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Climate Change
Contamination
Ecological Justice
Environmental Discrimination
Environmental Justice
Globalisation
Green Lifestyle’s
Legal
Pollution
Public Participation
Sustainable Development
The Earth
Transport
Urban Environment
Water

Climate Change

Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance
Editors: Neil Adger & Irene Lorenzoni of the Tyndall Centre at University of East Anglia & Karen O'Brien from the Uni of Oslo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN- 0521764858
Publication: 2009
Price: £66.50
Synopsis: Adapting to Climate Change' contains the latest science on how the risks of climate change will impact on water availability, biodiversity, flooding, land inundation and health, and how those impacts might be handled by society.

The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change
Author: Gill Seyfang
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-230-52533-7
Publication: 2008
Price: £50
Synopsis: This book offers a fresh look at sustainable consumption, presenting a holistic 'New Economics' approach. It explores how grassroots community actions for sustainability are experimenting with new ways of working, measuring value and progress, and expressing ecological citizenship.

Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action
Author: David Spratt & Philip Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN- 13: 9781921372209
Publication: 2008
Price: $27.95
Synopsis: Climate Code Red is a superb, visionary blueprint for development in a new century which tackles the tough questions of how humanity can, in practice, rapidly secure a sustainable future. But it is also a work in progress, a draft strategy, which is primed to be shaped and developed by those who step up to meet the challenge we all now face.

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review (Paperback)
Author: Nicholas Stern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 0521700809
Price: †£29.99
Publication: 2007
Synopsis: The Stern Review is an independent, rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of this crucial issue. It has been conducted by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and a former Chief Economist of the World Bank. The Economics of Climate Change will be invaluable for all students of the economics and policy implications of climate change, and economists, scientists and policy makers involved in all aspects of climate change.

Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement (Paperback)
Authors: Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN-10: 1597261564
Price: £12.50
Publication: 2007
Synopsis: "Ignition" brings together some of the world's finest thinkers and advocates to jump start the ultimate green revolution. Including celebrated writers like Bill McKibben and renowned scholars like Gus Speth, as well as young activists, the authors draw on direct experience in grass-roots organization, education, law, and social leadership. For anyone who feels compelled to do more than change their light bulbs then "Ignition" is an essential guide.

Just One Planet: Poverty, Justice, and Climate Change (Paperback)
Author: D. Mark Smith
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
ISBN-10: 1853396435
Price: †£14.95
Publication: 2007
Synopsis: Based on analysis of the evidence for climate change and the vulnerability of poor people, this book develops a framework for action and makes clear the link between consumer and political choices in the North, and impacts in the South on the most vulnerable people on the planet.

Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations (Paperback)
Author: Edward Page
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 184376184X
Price: £19.95
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: Global climate change raises important questions of international and intergenerational justice. In this important new book, the author places research on the origins and impacts of climate change within the broader context of distributive justice and sustainable development.

Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change (Paperback)
Editors: Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq, M. J. Mace
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-10: 0262511932
Price: £16.95
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: "Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change" looks at the challenges of ensuring that policy responses to climate change do not place undue and unfair burdens on already vulnerable populations. All countries will be endangered by climate change risks from flood, drought, and other extreme weather events, but developing countries are more dependent on climate-sensitive livelihoods, such as farming and fishing and hence are more vulnerable.

Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (Paperback)
Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: Clairview Books
ISBN-10: 1905570007
Price: £12.99
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: "The Party's Over" deals head-on with the imminent decline of cheap oil. It shows how oil and war have been closely related for the past century, and how competition to control oil supplies is likely to lead to new resource wars in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South America.

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Contamination

Poisoned Places: Seeking Environmental Justice in a Contaminated World (Hardcover)
Author: Michael R. Edelstein
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN-10: 0813387418
Price: £13.98
Publication: 2004
Synopsis: In this text, Michael Edelstein considers the importance of environmental contamination as a challenge to the new paradigm of sustainability and explores the implications and the meaning of pollution for our identification with place. The book points towards an eco-psychology based not on an idealized relationship to nature but rather on a stark appraisal of the worlds in which we actually live.

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Ecological Justice

Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care (Paperback)
Author: Sherilyn MacGregor
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN-10: 077481201X
Price: £19.50
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: In "Beyond Mothering Earth", Sherilyn MacGregor argues that celebrations of "earth care" as women's unique contribution to the search for sustainability often neglect to consider the importance of politics and citizenship in women's lives. Drawing on interviews with women who juggle private caring with civic engagement in quality-of-life concerns, she proposes an alternative: a project of feminist ecological citizenship that affirms the practice of citizenship as an intrinsically valuable activity while recognizing the foundational aspects of caring labour and natural processes that allow its specificity to flourish.

The Ecological Life: Discovering Citizenship and a Sense of Humanity (Hardcover)
Author: Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-10: 0742534472
Price: £56.49
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: "Earthly Humanity" offers innovative and current perspectives in environmental philosophy that draw from analytic and continental traditions of philosophy. Bendik-Keymer argues for a sense of ecological justice consonant with human rights, and provides both human rights and environmental dimensions in a clear, jargon-free and conversational tone.

