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Recommended Additional Reading

Title Author Publishing Information Location: USM collection or URL
* Systems Thinking Basics: From Concepts to Causal Loops Anderson, Virginia and Johnson, Lauren Pegasus Communications, Inc, 1997 Loaner copy available through EFC. Contact bives@usm.maine.edu for arrangements.
* What the best college professors do Bain, Ken Harvard University Press, 2004 Loaner copy available through EFC. Contact bives@usm.maine.edu for arrangements.
Survival for a small planet: The sustainable development agenda Bigg, Tom (ed) Earthscan, Feb 04 POR
The sustainability curriculum: the challenge for higher education Blewitt, John and Cullingord, Cedric (eds)   GOR
The principles of sustainability Dresner, Simon   GOR
* Teaching Sustainability at Universities: towards curriculum greening Filho, Walter Leal Peter Lang GmbH, 2002 Loaner copy available through EFC. Contact bives@usm.maine.edu for arrangements.
The Consumer Society Goodwin, Neva; Ackerman, Frank, and Kiron, David (eds) Island Press, 1997 Loaner copy available through EFC. Contactbives@usm.maine.edu for arrangements. View TOC
Place value: an educator's guide to good literature on rural lifeways… Haas, Toni and Nachtigal   ORO
Environmental and natural resources economics Hackett, Steven   GOR, POR
The Tragedy of the Commons Hardin, Garrett Science, 68

www.garretthardinsociety.org

The Economic Possiblities for our Grandchildren Keynes, John Maynard W.W. Norton & Co. 1963 (orig 1930) www.econ.yale.edu
The Introduction, Increase and Crash of Reindeer on St. Matthew's Island Klein, D.R. Journal Wildlife Mgmt, 68 http://dieoff.org
In accord with nature: Helping students form an environmental ethic… Knapp, Clifford   Microform @ ORO GovDoc
Human ecology: Basic concepts for sustainable development Marten, Gerald Earthscan, Nov 01 POR
Exploring sustainable development: Geographical perspectives Purvis, Martha and Grainger, Alan (eds)   GOR

The Overworked American

Schor, Juliet B. Basic Books, 1993 Summary: http://users.ipfw.edu
* Active Training: a Handbook of Techniques, Designs, Case Examples, and Tips Silberman, Mel John Wiley & Sons, Inc , 1998 Loaner copy available through EFC. Contact bives@usm.maine.edu for arrangements.
The Systems Thinking Playbook: exercises to stretch and build... Sweeney, Linda Booth and Meadows, Dennis Sustainability Institute

POR

Ecological Identity Thomashow, Mitchell   FAR, GOR, ORO
World Scientist's Warning to Humanity Union of Concerned Scientists April 1992, Cambridge, MA www.ucsusa.org
Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices by UCS Union of Concerned Scientists 1992, Cambridge, MA Chapter One: www.ucsusa.org
Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World. United Nations Development Program.
2007/08 Report http://hdr.undp.org/
International Conference
on Population and Development (ICPD)
United Nations Cairo, 1994 Links to various related documents www.iisd.ca
An Introduction to Environmental Accounting as a Business Mgmt Tool US EPA   Link to download: www.greenbiz.com
The Future of Life Wilson, E.O.   POR, BBL, MSL, BCL, LEW, AUG, PI, FAR, GOR
The whale and the reactor: A search for limits in an age of high technology Winner, Langdon   AUG, ORO, GOR, BPL
Population Summit on the World's Scientific Academies   US Nat'l Acad Press, 94 www.worldpopulationbalance.org
Talloires Declaration     www.ULSF.org

 

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