In this context they are notable books that describe, as a major theme, the effects of human activity on the environment.
Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition.
| Title | Theme(s) and subtheme(s) | Author(s) | Year(s) | ISBN(s) | | New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | Population | Charles C.|Mann}} | 2005 | 978-1-4000-4006-3}} |
| The Future Is Better Than You Think | Various themes | Peter|Diamandis}} and Steven Kotler | 2012 | 978-1-4516-1421-3}} |
| The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia | Agriculture | Clifford|Geertz}} | 1963 |
| Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility | Energy | Christopher A.|Simon}} | 2006 | 0-7425-4908-9}};
{{ISBN|978-0-7425-4908-1}};
{{ISBN|0-7425-4909-7}};
{{ISBN|978-0-7425-4909-8}} |
| AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors | Pollution: air pollution | 1968 |
| An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming | Global warming | Nigel|Lawson}} | 2008 | 978-0-7156-3786-9}} (UK);
{{ISBN|978-1-59020-084-1}} (US) |
| Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants | Waste: oil refinery and
petrochemical wastewaters | Milton R.|Beychok}} | 1967 |
| Atlas of Our Changing Environment | Climate change | United Nations Environment Programme | 2005– |
| A Fire History of Canada | Wildfires: in Canada | Stephen J. Pyne | 2007 |
| Babylon's Ark, The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo | Wildlife conservation | Lawrence|Anthony}} and Graham Spence |
| Beyond the Limits | Population | Donella|Meadows}}, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers | 1992 | 0-930031-62-8}} |
| Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak | Energy | Kenneth S.|Deffeyes}} | 2006 |
| The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future | Pollution | Jeff|Goodell}} | 2006 | 978-0-618-87224-4}} |
| A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis | Various themes | Ian|Lowe}} | 2005 |
| Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It | Ken|Alibek}} | 1999 | 0-385-33496-6}} |
| Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming | Environmentalism | Paul|Hawken}} | 2007 | 978-0-670-03852-7}} |
| The Blue Economy | Technology: biomimetics | Gunter|Pauli}} | 2010 | 978-0-912111-90-2}} |
| A Blueprint for Survival | Survival | Edward|Goldsmith}} and Robert Allen | 1972 |
| Bountiful Harvest | Anti-environmentalism | Thomas R.|DeGregori}} | 2002 | 1-930865-31-7}} |
| Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security | Energy | Amory|Lovins}} and L. Hunter Lovins | 1982 | 0-931790-28-X}} |
| Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System | Various themes | Jim|Harding}} | 2007 |
| The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era | Global warming | Jeremy|Leggett}} | 1999 |
| Risk and Response | Various themes | Richard|Posner}} | 2004 | 978-0-19-530647-7}} |
| Challenging the Chip | Waste: electronic waste | Ted|Smith (environmentalist)}}, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow | 2006 | 1-59213-330-4}} (paperback);
{{ISBN|1-59213-330-4}} (e-book) |
| Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England | Land and water: hunting and fishing | William|Cronon}} | 1983 | 0-8090-0158-6}} |
| The Chilling Stars | Climate change: cosmic rays | Henrik|Svensmark}} and Nigel Calder | 2003;
2007 (updated) | 1-84046-815-7}} |
| A Civil Action | Pollution: water pollution | Jonathan|Harr}} | 1996 | 0-679-77267-7}} |
| The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity | Clean technology | Ron|Pernick}} and Clint Wilder | 2007 | 0-06-089623-X}} |
| Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change | Climate change | L. Hunter|Lovins}} and Boyd Cohen | 2011 | 978-0-8090-3473-4}} |
| Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options | Climate change mitigation and global energy security | Marilyn A.|Brown}} and Benjamin K. Sovacool | 2011 | 978-0-262-01625-4}} |
| Heads in the Sand | Climate change denial | Haydn Washington and John Cook; foreword by Naomi Oreskes | 2011 | 978-1-84971-336-8}} |
| Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action | Global warming | David|Spratt|nolink=1}} and Philip Sutton | 2008 | 1-921372-20-6}} |
