Environmental Politics Bibliography

Environmental Politics and Policy

A Bibliography for Teaching and Research Prepared by Dave Robertson, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Links to UMSL Environmental Politics syllabus and Missouri Science & Technolgy Environmental Politics and Policies syllabus
/ UMSLGrad seminar, Public Policy of Conservation and Sustainable Development syllabus

Last Updated: September 4, 2017

Index: Basic Texts and Overviews / Journals / Maps / Environmental History / Political Ecology / Economics and Sustainability * The Tragedy of the Commons / Science, Technology, & Risk / Ideas, Philosophy, and Ethics / Women and the Environment / Environmental Politics in the United States / U.S. Regions / The U.S. Conservation Movement / U.S.-Foreign Comparison / Federalism / Congress / Presidents / Bureaucracy * U.S. Army Corps of Engineers * Tennessee Valley Authority / Courts & Law / Media / Public Opinion / Environmental Interests / Greens / Labor, Unions, Employment & Environment / Business / Energy * Coal * Oil * Solar and Wind Power * Nuclear Power * Electricity / NEPA / Air Pollution / Global Warming / Water Resources * Missouri River * Mississippi River * Great Lakes * Wetlands * Oceans / Water Pollution / Toxics and Toxic Waste / Superfund / Nuclear Waste / Solid Waste / Land & Private Property / Public Lands / Agriculture / Sustainable Metropolitan Growth & Urban Sprawl / Forests / National Parks / Race & Environmental Justice / Flora & Fauna, Endangered Species & Biodiversity / Animal Rights / International & Comparative Problems and Policy Making / Population

Encyclopedia of Earth

Forest History Society Bibliography

Basic Texts and Overviews

Walter A. Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy, 10th ed. (CQ Press, 2016)
Michael E. Kraft, Environmental Policy and Politics, 6th ed. rev (Routledge, 2015)
Zachary Smith, The Environmental Policy Paradox, 6^th ed. (Routledge, 2012)
Marc Allen Eisner, Governing the Environment: The Transformation of Environmental Regulation (Lynne Rienner, 2006).
Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary O'Leary, Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities (MIT Press, 2004)
Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary O'Leary, eds., Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Challenges ,Choices, and Opportunities (MIT Press, 2004)
Steven Cohen, Understanding Environmental Policy (Columbia UP, 2006).
Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Glen Sussman, Byron W. Danes, and Jonathan P. West, American Politics and the Environment (Longman, 2002)
Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Environmental Policy, 6th ed. (CQ Press, 2010)
Nico Nelissen, Jan van der Straaten, and Leon Klinkner, eds., Classics in Environmental Studies: An Overview of Classic Texts in Environmental Studies (International Books, 1997)
Lawrence S. Rothenberg, Environmental Choices: Policy Responses to Green Demands (CQ Press, 2002)
Judith A. Layzer, The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy (CQ Press, 2002)
David Peterson del Mar, Environmentalism (Longman, 2011)
David Howard Davis, American Environmental Politics (Nelson-Hall, 1998)
Daniel J. Fiorino, The New Environmental Regulation (MIT, 2006)
Christopher McGrory Klyza and David J. Sousa, American Environmental Policy: Beyond Gridlock (MIT Press, 2013)
Lynton K. Caldwell and Robert V. Bartlett, eds., Environmental Policy : Transnational Issues and National Trends (Quorum Books. 1997).
James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence, 2nd ed (Duke UP, 1995).
Daniel J. Fiorino, Making Environmental Policy (California UP, 1995).
Donald T. Wells, Environmental Policy: A Global Perspective for the Twenty-First Century (Prentice Hall, 1997)
Lester Brown, et al, The State of the World 2015
Society for Conservation Biology
Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2^nd ed.,[comparative - Europe] (Cambridge UP, 2007)
Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows, Limits to Growth (Chelsea Green, 2004)
Mostafa K. Tolba, Saving Our Planet: Challenges and Hopes (Chapman and Hall, 1992)
Council on Environmental Quality, Environmental Quality (U.S. Government Printing Office).
European Environmental Agency

Journals & Blogs

Maps

Conservation and Environment Maps, Library of Congress / EPA Enviromapper
Charting North America: Maps from the Slaughter Collection (New York Public Library)
World Resources Institute Earthtrends

Environmental History (see also specific topics)

H-Environment / Environmental History Web Resources (Berkeley) / Environment, Law, and History Blog
Journals: Environmental History * Environment and History
J.R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (WW Norton, 2001) and J.R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 (Harvard UP, 2016)
Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz, eds., The Environment and World History (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009)
J. Donald Hughes, What is Environmental History? (Blackwell, 2006) and An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life (Routledge, 2012)
Emilio F. Moran, People and Nature: An Introduction to Human EcologicalRelations (Blackwell, 2006)
Neil Roberts,The Holocene: an Environmental History (Blackwell, 1998)
B.L Turner et al, eds., The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Change in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years (Cambridge UP, 1991)
A.M. Mannion, Global Environmental Change: A Natural and Cultural Environmental History (Longman Scientific & Technical, 1991) and Carbon and its Domestication (Springer, 2006).
I.G. Simmons, Environmental History, A Concise Introduction (Blackwell,1993) and Changing the Face of the Earth. Culture, Environment and History (Blackwell, 1996)
Peter Atkins, Ian Simmons and Brian Roberts, People, Land and Time: An Historical Introduction to the Relations between Landscape, Culture and Environment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (WW Norton, 1997)
Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (U of California Press, 2006)
Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)
Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (Oxford UP, 2006)
Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Praeger, 2003)
Shepard Krech III, J.R. McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (Routledge, 2004)
Frank Uekoetter, ed. The Turning Points of Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh 2010)
T. M. L. Wigley, M.J. Ingram, and G. Farmer, eds., Climate and History (Cambridge UP, 1981).
Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 (Basic Books, 2000)
Carolyn Merchant, Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture, rev ed. (Routledge, 2013)
Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (U of California Press, 2006)
Donald Worster, "History as Natural History: An Essay on Theory and Method," Pacific Historical Review 53 (February 1984), 1-19 and The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (Oxford, 1993)
Donald Worster, ed. The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History (Cambridge UP, 1988).
William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (WW Norton, 1996)
Carolyn Merchant, "Gender and Environmental History," Journal of American History 76 (March 1990): 1117-1121.
Kendall E. Bailes, ed. Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective (Lanham, MD: 1985)
Carolyn Merchant, ed., Major Problems in American Environmental History (D.C. Heath, 1993)
Char Miller and Hal Rothman, eds, Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh, 1997).
Samuel P. Hays, Explorations in Environmental History: Essays by Samuel P. Hays (U of Pittsburgh, 1998)
Clive Ponting, A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilization (Penguin)
John Aberth, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature (Routledge, 2012)
Steven A. Epstein, The Medieval Discovery of Nature (Cambridge UP, 2012)
John F. Richards, The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (U of California Press, 2003)
Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. (Cambridge UP, 1986)
J R. McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (WW Norton, 2000)
Adam Markham, A Brief History of Pollution (St. Martin's 1994).
Richard N.L Andrews, Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. (Yale UP, 2006)
William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (W.W. Norton, 1991) and Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Hill and Wang, 1983; 20th anniversary ed., 2003)
Carolyn Merchant, American Environmental History: An Introduction (Columbia University Press, 2007), The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (Columbia UP, 2002) and Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England, 2^nd ed. (U of North Carolina Press, 2010)
Patrick Allitt, A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism (Penguin, 2014)
William Tucker, Progress and Privilege: America in the Age of Environmentalism (Doubleday, 1982)
Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (U of Washington Press, 2012)
Ted Steinberg, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America, 2^nd ed. (Oxford UP, 2006)
Tim Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001).
Brian Black, Nature and the Environment in American Life (Greenwood Press, 2006).
John Opie, Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States (International Thomson Publishing, 1998)
Thomas R. Dunlap, Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Cambridge UP, 1999).
Joel A. Tarr, The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective (U of Akron Press, 1996).
Shepard Krech, III, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (WW Norton, 1999)
Samuel P. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the US, 1955-1985 (Cambridge UP, 1989). and A History of Environmental Politics since 1945 S (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2000)
Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (Oxford UP, 2002).
Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (Island Press, 2005)
Thomas R. Wellock, Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements (Harlan Davidson, 2007)
John Young, Sustaining the Earth: The Story of the Environmental Movement - Its Past Efforts and Future Challenges (Harvard, 1990)
Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation (New York: Hill and Wang, 2013) andThe Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge UP, 2001).
Christopher C. Sellers, Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America (U of North Carolina Press, 2012)
Susan Scott Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (U of North Carolina Press, 2006)
David Stradling, The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State (Cornell UP, 2010).
Martin Melosi, Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980)
Nicholas Casner, "Polluter versus Polluter: The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Manufacturing of Pollution Policies in the 1920s," Journal of Policy History 11:2 (1999), 179-200
Daniel Eli Burnstein, Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City (U of Illinois Press, 2006).
William Deverell and Greg Hise, ed., Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (U of Pittsburgh Press)
Harold L. Platt, Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago (U of Chicago Press, 2004).
Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin, Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies (University of Washington Press, 1998)
Gerald D. Nash, The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West (U of Arizona Press, 1990)
Steven E. Woodworth, Manifest Destinies: America's Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War (Knopf, 2010)
Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll, ed. "To Love the Wind and Rain:" African Americans and Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh Press)
Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik, Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996) [Ballinger-Pinchot, Hetch Hetchy, Donora Smog]
Andrew Kirk, Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalogue and American Environmentalism (UP of Kansas, 2007)
Andrew Szasz, Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Peter Brimblecombe and Christian Pfister, The Silent Countdown: Essays in European Environmental History (Springer-Verlag, 1993)
Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud and Christophe Bernhardt, eds., Le démon modern: La pollution dans les sociétés urbaines et industrielles d’Europe [The modern Demon: Pollution in Urban and Industrial European Societies] (Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2002)
Tamara L. Whited, ed., Northern Europe. An Environmental History, (ABC-Clio, 2005)
Keith Vivien Thomas, Man and the Natural World, Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800 (Allen Lane, 1983)
John Sheail, An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain (Palgrave, 2001)
I.G. Simmons, An Environmental History of Great Britain from 10,000 Years Ago to the Present (Edinburgh UP, 2001)
Lee Jackson, Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth (Yale UP, 2015)

Sustainability and Economics

Stephen Macekura, Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jeremy Caradonna, Sustainability: A History (Oxford UP, 2014)
Heather M. Farley, Zachary A. Smith, Sustainability: If It's Everything, Is It Nothing? (Routledge, 2013)
World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future [the Bruntland Report] (Oxford, 1987)
President's Council on Sustainable Development, Towards a Sustainable America (1999)
Bryan G. Norton, Sustainability: A Philosophy Of Adaptive Ecosystem Management (U of Chicago Press, 2005) and Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change: A Guide To Environmental Decision Making (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Roger Dower et al, Frontiers of Sustainability: Environmentally Sound Agriculture, Forestry, Transportation, and Power Production (Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1997)
Harmut Bossel, Earth at a Crossroads: Paths to a Sustainable Future (Cambridge UP, 1998).
Ann Hooker Clarke, "Understanding Sustainable Development in the Context of Other Emergent Environmental Perspectives," Policy Sciences 35:1 (2002): 69-90
Special issue, International Political Science Review, "The Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Concepts, Policies, and Arenas," 20:2 (April, 1999).
Erik Gómez-Baggethun et al., “The History of Ecosystem Services in Economic Theory and Practice: From Early Notions to Markets and Payment Schemes,” Ecological Economics 69 (2010), 1209–1218.
Mark Sagoff, Price, Principle, and the Environment (Cambridge UP, 2004)
Jetske A. Bouma and Pieter J. H. van Beukering, eds., Ecosystem Services: From Concept to Practice (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Peter Kareiva, Heather Tallis, Taylor H. Ricketts, Gretchen C. Daily, and Stephen Polasky, eds., Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services (Oxford UP, 2011)
Gretchen Daily, ed., Nature's Services: Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems (Island Press, 1997)
Joy E. Hecht, National Environmental Accounting: Bridging the Gap Between Ecology and Economy (Resources for the Future, 2004)
Winston Harrington Richard D. Morgenstern, and Thomas Sterner, eds. Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2004.
Geoffrey Heal, Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services (Island Press, 2001).
Richard Revesz and Paul Livermore, Retaking Rationality: How Cost Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health (Cambridge UP, 2008).
Peter Soderbaum, Ecological Economics: Political Economics for Social and Environmental Development (Routledge, 2000)
James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale UP, 2008)
Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (Island Press/Shearwater, 2004)
Robert L. Nadeau, The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics has Failed the Environment (Columbia UP, 2003)
Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling, Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (New Press, 2004)
Robert Costanza, ed., Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability (Columbia University Press, 1991).
Wallace E. Oates, ed. The Economics of the Environment (Edwin Elgar, 1992).
Douglas E. Booth, The Environmental Consequences of Growth: Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline (London: Routledge)
Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Raino Malnes, Valuing the Environment (St. Martin's, 1995).
James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale UP, 2008)
John F. Steiner and Stahrl Edmunds, "Economy-Ecology Conflict: Analysis, Examples, and Policy Approaches" in James E. Post, ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 3 (JAI Press, 1981).
Frank Fischer and Michael Black, eds. Greening Environmental Policy: The Politics of a Sustainable Future? (St. Martin's, 1995).
Neil Cunningham and Peter Grabosky, with Darren Sinclair, Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy (Clarendon Press, 1998)
Roger D. Congleton, ed., The Political Economy of Environmental Protection: Analysis and Evidence (University of Michigan Press, 1996)
Lester W. Milbrath, Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our War Out (SUNY, 1990)
Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (Random House, 1971).
John S. Dryzek, Rational Ecology: Environment and Political Economy (Blackwell, 1987)
Michael S. Greve and Fred L. Smith, eds., Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Greenwood, 1992)
Terry L. Anderson and R. Donald Leal, Free Market Environmentalism (Pacific Research Institute, 1991)
Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill, eds. The Political Economy of the American West (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994)
American Behavioral Scientist, Special Issue on "Barriers to Wiser Agreements between Environmental and Economic Concerns, 42:8 (May, 1999).
Joan Martinez-Alier, The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation (Edward Elgar, 2003)

The Tragedy of the Commons

Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science 162 (December 13, 1968), 1243-1248.
David Feeny et al, “The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-Two Years Later,” in Ken Conca, Michael Alberti, and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, eds., Green Planet Blues (Westview Press, 1995)
John A. Baden and Douglas S. Noonan, Managing the Commons, 2^nd ed. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998)
Susan J. Buck, The Global Commons: An Introduction (Island Press, 1998)
Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Institutions

Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schrooeder, eds., Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers (MIT Press, 2008).

