
The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Edward Abbey, Douglas Brinkley
The Ultimate Resource 2 (or any of his other books)
by Julian Lincoln Simon
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the RealState of the World
by Bjorn Lomborg
Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto
by Peter Huber
Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's FirstNational Park
by Alston Chase
In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests&the Myths of Nature
by Alston Chase
One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (or any of his other books)
by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
by James Gustave Speth
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
by Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
by Thomas Sowell
Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media...
by John Stossel
Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems
by Gretchen C. Daily
State Of Fear
by Michael Crichton
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner
The Wealth of Nations
by ADAM SMITH,
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
by Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
The New Economy of Nature : The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable
by Gretchen Daily, Katherine Ellison
CadillacDesert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by Marc Reisner
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
by Marq de Villiers
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
by Vandana Shiva
Rivers for Life : Managing Water for People and Nature
by Sandra Postel, Brian Richter
American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990
by Riley E. Dunlap, Angela G. Mertig
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
by Albert Gore
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
Man and Nature
by George Perkins Marsh, David Lowenthal, William Cronon
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
by William Cronon
Wilderness and the American Mind, Fourth Edition
by Roderick Frazier Nash (also available as an e-book from the UNA lib.)
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Small Is Beautiful : Economics as if People Mattered
by E. F. Schumacher
Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict With a New Introduction by the Author
by Michael T. Klare
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
by Richard Heinberg
Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage
by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
The End of Oil : On the Edge of a Perilous New World
by Paul Roberts
Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (The American Empire Project)
by Michael T. Klare
Meltdown : The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media
by Patrick J. Michaels
Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death
by RONALD BAILEY (Editor)
A Poverty of Reason: Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
by Wilfred Beckerman
The cooling
by Lowell Ponte
But Is It True?: A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues
by Aaron Wildavsky