| How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet | Global Warming and Sustainable Cities | Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope | 2017 | 978-1-250-14207-8 |
| The Coal Question | Coal: peak coal | William Stanley|Jevons}} | 1865 |
| Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love | Mining: mountain removal mining | Michael|Shnayerson}} | 2008 |
| Coexisting On Earth: Homo sapiens Quagmire | Various themes, but mainly focuses on Homo sapiens lost connection with nature | Michael|C.Clark}} | 2018 |
| How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Various themes | Jared|Diamond}} | 2005 | 0-14-303655-6}} |
| The Coming Global Superstorm | Global warming | Art|Bell}} and Whitley Strieber | 1999 | 0-671-04190-8}} |
| Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture | Agriculture: agricultural hydrology | International Water Management Institute and Earthscan | 2007 |
| Confessions of an Eco-Warrior | Eco-terrorism | Dave|Foreman}} | 1991 |
| Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists | Consumerism | Michael|Brower}} and Warren Leon | 1999 | 0-609-80281-X}} |
| Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy | Energy: nuclear energy | Benjamin K.|Sovacool}} | 2011 | 978-981-4322-75-1}} |
| A Contract with the Earth | Environmental protection and restoration | Newt|Gingrich}} and Terry L. Maple | 2007 | 978-0-8018-8780-2}} |
| The Control of Nature | Geoengineering | John|McPhee}} | 1989 | 0-374-12890-1}} |
| The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming | Global warming | Bjørn|Lomborg}} | 2007 | 978-0-307-26692-7}} |
| Remaking the Way We Make Things | Michael|Braungart}} and William McDonough | 2002 | 0-86547-587-3}} |
| Deep Future | Curt Stager | 2009 |
| The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud | Global warming: denial | Lawrence|Solomon}} | 2008 | 978-0-9800763-1-8}} |
| Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness | Edward|Abbey}} | 1968 | 978-0-345-25021-6}} |
| Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison | Toxic waste | Jane|Hightower}} | 2008 |
| The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What's Blocking Clean Power in the United States | Energy | Benjamin K.|Sovacool}} | 2008 |
| The Discovery of Global Warming | Global warming: history of scientific discoveries | Spencer R.|Weart}} | 2003 | 0-674-03189-X}} |
| A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation | Energy: hydropower | Andri Snær|Magnason}} | 2006 | 978-0-9551363-2-0}} |
| Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet | Climate change | Bill|McKibben}} | 2010 | 978-0-8050-9056-7}} |
| Earth from the Air | Yann|Arthus-Bertrand}}
(photographer) |
| Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit | Al|Gore}} | 1992 | 0-395-57821-3}};
{{ISBN|0-618-05664-5}};
{{ISBN|1-85383-743-1}};
{{ISBN|978-1-59486-637-1}} (paperback, Rodale Press, 2006) |
| Eating Animals | Food industry | Jonathan Safran|Foer}} | 2009 | 0-316-06990-6}} |
| Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching | Eco-terrorism | Dave|Foreman}} | 1985 |
| The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 | Introduced species: epidemics | Alfred|Crosby}} | 1986 |
| From Individuals to Ecosystems | Michael|Begon}}, Colin R. Townsend, and John L. Harper | 2006 | 978-1-4051-1117-1}} |
| The Economical Environmentalist | Climate change: effects of climate change | Prashant|Vaze}} |
| Ecotage! | Eco-terrorism | Sam|Love}} | 1972 | 0-671-78180-4}} |
| Encounters with the Archdruid | John|McPhee}} | 1971 | 0-374-51431-3}} |
| The End of Energy Obesity: Breaking Today's Energy Addiction for a Prosperous and Secure Tomorrow | Energy | Peter|Tertzakian}} | 2009 | 978-0-470-43544-1}} |
| How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat | Overfishing | Charles|Clover (journalist)}} | 2004 (UK);
2006 (US) | 0-09-189780-7}} (UK hardcover 1st ed.);
{{ISBN|1-59558-109-X}} (US hardcover 1st ed.);
{{ISBN|0-09-189781-5}} (UK 2005 rev. ed.);
{{ISBN|0-520-25505-4}} (US 2008 reprint 1st ed.) |
| The End of Nature | Global warming | Bill|McKibben}} | 1989 | 0-8129-7608-8}} |