Science, Technology, & Risk (& debates over the use of science in environmental issues)

National Research Council, Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment (2009).
Ann Campbell Keller, Science in Environmental Policy: The Politics of Objective Advice (MIT Press, 2009).
Sandra D. Mitchell, Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy (U of Chicago Press, 2009.
Stephen Bocking, Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers UP, 2004)
Sharon E. Kingsland, The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005)
Charles J. Krebs, Why Ecology Matters (U of Chicago Press, 2016)
Kerry H. Whiteside, Precautionary Politics: Principle and Politics in Confronting Environmental Risk (MIT, 2006)
David Vogel, The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States (Princeton UP, 2012)
Jonathan B. Wiener, Michael D. Rogers, James K. Hammitt, and Peter H. Sand, eds., The Reality of Precaution (Resources for the Future Press, 2010)
Howard Margolis, Dealing With Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues (U of Chicago Press, 1997)
Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity (Yale UP 2010)
James Rogers Fleming and Henry A. Gemery, eds., Science, Technology, and the Environment: Mutlidisciplinary Perspectives (University of Akron Press, 1994).
J. Clarence, Davies, ed., Comparing Environmental Risks: Tools for Setting Governmental Priorities (Resources for the Future, 1996).
Stephen Bocking, Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers UP, 2004)
Jessica B. Teisch, Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise (U of North Carolina Press, 2011)
Mark R. Powell, Science at EPA: Information in the Regulatory Process (Resources for the Future Press, 1999)Dade W. Moeller, Environmental Health, 3rd ed. (Harvard UP, 2004)
Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Cambridge UP, 2001)
Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (Shearwater Books, 1998)
Williams Leiss and Douglas Powell. 2004. Mad Cows and Mother's Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk Communication. (McGill-Queens University Press).
Christopher H. Sellers, Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (U of North Carolina Press, 1997)
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (New York, NY: (Bloomsbury Press; 2010)
Dian Olson Belanger, Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2010)

Ideas, Philosophy and Ethics

Donald Worster, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Cambridge UP, 1994)
Clarence J. Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (U of California Press, 1976)
Andrew Dobson, Green Political Thought, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 1995)
Charles Krebs, The Ecological World View (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008)
Robert Goodin, Green Political Theory (Polity/Blackwell, 1992)
Michael E. Zimmerman, ed., Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Prentice Hall, 1993)
Joseph R. Des Jardins, Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy (Wadsworth, 1993)
Holmes Rolston, Environmental Ethics (Temple, 1988)
Hans Huth, Nature and the American: Three Centuries of Changing Attitudes (U of California Press, 1957)
Joseph M. Petulla, American Environmentalism: Values, Tactics, Priorities (Texas A&M Univ. Press, 1980)
Sharon E. Kingsland, The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005)
Bob Pepperman Taylor, Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America (UP of Kansas, 1992)
Ben A. Minteer, The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America (MIT Press, 2006)
Robert L. Dorman, A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates,1845-1913 (U of North Carolina Press, 1998)
Kimberly K. Smith, African American Environmental Thought (UP of Kansas, 2007)
Roderick Nash, A History of Environmental Ethics (Wisconsin, 1989)
John McPhee, Encounters with the archdruid (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971)
Robert Kirkman, Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science (Indiana UP, 2002)
Catherine M. Raoch, Mother / Nature: Popular Culture and Environmental Ethics (Indiana UP, 2003)
Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds., The Moral Authority of Nature (U of Chicago Press, 2003)
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854)
Andrew McMurray, Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the System of Nature (U of Georgia Press, 2003)
Jonathan McKenzie, The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau: Privatism and the Practice of Philosophy (U of Kentucky Press, 2016)
George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature: or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (C. Scribner and Co., 1864) and The Earth as Modified by Human Action: A New Edition of Man and Nature (1878; Project Gutenberg Online text)
David Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation (U of Wisconsin Press, 2000)
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (Oxford UP, 1949, 1968)
Susan L. Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of and Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests (U of Wisconsin, 1974)
Kurt Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work (U of Wisconsin Press, 1988)
Baird Callicott, ed. Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays (U of Wisconsin Press, 1987)
Rachel Carson, Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), The Edge of the Sea (1955), Silent Spring (1962)
Linda Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Henry Holt & Co., 1997)
Mark H, Lytle, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement (Oxford UP, 2007)
William Souder, On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring (Broadway Books, 2013)
Joni Seager, Carson's Silent Spring: A Reader's Guide (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)
Michael Egan, Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism (MIT Press, 2007)
John Barry, Environment and Social Theory (London: Routledge, 1999)
Matthew Alan Cahn, Environmental Deceptions: The Tension Between Liberalism and Environmental Policymaking in the United States (SUNY)
Marian R. Chertow and Daniel C. Esty, eds., Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (New Haven: Yale UP, 1997).
David Oates, Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature (Oregon State UP, 2003)
J.E. Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford, 1987)
Michael Ruse, The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet (U of Chicago Press, 2015
Tom Regan, ed. (1984), Earthbound: New Introductory Essays in Environmental Ethics (Random House).
Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (Harper and Row, 1980)
Phillip F. Cramer, Deep Environmental Politics: The Role of Radical Environmentalism in Crafting American Environmental Policy (Praeger, 1998).
Dave Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior (Crown Books).
Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (SUNY, 1992).
George Sessions, ed. Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism (Shambala)
Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology (Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, 1985)
Victor Ferkiss, Nature, Technology, and Society: The Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis (New York University Press, 1995).
Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (SUNY, 1992).
Dixy Lee Ray, Trashing the Planet (Regnery, 1990)
Martin W. Lewis, Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism (Duke UP, 1992)
Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Julian Simon, "Global Confusion, 1980: A Hard Look at the Global 2000 Report" The Public Interest (Winter, 1981)
Mark Stoll, Protestantism, Nature, and Capitalism in America (U of New Mexico Press, 1997)
Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Harvard UP, 1995)
Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Penguin, 2007)
Thurman Wilkins, John Muir: Apostle of Nature (Oklahoma, 1995).
Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison, John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures (U of New Mexico Press, 2005)
Stephen Fox, John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement (Little, Brown, 1981)
Frederick Turner, Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Times and Ours (Viking, 1985)
Michael Cohen, The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness. Madison: (U of Wisconsin Press, 1984)
Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Penguin, 2007).
Raymond Williams, "Ideas of Nature," in Williams, Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays (Verso, 1980)
Gordon K. Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist (Indiana University Press, 1995).
Al Gore, Earth in the Balance (Houghton Mifflin, 1992)
Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann, Gunfight at the Eco-Corral Western Cinema and the Environment (U of Oklahoma Press, 2012)

Mark Stoll, Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Oxford UP, 2015)
Roger S. Gottlieb, A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future (Oxford UP, 2006)
Thomas R. Dunlap, Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as a Religious Quest (U of Washington Press, 2005)
Lynn White, Jr., “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis,” Science, New Series, 155: 3767 (March 10, 1967), 1203-1207

Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett, Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality (MIT Press, 2005)

Women and the Environment

Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (Harper and Row, 1980) and Eathcare: Women and the Environment (Routledge, 1996)
Virginia J. Scharff, ed., Seeing Nature Through Gender (U Press of Kansas, 2003)
Vera Norwood, Made from This Earth: American Women and Nature (U of North Carolina Press, 1993)
Susan Schrepfer, Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism (U of Kansas Press, 2005)
Greta Claire Gaard, Ecofeminism (Temple UP 1993) and Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (Temple UP, 1998)
Karen J. Warren, ed., Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature (Indiana UP, 1997)
Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein, Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism (Sierra Club, 1990).
Polly Welts Kaufman, National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History (U of New Mexico Press, 1996)
Glenda Riley, Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West (U of Nebraska Press, 1999)
Ariel Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern (St. Martin's, 1997)
Robert K. Musil, Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment (Rutgers UP, 2014)

Politics and Political Ecology

Journal of Political Ecology / University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group
Roderick P. Neumann, Making Political Ecology (Oxford UP, 2005)
Mara J. Goldman, Paul Nadasdy, and Matthew D. Turner, eds., Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies (U of Chicago Press, 2011)
Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon, eds., Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups (Rutgers UP, 2004)
Martin Nie, "Drivers of Natural Resources-Based Political Conflict," Policy Science 36 (2003): 307-341.
Andrew Dobson and Derek Bell, eds., Environmental Citizenship (MIT Press, 2005)

Environmental Politics in the United States

Sheldon Kamieniecki and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy, (Oxford UP, 2012)
Walter Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy, 9th ed. (CQ Press, 2013)
Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Environmental Policy, New Directions for the 21st Century 8th ed (CQ Press / Sage, 2012)
David Howard Davis, American Environmental Politics (Nelson-Hall, 1998)
James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence (Duke, 1989)
Otis L., Graham, Jr., ed. Environmental Politics and Policy, 1960s-1990s (Pennsylvania State UP, 2000).
Roderick Frazier Nash, American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History (McGraw-Hill, 1990)
Charles T. Rubin, The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism (Free Press, 1994)
Victor B. Scheffer, The Shaping of Environmentalism in America (U of Washington Press, 1991)
Philip Shabecoff, A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement (Hill and Wang, 1993)
Michael J. Lacey, Government and Environmental Protection: Essays on Historical Developments Since World War II (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1991)
Daniel J. Fiorino, Making Environmental Policy (University of California, 1995).
Hal K. Rothman, The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945 (Harcourt Brace, 1998)
J. Clarence Davies and Jan Mazurek, Regulating Pollution: Does the U.S. System Work? (Washington: Resources for the Future, 1997)
David Vogel, Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 1995).
Mark Dowie, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century (MIT Press, 1995)
Bill Christofferson, The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson (U of Wisconsin Press)
James Morton Turner, "'The Specter of Environmentalism': Wilderness, Environmental Politics, and the Evolution of the New Right." Journal of American History 96 (2009): 123-148.

Policy Process / Agenda Setting
Susan G. Clark (originally published under the name Timothy Clark), The Policy Process: A Practical Guide for Natural Resource Professionals (Yale UP, 2002)
Anthony Downs, “Up and Down With Ecology: The ‘Issue-Attention Cycle,’” The Public Interest, 28 (Summer 1972), 38-50
Robert Repetto, ed., Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy (Yale UP, 2006).
Policy Implementation

Peter J. May and Walter Williams, Disaster Policy Implementation: Management Strategies Under Shared Governance (Plenum Press, 1986)
Peter J. May, Recovering From Catastrophes: Federal Disaster Relief Policy and Politics (Greenwood Press, 1985).

