Earth Charter Bibliography
(as of 19 October 2009)
1. Books on the Earth Charter
Boff, Leonardo. 2003. Ethos Mondial - Um conseno mínimo entre os humanos. Animus/Anima
Producoes. Brasil: Sextante. (Portuguese)
Boff, Leonardo. 2006. Caderno de Debate Agenda 21 e Sustentabilidade: Ética e
Sustentabilidade. Brasil: Ministerio do Meio Ambiente, Secretaria de Políticas para o
Desenvolvimento\Sustentável. (Portuguese)
Boff, Leonardo, and Marco Antonio de Miranda. 2003. Terra America: Imagens = Images.
Brazil: Sextante. (English and Portueguese)
Corcoran, Peter Blaze, ed. 2005. The Earth Charter in Action: Toward a Sustainable World.
Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
Corcoran, Peter Blaze, and A. James Wohlpart, eds. 2008. A Voice for Earth: American Writers
Respond to the Earth Charter. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press.
Earth Charter in Tatarstan. 2005.
Ferrero, Elizabeth, and Joe Holland. 2004. The Earth Charter: A Study Book of Reflection for
Action. California: Redwoods Institute.
2. Books with Significant Reference to the Earth Charter
Adelson, Glen and others, eds. 2008. Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press.
AtKisson, Alan. 2008. The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational
Performance and Transform the World. London: Earthscan Publications, Ltd.
Barney, Gerald O., Jane Blewett, and Kristen R. Barney. 1999. Threshold 2000: Critical Issues
and Spiritual Values for a Global Age. Grand Rapids, MI: CoNexus Press.
Beversluis, Joel, ed. 2000. Source Book of the World's Religions: An Interfaith Guide to Religion
and Spirituality, 3rd ed. Novato, CA: New World Library.
Brown, Peter C. 2009. Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy. San Francisco,
CA: Berrett-Koehler.
Brown, Peter C. 2007. The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth, 2nd
Ed. Montreal, QC: Black Rose Books.
Boff, Leornardo. 1999. Saber cuida: Ética do humano – compaixão pela terra. Editora Vozes,
Brasil: Petópolis. (Portuguese)
Boff, Leonardo. 2005. Virtudes para un outro mundo Possítivel – Volume I: Hospitalidade:
Direito & Dever de todos. Voses, Brasil: Pétopolis. (Portuguese)
Bosselmann, Klaus. 2008. The Principle of Sustainability: Transforming Law and Governance. New Zealand: Ashgate.
Bosselmann, Klaus, Ron Engel, and Prue Taylor. 2008. Governance for Sustainability: Issues, Challenges, Successes. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
Boulding, Elise. 2000. Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse
University Press.
Cox, Louis, Ingrid Fabianson, Sandra Moon Farley, and Ruah Swennerfelt, eds. 2004. Earthcare for Friends: A Study Guide for Individuals and Faith Communities. Burlington,
VT: Quaker Earthcare Witness.
Damianovic, Maria Cristina. 2008. De un limón una Limonada. San José, Costa Rica: Perro
Azul. (Spanish)
Del Signore, Giuliana. 2001. Riflessioni sulla Carta della Terra [Reflections on the Earth
Charter]. Italy: Edizioni Qualevita.
Dernbach, John, ed. 2002. Stumbling Toward Sustainability. Washington, DC: Environmental
Law Institute.
Dower, Nigel. 2003. An Introduction to Global Citizenship. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
Foltz, Richard C., ed. 2002. World Views, Religion and the Environment. Florence, KY: Wadsworth Publishing.
Gadotti, Moacir. 2000. A Pedagogia da Terra [The Pedagogy of Earth]. Sao Paulo, Brazil:
Editora Fundação Peirópolis.
______. 2000. Pedagogy of the Earth and Culture of Sustainability. Brazil: Instituto Paulo
Freire.
Hallsmith, Gwendolyn. 2003. The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs,
Transforming Community Systems. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publisher.
Hallsmith, Gwendolyn, Christian Layke, and Melissa Everett. 2005. Taking Action for
Sustainability: The EarthCAT Guide to Community Development. Montpelier, VT:
Global Community Initiatives.