| The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World | Energy | Paul|Roberts (author)}} | 2004 | 978-0-618-23977-1}} |
| Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation | Wildlife conservation | Alison J.|Stattersfield}}, Michael J. Crosby, Adrian J. Long, and David C. Wege | 1998 | 0-946888-33-7}} |
| Endgame (two volumes) | Derrick|Jensen}} | 2006 | 1-58322-730-X}};
{{ISBN|1-58322-724-5}} |
| Thirteen Myths | Energy | Benjamin K.|Sovacool}} and Marilyn A. Brown (editors) | 2007 |
| The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy | Energy | Hermann|Scheer}} | 2006 | 1-84407-355-6}} |
| The Energy Construct | Energy: renewable energy, nuclear energy, and clean fossil energy | Ben|Cipiti}} | 2007 |
| Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology | Nanotechnology | K. Eric|Drexler}} | 1986 | 0-385-19973-2}} |
| A New World View | Resource conservation | Jeremy|Rifkin}} and Ted Howard | 1980 | 0-670-29717-8}} |
| Doing Good While Doing Well | Free-market environmentalism | Terry Lee|Anderson}} and Donald R. Leal | 1997 | 978-0-8476-8382-6}} |
| Environmental Principles and Policies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction | Various themes | Sharon|Beder}} | 2006 | 978-1-84407-404-4}} |
| An Essay on the Principle of Population | Population | Thomas Robert|Malthus}} | 1798 |
| The Case for Canada's Oil Sands | Energy: petroleum energy | Ezra|Levant}} | 2010 | 0-7710-4641-3}} |
| River of Grass | Nature conservation | Marjory Stoneman|Douglas}} | 1947 |
| Everybody Loves a Good Drought | P.|Sainath}} | 1996 | 0-14-025984-8}} |
| The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850–1920 (collection of books and other publications) | Conservation movement | |
| Going Behind the Environmental Headlines | Various themes | Paul Fleischman | 2014 | 978-0-7636-7545-5}} |
| Factor 5: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Increase in Resource Productivity | Resource efficiency | Ernst Ulrich|von Weizsäcker}} and others | 2009 | 978-0-8165-1086-3}} |
| An American Nuclear Tragedy | Radiation exposure: nuclear weapon tests | Philip L.|Fradkin}} | 1989 | 978-0-8165-1086-3}} |
| Who Will Survive? | Overpopulation: food security | William|Paddock|nolink=1}} and Paul Paddock | 1967 |
| Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat | Agriculture: industrial livestock production and industrial fish farming | Philip|Lymbery}} and Isabel Oakeshott | 2014 |
| The Fate of the Earth | Jonathan|Schell}} | 1982 |
| Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret | Waste: toxic waste recycled in fertilizer | Duff|Wilson}} | 2001 |
| Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change | Climate change: causes and effects | Elizabeth|Kolbert}} | 2006 | 1-59691-125-5}} |
| Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It | Food industry | 2009 |
| The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution | Agriculture: genetically modified food | Henry I.|Miller}} and Gregory Conko | 2004 |
| Free Market Environmentalism | Environmental economics | Terry L.|Anderson}} and Donald R. Leal |
Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion
(4th edition) | Pollution: air pollution: atmospheric dispersion modeling | Milton R.|Beychok}} | 2005 | 0-9644588-0-2}} |
| The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development | Genetically modified organisms | Sakiko|Fukuda-Parr}} | 2006 |
| Genethics: The Clash between the New Genetics and Human Values | Genetic engineering | David|Suzuki}} and Peter Knudtson | 1990 |
| The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World | Pollution: water pollution | Steven Berlin|Johnson}} | 2006 | 1-59448-925-4}} |
| Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism | Anti-environmentalism and free-market environmentalism | Sharon|Beder}} | 1997;
2000;
2002 | 978-1-890132-12-5}} |
| The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans | Various themes | Mark|Lynas}} | 2011 |
| Biology, Environment and Management | Various themes | Pat|Hutchings}}, Mike Kingsford, and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg | 2008 |