U.S. Regions, States, Metro Areas

Charles B. Hunt, Natural Regions of the United States and Canada (Freeman, 1974)
William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (WW Norton, 1991)
Richard W. Judd, Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England (U of Massachusetts Press, 2014)
Richard W. Judd and Christopher S. Beach, Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002).
Diana Muir, Reflections in Bullouqh's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England (U Press of New England, 2000)
John T. Cumbler, Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State: New England, 1790-1930 (Oxford UP, 2001)
Brian Donahue, The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (Yale UP, 2004)
Matthew Gandy, Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (MIT Press, 2003)

A. Cash Koeniger, "Climate and Southern Distinctiveness," Journal of Southern History 54 (Feb 1988): 21-44
Albert E. Cowdrey, This Land, This South: An Environmental History, rev. ed (U of Kentucky Press, 1996)
Mart A. Stewart, "If John Muir Had Been an Agrarian: American Environmental History West and South." Environment and History 11:2 (2005), 139-162.
Jack Temple Kirby, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South (U of North Carolina Press, 2006)
Otis L. Graham, "Again the Backward Region? Environmental History in and of the American South," Southern Cultures 6 (Summer 2000): 50-72
Mart A. Stewart, "What Nature Suffers to Grace": Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920 (U of Georgia Press, 1996).
David McCally, The Everglades: An Environmental History (UP of Florida, 1999)
Donald Edward Davis, Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians (U of Georgia Press, 2000)
Benita J. Howell, ed. Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South (U of Illinois Press, 2002)
Ronald L. Lewis, Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920 (U of North Carolina Press, 1998).
Randal L. Hall, Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2012)
Mikko Saikku, This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain (U of Georgia Press, 2005)
Craig E. Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature (Louisiana State UP, 2005).
Ari Kelman, A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (U of California Press, 2003) re
Andrew Hurley, ed., Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO Historical Society Press, 1997)
Richard Manning, Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie (Penguin, 1995).
Geoff Cunfer, On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment (Texas A&M UP, 2005)
Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Plains (Grosset & Dunlap, 1931)
Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Oxford UP, 1979).
R. Douglas Hurt, The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century (U of Arizona Press, 2011) and Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and Social History (Nelson-Hall, 1981)
Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas (UP of Kansas, 1994)

Dan Flores, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1950)
William H. Bergmann ,The American National State and the Early West (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Donald Worster, Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West (Oxford UP, 1992)
Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Houghton Mifflin, 1954)
Valerie L. Kuletz, The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West (Routledge, 1998)
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (WW Norton, 1987) and Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts (U of New Mexico Press, 1985)
James Sherow, ed., A Sense of the West: An Environmental History Anthology (University of New Mexico Press, 1998).
Char Miller, ed., Cities and Nature in the American West (U of Nevada Press, 2010)
William Travis, New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place (Island Press 2007)
Jared Farmer, On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape (Harvard UP, 2010).
Stephen Trimble, The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin (University of Nevada Press, 1999).
James W. Hulse, Nevada’s Environmental Legacy: Progress or Plunder (U of Nevada Press, 2009)
Robert Kelley, Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986 (U of California Press, 1989).
Matthew Klingle, Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (Yale UP, 2007)
Roxanne Willis, Alaska's Place in the West: From the Last Frontier to the Last Great Wilderness (University Press of Kansas, 2010)
Ken Ross, Environmental Conflict in Alaska (UP of Colorado, 2000).
Stephen Haycox, Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska (Oregon State UP, 2002)
Kathryn Morse, The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (University of Washington Press, 2003)

The U.S. Conservation Movement

The Evolution of the U.S. Conservation Movement from the U.S. Library of Congress.
Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 5th ed. (Yale UP, 2014).
David Stradling, Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1999)
Richard W. Judd, Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England (Harvard UP, 1997)
Stephen Fox, The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1986)
James A. Tober, Who Owns the Wildlife? The Political Economy of Conservation in Nineteenth Century America (Greenwood, 1981)
Adam Rome, "Coming to Terms with Pollution: The Language of Environmental Reform, 1865-1915," Environmental History 3 (July 1996), 6-28
Karl Jacoby, Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (U of California Press, 2001)
Louis S. Warren, The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale University Press, 1997).
John F. Reiger, American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation (Winchester, 1975)
Lee Clark Mitchell, Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth Century Response (Princeton University Press, 1981)
Wallace Stegner, John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Houghton Mifflin, 1954).
Donald Worster, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (Oxford UP, 2001)
Samuel P. Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920 (Harvard University Press, 1959).
David Stradling, ed., Conservation in the Progressive Era (U of Washington Press, 2004)
Elmo Richardson, The Politics of Conservation: Crusades and Controversies, 1897-1913 (University of California Press, 1962).
Douglas Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (HarperCollins, 2009) .
Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conservation (University of Washington, 1910) and Breaking New Ground (Harcourt, Brace, 1947).
Harold K. Steen, ed., The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot (Forest History Society, 2001)
Char Miller, Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism (Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001)
Harold T. Pinkett, Gifford Pinchot: Private and Public M. Nelson McGeary, Gifford Pinchot: Forester-Politician (Princeton UP, 1960)
Brian Balogh, “Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot’s Path to Progressive Reform,” Environmental History 7:2 (April 2002): 198-225
Robert Righter, The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism (Oxford UP, 2005)
Whitney R. Cross, "W J McGee and the Idea of Conservation," Historian 15 (1953): 148-162.
Donald C. Swain, Federal Conservation Policy, 1921-1931 (University of California Press, 1963) and Wilderness Defender: Horace M. Albright and Conservation (U of Chicago Press, 1970)
Kendrick Clements, Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life (UP of Kansas, 2000)
Kurkpatrick Dorsey, Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U. S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era (University of Washington Press, 1998).
Susan R. Schrepfer, The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of Environmental Reform, 1917-1978 (U of Wisconsin Press, 1983)
Edgar B. Nixon, ed. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911-1945 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1957)
Sarah Phillips, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America and the New Deal (Cambridge U Press, 2007)
A.L. Riesch Owen, Conservation Under F.D.R. (Praeger, 1983)
Neil M. Maher, Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservations Corps and the Roots of the Modern Environmental Movement (Oxford UP 2007, and “A New Deal Body Politic: Landscape, Labor, and the Civilian Conservation Corps,” Environmental History 7:3 (July 2002): 435-461
John F. Reiger, American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation, 3rd ed. revised (Oregon State UP, 2000)
Michael McCarthy, Hour of Trial: The Conservation Conflict in Colorado and the West. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1977)
Mark V. Brown, Jr., “Science, Sentiment, and the Specter of Extinction: Reconsidering Birds of Prey during America’s Interwar Years,” Environmental History 7:1 (January 2002): 69-98
Robin W. Winks, Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation (Island Press, 1997)
Ben A. Minteer and Stephen J. Payne, eds., After Preservation: Saving America's Nature in the Age of Humans (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

U.S. / Foreign Comparison

Lyle A. Scruggs, "Institutions and Environmental Performance in Seventeen Western Democracies," British Journal of Political Science 29 (1999): 1-31.
David Vogel, National Styles of Regulation : Environmental Policy in Great Britain and the United States (Cornell UP, 1986) and The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States (Princeton UP, 2012).
John S. Dryzek, Christian Hunold, David Schlosberg, with David Downes and Hans-Kristian Hernes, “Environmental Transformation of the State: the USA, Norway, Germany, and the UK,” Political Studies 50:4 (September 2002): 659-682
Cynthia H. Enloe, The Politics of Pollution in a Comparative Perspective (New York: David McKay, 1975)
L. Lundqvist, The Hare and the Tortoise
Susan Rose-Ackerman, Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States (Yale UP, 1995).
Pradyumna P. Karan and Unryu Suganuma, eds., Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan (UP of Kentucky, 2008)

U.S. Constitution and Law

Robert Meltz, Constitutional Bounds on Congress' Ability to Protect the Environment (Nova, 2003)
David Wilkinson, Environment and Law (Routledge, 2002)
Nancy K. Kubasek and Gary S. Silverman, Environmental Law (Prentice-Hall, 2007)
Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles A. Caldart, Environmental Law, Policy and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda (MIT Press, 2008)
Christine M. Rosen, "'Knowing' Industrial Pollution: Nuisance Law and the Power of Tradition in a Time of Rapid Economic Change." Environmental History 8 (2003): 565-597.

Federalism

Lawrence S. Rothenberg, “National or Local Control? Conflicts over Environmental Federalism,” Ch. 6 in Environmental Choices: Policy Response to Green Demands (CQ Press, 2002)
Peter J. May and Chris Koski. “State Environmental Policies: Analyzing Green Building Mandates.” Review of Policy Research 24:1 (January 2007): 49–65.
Tomas M. Koontz, Federalism in the Forest: National versus State Natural Resource Policy (Georgetown UP, 2003)
William Lowry, The Dimensions of Federalism: State Governments and Pollution Control Policies (Duke UP, 1992)
Evan J. Ringquist, Environmental Protection at the State Level: Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution (M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
Denise Scheberle, Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation 2nd ed. (Georgetown University Press, 2004)
Kenneth M. Holland, F. L. Morton, and Brian Galliga, eds., Federalism and the Environment: Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, and the United States (Greenwood Press, 1996)
Neal D. Woods. “Interstate Competition and Environmental Regulation: A Test of the Race-to-the Bottom Thesis,” SocialScience Quarterly 87:1 (March 2006): 174-189
Tomas M. Koontz, Federalism in the Forest: National versus State Natural Resource Policy (Georgetown UP, 2002)
Richard L. Revesz, "Federalism and Environmental Regulation: A Public Choice Analysis," Harvard Law Review 115:2 (December 2001), 555-641.
Wallace E. Oates (2004) Environmental Policy and Fiscal Federalism (Edward Elgar, 2003)
Wallace E. Oates and Robert M. Schwab, “Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing,” Journal of Public Economics 33(1988): 333-354.
Joseph F. Zimmerman, Interstate Water Compacts: Intergovernmental Efforts to Manage America's Water Resources (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2012)
Peter J. May, Raymond J. Burby, Neil Ericksen, John Handmer, Jennifer Dixon, Sarah Michaels, and D. Ingle Smith, Environmental Management and Governance: Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability (Routledge, 1996)
Raymond J. Burby and Peter J. May, Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land Use (Johns Hopkins UP, 1997)
Kenneth M. Holland, F.L. Morton, and Brian Galligan, Federalism and the Environment: Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, and the United States (Greenwood, 1996)
Zachary A. Smith, Environmental Politics and Policy in the West (Kendall Hunt, 1993)
Dave Dempsey, Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader (U of Michigan Press, 2003)
David M. Hedge and Michael J. Scicchitano, "Regulating in Space and Time: The Case of Regulatory Federalism," Journal of Politics 56:1 (February 1994).

Congress

Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives: Ways and Means, Appropriations, Commerce, Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure

Committees of the U.S. Senate: Finance, Appropriations & Subcommittees, Energy and Natural Resources, Environment and Public Works, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Commerce, Science, and Transportation

League of Conservation Voters scorecards

James Everett Katz, Congress and National Energy Policy (Transaction Publishers, 1984)
Charles Milazzo, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972 (UP of Kansas, 2006)
Bill Christofferson, The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson (U of Wisconsin Press, 2004)
Steven C. Schulte, Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West (U of Colorado Press, 2002)

Presidents

Council on Environmental Quality (1970)
Otis Graham, Presidents and the American Environment (UP of Kansas, 2015)
Bryan W. Daynes and Glen Sussman, White House Politics and the Environment: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush (Texas A&M UP, 2010).
Tarla Rae Peterson, ed., Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology (Texas A&M UP, 2004).
Dennis Sodden, The Environmental Presidency (SUNY Press, 1999)
Randall Lutter and Jason F. Shogren, Painting the White House Green: Rationalizing Environmental Policy Inside the Executive Office of the President (Resources for the Future, 2004)
Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior [Theodore Roosevelt] (HarperCollins, 2009)
Kendrick A. Clements, Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life (UP of Kansas, 2000)
Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner, eds., FDR and the Environment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
A. L. Riesch Owen, Conservation under F.D.R. (Praeger, 1983).
J. Brooks Flippen, Nixon and the Environment (U of New Mexico Press, 2000)
Jacqueline Vaughn and Hanna J. Cortner, George W. Bush's Healthy Forests: Reframing the Environmental Debate (UP of Colorado, 2005)
David M. Shafie, Presidential Administration and the Environment: Executive Leadership in the Age of Gridlock (Routledge, 2014)

Bureaucracy

U.S. Department of the Interior (1849) / U.S. Department of Agriculture (1889)
The U.S. Forest Service (1905) / The National Park Service (1916)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1940), The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (1946)
Environmental Protection Agency (1970)
Bruce J. Schulman, "Governing Nature, Nurturing Government: Resource Management and the Development of the American State." Journal of Policy History 17 (2005): 375-403
Richard W. Waterman, Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004)
John Baden, and Richard L. Stroup, eds. Bureaucracy vs. Environment: The Environmental Costs of Bureaucratic Governance (U of Michigan Press, 1981)
Andrew S. Kelly “The Political Development of Scientific Capacity in the United States” [U.S. Geological Survey] Studies in American Political Development 28:1 (April 2014), 1-25
Donald J. Pisani, Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 (U of California Press, 2002)
Herbert Kaufman, The Forest Ranger: A Study in Administrative Behavior (Johns Hopkins, 1960)
Harold K. Steen, The U.S. Forest Service: A History (U Washington Press, 1976)
Marc J. Landy, Marc J. Roberts, and Stephen R. Thomas, The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong Questions, From Nixon to Clinton (Oxford, 1994).
Joel A. Mintz, Enforcement at the EPA: High Stakes and Hard Choices (U of Texas Press, 1995).
Steven Croley, "White House Review of Agency Rulemaking: An Empirical Investigation," University of Chicago Law Review 70:3 (Summer, 2003), 821-885
Jeanne Neinaber Clarke and Daniel McCool, Staking Out the Terrain: Power and Performance Among Natural Resources Agencies, second ed. (SUNY, 1996)
Robert F. Durant, The Greening of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change (Georgetown UP, 2007)
Francis Paul Prucha, Broadax and Bayonet: The Role of the United States Army in the Development of the Northwest, 1815-1860 (U of Nebraska Press, 1995)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers / ACE Mississippi Valley Division / ACE Northwestern Division
Arthur Maas, Muddy Waters: The Army Engineers and the Nation's Rivers (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951)
William H. Goetzmann, Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863 (Yale University Press, 1959).
Forest G. Hill, Roads, Rails & Waterways: The Army Engineers and Early Transportation (University of Oklahoma Press, 1957).
Charles F. O’Connell, Jr., “The Corps of Engineers and the Rise of Modern Management, 1827-1856,” in Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience, ed. Merritt Roe Smith (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985), pp. 87-116.
Jamie W. Moore and Dorothy P. Moore. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Evolution of Federal Flood Plain Management Policy, (Boulder: University of Colorado Institute of Behavioral Science, 1989).
Frank N. Schubert, ed. The Nation Builders: A Sesquicentennial History of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1838 1863, Fort Belvoir, Virginia: Office of History, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1988.
Todd Shallat, Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (University of Texas Press, 1994).
Paul K. Walker, Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775 1783, (Washington, D.C., Historical Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1981).

Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority website
Philip Selznick, TVA and the Grass Roots (University of California Press, 1949).
Erwin C. Hargrove, Prisoners of Myth: The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990 (Princeton, 1994)
Richard A. Colignon. 1996. Power Plays: Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the TVA. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Steven M. Neuse, David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal (University of Tennessee Press, 1996).
W. U. Chandler, Myth of TVA: Conservation and Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1933–1983 (1984).
Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowny, TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area (U of Tennessee Press, 1982)
Nancy L. Grant, TVA and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo (U of Tennessee Press, 1990)

Courts & Law

Jonathan Cannon, Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court (Harvard UP, 2014)
Karl Boyd Brooks, Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970 (UP of Kansas, 2009).
Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law (U of Chicago Press, 2004)
David Wilkinson, Environment and Law (Routledge: 2002)
Thomas More Hoban and Richard Oliver Brooks, Green Justice: The Environment and the Courts (Westview, 1996)
R. Shep Melnick, Regulation and the Courts (Brookings, 1983).
Christine M. Rosen, "Differing Perceptions of the Value of Pollution Abatement Across Time and Place: Balancing Doctrine in Pollution Nuisance Law, 1840-1906," Law and History Review 11:2 (Fall 1993), 303-381

Media

Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik, Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996)
Thomas A. Birkland, After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1997).
Finis Dunaway, Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (U of Chicago Press, 2005)

Public Opinion

Steve Ansolabehere and David M. Konisky, Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2014)
Deborah Lynn Guber, The Grassroots of a Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment (MIT Press, 2003)

Interest Groups / Greens

Christopher J. Bosso, Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (UP of Kansas, 2005)
Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda-Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006)
Robert J. Duffy, The Green Agenda in America Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty-First Century (U of Kansas Press, 2003).
Benjamin Kline, First Along the River: A Brief History of the US Environmental Movement, 4th ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
Stephen Fox, The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986).
Michael P. Cohen, The History of the Sierra Club, 1892-1970 (Sierra Club Books, 1988).
Holway R. Jones, John Muir and the Sierra Club: The Battle for Yosemite (Sierra Club, 1965)
Thomas B .Allen, Guardian of the Wild: The Story of the National Wildlife Federation, 1936-1986 (Indiana UP, 1987).
John Miles, Guardians of the Parks: A History of the National Parks and Conservation Association (Taylor and Francis, 1995)
Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006)
Jim Bohlen, Making Waves: The Origins and Future of Greenpeace (Black Rose Books, 2001)
Phillip F. Cramer, Deep Environmental Politics: The Role of Radical Environmentalism in Crafting American Environmental Policy. (Praeger, 1998)
Susan Zakin, Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement (Viking, 1993).
Rik Scarce, Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement (Noble Press, 1990)

Judith Layzer, Open for Business: Conservatives’ Opposition to Environmental Regulation (MIT Press, 2012).
David Helvarg, The War Against the Greens: The "Wise-Use" Movement, the New Right and Anti-Environmental Violence (Sierra Club Books, 1994)
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (New York, NY: (Bloomsbury Press; 2010)
\Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer, Green Backlash: The History and Politics of the Environmental Opposition in the U.S. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997).

Elizabeth Bomberg, Green Parties and Politics in the European Union (Routledge, 1998).
Michael O'Neill, Green Parties and Political Change in Contemporary Europe: New Politics, Old Predicaments (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997)
Greta Gaard, Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (Temple, 1998)
Russell J. Dalton, The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe (Yale, 1994)
Kenneth A. Gould, Allan Schnaiberg, and Adam S. Weinberg, Local Environmental Struggles: Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production (Cambridge UP, 1996).
John C. Pierce, Mary Ann E. Steger, Brent S. Steel, and Nicholas P. Lovrich, Citizens, Political Communication, and Interest Groups: Environmental Organizations in Canada and the United States (Praeger, 1992)
Anna Bramwell, The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West (Yale, 1994).
Dick Rochardson and Chris Rootes, The Green Challenge: The Development of Green Parties in Europe (London: Routledge, 1995).
Timothy Doyle, Environmental Movements in Majority and Minority Worlds (Rutgers UP, 2004).
Thomas Bernauer and Ladina Caduff, "In Whose Interest? Pressure Group Politcs, Economic Competition and Environmental Regulation," Journal of Public Policy 24:1 (January-April 2004): 99-126

Labor, Unions, Employment and the Environment

Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment / Apollo Alliance / Just Transition / Labor Network for Sustainability /
Richard Kazis and Richard Grossman Fear at Work: Job Blackmail, Labor and the Environment (Pilgrim Press, 1982)
Brian Mayer, Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities (Cornell UP, 2008)
Brian K. Obach, Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground MIT Press, 2004)
Frederick H. Buttel, Charles C. Geisler, and Irving W. Wiswall, Labor and the Environment: An Analysis of and Annotated Bibliography on Workplace Environmental Quality in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1984)
Chad Montrie, “Expedient Environmentalism: Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in Appalachia and the United Mine Workers of America, 1945-75,” Environmental History 5:1 (2000), 75-98
Chad Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States (U of North Carolina Press, 2008)

Katrin MacPhee, “Canadian Working-Class Environmentalism, 1965–1985”, Labour / Le Travail 74 (Fall, 2014), 123-149
Labour Environmental Alliance Society (Canada)

Business

Sheldon Kamieniecki, Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way? (Stanford UP 2006)
Michael E. Kraft and Sheldon Kamieniecki, eds., Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the American Political System (MIT Press, 2007)
Andrew J. Hoffman, From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism (Stanford UP, 2001 [1997]).
David Vogel, The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility (Brookings Institution, 2005)
Aseem Prakash and Matthew Potoski, The Voluntary Environmentalists: Green Clubs, ISO 14001, and Voluntary Environmental Regulations (Cambridge UP, 2006)
Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister, Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability (MIT Press, 2013)
David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell, eds., The Business of Global Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2004)
Neil Cunningham, Robert A. Kagan, and Dorothy Thornton, "Social License and Environmental Protection: Why Businesses Ho Beyond Compliance," Law and Social Inquiry 29:2 (Spring, 2004): 307-342
Joshua Karliner, The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization (Sierra Club, 1997).
Alfred A. Marcus, "Business Demand for Regulation: An Exploration of the Stigler Hypothesis" in Post, James E. ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 13, (JAI Press, 1985).
Thomas G. Marx, "Linking Political Strategy and Competitive Strategy: A Synthesis" in Post, James E. ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 13 (JAI Press, 1992).
Russo, Michael V. (1992),"Managing Regulatory Tensions: Changing Patterns of Public Policies and Political Strategies" in Post, James E. ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 13, Greenwich: JAI Press, Inc
Denis Smith, Business and the Environment (St, Martin's 1994).
Livio D. Desimone and Frank Popoff, Eco-Efficiency: The Business Link to Sustainable Development (MIT, 1997)
Bruce L. Hay, Robert M. Stavins, and Richard H.K. Vietor, eds., Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms (Resources for the Future, 2005)

Energy

Seventh Wave (formerly Energy Center of Wisconsin)
Vaclav Smil, Energy and Civilization: A History (MIT Press, 2017)
David Howard Davis, Energy Politics, 4th ed. (St. Martin's, 1993)
Christopher F. Jones, Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Cambridge, MA, 2014)
Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Penguin 2011)
Christopher F. Jones, Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Harvard UP, 2014)
David E. Nye, Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies (MIT Press, 1998)
Brenda Shaffer, Energy Politics (U of Pennsylvania, 2009)
Robert Lifset, ed. American Energy Policy in the 1970s (U of Oklahoma Press, 2014)
James C. Williams, Energy and the Making of Modern California (U of Akron Press, 1997)
Bush Administration Energy Plan, 2001
David Lewis Feldman, ed. The Energy Crisis: Unresolved Issues and Enduring Legacies (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996)
Martin V. Melosi, Coping With Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America, 1820-1980 (Newberry Awards Records, 1985).
John G. Clark, Energy and the Federal Government: Fossil Fuel Policies, 1900-1946 (U of Illinois, 1987)
Richard H.K. Vietor, Energy Policy in America Since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations (Cambridge, 1984)
Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryert, A History of Industrial Power in the US, 1789-1930
Peter Huber and Mark Mills, The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, 2005)
Ann Norton Greene, Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008)
Sean Patrick Adams, Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)

Coal

Barbara Freese, Coal: A Human History (Perseus Publishing, 2003)
Sean Patrick Adams, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins UP, 2004)
Bruce Ackerman, Clean Coal/Dirty Air: Or, How the Clean Air Act Became a Multibillion-dollar Bailout for High Sulphur Coal Producers and What Should be Done About it (Yale UP, 1981)
R. Shep Melnick, Regulation and the Courts: The Case of the Clean Air Act (Brookings, 1983)
James P. Johnson, The Politics of Soft Coal (Illinois, 1979).
William Graebner, Coal Mining Safety in the Progressive Era: The Political Economy of Reform (U of Kentucky Press, 1976).
John R. Bowman, Capitalist Collective Action: Competition, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Coal Industry (Cambridge, 1989)
Price V. Fishback, Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930 (Oxford, 1992).
Harry M. Caudill, My Land Is Dying (Dutton, 1971)
Ben Fine, The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (Routledge, 1990).
Andrew S. McFarland, Cooperative Pluralism: The National Coal Policy Experiment (Kansas, 1993)
Erik Reece, Lost Mountain :A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia (Riverhead, 2006).

/ Oil

Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Simon and Schuster, 1990)
Brian Black, Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)
Francisco Parra, Oil Politics: A Modern History of Petroleum (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Matthew Yeomans, Oil: Anatomy of an Industry (New Press, 2004)
Robert Engler, The Brotherhood of Oil (1977)
Ian Ostrander and William R. Lowry, “Oil Crises and Policy Continuity: A History of Failure to Change,” Journal of Policy History 24:3 (2012), 384-404
Harold Francis Williamson,The American Petroleum Industry, 2 vols (Northwestern UP, 1959-63)
Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien, Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry (U of North Carolina Press, 2000)
Robert L. Bradley, Jr., Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996)
Peter A. Shulman, “The Making of a Tax Break: The Oil Depletion Allowance, Scientific Taxation, and Natural Resources Policy in the Early Twentieth Century, Journal of Policy History 23:3 (2011), 281-322
Norman E. Nordhauser, The Quest for Stability: Domestic Oil Regulation, 1917-1935 (New York: Garland, 1979)Karen Merrill, The Oil Crisis of 1973-1974 (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2007)
Mody Boatwright and William A. Owens, Tales from the Derrick Floor: A People's History of the Oil Industry (Doubleday, 1970)
John Ise, United States Oil Policy (Yale UP, 1926).
Gerald D. Nash, United States Oil Policy, 1890-1964: Business and Government in Twentieth Century America (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1968)
Burl Noggle, Teapot Dome: Oil and Politics in the 1920s (Louisiana State UP, 1962)
David S. Painter, Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of US Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1986)
Hugh S. Gorman, Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry (U of Akron Press, 2001)
Jeff D. Makholm, The Political Economy of Pipelines: A Century of Comparative Institutional Development (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

Brian Black, Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000)
William R. Childs, The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Texas A&M University Press, 2005)
David Prindle, Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission (U of Texas Press, 1981)Anthony Sampson, The Seven Sisters (Bantam Books, 1976)
Jo Ann Stiles, Judith Linsley, and Ellen Rienstra, Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901 (Texas A&M University Press, 2001).
Kenny Arthur Franks, The Oklahoma Petroleum Industry (U of Oklahoma Press, 1980)
John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle, The Gas Station in America (Johns Hopkins, 1994)
Leonardo Maugeri, The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resource (Praeger, 2006)
Paul Sabin, Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940 (U of California Press, 2005)
Jerry McBeath, Matthew Berman, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Mary F. Ehrlander, The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals Vs. the State (Lynne Reinner, 2008)
Toyin Falola and Ann Genova, The Politics of the Global Oil Industry: An Introduction (Praeger, 2005)
Jonathan C. Brown, Oil and Revolution in Mexico (U of California Press, 1993)
Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and Bernadette West, Oil and Development in Venezuela during the 20th Century (Praeger, 2004)
Paul R. Josephson, Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine (Johns Hopkins UP: 2007).