Henderson, Hazel, and Daisaku Ikeda. 2004. Planetary Citizenship: Your Values, Beliefs, and
Actions Can Shape a Sustainable World. Santa Monica, CA: Middleway Press.
Hernández Pedreño, Manuel and Teresa Vincente Giménez. 2007. Los derechos de los niños:
responsabilidad de todos.. Mallorca, Spain: Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de
Publicaciones. (Spanish)
Hessel, Dieter, and Larry Rasmussen, eds. 2001. Earth Habitat: Eco-Injustice and the Church’s
Response. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press.
Kiss, Alexandre, and Dinah Shelton. 2004. International Environmental Law, 3rd ed. New York:
Transnational Publishers.
Korten, David. 2006. The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. San Francisco, CA:
Berrett-Koehler.
Lubbers, Ruud, Willem van Genugten, and Tineke Lambooy. 2008. Inspiration for Global
Governance: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter.
Deventer, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
Marinho, Kleber Maia and Valéria Viana Labrea. 2007. Histórias de aprender-e-ensinar para
mudar o mundo. Sao Paulo, Brasil: Instituto Bioma. (Portuguese)
Moe, Jessica, and Lisa Jokivirta, eds. 2008. Interwoven Stories: The Fabric of Community. Costa Rica: Lidia Picado, Alpi Producciones.
Novo, María. 2006. El desarrollo sostenible – Su dimensión ambiental y educativa. Madrid,
Spain: UNESCO and Pearson Educación. (Spanish)
Plotkin, Bill. 2008. Nature and the Human Soul; Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a
Fragmented World. Novato, CA: New World Library.
Pojman, Louis P. 2004. Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application. 4th ed. Florence, KY: Wadsworth Publishing.
Preston, Noel. 2001. Understanding Ethics. 2d ed. Australia: The Federation Press.
Raskin, Paul. 2002. Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead. Stockholm,
Sweden: Stockholm Environment Institute.
Ruether, Rosemary Radford. 2005. Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World
Religions. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Soskolne, Colin L., ed. 2007. Sustaining Life on Earth: Environmental and Human Health Through Global Governance. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Speth, James Gustave. 2004.Red Sky at Morning: America, the Crisis of the Global Environment,
and What We Can Do. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Speth, James Gustave. 2008. Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and
Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Strong, Maurice F. 2001. Where on Earth Are We Going? London: Texere.
Taylor, Prue. 1998. An Ecological Approach to International Law. London: Routledge.
Westra, Laura. 1998. Living in Integrity: A Global Ethic to Restore a Fragmented Earth.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
______. 2004. Ecoviolence and the Law: Supranational Normative Foundation of
Ecocrime. Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers Inc.
Talbot, Lyn and and Glenda Verrinder. 2005. Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care
Approach. 3rd ed. Sydney: Churchill Livingstone.
Tucker, Mary Evelyn. 2003. Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase. LaSalle,
IL: Open Court.
Westra, Laura, and Peter Miller. 2002. Just Ecological Integrity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Westra, Laura, Klaus Bosselmann, and Richard Westra, eds. 2008. Reconciling Human Existence
with Ecological Integrity. London, Earthscan Publications, Ltd.
3. Book Chapters on the Earth Charter
Ab’saber, Aziz. 2002. “The Essence of the Earth Charter.” In Goldewijk, Berma Klein, Adalid
Contreras Baspineiro, & Paulo César Carbonari (Eds.). Dignity and Human Rights:
The Implementation of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 179-184. Antwerpen,
Belguim: Intersentia
Ariyaratne, A.T. 2005. “Awakening and the Earth Charter in Sri Lanka.” In Earth Charter in
Action, ed. Peter Blaze Corcoran. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers,
Bosselmann, Klaus. 2008. “The Way Forward: Governance for Ecological Integrity.” In
Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity, eds. Laura Westra, Klaus
Bosselmann, and Richard Westra, 319-331. London, Earthscan Publications Ltd.