| The Green Bible | Religion | 2008 | 978-0-06-162799-6}} |
| The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems | Economics | Van|Jones}} | 2008 | 978-0-06-165075-8}} |
| The Green Crusade | Environmentalism | Charles T.|Rubin}} | 1998 | 0-8476-8817-8}} |
| The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism | Consumerism and renewable energy | Ozzie Zehner | 2012 | 978-0-8032-3775-9}} |
| Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage | Daniel C.|Esty}} | 2006 |
| Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy | Energy | Mark|Diesendorf}} | 2007 | 978-0-86840-973-3}} |
| "The Fight to Reveal the Lies of the EPA in the Wake of 9/11 and Clean Up Lower Manhattan" | Environmental disaster of 9/11 | Jenna|Orkin}} | 2017 | 978-1-5464-5325-3}} |
| Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence | Energy: renewable energy | Robert|Bryce}} | 2008 | 978-1-58648-321-0}} |
| Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis | Energy | Jeremy|Leggett}} | 2005 |
| Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada | Climate change: effects in Canada | Harold Coward and Andrew J. Weaver | 2004 | 978-0-88920-442-3}} |
| A New Way of Looking at Our World | Climate change and agriculture | Charles, Prince of Wales, with Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly | 2010 | 0-06-173135-8}} |
| Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science | Global warming | Ian|Plimer}} | 2009 | 0-7043-7166-9}} |
| Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do | Global warming | Joseph J.|Romm}} | 2006 | 0-06-117212-X}} |
| High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future | Global warming | Guy|Pearse}} | 2007 |
| High Tide | Mark Lynas | 2004 |
| The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines | Climate change: hockey stick controversy | Michael E.|Mann}} | 2012 | 0-231-15254-X}} |
| The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science | Climate change | Andrew|Montford}} | 2010 | 978-1-906768-35-5}} |
| Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America | Various themes | Thomas L.|Friedman}} | 2008 |
| How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Stopping Climate Change | Consumerism | Chris|Goodall}} | 2007 | 978-1-84407-426-6}} |
| Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future | Mark|Diesendorf}} and Clive Hamilton | 1997 |
| The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health | Food industry | Randall|Fitzgerald}} | 2006 | 0-525-94951-8}} |
| The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate | Climate change | Joseph J.|Romm}} | 2004 | 1-55963-703-X}};
{{ISBN|1-55963-704-8}} |
| The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives On a Cleaner Planet | Environmental skepticism | Indur M.|Goklany}} | 2007 | 1-930865-98-8}} |
| An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems | Glenn|Beck}} | 2007 | 1-4165-5219-7}} |
| An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It | Al|Gore}} | 2006 | 1-59486-567-1}} |
| An Introduction to Sustainable Development | Peter P.|Rogers}}, with Kazi F. Jalal and John A. Boyd | 2007 | 978-1-84407-521-8}} |
| It's a Matter of Survival | Survival | Anita|Gordon}} and David Suzuki | 1991 | 0-674-46970-4}} |
| Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World | Renewable energy: solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy, and more | Tom|Rand|nolink=1}} | 2010 |
| Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed | Asbestos in construction: fibrosis | Matt|Peacock|Matt Peacock (journalist)}} | 2009 | 978-0-7333-2580-9}} |
| Last Chance to See | Wildlife conservation | Douglas|Adams}} and Mark Carwardine | 1990 |
| Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder | Nature deficit disorder | Richard|Louv}} | 2005 | 978-1-56512-605-3}} |
|
| The Legacy of Luna | Forest conservation | Julia Butterfly|Hill}} | 2000 | 0-06-251658-2}} |
|
| Life in 2050 | Various themes | Ulrich|Eberl}} | 2011 | 978-3-407-75357-1}} |
| The Limits to Growth | Population | Donella|Meadows}}, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III | 1972 | 0-87663-165-0}} |