Eco-Justice: The Unfinished Journey (Paperback)
Editor: Gibson W
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN-10: 0791459926
Price: £16.74
Publication: 2004
Synopsis: Cementing the connections between ecological concern and social justice, this title recounts the evolution of the Eco-Justice Project, initiated by campus ministries in Rochester and Ithaca, New York. Most of these essays were originally published in the organization's journal, and they address many themes.

Ecological Economics: A Workbook for Problem-based Learning (Paperback)
Authors: Joshua Farley, Jon D. Erickson and Herman E. Daly
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN-10: 1559633131
Price: †£12.95
Publication: 2003
Synopsis: “Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications” is an introductory-level textbook that offers a pedagogically complete examination of this dynamic new field. As a workbook accompanying the text, this volume breaks new ground in applying the principles of ecological economics in a problem or service-based learning setting. Both the textbook and this workbook are situated within a new interdisciplinary framework that embraces the linkages among economic growth, environmental degradation, and social inequity in an effort to guide policy in a way that respects fundamental human values.

Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Editors: Steven R. Brechin, Peter R. Wilshusen, Crystal L. Fortwangler and Patrick C. West
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN-10: 0791457761
Price: £18.49
Publication: 2003
Synopsis: Addresses the central question of our era, how to halt increasing environmental decay and social exclusion - processes that create a degraded, diminished, and unjust world.

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Environmental Discrimination

The New Countryside? Ethnicity, Nation and Exclusion in Contemporary Rural Britain (Paperback)
Editor(s): Julian Agyeman and Sarah Neal
Publisher: The Policy Press
ISBN: 9781861347954
Price: £21.99
Publication: 2006
Synopsis:  This book explores issues of ethnicity, identity and racialised exclusion in rural Britain, in depth and for the first time. It questions what the countryside 'is', problematises who is seen as belonging to rural spaces, and argues for the recognition of a rural multiculture. The book brings together the latest and most extensive research findings to provide an authoritative account of current theory, policy and practice.

Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town (Paperback)
Author: Melissa Checker
Publisher: New York University Press
ISBN-10: 081471658X
Price: £14.50
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: Melissa Checker tells the story of Hyde Park, in Augusta, Georgia, and the tenacious activism of its two hundred African American families. This community, at one time surrounded by nine polluting industries including three factories and two junkyards, is struggling to make their voices heard and their community safe again. In Polluted Promises, Checker argues that Hyde Park stands for many other African American and other poor and minority communities, especially but not exclusively in the South.

AlterNatives: Community, Identity, and Environmental Justice on Walpole Island (Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity & Change) (Paperback)
Author: Robert Van Wynsberghe
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
ISBN-10: 0205349528
Price: £17.99
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: This ethnography provides a detailed account of how the Walpole Island First Nation has effectively organized itself in order to protect meaningful cultural and economic ties to its natural resources. This account focuses on the Heritage Centre - a Walpole Island First Nation government body in Southwestern Ontario, Canada that has a twenty-year history of engaging in multifaceted endeavors to safeguard the environment.

Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy (Environmental Ethics & Science Policy) (Paperback)
Author: Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN-10: 0195183576
Price: £16.99
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergenerational equity, and just compensation - and then bringing them to bear on real-world social issues - she shows how many of these core concepts have been compromised for a large segment of the global population, among them Appalachians, African-Americans, workers in hazardous jobs, and indigenous people in developing nations.

New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism (Paperback)
Editor: Rachel Stein
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 0813534275
Price: £15.15
Publication: 2004
Synopsis: Women make up the vast majority of activists and organizers of grassroots movements fighting against environmental ills that threaten poor and people of colour communities. This collection of essays pays tribute to the contributions women have made in these endeavours.

From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (Critical America) (Paperback)
Authors: Luke Cole and Sheila Foster
Publisher: New York University Press
ISBN-10: 0814715370
Price: £13.50
Publication: 2000
Synopsis: A study of environmental racism - the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on ethnic and low-income communities. This book examines the growing social justice movement fighting against discrimination, focusing on local activist groups from California to Arizona.

Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots
Authors: Robert D. Bullard
Publisher: South End Press,U.S
ISBN-10: 0896084469
Price: £10.99
Publication: 1993
Synopsis: This edited volume contains voices from a multidisciplinary team of academics, activists, and practitioners who are on the frontline challenging environmental racism in the U.S. and abroad.

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Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union (Urban and Industrial Environments Series)
Author: Julian Agyeman & Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 10: 0262512335
Price: £16.10
Publication: June 2009
Synopsis: An examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics—from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic region to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia—and the resulting activism in those states.

Children, Families And Social Exclusion: New Approaches To Prevention
Authors: Kate Morris, Marian Barnes & Paul Mason
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781861349651
Price: £21.99
Publication: Feb 2009
Synopsis: Many policy and practice initiatives that aim to prevent social exclusion focus on children and young people. This book seeks to consider fresh approaches to understanding the complexities of prevention, and how these fresh understandings can inform policy and practice.

Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
Authors: Vandana Shiva
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 0896087824
Price: £26.99
Publication: Oct 2008
Synopsis: A must-read for anyone who takes the future of the planet seriously, Soil Not Oil dares us to imagine a world where people matter more than profits. With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity’s most urgent crises—food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change—and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.

Social Justice and Public Policy: Seeking Fairness in Diverse Societies
Editors: Gary Craig, Tania Burchardt and David Gordon
Publisher: The Policy Press
ISBN: 9781861349330 (paperback)
Price: £15.99
Publication: June 2008
Synopsis: This important book explores the meaning of social justice and examines how it translates into the everyday concerns of public and social policy.
This book is currently available with a 20 per cent discount from the Policy Press website at the above link.

Resisting Global toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments) (Paperback)
Author: David Naguib Pellow
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN-10: 026216244X
Price: £16.95
Publication 2007
Synopsis: This title examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.

Global justice and neoliberal environmental governance : ethics, sustainable development and international co-operation
Editors: Chukwumerije Okereke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415412308
Price: £70 (hardback)
Publication: August 2007
Synopsis: This book is an ethical critique of existing approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation, providing a detailed and structured account of the tensions...

Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature
Author: David Schlosberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:0199286299
Price £45.00
Publication: May 2007

Human and Environmental Security - An Agenda for Change (Paperback)
Editors: Felix Dodds & Tim Pippard
Publisher: Earth Scan
ISBN:1844072142
Price: £18.99
Publication: April 2007
Synopsis: This ground-breaking book, authored by prominent international decision-makers, tackles the global human security problem across the range of core issues. The authors identify the causes of insecurity, articulate the linkages between the different elements of human security and outline an agenda for engaging stakeholders from across the globe in building the foundations of genuine and lasting human security for all nations and all people.

Unbowed: My Autobiography (Paperback)
Author: Wangari Maathai
Publisher: William Heinemann
ISBN-10: 0434015423
Price: †£8.99
Publication: 2007
Synopsis: In "Unbowed", we are in the presence of a hugely charismatic yet humble woman whose remarkable story carries with it an inspiring message of hope. Hers is an extraordinary story, spanning different worlds and changing times, and revealing what the courage, determination, tenacity and humour of one good woman can achieve; how as small a thing as planting a seedling and watering it can made all the difference in the world.

Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement (Urban & Industrial Environments) (Paperback)
Editors: Ronald Sandler and Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-10: 0262693402
Price: †£16.95
Publication: 2007
Synopsis: The environmental justice movement has charged the mainstream environmental movement with racism and elitism and has criticized its activist agenda on the grounds that it values wilderness over people. Environmental justice advocates have called upon environmental organizations to act on environmental injustice and address racism and classism in their own hiring and organizational practices, lobbying agenda, and political platforms. This book examines the current relationship between the two movements in both conceptual and practical terms and explores the possibilities for future collaboration.

Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal (Hardcover)
Author: Penny Loeb
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN-10: 0813124417
Price: †£13.99
Publication: 2007
Synopsis: "Moving Mountains" recounts the struggle of Trish Bragg and other ordinary West Virginians for fair treatment by the coal companies that dominate the local economies of southern West Virginia. The collateral effects of mountaintop removal, deep mining, and other mining practices are felt most profoundly in the communities that supply much of the labour for these mining operations, which results in divided loyalties among families that have made their living from coal mining for generations.

Global Citizenship and Environmental Justice (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries) (Paperback)
Editors: Tony Shallcross and John Robinson
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
ISBN-10: 904201668X
Price: †£30.00
Publication: 2006

Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement (Urban & Industrial Environments) (Paperback)
Editors: Ronald Sandler and Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-10: 0262195526
Price: £316.95
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: The environmental justice movement has charged the mainstream environmental movement with racism and elitism and has criticized its activist agenda on the grounds that it values wilderness over people. Environmental justice advocates have called upon environmental organizations to act on environmental injustice and address racism and classism in their own hiring and organizational practices, lobbying agenda, and political platforms. This book examines the current relationship between the two movements in both conceptual and practical terms and explores the possibilities for future collaboration.

Hazards, Vulnerability and Environmental Justice (Paperback)
Author: Susan L. Cutter
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1-84407-311-4
Price: £24.95
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: This is an essential collection from Susan Cutter, the foremost disaster and vulnerability expert in the US, covers all aspect of hazards, disasters and justice. Natural disasters and human-induced hazards, from chemical spills and toxic clouds to nuclear disasters, are increasingly common and are costing billions of dollars and countless lives. This essential collection is ideal for hazard and disaster planners, academics and students studying hazards, risk, disasters and environmental justice across a range of disciplines.

Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments (Paperback)
Author: Joanne R. Bauer
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN-10: 0765615363
Price: †£21.95
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: Drawing on an unusually rich empirical base, this timely and compelling book examines how environmental values are constructed and legitimized within the policy process. It trains the spotlight on four environmentally significant countries - China, Japan, India, and the United States - representing a wide diversity of cultural, social, economic, and political characteristics.

Meaning of the 21st Century, the: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future (Paperback)
Author: James Martin
Publisher: Eden Books, Transworld
ISBN-10: 1903919843
Price: £8.99
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: James Martin, one of the world's most widely respected authorities on the impact of technology on society, argues that we are living at a turning point in human history. 'We are travelling at breakneck speed into an era of extremes - extremes of wealth and poverty, extremes in technology, extremes in globalization. If we are to survive, we must learn how to manage them all.' Although we face huge challenges and conflicts, Martin argues that it is in the scientific breakthroughs of the new century that we will find new hope. In a clear, penetrating and insightful style he addresses the key questions of our age and proposes an interconnected set of solutions to its problems.

Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations: Law, Environmental Harm and the Right to Wealth (Paperback)
Author: Laura Westra
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd
ISBN-10: 1844073661
Price: £29.95
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: This book is the first systematic examination of how the rights of the unborn and future generations are handled in common law and under international legal instruments. It provides comprehensive coverage of the arguments over international legal instruments, key legal cases and examples including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, industrial disasters, clean water provision, diet, HIV/AIDS, environmental racism and climate change.

Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Role of NGOs: Empirical Findings and Legal Appraisal (Avosetta) (Hardcover)
Authors: Nicolas de Sadeleer, Gerhard Roller and Miriam Dross
Publisher: Europa Law Publishing
ISBN-10: 9076871280
Price: £43.99
Publication: 2005

Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm (Paperback)
Author: Edwardo Lao Rhodes
Publisher: Indiana University Press.
ISBN-10: 0253217741
Price: £11.99
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: This book examines environmental justice as a public policy concern and suggests a new methodology for evaluating environmental justice problems.

Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment (Natural & Built Environment) (Paperback)
Authors: John Glasson, Riki Therivel and Andrew Chadwick
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10: 0415338379
Price: £28.99
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: Covering all the essentials of EIA as well as the latest changes in UK and EU legislature, Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment is ideal for students and practitioners.

Environment and Society
Author: Erika Cudworth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0 415 21618 4
Price: £19.99
Publication: 2003
Synopsis: Environment and Society provides a comprehensive and critical account of the ways in which we can think about the relationship between human societies and the environments with which they interact. It argues that human societies are ecologically embedded, and that environments are often socially embedded and constituted.

Our Backyard: A Quest for Environmental Justice (Paperback)
Author: Diana M. Whitelaw
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-10: 0742523632
Price: †£20.99
Publication: 2003
Synopsis: This collection of essays by local activists and nationally recognized scholars deals with the history, status, and dilemmas of environmental justice. These essays provide a comprehensive overview of social and political aspects associated with environmental injustices in minority and poor communities. It will provide a solid platform for dialogue between activists and policymakers or between teachers and students.

The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts & Valuation (Paperback)
Author: Joan Martinez-Alier
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1 84064 909 7
Price: £25.00
Publication: 2002
Synopsis: This text has the explicit intention of helping to establish two emerging fields of study - political ecology and ecological economics - whilst also investigating the relations between them. The book analyses several manifestations of the growing "environmental justice system", and also of "popular environmentalism" and the "environmentalism of the poor", which will be seen in the coming decades as driving forces in the process to achieve an ecologically sustainable society.

Troublemakers: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Scotland (Paperback)
Author: Kevin Dunion
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN-10: 1902930401
Price: †£16.99
Publication: 2002
Synopsis: Prominent environmentalist Kevin Dunion argues for a sustained challenge to environmental injustice in Scotland. This book offers an insight into the nature of environmental campaigning in Scotland and covers community attitudes to risk, loss of trust in science, the role of multinationals in responding to challenge and conflicts over jobs versus the environment.

Environmental Justice in South Africa (Paperback)
Editor: David A. McDonald
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN-10: 082141416X
Price: £17.50
Publication: 2002
Synopsis: A systematic overview of the first ten years of post-apartheid politics. Written by activists and academics in the field, this collection offers a critical perspective of environmental justice theory and practice in South Africa.

Environment and Politics
Authors: Timothy Doyle and Doug McEachern
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415 217733
Price: £17.99
Publication: 2001
Synopsis: Environment and Politics is a concise introduction to the study of environmental politics, explaining the key concepts, conflicts, political systems and the practices of policy-making.The authors examine a diverse range of environmental problems and policy solutions within different nations and cultures.

Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline (Paperback)
Authors: J.Timmons Roberts and Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 0521669006
Price: †£13.99
Publication: 2001
Synopsis: Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline describes four cases in Louisiana in which residents were locked in struggles with industry and government representatives over issues of environmental injustice. Roberts and Toffolon-Weiss explain how, at the end of the twentieth century, situations of environmental injustice were created and eventually resolved.