______. 2005. “Ethical Implications.” In Bradbrook, Adrian J., Rosemary Lyster,
Richard L. Ottinger, & Wang Xi (Eds.). The Law of Energy for Sustainable
Development, 74-92. London: Cambridge University Press.
Clugston, Richard M., Wynn Calder, and Peter Blaze Corcoran. 2002. “Teaching Sustainability
with the Earth Charter.” In Teaching Sustainability at Universities: Toward Curriculum
Greening, ed. Walter Leal Filho. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
Corcoran, Peter Blaze. 2002. “The Earth Charter: An Ethical Framework for “Good”
Globalization.” In Ways to Institutionalize the Concepts, 213-217. Luneburg, Germany:
Copernicus, 2002.
______. 2004. “The Earth Charter as an Integrative Force for Peace Education and
Environmental Education.” In Educating Toward a Culture of Social and Ecological
Peace, ed. Anita L. Wenden, 183-202. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Corcoran, Peter Blaze & A. James Wohlpart. 2007. “Infusing the Earth Charter into Research
and Curriculum: One American University’s Example.” In Good Practices in Education
for Sustainable Development Using the Earth Charter, eds. Mirian Vilela and Kimberly
Corrigan. UNESCO and the Earth Charter Initiative.
Engel, J. Ronald. 2002. “The Earth Charter as a New Covenant for Democracy.” In Just
Ecological Integrity: the Ethicsof Maintaining Planetary Life, eds. by Peter Miller and
Laura Westra , 37-52. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
______. 2006. “A New Covenant of Covenants for the World Community: the Meaning of
Global Citizenship in the 21st Century.” In Sustaining Life On Earth: Environmental and
Human Health Through Global Governance, ed. Colin Soskolne, 27-40. Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield.
______. 2006. “Making the Earth Covenant: The Earth Charter and the Eastern European
Revolutions.” In Democracy, Nature, Pragmatism, ed. Leslie Muray and Jon Taylor.
New York: Peter Lane.
Gadotti, Moacir. 2009. “Eco-pedagogy: Extending the Educational Theory of Paulo Freire to
Sustainability.” In Young People, Education, and Sustainable Development, eds. Peter
Blaze Corcoran and Philip M. Osano. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Gorbachev, Mikhail. 2005. “The Third Pillar of Sustainable Development.” In Earth Charter in
Action, ed. Peter Blaze Corcoran. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
Lotz-Sisitka, Heila. 2009. “Utopianism and Education Processes in the United Nations Decade of
Education for Sustainable Development: A Critical Reflection.” In Young People,
Education, and Sustainable Development, eds. Peter Blaze Corcoran and Philip M.
Osano. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Henderson, Hazel. 2005. “Beyond Economism: Toward Earth Ethics.” In Earth Charter in
Action, ed. Peter Blaze Corcoran. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
Hessel, Dieter. 2002. “The Earth Charter: Guide to a Sustainable Way of Life.” In Ethics for
a Small Planet: A Communications Handbook on the Ethical and Theological Reasons
for Protecting Biodiversity, 84-91. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.
Jimenez, Alberto Cardenas and Mateo A. Castillo Ceja. 2005. "The Earth Charter in Mexico:
Actions to Advance Towards Democratic Societies that are Just, Participatory,
Sustainable, and Peaceful." In Earth Charter in Action, ed. Peter Blaze Corcoran.
Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
Kakabadse, Yolanda. 2005. “Using Earth Charter Principles to Assess Social and Economic
Justice in Latin America.” In Earth Charter in Action, ed. Peter Blaze Corcoran.
Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
Kalaw, Maximo T., Jr. 1999. “Earth Charter Benchmark Draft II, Commentary.” In The United
Nations University: Codes of Conduct for Partnership in Governance: Texts and
Commentaries, 311-315. World Civil Society Conference: Building Global Governance
Partnerships, 1999.
Krieger, David. 2003. Hope in a Dark Time. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press.