| Living in the Hothouse: How Global Warming Affects Australia | Climate change | Ian|Lowe}} | 2005 |
| The Living Soil | Organic farming | Lady Eve|Balfour}} | 1943 |
| The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century | Various themes | James Howard|Kunstler}} | 2005 |
| Making Peace with the Planet | Barry|Commoner}} | 1990 | 978-0-394-56598-9}} |
| Man and Nature | Environmental degradation | George Perkins|Marsh}} | 1864 |
| Managing Urban America | Urban planning | David R.|Morgan}}, Robert E. England, and John Peter Pelissero | 1979 | 1-56643-065-8}} (5th ed. paperback);
{{ISBN|1-56802-930-6}} (6th ed.) |
| Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition | Megaprojects | Bent|Flyvbjerg}}, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengatter | 2003 | 0-521-80420-5}} |
| Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming | Global warming | Naomi|Oreskes}} and Erik M. Conway | 2010 | 978-1-59691-610-4}} |
| Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World (book companion to series of videos) | David|Maybury-Lewis}} | 1992 |
| The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels | Energy: fossil fuels | Alex Epstein | 2014 | 978-1-59184-744-1}} |
| How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal | Mining: coal mining | Penny|Loeb}} | 2007 |
| Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution | Ecosystem services: full-cost accounting | Paul|Hawken}}, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins | 1999 | 978-0-316-35316-8}} |
| A Nature Conservation Review (2 volumes) | Nature conservation | Derek|Ratcliffe}} | 1977 | 0-521-21159-X}} |
| The Navajo People and Uranium Mining | Mining: uranium mining | Doug|Brugge}}, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis | 2006 | 978-0-8263-3778-8}} |
| The New Green Consumer Guide | Consumerism | Hailes}} | 2007 | 978-0-7432-9530-7}} |
| Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy | Energy | Amory B.|Lovins}} and John H. Price | 1975 | 0-88410-603-9}} |
| Nourishing the Planet | Agriculture: sustainable agriculture |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Food industry | Michael|Pollan}} | 2006 | 978-1-59420-082-3}} |
| Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth | Buckminster|Fuller}} | 1968 |
| Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb | Various themes | Isaac|Asimov}} and Frederik Pohl | 1991 | 0-312-85252-5}} |
| Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis | Climate change | Al|Gore}} | 2009 |
| Our Plundered Planet | Henry Fairfield|Osborn, Jr.}} | 1948 |
| Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution | Biotechnology | Francis|Fukuyama}} | 2002 | 0-374-23643-7}} (hardcover);
{{ISBN|0-312-42171-0}} (paperback) |
| Our Synthetic Environment | Pesticides | Murray|Bookchin}} (pseudonym "Lewis Herber") | 1962 |
| The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World | Various themes | Kevin|Kelly (editor)}} | 1994 | 978-0-201-48340-6}} |
| The End of the Age of Oil | Energy | David|Goodstein}} | 2004 | 0-393-05857-3}} |
| Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies | Energy | Richard|Heinberg}} | 2003 | 0-86571-482-7}} |
| The Pesticide Question: Environment, Economics and Ethics | Pesticides | David Pimentel and Hugh Lehman (editors) | 1993 | 978-0-412-03581-4}} |
| Shifting from Oil to Hydrogen | Energy | Harry|Braun}} |
| Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate | Various themes | William|Ruddiman}} | 2005 |
| Political Animals and Animal Politics | Animal welfare: animal ethics and environmental politics | Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg | 2014 | 978-1-137-43461-6}} |
| The Population Bomb | Population | Paul R.|Ehrlich}} | 1968 | 1-56849-587-0}} |
| Real Costs, Illusory Benefits | Population | Steven W.|Mosher}} | 2008 | 978-1-4128-0712-8}} |
| Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World | Energy | Richard|Heinberg}} | 2004 | 978-0-86571-510-3}} |
| Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future | Energy | Robert|Bryce}} | 2010 | 978-1-58648-789-8}} |
| Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation | Verity|Burgmann}} | 2003 |