Natural Gas

Elizabeth Sanders, Regulation of Natural Gas: Policy and Politics, 1938-1978 (Temple UP, 1981)
Javier Estrada, Natural Gas in Europe: Markets, Organization, and Politics (Pinter, 1988) David G. Victor, Amy M. Jaffe, Mark H. Hayes, Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040 (Cambridge UP, 2006)
Robert J. Duffy, “Political Mobilization, Venue Change and the Coal Bed Methane Conflict in Montana and Wyoming,” Natural Resources Journal 45:2 (2005), 409-440

Solar and Wind Power

John Perlin, Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy (New World Press, 2013)
Daniel M. Berman and John T. O'Connor, Who Owns the Sun? People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy (Chelsea Green Publishing, 1997)
Robert W. Righter, Wind Energy in America: A History (U of Oklahoma Press, 1996)

Nuclear Power

Steven Mark Cohn, Too Cheap to Meter: A Economic and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuclear Dream (SUNY Press, 1997)
Robert J. Duffy. 1997. Nuclear Politics In America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation. (Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 1997)
Brian Balogh, Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
John L. Campbell: The Collapse of an Industry: Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy (Cornell UP, 1988)
Thomas Raymond Wellock, Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 (U of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
Joseph J. Morone and Edward J. Woodhouse, The Demise of Nuclear Energy? Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology (Yale UP, 1989)
Joan Aron, Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant (U of Pittsburgh, 1998).
Bonnie A. Osif, Anthony J. Baratta, and Thomas W. Conkling. TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact (Penn State Press, 2004)
J. Samuel Walker, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (U of California Press, 2004)
Richard J. Samuels, 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan (Cornell UP, 2013)
Richard Hindmarsh, ed., Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Social, Political and Environmental Issues (Routledge, 2013)

Electricity

Mary M. Timney, Power for the People: Protecting States' Energy Policy Interests in an Era of Deregulation (M.E. Sharpe, 2005)
Martha Caldwell Harris, ed. Energy Market Restructuring and the Environment: Governance and Public Goods in Globally Integrated Markets (University Press of America, 2002).
David E. Nye, When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America (MIT Press, 2010)

National Environmental Policy Act

Richard A. Liroff, A National Policy for the Environment: NEPA and Its Aftermath (Indiana UP, 1976)
Matthew J. Lindstrom and Zachary A. Smith, The National Environmental Policy Act: Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference, and Executive Neglect (Texas A&M UP, 2001)

Air Pollution

David Stradling, Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1999)David Stradling and Peter Thorsheim, ‘The Smoke of Great Cities: British and American Efforts to Control Air Pollution, 1860-1914’, Environmental History, 4 (1999), 6-31 Charles O. Jones, Clean Air: The Policies and Politics of Pollution Control (Pittsburgh, 1975)Wyn P. Grant, Autos, Smog and Pollution Control: The Politics of Air Quality Management in California (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995)
James E. Krier and Edmund Ursin, Pollution and Policy: A Case Study on California and Federal Experience with Motor Vehicle Air Pollution, 1940-1975 (U of California Press, 1977)
David P. Currie, "Motor Vehicle Air Pollution: State Authority and Federal Pre-Emption," Michigan Law Review 68:6 (May, 1970)
Scott Hamilton Dewey, Don't Breathe The Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970 (Texas A&M UP, 2000)
E. Melanie DuPuis, Smoke and Mirrors: the Politics and Culture of Air Pollution (New York UP, 2004)
Gary C. Bryner, Blue Skies, Green Politics (CQ Press, 1993)
James L. Regens and Robert W. Rycroft, The Acid Rain Controversy (Pittsburgh, 1988).
Bruce A. Ackerman and William Hassler, Clean Coal/Dirty Air Or, How the Clean Air Act Became a Multibillion-dollar Bailout for High Sulphur Coal Producers and What Should Be Done About It (Yale UP, 1981)
John D. Wirth, Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution (UP of Kansas, 2000).
R. Shep Melnick, Regulation and the Courts (Brookings, 1983).
Sudhir Chella Rajan, The Enigma of Automobility: Democratic Politics and Pollution Control (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996).
Jack Doyle, Taken for a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the Politics of Pollution. New York: Four Walls Eight' Windows, 2000)
Douglas S. Eisinger, Smog Check: Science, Federalism, and the Politics of Clean Air (Resources for the Future, 2009)
Stephen Mosley, The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester (Routledge, 2008)

Climate Change / Global Warming

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPCC 2013-2014 Report The Physical Science Basis / Imapcts, Adaptation, Vultnerabilities / Mitigation / Synthesis Report
IPCC 2007 Report: The Physical Science Basis / Policy-Makers' Summaries: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities / Mitigation
IPCC 2001 Policy Makers’ Summaries: The Scientific Basis / Impacts / Mitigation
Climate change: US EPA / NASA / NSF / New York Times / World Bank / UNEP / Pew Center / National Center for Science Education
/ Presidential Climate Action Project
Fred Jaicks list of some basic sources on global warming and climate change (thanks to Jeremy) /
T. M. L. Wigley, M.J. Ingram, and G. Farmer, eds., Climate and History: Studies in Past Climates and Their Impact on Man (Cambridge UP, 1981)

A.M. Mannion, Carbon and its Domestication (Springer, 2006)
Spencer R. Weart, The Discovery of Global Warming, rev & expanded (Harvard UP, 2008)
Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2006)
Erik Pooley, The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth (Hyperion, 2010)
Raymond S. Bradley, Global Warming and Political Intimidation: How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists As the Earth Heated Up (U of Massachusetts Press, 2011)
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (New York, NY: (Bloomsbury Press; 2010)
Stewart J. Cohen with Melissa W. Waddell, Climate Change in the 21st Century (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2009)
Kerry Emanuel, What We Know About Climate Change (MIT Press, 2007)
Ernesto Zedillo, ed. Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto (Brookings, 2007)
Barry G. Rabe, “Beyond Kyoto: Climate Change Policy in Multilevel Governance Systems” Governance 20:3 (July 2007): 423–444
Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Bloomsbury USA, 2006)
David G. Victor, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Princeton UP, 2004)
James Gustave Speth, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, 2^nd ed. (Yale UP, 2005)
David Michel, ed., Climate Policy for the 21st Century (Brookings Institution, 2004)
Warwick J. McKibben and Peter Wilcoxen, Climate Change after Kyoto: Blueprint for a Realistic Approach (Brookings Institution, 2002)
Steinar Andresen and Lars Gulbrandsen, "NGO Influence in the Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol: Compliance, Flexibility Mechanisms, and Sinks," Global Environmental Politics (November 2004), 54-75
Barry G. Rabe, Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Stealth Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings, 2003)
Spencer R. Weart, The Discovery of Global Warming (Harvard University Press, 2003)
Mark Lynas, High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis (Picador, 2004).
John Theodore Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing (Cambridge UP, 1997)
Ross Gelbspan, Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster (Basic, 2004)
Jon Birger Skjaerseth and Tora Skodvin, Climate Change and the Oil Industry: Common Problems, Different Strategies (Manchester UP, 2004).
Ross Gelbspan, The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997).
John Firor, The Changing Atmosphere: A Global Challenge (Yale UP, 1990).
Ian H. Rowlands, The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change (St. Martin's, 1995).
Matthew Paterson, Global Warming and Global Politics (Routledge, 1996).
J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks, A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politcs, and Climate Policy (MIT Press, 2006)
Stephen H. Schneider, Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose (Basic, 1997)
Thomas Schelling, "Some Economics of Global Warming," American Economic Review 82:1 (March, 1992), 1-14
Jon Birger Skjaeseth and Tora Skodvin, Climate Change and the Oil Industry (Manchester UP, 2003)
Jeremy K. Leggett, The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era (Routledge, 2001)
William F. Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (Princeton UP, 2005)
Daniel Moran, ed., Climate Change and National Security: A Country-Level Analysis (Georgetown UP, 2011)
Elin Lerum Boasson and Jørgen Wettestad, EU Climate Policy: Industry, Policy Interaction and External Environment (Abingdon,UK: Ashgate, 2013)
Rie Watanabe, Climate Policy Changes in Germany and Japan: A Path to Paradigmatic Policy Change (Routledge, 2011)

Water Resources

U.S. Department of the Interior, The Bureau of Reclamation: Origins and Growth to 1945
Michael C. Robinson, Water for the West: The Bureau of Reclamation (Chicago: Public Works Historical Society, 1979)
Donald J. Pisani, To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1948-1902 (U of New Mexico Press, 1992); Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920 (UP of Kansas, 1996) and Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 (U of California Press, 2002)
Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (Pantheon, 1985)
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Viking, 1986)
Karen M. O'Neill, Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control (Duke UP, 2006)
Daniel McCool, Command of the Waters : Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development, and Indian Water (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987) and Daniel McCool, River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012)
Robert E. Henshaw, ed. Environmental History of the Hudson River: Human Uses That Changed the Ecology, Ecology That Changed Human Uses (SUNY Press, 2011)
Char Miller, ed. Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict (U of Arizona Press, 2001)
William M. Lewis, Jr., ed., Water and Climate in the Western United States (UP of Colorado, 2003)
Mark Fiege, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (U of Washington Press, 1999).
Donald J. Pisani, Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920 (U of Press of Kansas, 1996).
Lawrence J. MacDonnell, From Reclamation to Sustainability: Water, Agriculture, and the Environment in the American West. (UP of Colorado, 1999)
Robert G. Dunbar, Forging New Rights in Western Waters (U of Nebraska Press, 1983)
David Schorr, The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier (Yale UP, 2012)
Norris Hundley, Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West. (U of California Press, 1975)
Elmo R. Richardson, Dams, Parks, and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation in the Truman-Eisenhower Era (UP of Kentucky, 1973).
Lawrence E. Breeze, The British Experience with River Pollution, 1865-1876,(Peter Lang, 1993) Mark Cioc, The Rhine. An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 (U of Washington Press: 2002) G.P. van de Ven (ed.), Man-Made Lowlands: History of Water Management and Land Reclamation in the Netherlands (Matrijs, 2004)
Donald J. Pisani, From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850-1931 (U of California Press, 1984).
Diane Raines Ward, Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst (New York: Riverhead Books, 2002)
Peter Rogers, America's Water: Federal Roles and Responsibilities (MIT Press, 1993)
Joseph F. Zimmerman, Interstate Water Compacts: Intergovernmental Efforts to Manage America's Water Resources (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2012)
Douglas Helms and Susan L. Flader, eds. The History of Soil and Water Conservation (Agricultural History Society, 1985)
Andrew A. Dzurik, Water Resources Planning, rev. ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).
William R. Lowry, Dam Politics: Restoring America's Rivers (Georgetown UP, 2003)
Patrick McCully, Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams (London: Zed Books, 1997).
John Warfield, Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park (Pantheon Books, 2005)
Russell Martin, A Story That Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (Henry Holt and Company, 1989).
Ellen Wohl, A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World’s Great Rivers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Richard White, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang, 1995)
Nancy Langston, Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. (U of Washington Press, 2006)
Philip D. Curtin, Grace S. Brush, and George W. Fisher, eds. Discovering the Chesapeake: The History of an Ecosystem (Johns Hopkins UP, 2001)
Howard R. Ernst, Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science , Politics, and the Struggle to Save the Bay (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
Robert E. Henshaw, ed., Environmental History of the Hudson River: Human Uses That Changed the Ecology, Ecology That Changed Human Uses (SUNY Press, 2011)
Theodore Steinberg, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (U of Massachusetts, 1994)
Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West (Pantheon, 1985)
Daniel Tyler, Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts (U of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
Mark Kanazawa, Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush. (U of Chicago Press, 2015) Philip L. Fradkin, A River No More: The Colorado River and the West (Knopf, 1981)
Norris Hundley, Jr. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s (U of California Press, 1992) and The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West, 2nd ed. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009)
Daniel C. McCool, ed., Waters of Zion: The Politics of Water in Utah, (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1995).
John. O. Baxter. 1997. Dividing New Mexico's Waters, 1700-1912 (U of New Mexico Press, 1997).
Fred M. Phillips, G. Emlen Hall, and Mary Black, Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water (U of New Mexico Press, 2011)
Frank Mauldin Sweet Mountain Water: Story of Salem, Oregon's Struggle to Tap & Protect the North Santiam River (Oak Savanna Publishing, 2004)
David Soll, Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply (Cornell UP 2013)
Vivienne Bennett, The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996).
Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller, Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions (McGill-Queens UP, 2008)
Mark Cioc, The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 (U of Washington Press, 2005)
Andrew C. Mertha, China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change (Cornell UP, 2008)
Daniel Klingensmith One Valley and a Thousand: Dams, Nationalism, and Development (Oxford, 2007)

Missouri River

US Geological Service Missouri River site
Bill Lambrecht, Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River (St. Martin's 2005)
N.G. Benson, ed. The Missouri River: Their Resources; Their Uses, and Values (American Fisheries Society, North Central Division, 1988).
John E. Thorson, River of Promise, River of Peril: The Politics of Managing the Missouri River (University of Kansas Press, 1994).
Robert Kelley Schneiders, Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri (University Press of Kansas, 1999) and Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone and Upper Missouri (University Press of Kansas, 2003).
Daniel B. Botkin, Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark (G. Putnam and Sons, 1995).
Peter Carrels, Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War (U of Nebraska Press, 1999).
Lawson, Michael. Damned Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1982.
National Research Council [Committee on Missouri River Ecosystem Science, Water Science and Technology Board]. The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery. (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2002) <http://www.nap.edu/books/0309083141/html>
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Missouri River Main Stem Reservoir System Reservoir Regulation Manual [the “Master Manual”] (Omaha: U.S. Army Engineer Division, Missouri River Corps of Engineers, 1988).
U.S. General Accounting Office. Water Resources: Corp’s Management of the Ongoing Drought in the Missouri River Basin, GAO/RCED-92-4 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1992).