Likhotal, Alexander. 2005. “The Earth Charter as a Vehicle of Transformation.” In Earth
Charter in Action, ed. Peter Blaze Corcoran. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
Lubbers, Ruud and Patricia Morales. 2003. “The Earth Charter: Global Ethics for the 21st
Century.” In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, 1911-59. Oxford: Eolss Publishers.
Mackey, Brendan G. 2002. “An Earth Charter perspective on food.” In Good Grub: Food for
Healthy People and a Healthy Planet, ed. Bryan Furnass. Canberra, Australia:
Nature and Society Forum and The Mulangarri Foundation.
______. 2008. “The Earth Charter, Ethics, and Global Governance.” In Reconciling
Human Existence with Ecological Integrity, eds. Laura Westra, Klaus Bosselmann, and
Richard Westra, 61-72. London, Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Maathai, Wangari. 2005. “Abandon Apathy and Be Moved to Action.” In Earth Charter in
Action, ed. Peter Blaze Corcoran. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
Mireles, Namir Hadad Nava. 2009. “Sexual and Reproductive Rights and HIV: Experiences of
Empowerment among Mexican Youth through the Earth Charter.” In Young People,
Education, and Sustainable Development, eds. Peter Blaze Corcoran and Philip M.
Osano. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Morales, Partricia. 2002. “Moral and Global Challenges of the III Millennium: How to
Implement the Earth Charter.” In Dignity and Human Rights: The Implementation of
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, eds. Berma Klein Goldewijk, Adalid Contreras
Baspineiro, and Paulo César Carbonari, 185-198. Antwerpen, Belguim: Intersentia.
Osano, Philip. 2005. “Shaping Our Common Future: Youth Campaigning for Sustainable
Development Using the Earth Charter in East Africa.” Earth Charter in Action, ed. Peter
Blaze Corcoran. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
O’Sullivan, Edmund. 2004. “Sustainability and Transformative Educational Vision.” In Higher
Education and the Challenge of Sustainability: Problematics, Promise and Practice, eds.
Peter Blaze Corcoran and Arjen E.J. Wals, 163-180. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer
Academic Publishers.
Rockefeller, Steven C.. “Faith and Community in an Ecological Age.” In Spirit and Nature, eds.
Steven Rockefeller and John Elder, 139-172. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.
______. 1992. “Keeping Faith with Life:A Dialogue.” In Spirit and Nature: Why
Environment is a Religious Issue, eds. Steven C. Rockefeller and John Elder, 173-192.
Boston: Beacon Press.
______. 1997. “Buddhism, Global Ethics, and the Earth Charter.” In Buddhism
and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds, eds. Mary Evelyn Tucker and
Duncan Ryuken Williams, 313-324. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press.
______. 2001. “Global Interdependence, the Earth Charter, and Christian Faith.” In
Earth Habitat, eds. Larry Rasmussen and Dieter Hessel, 101-121. Minneapolis,
Minnesota: Fortress Press.
______. 2001. “Interview: Steven Rockefeller: The Earth Charter.” In Our Fragile World:
Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development, ed. M.K. Tolba, xxxi-xxxv.
Paris: EOLSS Publishers.
______. 2003. “Faith and Ethics in an Interdependent World.” In Pragmatism and Religion,
eds. Stuart Rosenbaum, 303-320. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
______. 2005. “The Earth Charter.” In Encyclopedia of Religion and Ecology, eds. Jeffrey
Kaplan and Bron Taylor. London: Continuum International.
______. 2006. “Teilhard’s Vision and the Earth Charter.” In Teilhard and the Future of
Humanity, ed. Thierry Meynard. Bronx, New York: Fordham University Press.
______. 2006. “Animals and the Earth Charter.” In A Communion of Subjects: Animals in
Religion, Science and Ethics, eds. Paul Waldau and Kimberley Patton, 621-628. New
York: Columbia University Press.
______. 2007. “Ecological and Social Responsibility: The Making of the Earth Charter.”
In Responsibility, ed. Barbara Darling-Smith. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Slaby, Michael C., Brandon P. Hollingshead & Peter Blaze Corcoran. 2007. “Learning and
Living with the Earth Charter.” In Social Learning Toward a Sustainable World, ed.