| Prosperity Without Growth | Environmental economics | Tim|Jackson (economist)}} | 2009 |
| Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation | Biodiversity conservation | C. J.|Bibby}}, N. J. Collar, M. J. Crosby, M.F. Heath, Ch. Imboden, T. H. Johnson, A. J. Long, A. J. Stattersfield, and S. J. Thirgood | 1992 | 0-946888-24-8}} |
| Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option | Various themes | Ian|Lowe}} | 2007 | 978-1-86395-412-9}} |
| The Real Global Warming Disaster (Is The Obsession With 'Climate Change' Turning Out To Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?) | Global warming | Christopher|Booker}} | 2009 | 1-4411-1052-6}} |
| Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment | Environmentalism | James Gustave|Speth}} | 2004 | 0-300-10232-1}} |
| Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England | Agriculture and fossil fuels | Diana|Muir}} | 2000 | 0-87451-909-8}} |
| Renewable Electricity and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability | Energy | Godfrey|Boyle}} | 2007 | 978-1-84407-418-1}} |
| Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change | Climate change: climate change denial | Clive|Hamilton}} | 2010 | 978-1-84971-081-7}} |
| The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we Can Still Save Humanity | Various themes | James|Lovelock}} | 2007 | 0-14-102597-2}} |
| Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World | Ortwin|Renn}} | 2008 |
| River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin | Various themes | Stephen|Most}} | 2006 |
| The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right | Pollution: water pollution | John|Cronin (environmental author)|nolink=1}} and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (foreword by Al Gore) | 1997 | 0-684-83908-3}} |
| The Sacred Balance | Various themes | David|Suzuki}} | 978-1-55054-548-7}} |
| Sammy & Sue Go Green Too! | Lifestyle | Suzanne|Corso}} |
| A Sand County Almanac | Nature conservation | Aldo|Leopold}} | 1949;
1966 (reprinted) | 0-19-500777-8}} |
| Science Under Siege: The Politicians' War on Nature and Truth | Todd|Wilkinson}} | 1998 |
| South Africa's Changing Climate | Climate change | Leonie|Joubert}} | 2007 |
| The Dirty Politics of Climate Change | Climate change: Kyoto Protocol and Australian politics | Clive|Hamilton}} | 2007 | 978-0-9775949-0-0}} |
| Secrets and Lies | Anti-environmentalism | Nicky|Hager}} and Bob Burton | 1999 | 0-908802-57-9}} |
| Selling Solar: The Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets | Energy | Damian|Miller|nolink=1}} | 2009 |
| The Shamba Raiders: Memories of a Game Warden | Wildlife conservation | Bruce|Kinloch}} | 1972;
1988;
2004 |
| A Short History of Progress | Environmental history | Ronald|Wright}} | 2004 | 0-88784-706-4}} |
| Siberia, Siberia | Environmental degradation | Valentin|Rasputin}} | 1991;
1996 (English translation) | 978-0-8101-1575-0}};
{{ISBN|5-94535-067-2}} (Russian ed.) |
| Silence of the Songbirds | Various themes | Bridget|Stutchbury}} | 2007 | 978-0-8027-1609-5}} |
| Silent Spring | Pesticides | Rachel|Carson}} | 1962 |
| Our Future on a Hotter Planet | Climate change | Mark|Lynas}} | 2007 | 978-0-00-720905-7}} |
| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Extinction: human activities | Elizabeth|Kolbert}} | 2014 | 978-0-8050-9299-8}} |
| The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World | Various themes | Bjørn|Lomborg}} | 2001 | 0-521-01068-3}} |
| Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered | Various themes | E. F.|Schumacher}} | 1973 | 978-0-06-091630-5}} |
| Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size | Amory|Lovins}} and others | 2002 |
| State of the World (book published annually) | Worldwatch Institute | 1984–
(annually) | See article |
| Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability | Sustainability and consumerism | Erik|Assadourian}} and others | 2010 |
| Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming | Global warming | Chris|Mooney (journalist)}} | 2007 | 978-0-15-101287-9}} |
| Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity | Climate change: fossil fuels | James|Hansen}} | 2009 | 978-1-60819-200-7}} |
| Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions | Various themes | Joseph J.|Romm}} | 2010 | 1-59726-716-3}} |
| Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization | Various themes | Ward|Churchill}} | 1993;
1999;
2002 |
| Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges | Various themes | Herbert|Girardet}}
(editor) | 2007 |
| Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming | Global warming | Christopher|Essex|nolink=1}} and Ross McKitrick | 2002 | 1-55263-212-1}} |
| Tasmania's Wilderness Battles: A History | Wilderness | Greg|Buckman}} | 2008 | 978-1-74175-464-3}} |
| Ten Technologies to Save the Planet (first edition) or Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate (second edition) | Various themes | Chris|Goodall}} | 2008 (1st ed.);
2009 (2nd ed.) | 978-1-84668-868-3}} |
| This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India | Environmental history: use of natural resources in India | Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha | 1992;
1993;
2013 | 978-0-19-807744-2}} |
| A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World | Energy | Peter|Tertzakian}} | 2007 | 978-0-07-149260-7}} |
| A Story of Science and Salvation | Pollution: cancer cluster | Dan|Fagin}} | 2013 | 978-0-553-80653-3}} |
| Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy | Environmental regulation | David|Vogel (professor)}} | 1995 |
| The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial | Climate change: environmental skepticism | Ian G.|Enting}} | 2007 | 978-0-646-48012-1}} |
| The Ultimate Resource | Resources | Julian Lincoln|Simon}} | 1981 | 0-691-00381-5}} (1996 paperback revision) |
| The Unfinished Twentieth Century | Energy: nuclear energy | Jonathan|Schell}} | 2001 | 978-1-85984-780-0}} |
| Every 1,500 Years | Global warming: natural causes | Siegfried Fred|Singer}} and Dennis T. Avery | 2006 | 978-0-7425-5117-6}} |
| The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization | Various themes | Thomas|Homer-Dixon}} | 2006 | 978-0-676-97722-6}} |
| Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Web of Ecological-Societal Crisis | 18 contributors | 2005 | 978-1-59571-101-4}} |
| Walden | Lifestyle | Henry David|Thoreau}} | 1854 | 978-0-345-80431-0}} |
| Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami | Natural disaster: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami | Sonali|Deraniyagala}} | 2013 | 978-0-345-80431-0}} |
| The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change | Climate change | Tim|Flannery}} | 2005 | 1-920885-84-6}} |
| The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet | Climate change | Heidi|Cullen}} | 2010 | 978-0-06-172688-0}} |
| When Corporations Rule the World | David|Korten}} | 1995 | 1-887208-00-3}} |
| Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto | Various themes | Stewart|Brand}} | 2009 | 978-0-670-02121-5}} |
| Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity | Climate change | Mike|Hulme}} | 2009 | 978-0-521-72732-7}} |
| Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice | Environmental justice | Cormac|Cullinan}} | 2003 | 0-9584417-8-2}};
{{ISBN|1-903998-35-2}} |
| Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank | Biodiversity | Andrew|Beattie (author)|nolink=1}} and Paul R. Ehrlich | 2001 |
| My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures | Wildlife conservation | Richard|Leakey}} and Virginia Morell | 2001 | 0-330-37240-8}} |
| The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores | Conservation: wildlife conservation | Archie|Carr}} | 1956 | 978-0-8130-0639-0}} |
| Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security | Energy | Amory|Lovins}} | 2005 |
| Wintergreen | Logging | Robert Michael|Pyle}} | 1987 |
| The World Without Us | Alan|Weisman}} | 2007 | 0-312-34729-4}} (10);
{{ISBN|978-0-312-34729-1}} (13) |
| Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up & Maintain a Worm Composting System | Waste management | Mary|Appelhof}} | 1997 (revised) | 978-0-942256-10-9}} |
| Silent Spring & other writings on environment | Environment Science | Rachel|Carson}} | 2018 | 978-1-5985-3560-0}} |