Mississippi River

Mississippi River Research Consoritium / Mississippi River Basin Alliance / Louisiana Universities Marine Consotium
Christopher Morris, The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina (New York Oxford University Press, 2012)
Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History," in The Frontier in American History (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967).
Christine Klein and Sandra Zellmer, Mississippi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disaster (NYU Press 2014).
Calvin R. Fremling, Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times ( U of Wisconsin Press)
John O. Anfinson, The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi (U of Minnesota Press, 2003).
John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997).
Andrew H. Malcolm, Mississippi Currents: Journeys Through Time and a Valley (Morrow, 1997)

Gulf of Mexico / Eutrophication

Darryl L. Felder and David K. Camp, eds., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume II, Ocean and Coastal Economy (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series / Texas A&M University Press, 2009)
James C. Cato, ed., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume II, Ocean and Coastal Economy (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series / Texas A&M University Press, 2008)
Joan Iverson Nassauer, Mary V. Santelmann, and Donald Scavia, eds., From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007)
Joan Iverson Nassauer, Mary V. Santelmann, and Donald Scavia, eds., From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007)
William Freudenburg and Robert Gramling, Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America (MIT Press, 2010)
Antonia Juhasz, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill (John Wiley and Sons, 2011)

Great Lakes

Great Lakes Research Consortium / Great Lakes Information Network
Dave Dempsey, On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century (Michigan State UP, 2004)
Terence Kehoe, Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation (Northern Illinois UP, 1997)
William Ashworth, The Late, Great Lakes: An Environmental History (Wayne State UP, 1987)
Margaret Beattie Bogue, Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933 (U of Wisconsin Press, 2000)
William McGucken, Lake Erie Rehabilitated: Controlling Cultural Eutrophication, 1960s-1990s (U of Akron Press, 2000).
Clifford H. Mortimer, Lake Michigan in Motion: Responses of An Inland Sea to Weather, Earth-Spin, and Human Activities (U of Wisconsin Press)

Everglades

Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
Marion Belanger, Everglades: Outside and Within (U of Georgia Press, 2009)
Lance Gunderson and Stephen S. Light. “Adaptive Management and Adaptive Governance in the Everglades Ecosystem.” Policy Analysis 39:4 (December 2006): 323-334
Jack E. Davis, An Everglades Province: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century (U of Georgia Press, 2009)
Tom Shirley, Everglades Patrol (University Press of Florida, 2012)

Wetlands

William M. Lewis, Wetlands Explained : Wetland Science, Policy, and Politics in America (Oxford UP, 2001)
Ronald Keith Gaddie, James L. Regens, Regulating Wetlands Protection: Environmental Federalism and the States (State University of New York Press, 1999)
Ann Vileisis, Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands (Island Press, 1999)

Oceans

NOAA Ocean Explorer
Dorrik Stow, Oceans: An Illustrated Reference (U of Chicago Press, 2005)
Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea (Island Press, 2007)
Rosemay E. Ommer, Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring Social-Ecological Health (McGill-Queens UP, 2007)
Biliana Cecin-Sain and Robert W. Knecht, The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy: Choices for the Next Century (Island Press, 1999).
Elisabeth Mann Borgese, The Oceanic Circle: Governing the Seas as a Global Resource (United Nations University Press, 1999)
Boyce Thorn-Miller, The Living Ocean: Understanding and Protecting Marine Biodiversity (Island Press, 1999)
Rögnvaldur Hannesson, The Privatization of the Oceans (MIT Press, 2004)
David Igler, The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush (Oxford UP, 2013)

Mediterranean

Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2 Vols. (U of California Press, 1996)
Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2000)
John Julius Norwich, The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean (Vintage, 2006)
David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Oxford UP, 2011)
Peter M. Haas, Saving the Mediterranean: The Politics of International Environmental Cooperation (Columbia University Press, 1990)

Water Pollution

Center for Watershed Protection / Nonpoint eduction for municipal officials
William L. Andreen, "The Evolution of Water Pollution Control in the United States - State, Local, and Federal Efforts, 1789-1972: Part I." Stanford Environmental Law Journal 21 (January 2003), 145-200, and “Part II." 21 (June 2003), 215-294
Michael J. McGuire, The Chlorine Revolution: Water Disinfection and the Fight to Save Lives (American Water Works Association, 2013)
Nicholas Casner, “Polluter versus Polluter: The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Manufacturing of Pollution Policies in the 1920s.”Journal of Policy History 11:2 (1999), 179-200
Paul Charles Milazzo, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972 (UP of Kansas, 2009)
Jouni Paavola, "Interstate Water Pollution Problems and Elusive Federal Water Pollution Policy in the United States, 1900-1948." Environment and History 12:4 (2006), 435-465
Susan Hunter and Richard W. Waterman, Enforcing the Law: The Case of the Clean Water Acts (M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
Leslie Rosenthal, The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England: Nuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency (Ashgate, 2014)
Christine M. Rosen, "Differing Perceptions of the Value of Pollution Abatement Across Time and Place: Balancing Doctrine in Pollution Nuisance Law, 1840-1906,” Law and History Review 11:2 (Fall 1993), 303-38
Neil S. Shifrin, "Pollution Management in the Twentieth Century," Journal of Environmental Engineering_ 131:5 (May 2005), 676-691
Nicholas Casner, "Polluter versus Polluter: The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Manufacturing of Pollution Policies in the 1920s," Journal of Policy History 11:2 (1999), 179-200
Richard W. Judd, “The Coming of the Clean Waters Acts in Maine, 1941-1961,” Environmental History Review 14:3 (Fall 1990), 51-74.
Martin V. Melosi, “Sanitary Services and Decision Making in Houston, 1876-1945.” Journal of Urban History 20:3 (May 1994), 365-406
David Stradling and Richard Stradling. “Perceptions of the Burning River: Deindustrialization and Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River,” Environmental History 13:3 (July 2008), 515-535
Sheldon Kamieniecki, Public Representation in Environmental Policymaking: The Case of Water Quality Management (Westview Press, 1980)
Bruce M. Owen, David A. Argue, Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth, Gloria J. Hurdle, and Gale Mosteller, The Economics of a Disaster: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (Greenwood Press, 1995).
Melissa K. Merry, Framing Environmental Disaster: Environmental Advocacy and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Routledge, 2013)
Werner Troesken, Water, Race, and Disease (MIT Press, 2004)

Toxics & Toxic Waste

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962)
Priscilla Coit Murphy. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring (U of Massachusetts Press, 2005)
Linda Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Henry Holt and Co, 1997)
Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War' I to Silent Spring. (Cambridge UP, 2001)
Ronald Brickman, Sheila Jasanoff, and T. Ilgen, Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the United States (Cornell, 1985)
James T. Hamilton, Regulation through Revelation: The Origin, Politics, and Impacts of the Toxics Release Inventory Program (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Bruce E. Johansen, The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future (Praeger, 2003)
R. Allan Freeze, The Environmental Pendulum: A Quest for the Truth about Toxic Chemicals, Human Health, and Environmental Protection (U of California Press, 2000)
Peter N. Skinner and Craig E. Colten, The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste Before EPA (U of Texas Press, 1995)
Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (University of California Press, 2002)
Christian Warren, Brush With Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000)
Werner Troesken, The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster (MIT Press, 2006).
Devra Davis, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution (Basic Books, 2002)
Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (Cambridge UP, 2001)
Michael R. Reich, Toxic Politics: Responding to Chemical Disasters (Cornell, 1991)
James P. Lester and Ann O'M. Bowman, The Politics of Hazardous Waste Management (Duke, 1983)
Sarah A. Vogel, Is It Safe? BPA and the Struggle to Define the Safety of Chemicals (U of California Press, 2012).
Edwin A. Martini, Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty (U of Massachusetts Press, 2012)
Nancy Langston, Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disrupters and the Legacy of DES. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010
Leonard G. Cole, Element of Risk: The Politics of Radon (Oxford, 1993).
Thomas Shevory, Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle Against the WTI Incinerator (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Love Canal

Elizabeth D. Blum, Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism (UP of Kansas, 2008)
Allan Mazur, A Hazardous Inquiry: The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal (Harvard UP, 1998)
Adeline G. Levine, Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People (Lexington, 1982).
Peter Neushul, "Love Canal: A Historical Review," Mid-America 69 (Oct, 1987)
Norman Nosenchuck, "New York: The Cleanup of Love Canal," EPA Journal 11

Superfund and Hazardous Waste Siting

John F. Mahon, "Corporate Political Strategies: An Empirical Study Of Chemical Firm Responses To Superfund Legislation" in James E. Post, ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 3, (JAI Press, 1983).
Robert T. Nakamura and Thomas W. Church, Taming Regulation: Superfund and the Challenge of Regulatory Reform (Brookings, 2003)
Daniel Mazmanian and David Morell, Beyond Superfailure: America's Toxics Policy for the 1990s (Westview, 1992)
Harold C. Barnett, Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma (U of North Carolina Press, 1994)
Barry G. Rabe, Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States (Brookings, 1994)
Don Munton, ed., Hazardous Waste Siting and Democratic Choice (Georgetown University Press, 1996)

Pesticides

Christopher Bosso, Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue (1987)
David Kinkela, DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World (U of North Carolina Press, 2011)
James E. McWilliams, American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT (Columbia UP, 2008)
Craig E. Colten, and Peter N. Skinner, The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste before EPA (U of Texas Press, 1996)
Thomas R. Dunlap, DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy (Princeton UP, 1981)
James Whorton, Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America (Princeton UP, 1974)
Mark Winston, Nature Wars: People vs. Pests (Harvard UP, 1997)
Pete Daniel, Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World Ward II South (LSU Press, 2005)
John Wargo, Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Use from Pesticides (Yale, 1996)
Mark L. Winston, Nature Wars: People vs. Pests (Harvard UP, 1997)
Joshua Blu Buhs, The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America (U of Chicago Press, 2004)

Nuclear Waste

Riley E. Dunlap, Michael E. Kraft, and Eugene A. Rosa, eds., Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views of Repository Siting (Duke UP, 1993)
Gerald Jacob, Site Unseen: The Politics of Siting a Nuclear Waste Repository (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1990)
Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay, eds. The Atomic West (U of Washington Press, 1998)
Valerie L. Kuletz, The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West (Routledge, 1998)
Eric Mogren, Warm Sands: Uranium Mill Tailings Policy in the Atomic West (U of New Mexico Press, 2002)
Joseph V. Rees, Hostages of Each Other: The Transformation of Nuclear Safety since Three Mile Island (U of Chicago Press, 1994)
James Flynn et al., One Hundred Centuries of Solitude: Redirecting America's High-Level Nuclear Waste Policies (Westview, 1995)
Michele Stenehjem Gerber, On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site (U of Nebraska Press, 1992)
Jeffrey S. Hill and Carol S. Weissert, "Implementation and the Irony of Delegation: The Politics of Low-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal," Journal of Politics 57 (May, 1995)
Russell J. Dalton, ed. Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia (MIT Press, 1999).

Solid Waste & Sanitation

Ecycle Missouri
Heather Rogers, Gone Tomorrow. The Hidden Life of Garbage (New Press, 2005).
Martin Melosi, Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, 1880-1980 (Texas A&M UP, 1981); “Down in the Dumps: Is There a Garbage Crisis in America?" Journal of Policy History 5 (1993): 100-127; The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000); Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2001).
John Duffy, The Sanitarians: A History of the American Public Health (U of Illinois Press, 1990)
Daniel Eli Burnstein, Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City (U of Illinois Press, 2006)
Benjamin Miller, Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York the Last Two Hundred Years (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000).
Vivian E. Thompson, Garbage In, Garbage Out: Solving the Problems with Long-Distance Trash Transport (University of Virginia Press, 2009)
Larry S. Luton, The Politics of Garbage (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).
Robert R. M. Verchick, "The Commerce Clause, Environmental Justice, and the Interstate Garbage Wars," Southern California Law Review 70 (July 1997), 1239-1310
Matthew Grandy, Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste (St. Martin's, 1994).
Daniel Imhoff and Roberto Carra, Paper or Plastic? Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World (Sierra Club Books, 2004)
John Tierney, "Recycling is Garbage," New York Times Magazine, June 30, 1996, pp. 24ff.
Frank Ackerman, Why Do We Recycle? Markets, Values, and Public Policy (Island Press, 1997)
Carl A. Zimring, Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America (Rutgers UP, 2005)
Raymond G. Stokes, Roman Köster, and Stephen C. Sambrook, The Business of Waste: Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the Present (Cambridge UP, 2013)

Land & Private Property

John C. Weaver, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 (Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2006)
Richard T.T. Foreman, Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions (Cambridge UP, 1995)
A.M. Mannion, Dynamic World. Land-cover and Land-use Change (Routledge, 2002)
Andro Linklater, Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Andro Linklater, Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy (HarperCollins, 2002)
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Yale UP, 1998), ch 1
Roger J. P. Kain and Elizabeth Baigent, The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping (U of Chicago Press, 1993)
J. Barry Cullingworth, The Political Culture of Planning: American Land Use Planning in Comparative Perspective (Routledge, 1993) John C. Bergman, Stephen J. Goetz, and James S. Shortle, Land Use Problems and Conflicts: Causes, Consequences and Solutions (Routledge 2004)
Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz, The Mountain: a Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
U.S. General Land Office Records / Research in the Land Entry Files of the General Land Office (NARA 2009)
John R. Stilgoe, Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845 (Yale UP, 1983)
Thomas Hallock, From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826 (U of North Carolina, 2003)
David Stradling, Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (Hill and Wang, 2002).
Stanley Lebergott, “The Demand for Land: The United States, 1820-1860,” Journal of Economic History 45 (1985):181-212.
R. N. L. Andrews, ed. Land in America: Commodity or Natural Resource? (Lexington Books, 1979)
Anne Mackin, Americans and Their Land (U of Michigan Press, 2006)
[US Department of Agriculture] Louise O. Bercaw. A. M. Hannay. and Esther M. Colvin, Bibliography on Land Settlement with Particular Reference to Small Holdings and Subsistence Homesteads (Government Printing Office, 1934)
Steven Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (Hill and Wang, 2002)