Environmental Justice Analysis: Theories, Methods, and Practice (Paperback)
Author: Liu Feng
Publisher: Lewis Publishers
ISBN-10: 1566704030
Price: £46.99
Publication: 2000
Synopsis: This book presents a multi-perspective, multi-disciplinary, and inter-disciplinary approach to analyzing environmental justice issues. Liu demonstrates how cutting-edge technologies and methods such as the Internet, Geographic Information Systems, and modeling tools can contribute to better equity analysis and policy evaluations.

Environmental Democracy: A Contextual Approach (Paperback)
Author: Michael Mason
Publisher: Earthscan Publications
ISBN: 185383 6176
Price: £22.95
Publication: 1999
Synopsis: Explains how civic self-determination and ecological sustainability can be combined. Using case studies from around the world the book shows how liberal rights can include both ecological and social conditions for collective decision-making.

Environmental Victims (Paperback)
Editor: Christopher Williams
Publisher: Earthscan Publications
ISBN: 185383 5242
Price: £19.99
Publication 1998
Synopsis: This study looks at environmental problems from the perspective of their victims. The "bottom line" consequences are often damaging to the health of individuals or communities and they raise a wide range of issues concerning justice, international and environmental law, public health, occupational health and health policy, social policy and welfare, international relations and security.

Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color
Editor: Robert D. Bullard
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
ISBN: 0871563800
Publication 1996
Synopsis: This 16-chapter anthology provides a comprehensive examination of environmental, health, social, and economic justice problems that differentially impact people of color. It also explores some of the policy initiatives that have been adopted to address environmental justice concerns.

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Globalisation

Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice (Paperback)
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher: Allen Lane
ISBN-10: 0713999098
Price: £8.99
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: Stiglitz examines how change has occurred rapidly over the past four years, proposing solutions and looking to the future. He puts forward radical new ways of dealing with the crippling indebtedness of developing countries, a new system of global reserves to overcome international financial instability and a new framework, combining economic incentives and principles of equity, for dealing with the greatest threat to our planet, global warming - one which is more likely to be accepted both by the US and the developing world than previous proposals.

Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry (Paperback)
Editors: Ted Smith, David A Sonnenfeld and David Naguib Pellow
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN-10: 1592133304
Price: †£13.99
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: "Challenging the Chip" is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the world. The essays in this volume contribute to a collaborative international discourse of citizens, workers, health professionals, academics, labour leaders, environmental activists, and others with the common goal of developing alternative visions for the regulation and sustainable development of manufacturing, assembly/disassembly, and waste disposal in the global electronics industry.

Environmental Values in a Globalizing World: Nature, Justice and Governance (Challenges of Globalisation) (Paperback)
Author: Jouni Paavola
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-10: 0415343623
Price: £21.99
Publication: 2004
Synopsis: This multidisciplinary volume presents a refreshing new approach to environmental values in the global age. It investigates the challenges that globalization poses to traditional environmental values in general as well as in politics and international governance. Divided into five parts, the book investigates how environmental values could be reconceived in a globalizing world.

Global Justice and Transnational Politics (Global Environmental Accord (Paperback)) (Paperback)
Editors: Pablo De Greiff and Ciaran Cronin
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-10: 0262541335
Price: †£18.95
Publication: 2002
Synopsis: If globalization is to be a benefit and not a burden to humankind, it must be governed by global institutions that are perceived by all people to be democratic and just. But before we can create such institutions, we must imagine them, and that requires a rethinking and extension of normative political theory. "Global Justice and Transnational Politics" encourages and advances that work.

Human Rights & The Environment, Conflicts & Norms in a Globalizing World (Paperback)
Editor: Lyuba Zarsky
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd
ISBN: 185383 8152
Price: £19.99
Publication: 2002
Synopsis: The impact of environmental damage on human rights - civil, political or welfare and labour rights - is becoming ever-more widely appreciated and has direct bearing on the behaviour of companies and their norms of conduct. In this volume, contributors draw on the tools and insights of a range of disciplines, including law, anthropology, economics, geography and social science, to analyze the issues and show how new standards that protect rights and liberties can be established.

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Green Lifestyle’s

199 Ways to Please God (Paperback)
Author: Rianne C ten Veen
Publisher: Upfront Publishing
ISBN- 10: 184426629X
Price: £11.39
Publication: May 2009
Synopsis: This book aims to increase awareness about the current state of our environment and Islamic injunctions to play our part in protecting it as guardians of Creation. It includes some disconcerting facts about the current state of affairs, but hopes this will serve as inspiration for positive action (oftentimes saving money at the same time). It is organised around four key areas of Islamic life (beliefs, worship, transactions and moral character), reflecting on Islamic teachings, the current situation and then giving examples of practical ways we might please God by being a good guardian.

