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Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science , which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement , which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's ...
Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment: Thomas H. Stoner, Jr. M: 1960– Sustainable development: Small Change Big Gains: Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur: John Tallmadge: M: Nature: Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism (co-edited) Sarah McFarland Taylor: F: Various themes: Green Sisters ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Help. This category lists environmental non-fiction books. See also: List of environmental ... (book) Field Notes from a ...
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is a 1966 book by the anthropologist and cultural theorist Mary Douglas. It is her best known work. It is her best known work. In 1991 the Times Literary Supplement listed it as one of the hundred most influential non-fiction books published since 1945.
Ecofiction (also "eco-fiction" or "eco fiction") is the branch of literature that encompasses nature or environment-oriented works of fiction. [1] While this super genre's roots are seen in classic, pastoral, magical realism, animal metamorphoses, science fiction, and other genres, the term ecofiction did not become popular until the 1960s when various movements created the platform for an ...
Dumping in Dixie is widely acknowledged as the first book to discuss environmental injustices and distill the concept of environmental justice holistically. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Since the publication of Dumping in Dixie , Bullard has emerged as one of the seminal figures of the environmental justice movement; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] some even label Bullard as ...
The Skeptical Environmentalist's subtitle refers to the State of the World report, published annually since 1984 by the Worldwatch Institute. [1] Lomborg designated the report "one of the best-researched and academically most ambitious environmental policy publications," but criticized it for using short-term trends to predict disastrous consequences, in cases where long-term trends would not ...
The Environmental books in this category are books that have the effects of human activity on the natural environment as a major theme. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.