A. M. Sakolski, The Great American Land Bubble (Harper & Brothers, 1932).
Daniel M. Friedenberg, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land: The Plunder of Early America (Prometheus, 1992).
Shaw Livermore, Early American Land Companies. ( Commonwealth Fund, 1939).
Bill Hubbard, American Boundaries: The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey (U of Chicago Press, 2008)
Hildegard Binder Johnson, Order upon the Land: The U.S. Rectangular Land Survey and the Upper Mississippi Country (Oxford UP, 1976).
Agricultural History Society
Paul Frymer, Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion (Princeton UP, 2017)
Dennis D. Moore, ed., Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays: J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (Harvard UP, 2013)
Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Harvard UP, 1950)
Douglas Helms and Susan L. Flader, eds. The History of Soil and Water Conservation (Agricultural History Society, 1985)
Karen Merrill, Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property between Them (U of California Press, 2002)
Jamie L. Bronstein, Land Reform and Working Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 (Stanford UP, 1999)
Paul W. Gates, Allan G. Bogue and Margaret B. Bogue, eds., The Jeffersonian Dream: Studies in the History of American Land Policy and Development (U of New Mexico Press, 1996).
Steven Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth Century America (Hill & Wang, 2002)
John T. Cumbler, Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England, 1790-1930 (Oxford UP, 2001)
Geoff Cunfer, On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment (Texas A&M UP, 2005)
J. L. Anderson, Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945–1972 (Northern Illinois UP, 2008)
Joan Iverson Nassauer, Mary V. Santelman, and Donald Scavia, eds. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Evironmental Implications of Alternative Energy Futures (Resources for the Future, 2007)
Terence J. Centner, Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape (U of Illinois Press, 2004)
Philip L. Jackson and Robert Kuhlken, A Rediscovered Frontier: Land Use and Resource Issues in the New West (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)
Stephanie S. Pincetl, Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
Elizabeth Glass Geltman, Recycling Land: Understanding the Legal Landscape of Brownfield Development (U of Michigan, 1997).
Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley, eds., A Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996)
Harvey M. Jacobs, ed. Who Owns America? Social Conflict over Property Rights. (U of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
John Echeverria and Raymond Booth Ely, eds., Let the People Judge: Wise Use and the Private Property Rights Movement (Island Press, 1995)
Bruce Yandle, Land Rights: The 1990s Property Rights Rebellion (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995)
Martin A. Garrett, Jr., Land Use Regulation: The Impacts of Alternative Land Use Rights (Greenwood, 1987).
Richard Brewer, Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America (Dartmouth College / University Press of New England, 2003).
William A. Fischel, Regulatory Takings: Law, Economics, and Politics (Harvard University Press, 1995).
Richard Allen Epstein, Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard, 1985)
Ellen Frankel Paul, Property Rights and Eminent Domain (Transaction, 1987).
Douglas R. Porter, Managing Growth in America's Communities (Island Press, 1997)
Sonia Hirt, Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation (Cornell UP, 2014)
Rutherford H. Platt, Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy (Island Press, 1997).
Alfred Runte, Allies of the Earth: Railroads And the Soul of Preservation (Truman State UP, 2006).

Comparative
Britain

A.W.B. Simpson, A History of the Land Law 2^nd ed (Oxford UP 1986)
Frederick Pollock, The Land Laws (Macmillan, 1883)
Nöel Denholm-Young, Seignorial Administration in England (Routledge, 1963, 2013)

Public Lands

American State Papers: Public Lands (Library of Congress)
Paul Wallace Gates, History of Public Land Law Development (Washington: GPO: 1968) and Fifty Million Acres: Conflicts Over Kansas Land Policy, 1854-1890 (Atherton Press, 1966)
Roy M. Robbins, Our Landed Heritage: The Public Domain, 1776-1936 (Princeton University Press, 1942).
Benjamin Horace Hibbard, A History of the Public Land Policies (Peter Smith, 1939).
Vernon Carstensen, ed. The Public Lands: Studies in the History of the Public Domain (U Wisconsin Press, 1963)
Daniel Feller, The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics (U of Wisconsin Press, 1984)
Dyan Zaslowdky and the Wilderness Society, These American Lands: Parks, Wilderness, and the Public Lands (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986)
Christopher McGrory Klyza, Who Controls Public Lands? Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
William D. Rowley, U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 1985
Gordon Morris Bakken, The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects (University of New Mexico Press, 2008)
Paul Culhane, Public Lands Politics: Interest Group Influence on the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management
James Willard Hurst, Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century United States (U of Wisconsin Press, 1956)
Marion Clawson, The Land System of the United States (U of Nebraska Press, 1968) and The Federal Lands Revisited (Johns Hopkins UP, 1983).
Everett Dick, The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal (U of Nebraska Press, 1970)
Mark David Spence, Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks (Oxford UP, 1999)
Malcolm J. Rohrbough, The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837 (Oxford UP, 1968)
E. Louise Peffer, The Closing of the Public Domain: Disposal and Reservation Policies, 1900-1950 (Stanford UP, 1951)
Robert H. Nelson, Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995)*
Martin Nie, The Governance of Western Public Lands: Mapping Its Present and Future (UP of Kansas, 2008)
Charles Davis, ed., Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997)
Karen Merrill, Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property between Them (U of California Press, 2002)
R. McGreggor Cawley, Federal Lands, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993).
C. Brant Short, Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984 (Texas A&M UP, 1989)
William K. Wyant, Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement (U of California Press, 1982).
Brent S. Steel, ed., Public Lands Management in the West (Praeger, 1997).
Philip Foss, Politics and Grass: The Administration of Grazing on the Public Domain (Seattle: U of Washington Press, 1960).
Wesley Calef, Private Grazing and Public Lands: Studies of the Local Managment of the Taylor Grazing Act (University of Chicago Press, 1960).
Dorothy Bradley and Helen Ingram, "Science vs. the Grass Roots: Representation in the Bureau of Land Management," Natural Resources Journal (Summer, 1986).
William Perry Pendley, The War on the West: The Fight for Survival on America's Great Frontier (Regnery Publishing, 1994).
John A. Baden and Donald Snow, eds. The Next West: Public Lands, Community, and Economy in the American West (Island Press, 1997)
Karen R. Merrill, Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property Between Them (U of California Press, 2002).
C. Brandt Short, Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979- 1984 (Texas A&M University Press, 1989)
William K. Wyant, Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement (U of California Press, 1982)
Charles Wilkinson, Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (Island Press, 1994).

National Parks, State Parks, & Wilderness

U.S. National Park Service
Lary M. Dilsaver, America's National Park System: The Critical Documents (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994).
William R. Lowry, The Capacity for Wonder: Preserving National Parks (Brookings. 1994)
Richard Grusin, Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks (Cambridge UP, 2004)
Bob R. O'Brien, Our National Parks and the Search for Sustainability (U of Texas Press, 1999)
Alfred Runte, National Parks: The American Experience (U of Nebraska Press, 1979)
Stephen R. Mark, Preserving the Living Past: John C. Merriam's Legacy in the State and National Parks (U of California Press, 2005)
Ethan Carr, Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service (U of Nebraska Press, 1998)
Linda Flint McClelland, Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction (Johns Hopkins UP, 1998)
Richard Sellars, Preserving Nature in National Parks (Yale UP, 1997).
Mark David Spence, Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks (Oxford UP, 1999)
David Harmon, Francis P. McManamon, Dwight T. Pitcaithley, eds., The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation (U of Arizona Press, 2006)
Polly Welts Kaufman, National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History (U of New Mexico Press, 1996)
Gary E. Machlis and Donald R. Field, eds., National Parks and Rural Development: Practice and Policy in the United States (Island Press, 2000)
Hal Rothman, Preserving Different Pasts: the American National Monuments (U of Illinois Press, 1989) and Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West (UP of Kansas, 1998)
Joseph L. Sax, Mountains without Handrails: Reflections on National Parks (U of Michigan Press, 1980)
John Ise, Our National Park Policy: A Critical History (Johns Hopkins Press, 1961)
Mark Daniel Barringer, Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature (UP of Kansas, 2002).
Judith L. Meyer, The Spirit of Yellowstone: The Cultural Evolution of a National Park (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996)
Alston Chase, Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986)
Chris J. Magoc, Yellowstone: The Creation and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870-1903 (U of New Mexico Press; Montana Historical Society, 1999)
Alice Wondrak, Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone (UP of Kansas, 2006)
Harvey Meyerson, Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yellowstone (UP of Kansas, 2001)
Jen A. Huntley, The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America’s Most Popular National Park (UP of Kansas, 2011).
Adam Wesley Dean. An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era. Civil War America Series (U of North Carolina Press, 2015)
Sarah Mittlefehldt, Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics (U of Washington Press, 2014)
C. W. Buchholtz, Rocky Mountain National Park: A History (Colorado Associated UP, 1983)
Robert Righter, Crucible for Conservation: The Creation of Grand Teton National Park (Colorado Associated UP, 1982)
Daniel Nelson, Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska (RFF Press, 2004
Timothy Rawson, Changing Tracks: Predators and Politics in Mt. McKinley National Park (U of Alaska Press, 2001)

Frank Graham, Jr., The Adirondack Park: A Political History (Knopf, 1978)
Philip G. Terrie, Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks (Syracuse University Press, 1997)
Hal Rothman, The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism (UP of Kansas, 2003)
Roderick Frasier Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 5^th ed. (Yale UP, 2014)
Michael Lewis, ed. American Wilderness: A New History (Oxford UP, 2007)
Max Oleschlaeger, The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology (Yale University Press, 1991)
Russell Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, Patricio Robles Gil, John Pilgrim, Gustavo Fonseca, Thomas Brooks, and William R. Konstant, Wilderness: Earth’s Last Wild Places (University of Chicago Press, 2003).
Craig W. Allin, The Politics of Wilderness Preservation (Greenwood Press, 1982).
Mark Harvey. Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act (U of Washington Press, 2005).
Mark Harvey, ed. Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser (U of Washington Press, 2014)
Michael P. Nelson and J. Baird Callicott, The Wilderness Debate Rages On: Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate (U of Georgia Press, 2009)
Craig W. Allin, The Politics of Wilderness Preservation (U of Alaska Press, 2008)
Mark W. T. Harvey, A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement (U of New Mexico Press, 1994)
Paul Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (U of Washington Press, 2002)
Doug Goodman and Daniel McCool, eds., Contested Landscape: the Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West (U of Utah Press, 1999)
Mark Harvey, Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act (U of Washington Press, 2005)
Analysis of Crude Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Roger Kaye, Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (U of Alaska Press, 2006)

Sustainable Metropolitan Growth & Urban Sprawl

President's Council on Sustainable Development - Final Report
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability / Northwest Environment Watch / Smart Growth Online / Sustainable Cities /
U.S. Green Building Council
Let's Go Solar Sustainable Cities
Sonia Hirt, Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation (Cornell UP, 2014)
Peter Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Oxford UP, 1985)
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (North Point Press, 2000).
Ted Steinberg, American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn (WW Norton, 2006)
Virginia Scott Jenkins, The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994)
Kent E. Portney, Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities , 2^nd ed., (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2013)
Matthew E. Kahn, Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (Brookings, 2006)
Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
Russ Lopez and H. Patricia Hynes, "Sprawl in the 1990s: Measurement, Distribution, and Trends," Urban Affairs Review 38:3 (January 2003): 325-355
Gregory D. Squires, ed. Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses (Urban Institute Press, 2002)
Wim Wiewel and Joseph Persky, Suburban Sprawl: Private Decisions and Public Policy (M.E. Sharpe, 2002)
Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge UP, 2001)
Elizabeth A. Johnson and Michael W. Klemens, Nature in Fragments: The Legacy of Sprawl (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).
Donald Shoup, The High Cost of Free Parking (U of Chicago Press, 2005).
Owen D. Gutfreund, Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape (Oxford UP, 2004)
Chen, Donald. “The Science of Smart Growth,” Scientific American (Vol. 283, No. 6, December 2000), 84-91.
Dom Nozzi, Road to Ruin: An Introduction to Sprawl and How to Cure It (Praeger Publishers, 2003)
Peter Calthorpe, William Fulton, Robert Fishman, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl (Island Press, 2001)
Alex Marshall, How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken (U of Texas Press, 2001)
Jonathan Barnett, The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region (Harper Collins, 1995).
Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie, Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl (Henry Holt & Co., 1997)
Douglas Kelbaugh, Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design
Timothy Beatley and Kristy Manning, The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy and Community (Island Press, 1997)
Richard Hogan, The Failure of Planning: Permitting Sprawl in San Diego Suburbs, 1970-1999 (Ohio State U Press, 2003).
John Punter, The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design (U of British Columbia Press, 2003).
Robert D. Bullard, ed., Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (MIT Press, 2007)
Robert J. Johnston and Stephen K. Swallow, eds., Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy (Resources for the Future, 2006)

Forests

Forest History Society
Robert Pogue Harrison, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (U of Chicago Press, 1992)
John Perlin, A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization (Countryman Press, 2005)
John J. Berger, Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Protection (Center for American Places, 2008)
Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgment (U of Chicago Press, 2006)
Char Miller, ed., American Forests: Nature, Culture, Politics (U of Kansas, 1997).
Thomas R. Cox, Robert S. Maxwell, Phillip Drennon Thomas, and Joseph J. Malone, This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present (U of Nebraska Press, 1985).
Michael Williams, Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (Cambridge UP, 1989)
Charles F. Carroll, The Timber Economy of Puritan New England (Brown UP, 1973)
Jennifer Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Harvard UP, 2012)

John Ise, The United States Forest Policy ([1920] Arno Press, 1972)
William G. Robbins, Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the United States Lumber Industry, 1890-1941 (Texas A & M Press, 1982) and American Forestry: A History of National, State, and Private Cooperation, (U of Nebraska Press, 1985)
Paul W. Hirt, A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests Since World War Two (U of Nebraska Press, 1994)
Catherine Henshaw Knott, Living with the Adirondack Forest: Local Perspectives on Land Use Conflicts (Cornell University Press, 1998).
Robert B. Outland, III, Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South (Louisiana State UP, 2004)
James Willard Hurst, Law and Economic Growth: The Legal History of the Lumber Industry in Wisconsin, 1836-1915 (Belknap Press, 1964)
William B. Botti and Michael D. Moore, Michigan's State Forests: A Century of Stewardship (Michigan State UP, 2006)
Agnes M. Larson, The White Pine Industry in Minnesota: A History (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)
William B. Botti and Michael D. Moore, Michigan's State Forests: A Century of Stewardship (Michigan State UP, 2006)
Agnes M. Larson, The White Pine Industry in Minnesota: A History (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)
Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006).
Susan R. Schrepfer, The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of the Environmental Reform, 1917-1978 (U of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (U of Washington Press, 1995).
David Harris, The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California's Ancient Redwoods (Sierra Club, 1996).
Susan R. Schrepfer, The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of Environmental Reform, 1917-1978 (U of Wisconsin Press, 1983)
William Dietrich, The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest (Simon and Schuster, 1992).
Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis (U of Chicago Press, 2002)
John Schelhas and Max J. Pfeffer, Saving Forests, Protecting People? (AltaMira Press, 2009)
Alston Chase, In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology (Houghton Mifflin)