The Good Shopping Guide: Revealing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Ethical Shopping Brands
Author: Charlotte Mulvey
Publisher: Ethical Marketing Group
ISBN: 0955290716
Price: £9.72
Publication: Oct 2007

Green for Life (Paperback)
Author: Victoria Boutenko
Publisher: Raw Family Publishing
ISBN-10: 0970481969
Price: £10.99
Publication: 2006

It's Not Easy Being Green: One Family's Journey Towards Eco-Friendly Living (Hardcover)
Author: Dick Strawbridge
Publisher: BBC Books
ISBN-10: 0563493461
Price: £19.99
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: Are you aware of your 'eco-footprint'? Dick Strawbridge and his family decided that they needed to reduce theirs - this meant reducing the amount of land, water and other natural resources required to support their lifestyle. To accompany the BBC2 TV series, this book chronicles the Strawbridge family's journey from a perfectly normal life and house in the Midlands to a self-sufficient environmentally friendly dream home in the West Country.

Saving the Planet Without Costing the Earth: 500 Simple Steps to a Greener Lifestyle (Paperback)
Author: Donnachadh McCarthy
Publisher: Fusion Press
ISBN-10: 1904132391
Price: £11.99
Publication: 2004
Synopis: In "Saving the Planet Without Costing the Earth", Donnachadh McCarthy explains how to carry out an environmental audit of your life in areas such as waste disposal, gardening and home maintenance, food, work and travel to find out how 'green' you are. He then offers 500 ingenious yet practical suggestions you can follow to improve your score. What's more, for each idea, he details how much it will cost to implement (if anything) and also lists the benefits for the environment and your wallet.

The Little Book of Living Green (Pocket Oracle) (Paperback)
Author: Mark Hegarty; Illustrator: Neil Bennett
Publisher: Nightingale Press
ISBN-10: 1903222133
Price: †£2.99
Publication: 2000
Synopsis: The Little Book of Living Green is part of the Pocket Oracle series, which provides advice and instruction for everyday life. This user-friendly guide to environmental concern is full of simple ways to help care for your surroundings from the comfort of your own home.

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Legal

Environmental Law (Paperback)
Author: Stuart Bell, Donald McGillivray
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0199260567
Price: £28.99
Publication Date: 2005
Synopsis: Covering a wide range of topics in a clear and accessible writing style, Environmental Law introduces students to all of the key areas of environmental law, drawing on legislation, policy, and practice.

Environmental Law / Textbook (Paperback)
Author: J Thornton, Silas Beckwith
Publisher: Thompson Sweet & Maxwell
ISBN-10: 042177990x
Price: £26.95
Publication Date: 2004
Synopsis: Environmental Law provides the reader with a clear and current picture of the framework of environmental regulation. The text highlights the major themes and principles, and provides practical examples of the law in operation.

Environmental Law / NUTSHELLS (Paperback)
Author: Brenda Short
Publisher: Thompson Sweet & Maxwell
ISBN-10: 0421797908
Price: £8.00
Publication Date: 2003
Synopsis: This new title explains how law can be used to protect the environment. It introduces the legal framework used to regulate land use and pollution control together with the obligations it places on potential polluters. It incorporates issues affecting the development of environmental law, including the Precautionary Principle and Human Rights Act 1998.

International Law and the Environment (Paperback)
Author: Patricia Birnie and Alan E. Boyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0198765533
Price: £37.99
Publication Date: 2002
Synopsis: This eagerly awaited new edition of "International Law and the Environment" provides an authoritative account of the main principles of international law concerning protection of the environment. Written by two of the foremost academics on the field, the second edition has been expanded and updated to take full account of the extensive developments which have occurred since the Rio Conference in 1992.

Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection (Paperback)
Author: Alan E. Boyle, Michael R. Anderson
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN-10 :0198267894
Price: £37.00
Publication Date: 1998
Synopsis: This collection of essays explores links between the environment and human rights, and responds to the growing debate among activists, lawyers, academics and policy-makers on the legal status of environmental rights in both international and domestic law, and on the proposals for a human right to a satisfactory environment. The collection is an original and timely contribution to the existing literature on this subject, and offers a sustained analysis which addresses both the conceptual and practical problems of environmental rights.

Principles of International Environmental Law (Paperback)
Author: Phillipe Sands
Publisher: The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge
ISBN-10:0521521068
Price: £50.00
Publication Date: 1995
Synopsis: This second edition of Philippe Sand's leading textbook on international environmental law provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the subject, revised to December 2002. It considers relevant new topics, including the Kyoto Protocol, genetically modified organisms, oil pollution, chemicals etc. and will remain the most comprehensive account of the principles and rules relating to environmental protection and the conservation of natural resources.

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Pollution

The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution (Paperback)
Editor: Robert D. Bullard
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-10: 1578051207
Price: £12.50
Publication: 2005

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Public Participation

Power, participation and political renewal; Case studies in public participation (Paperback)
Editors: Marian Barnes, Janet Newman and Helen Sullivan
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN 9781861346674
Price: †£24.99
Publication: 2007
Synopsis:  This book offers a critical examination of both the discourse and practice of participation in order to understand the significance of this explosion in participatory forums, and the extent to which such practices represent a fundamental change in governance. Based on 17 case studies across a range of policy areas in two English cities, the authors address key issues such as: the way in which notions of the public are constructed; the motivation of participants; how the interests and identities of officials and citizens are negotiated within forums; and the ways in which institutions enable and constrain the development of participation initiatives.

Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCB's and the Origins of Environmental Justice (Hardcover)
Author: Eileen McGurty
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 0813539668
Price: £28.95
Publication: 2007
Synopsis: In "Transforming Environmentalism", Eileen McGurty explores a moment central to the emergence of the environmental justice movement. In 1978, residents of predominantly African American Warren County, North Carolina, were horrified to learn that the state planned to build a landfill in their county to hold forty thousand cubic yards of soil that was contaminated with PCBs from illegal dumping. They responded to the state's plans with a four-year resistance, ending in a month of protests with over 500 arrests from civil disobedience and disruptive actions. McGurty traces the evolving approaches that residents took to contest "environmental racism" in their community and shows how activism in Warren County spurred greater political debate and became a model for communities across the nation.

Citizenship, Environment, Economy (Paperback)
Editors: Andrew Dobson and Angel Valencia Saiz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10: 0415366720
Price: £20.00
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: As governments around the world grapple with the challenge of delivering environmental sustainability, attention has recently focused on the role that citizens should play in meeting the challenge. In advanced industrial countries such as ours, which operate in the political framework of liberal capitalism, what relevance can we place on 'environmental citizenship'? This book looks at the obstacles and opportunities which exist within this context and examines the possibility of ethical investment, the social economy and considers whether there is space in the capitalist economy for environmental citizens to 'do the right thing'.

Environmental Citizenship (Paperback)
Editors: Andrew Dobson and Derek Bell
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262524465
Price: £15.95
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: A multidisciplinary consideration of how effective environmental citizenship can be in achieving sustainability, with theoretical, practical, and ethnographic perspectives. Promoting environmental citizenship as a path to achieving sustainability - encouraging people to act according to the public environmental good - offers an alternative to the mainly market-based incentives used by most governments today. This book considers the theory and practice of environmental citizenship, the obstacles to its realisation, and the opportunities it presents for bringing about environmental and social sustainability.

Citizenship and the Environment (Paperback)
Author: Andrew Dobson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0199258449
Price: £27.00
Publication: 2003
Synopsis: Andrew Dobson argues that ecological citizenship cannot be fully articulated in terms of the two great traditions of citizenship - liberal and civic republican - with which we have been bequeathed. He develops an original theory of citizenship, which he calls "post-cosmopolitan", and argues that ecological citizenship is an example and an inflection of it.

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
Editor: David J.C. MacKay
Publisher: UIT Cambridge
ISBN: 0954452933
Price: The book is available for free online at www.withouthotair.com
Publication: 2008
Synopsis: This book sets out, with enormous clarity and objectivity, the various alternative low-carbon pathways that are open to us. For anyone with influence on energy policy, whether in government, business or a campaign group, this book should be compulsory reading.

Growing Smarter: Achieving Liveable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (Paperback)
Editor: Robert D. Bullard
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-10: 0262524708
Price: £16.95
Publication: 2007
Synopsis: In this work, experts from academia, government, and nonprofit organizations offer an environmental justice perspective on Smart Growth, discussing equitable solutions to suburban sprawl and urban decay.

Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice (Paperback)
Author: Julian Agyeman
Publisher: New York University Press
ISBN-10: 0814707106
Price: £12.95
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: Popularized in the movies Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action, "environmental justice" refers to any local response to a threat against community health. In this book, Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways.

Wisdom for a Livable Planet: The Visionary Work of Terri Swearingen, Dave Foreman, Wes Jackson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Werner Fornos, Herman Daly, Stephen Schneider, and David Orr (Paperback)
Author: Carl McDaniel
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN-10: 1595340092
Price: †£8.69
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: Uses inspirational stories of successful activists to explore major environmental issues and offer proven solutions.

Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (Paperback)
Author: Vandana Shiva
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN-10: 089608745X
Price: †£16.99
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: This book is Vandana Shiva's most extensive treatment of the struggles, she has helped bring to international attention in genetic food engineering, cultural theft, and natural resource privatisation. She uncovers their links to the rising tide of fundamentalisms, violence against women, and the environmental death of the planet.

Just Sustainabilities, Development in an Unequal World (Paperback)
Editor(s): Julian Agyeman, Bob Evans and Robert Bullard
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262511312
Price: £12.99
Publication: 2003

Justice and Natural Resources: Concepts, Strategies, and Applications (Paperback)
Editors: Gerald Torres, Kathryn M. Mutz, Gary C. Bryner and Douglas S. Kenney
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN-10: 1559638982
Price: £19.50
Publication: 2001
Synopsis: "Justice and Natural Resources" is devoted to exploring the concept of environmental justice in the realm of natural resources. Contributors consider how decisions about the management and use of natural resources can exacerbate social injustice and the problems of disadvantaged communities.

