Environmental Studies Textbooks

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Confronting Climate Gridlock

How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future

Daniel S. Cohan, Michael E. Webber

A Better Planet

Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future

Daniel C. Esty, Ingrid C. Burke

Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves

A History of American Environmental Policy

Richard N. L. Andrews

Science for the Sustainable City

Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology

Steward T. A. Pickett, Mary L. Cadenasso, J. Morgan Grove, Elena G. Irwin, Emma J. Rosi, Christopher M. Swan

Biodiversity and Climate Change

Transforming the Biosphere

Thomas E. Lovejoy, Lee Hannah, Edward O. Wilson

Fishing

How the Sea Fed Civilization

Brian Fagan

Thirst for Power

Energy, Water, and Human Survival

Michael E. Webber

Dangerous Years

Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward

David W. Orr

Burn Out

The Endgame for Fossil Fuels

Dieter Helm

The Elements of Power

Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

David S. Abraham

Global Crisis

War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

Geoffrey Parker

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris

The Effort to Contain Global Warming

William Sweet

Natural Capital

Valuing the Planet

Dieter Helm

Climate Cultures

Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change

Jessica Barnes, Michael R. Dove

The Carbon Crunch

Revised and Updated

Dieter Helm

Water 4.0

The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource

David Sedlak

The Climate Casino

Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

William D. Nordhaus

A Question of Balance

Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies

William D. Nordhaus

Journey of the Universe

Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker

Global Crisis

War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

Geoffrey Parker

Wilderness and the American Mind

Roderick Frazier Nash, Char Miller