Charles Watkins and Keith Kirby, The Ecological History of European Forests (NewYork; CAB International, 1998)

Race & Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice Resource Center / EPA Office of Environmental Justice / Green 2.0
David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Robert D. Bullard, ed. Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (Sierra Club Books)
Robert D. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (Westview, 1994)
Robert D. Bullard, ed., Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (South End Press)
Edwardo Lao Rhodes, Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm (Indiana UP, 2003)
Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (New York UP, 2001)
David M. Konisky, ed., Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government’s Response to Environmental Justice (MIT Press, 2015)
David E. Camacho, ed., Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998)
Bunyan Bryant, Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, and Solutions (Island Press, 1995).
Bunyan Bryant and Paul Mohai, eds., Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992)
Christopher H. Foreman, The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice (Brookings Institution, 1998).
Scott E. Giltner, Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008)
M. Schootman, E.M. Andresen, F.D. Wolinsky, T.K. Malmstrom, J.P. Miller, and D.K. Miller, “Neighborhood conditions and risk of incident lower-body functional limitations among middle-aged African Americans,” American Journal of Epidemiology 163:5 (2006 Mar 2006):450-458.
Commission for Racial Justice, Toxic Wastes and Race: A National Report on the Racial and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites (New York: United Church of Christ, 1987)
Steve Lerner, Diamond: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor (MIT Press, 2005).
Eileen Maura McGurty, Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice (Rutgers UP, 2007)
Sylvia Hood Washington, Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954 (Lexington Books, 2005).
Daniel Faber, ed., The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States (New York: Guilford Press, 1998)
Terence Centner, Warren Kriesel, and Andrew G. Keeler. "Environmental Justice and Toxic Releases: Establishing Evidence of Discriminatory Effect Based on Race and Not Income." Wisconsin Environmental Law Journal 3 (Summer 1996): 119-158
Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (Crown Publishers, 1995)
Dennis C. Cory and Tauhidur Rahman, Environmental Justice and Federalism (Edward Elgar, 2012).
Barabara L. Allen, Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor (MIT Press, 2003)
David Naguib Pellow, Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (MIT press, 2002)
Robert R. M. Verchick, "The Commerce Clause, Environmental Justice, and the Interstate Garbage Wars," Southern California Law Review 70 (July 1997), 1239-1310
Steve Lerner, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Lousiana's Chemical Corridor (MIT, 2004).
J. Tom Boer, Manuel Pastor, Jr., James L. Sadd, and Lori D. Snyder, "Is There Environmental Racism? The Demographics of Hazardous Waste in Los Angeles County," Social Science Quarterly 78:4 (December, 1997): 793-810.
Evan J. Ringquist, "Equity and the Distribution of Environmental Risk: The Case of TRI Facilities," Social Science Quarterly 78:4 (December, 1997): 811-829.
U.S. General Accounting Office, Hazardous and Nonhazardous Waste: Demographics of People Living Near Waste Facilities (U.S. GPO, 1995).
Michael L. Edelstein, Poisoned Places: Seeking Environmental Justice in a Contaminated World (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998).
Andrew Hurley, Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz, eds., Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995)
"Special Issue on Toxic Torts and Environmental Justice," ed. Steve Kroll-Smith and Saundra D. Westervelt, Lwa & Policy 26:2
Jim Schwab, Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America (Sierra Club Books, 1994)
Laura Pulido, Environmental and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (U. of Arizona Press, 1996)
Andrew Szasz, Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and The Movement for Environmental Justice (University of Minnesota)
H. Spencer Banzhaf, The Political Economy of Environmental Justice (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012)
Dennis C. Cory and Tauhidur Rahman, Environmental Justice and Federalism, by (Edward Elgar, 2012)
Josiah Rector, “Environmental Justice at Work: The UAW, the War on Cancer, and the Right to Equal Protection from Toxic Hazards in Postwar America” Journal of American History 101:2 (2014), pp. 480-502
Laura Pulido, Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano struggles in the Southwest (U of Arizona Press, 1996)

Flora & Fauna / Endangered Species / Biodiversity

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program / Marine Mammal Commission
Center for Biological Diversity / Biodiversity Heritage Library
Wildlife Management in the National Parks: The Leopold Report (1963)
Hal Glen Borland, The History of Wildlife in America (National Wildlife Federation, 1975)
Peter Matthiessen, Wildlife in America. Revised Edition (Penguin, 1984).
Shannon C. Petersen, Acting for Endangered Species: The Statutory Ark (UP of Kansas, 2002)
Brian Czech and Paul R. Krausman, The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology and Public Policy (Johns Hopkins UP, 2001).
Thomas R. Dunlap, Saving America's Wildlife (Princeton UP, 1988)
William J. Snape III, ed., Biodiversity and the Law (Island Press, 1995)

Anthony B. Anderson and Clinton N. Jenkins, Applying Nature's Design: Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation (Columbia UP, 2006)
Niles Eldredge, Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis (Princeton, 1998).
William T. Hornaday, Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913) and Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice (Yale University Press, 1914).
Thomas R. Dunlap, "Wildlife, Science, and the National Parks, 1920-1940," Pacific Historical Review 59 (May 1990), 187-202.
David S. Wilcove, The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America (Freeman, 1999)
Craig W. Thomas, Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity (MIT Press, 2003)
Zygmunt J. B. Plater, The Snail Darter and the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River (Yale UP 2013)
Kenneth M. Murchison, The Snail Darter Case: TVA versus the Endangered Species Act (U Press of Kansas, 2007)
Richard J. Tobin, The Expendable Future: U.S. Politics and the Protection of Biological Diversity (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990).
David Takacs, The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise (Johns Hopkins, 1996).
Vandana Shiva, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (Boston: South End Press, 1997).
Timothy M. Swanson, ed., The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Cambridge UP, 2000).
Michael Robinson, Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West (UP of Colorado, 2005)
Robin W. Doughty, Wildlife and Man in Texas: Environmental Change and Conservation (Texas A & M UP, 1983).
Elizabeth Hanson, Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos (Princeton UP, 2002)
Francesca Griffo and Joshua Rosenthal, eds., Biodiversity and Human Health (Island Press, 1997)
Peter Coates, American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land (U of California Press, 2007)

Biotech and Genetic Engineering

Dave Toke, The Politics of GM Food: A Comparative Study of the UK, USA, and EU (London: Routledge, 2004)
Lisa Nicole Mills, Science and Social Context: The Regulation of Recombitant Bovine Growth Hormone in North America (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002)
Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr., First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, second ed. (U of Wisconsin Press, 2005)
Jack Doyle, Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply (Viking, 1985).S
usan Wright, Molecular Politics: Developing American and British Regulatory Policy for Genetic Engineering, 1972-1982 (U of Chicago Press, 1994)

Animal Rights

Roswell Cheney McCrea, The Humane Movement (Columbia U Press, 1910).
Richard Ryder, Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism (Berg, 2000)
Gary Lawrence Francione, Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (Temple UP, 1996)
Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Men, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy (New York: St. Martin's, 2002)
Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (U of California Press, 1983).
Peter Singer and Tom Regan, eds., Animal Rights and Human Obligations (Prentice Hall, 1976).

International Problems and Policy Making / Comparative Problems and Policy Making

United Nations Environment Programme / Commission for Environmental Cooperation for North America
Barbara J. Lausche, Weaving a Web of International Law (IUCN/ICEL, 2008)
Miranda Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. Van Deveer, eds., Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2009)
Dennis L. Soden and Brent S. Steel, eds., Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration (NY & Basel: Marcel Dekker, 1999).
Jessica Green, Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance (Princeton UP, 2014)
Sheilan Jasanoff and Marybeth Long Martello, eds., Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2004)
John C. Dernbach, ed. Stumbling Toward Sustainability (Washington: Environmental Law Institute, 2002)
Jennifer Clap and Peter Dauvergne, Paths to a Green World: the Political Economy of the Global Environment, 2^nd ed. (MIT Press, 2011)
Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives, and Practice (CQ Press, 2003)
Gareth Porter and Janet Welsh Brown, Global Environmental Politics, 2nd ed. (Westview, 1995)
Sheldon Kamieniecki, editor, Environmental Politics in the International Arena: Movements, Parties, Organizations, and Policy (SUNY Press, 1993)
Richard J. Smith, Negotiating Environment and Science: An Insider's View of International Agreements, from Driftnets to Space Stations (Resources for the Future, 2009).
Daniel C. Esty and Maria H. Ivanova, eds. Global Environmental Governance: Options & Opportunities (Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 2002)
Luc Ferry, The New Ecological Order (Chicago, 1995). [Deep Ecology]
Rodney R. White, North, South, and the Environmental Crisis (Toronto, 1993).
Paul G. Harris, ed, The Environment, International Relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Georgetown UP, 2002)
Otmar Höll, Environmental Cooperation in Europe (Westview Press, 1994)
Udai Desai, ed., Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries (SUNY Press, 1997)
Craig N. Murphy, International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850 (Oxford, 1994)
Oran Young, International Governance: Protecting the Environment in a Stateless Society (Cornell UP).
Tony Brenton, The Greening of Machiavelli: The Evolution of International Environmental Politics (London: Earthscan Publications, 1994).
Stephen O. Anderson and K. Madhava, Protecting the Ozone Layer: The United Nations History. (London: Earthscan Publications, 2003).
John E. Carroll, ed., International Environmental Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Jessica Tuchman Matthews, ed., Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership (Norton, 1991)
Ken Conca, Michael Alberty, and Geoffry D. Dabelko, eds., Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg, 3rd ed. (Westview Press, 2004).
Marvin S. Soroos, Beyond Sovreignty: The Challenge of Global Policy (University of South Carolina Press, 1986)
Timothy Swanson, Global Action for Biodiversity: An International Framework for Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (Island Press, 1997).
Theme Issue: Red, White, and Green: Canada-U.S. Environmental Relations, American Review of Canadian Studies 27:3 (Autumn, 1997).
Carolyn Deere and Daniel C. Esty, eds. Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade (MIT Press, 2002)
Kevin P. Gallagher, Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond (Stanford UP, 2004)

Comparative

Norman J. Vig and Michael G. Faure, eds. Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union (MIT Press, 2004)
Andreas Duit, ed., State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2014)
David Howard Davis, Comparing Environmental Policies in 16 Countries (CRC Press, 2013)
Lada Kochtcheeva, Comparative Environmental Regulation: Institutions, Instruments and Governance (SUNY Press, 2009)
Christoph Knill and Duncan Liefferink, Environmental Politics in the European Union: Policy-Making, Implementation and Patterns of Multi-Level Governance (Manchester UP, 2007)
Lillana B. Androva, Transnational Politics of the Environment: The European Union and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (MIT Press, 2003).
Winston Harrington and Richard D. Morgenstern, eds., Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments in the United States and Europe (Resources for the Future Press, 2004).
Éric Montpetit, Misplaced Trust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada (U of British Columbia Press, 2003)
Thomas C. Hoerber, The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe: The Beginnings of a European Environmental Conscience (Routledge, 2013)
Rudiger K. Wurzel, Environmental Policy-Making in Britain, Germany and The European Union: The Europeanisation of Air and Water Pollution Control (Manchester UP, 2002).
Albert Weale, G. Pridham, M. Cini, D. Konstadakopulos, M. Porter and B. Flynn, Environmental Governance in Europe: An Ever Closer Ecological Union? (Oxford UP, 2000)
Eugene Lee and Anthony Perl, eds., The Integrity Gap: Canada's Environmental Policy and Institutions (U of British Columbia Press, 2003)
David R. Boyd, Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy (U of British Columbia Press, 2003)
Carsten Daugbjerg and Anders Branth Pedersen, "New Policy Ideas and Old Policy Networks: Implementing Green Taxation in Scandanavia," Journal of Public Policy 24:2 (May-August 2004): 219-249
Lennart J. Lundqvist, Sweden and Ecological Governance (Manchester UP, 2004)
Graeme Hayes, Environmental Protest and the State in France (Palgrave, 2002)
Gordon J. MacDonald, Daniel J. Nielson, and Marc A Stern, Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective (Westview, 1996).
Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke UP, 2007)
Reinaldo Funes Monzote, From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008)

Joan Martinez-Alier, The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation (Edward Elgar, 2003)
Richard P. Tucker, Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Third World (U of California Press, 2000)
Uday Desai, ed. Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries: Economic Growth, Democracy, and Environment (SUNY, 1998)

Population

U.S. and World Population Clock
Bill McKibben, Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families (Simon and Schuster, 1998).
William Ophuls and A. Boyan, Jr. Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited (W.H. Freeman, 1992)
Jason L. Finkle and C. Alison McIntosh, eds., The New Politics of Population: Conflict and Consensus in Family Planning (Oxford, 1994).
Paul R. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (Ballantine Books, 1983)