Sustainable Measures: Evaluation and Reporting of Environmental and Social Performance (Hardback)
Editors: Martin Bennett and Peter James with Leon Klinkers
Publisher: Green Leaf Publishing
ISBN: 1 874719 16 0
Price: £35.00
Publication: 1999
Synopsis: This volume collects together some of the key work and individuals from around the world concerned with the topic of sustainable measures. Contributions include: environmental and social reporting; the GRI discussion draft; the FEE study of environmental reporting; Janet Ranganathan of the World Resources Institute on sustainability measures; and Martin Bennett and Peter James on ISO 14031 and the future of environmental performance evaluation.

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The Earth

The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity (Hardcover)
Author: James Lovelock
Publisher: Allen Lane
ISBN-10: 0713999144
Price: †£16.99
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: Lovelock's unique authority and original perspective sets this book apart from other books on environmental change. He speaks as a planetary physician with more than forty years' experience of thinking about how to respond to the Earth's needs as a living organism. Illustrated with examples drawn from his experiences around the world, Lovelock draws many radical conclusions, most controversially a passionate advocacy of nuclear energy.

HEAT: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning (Paperback)
Author: George Monbiot
Publisher: Allen Lane
ISBN 9780713999235
Price: †£8.99
Publication: 2006
Synopsis: Started to worry about just how hot our world is going to get, and whether you can do anything about it? As the effect of climate change grows by the day, so does the amount of hot air and bluster spouted by politicians and businessmen on what we should do about it. Packed with killer facts and inspiring ideas, shot through with passion and underlined by brilliant investigative journalism, with a copy of "Heat" you really can protect the planet.

Capitalism; As if the World Matters (Paperback)
Author: Jonathon Porritt
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1-84407-192-8
Price: £16.99
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: Fully revised and updated edition of Porritt's groundbreaking work includes fresh coverage of the USA and China, corporate giants such as Wal-Mart and GE, the evolving politics of climate change and the rise of religious environmentalism. When first published in 2005, "Capitalism as if the World Matters" shocked both a generation of environmentalists and a generation of business people with a powerful argument that the only way to save the world from climate change and environmental catastrophe is to embrace a new type of capitalism, and to do it quickly.

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Transport

Running on Empty: Transport, Social Exclusion and Environmental Justice (Paperback)
Editor: Karen Lucas
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN 9781861345691
Price: £22.99
Publication: 2004
Synopsis: This groundbreaking book looks at the delivery of transport from a social policy perspective to assist in a better understanding of this issue. Running on empty: argues that past failure to address fundamental inequalities in the ability of low-income households to access adequate transport has undermined effective delivery of welfare policies in the US and UK; describes the new policies and initiatives being developed to address this oversight; outlines the case for including transport as an area of social policy inquiry, identifying key factors; uses case study examples of practical initiatives from both sides of the Atlantic to draw lessons for future policy and practice.

Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New Routes to Equity (Hardback)
Editor: Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN 10: 0896087050
Price: £30
Publication: 2004
Synopsis: Highway Robbery presents real case studies that call into question the fairness and legality of many of our nation's transportation policies, practices, and procedures and offers corrective solutions.

Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility (Paperback)
Editor: Robert D. Bullard and Glenn Johnson
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN 10: 086571357X
Price: £10.50
Publication: 1997

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Urban Environment

The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place
Author: Robert D. Bullard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-10: 0742543285
Price: £54.99
Publication: May 2007
Synopsis: This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and race in the era of increased globalization. Whether intended or unintended, many government policies (housing, transportation, land use, environmental, economic development, education, etc.) have aided and in some cases subsidized suburban sprawl, job flight, and spatial mismatch; concentrated urban poverty; and heightened racial and economic disparities.

Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice (Urban & Industrial Environments) (Paperback)
Author: Jason Corburn
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-10: 0262532727
Price: †£15.95
Publication: 2005
Synopsis: In this highly original look at environmental health policymaking, Jason Corburn shows the ways that local knowledge can be combined with professional techniques to achieve better solutions for environmental health problems. He traces the efforts of a low-income community in Brooklyn to deal with environmental health problems in its midst and offers a framework for understanding "street science" - decision making that draws on community knowledge and contributes to environmental justice.

Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (Urban & Industrial Environments) (Paperback)
Author: David Naguib Pellow
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-10: 026266187X
Price: †£11.95
Publication: 2004
Synopsis: In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encountered them from 1880 to 2000. What unfolds is a tug of war among social movements, government, and industry over how we manage our waste, who benefits, and who pays the costs.

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Water

The Human Right to Water: Legal and Policy Dimensions (Law, Justice, and Development) (Paperback)
Authors: Salman M.A. Salman and Siobhan McInerney-Lankford
Publisher: World Bank
ISBN-10: 0821359223
Price: †£16.95
Publication: 2004
Synopsis: This publication, written by recognised experts in this field, explores the genesis of the debate on the right to water and the links between development issues, water resources and human rights.

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