Compiled by: Timothy Lynch, Reference Librarian, USM Gorham Campus Library (207) 780-5156; tlynch@usm.maine.edu with the assistance of Travis Wagner, Environmental Science & Policy Program Faculty
(207) 228-8450 twagner@usm.maine.edu.
Feel fee to suggest more reading lists at tlynch@usm.maine.edu
Bill McKibben Books
Selected Books by Bill McKibben
Suggested by Library Staff
William E. McKibben was born in 1960. A Harvard graduate and former writer for New Yorker Magazine he is an environmentalist and has been a freelance writer since 1987. He is also University of Southern Maine's Gloria S. Duclos Convocation Speaker on Environmental Sustainability. (From Environmental Encyclopedia 2nd Edition 1998)
Age of Missing Information
Por Stacks PN1992.6 .M38 1992
Comforting Whirlwind : God, Job, and the Scale of Creation
Lew Stacks BT 695.5 .M45 1994
The End of Nature
Por Stacks GF75 .M38 1989
Gor Stacks GF75 .M38 1989
Lew Stacks GF75 .M38 1989
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
Por Stacks QH 438.7 .M38 2003
Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth
Por Stacks GE140 .M35 1995
Hundred Dollar Holiday : the Case for a More Joyful Christmas.
BPL Stacks 394.2663.M2103h
Located at the Bangor Public Library.
Maybe One: a Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families.
BPL Stacks HB 849.415 .M39 1998
Located at the Bangor Campus Library (UMA).
Questions? Comments? Call the Library at 780-5344 (Gorham), 780-7272 (Portland), or 753-6540 (Lewiston).
Environmental Business Books at USM
Suggested by Library Staff
Business, ethics, and the environment : the public policy debate
Lew Stacks HC110 E5 N32 1990
Corporate country; a state shaped to suit technology
Por Stacks HC110.P55 R6
Deep information : the role of information policy in environmental sustainability
Gor Stacks GE300 .F45 1997
Energy and environment : the unfinished business
Por Stacks HD9502.U52 E4524 1985
Environmental Assistance Services for Small Business: A Resource Guide
Por Gov Doc EP 1.8:2001037246
Facilitator's manual for principles of environmental impact assessment review
Por Gov Doc EP 1.8:F 11/5 Fische
Going Green: How to Communicate Your Company's Environmental Commitment
Gor Stacks HD 69 .P6 H37 1993
The Greening of American business : making bottom-line sense of environmental responsibility
Por Stacks HC110 E5 G7345 1992
The Greening of Business in Developing Countries: Rhetoric, Reality, and Prospects
Gor Stacks HD 2932 .G74 2002
Greening the ivory tower : improving the environmental track record of universities, colleges, and other institutions
Gor Stacks GE310 .C74 1998
Por Stacks GE310 .C74 1998
Harvard Business Review on Business and the Environment
Por. Stacks HD69.P6 H373 2000
(EBOOK/NET LIBRARY)
Industry, technology, and the environment [microform] : competitive challenges and business opportunities : report
Por GovDoc: Fiche Y 3.T 22/2:2 IN 2/8/REPORT
Opening Doors for America's Small Business (formerly web)
Por Gov. Doc. EP 1.2:SM 1/3
Practical guide to environmental management for small business
Por Gov Doc EP 1.8:B 96
The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value Through Social and Environmental Performance
Por Stacks HD 31 .L31568 2003
Unfinished business : a comparative assessment of environmental problems
Por Stacks TD171 .U456 1987 [Plus Appendices]
Questions? Comments? Call the Library at 780-5344 (Gorham), 780-7272 (Portland), or 753-6540 (Lewiston).
Books by Garrett James Hardin at USM
Suggested by Library Staff
Professor Emeritus Dr.Garrett Hardin, born April 1915 experimented in Microbial Ecology and was a professor of Biology for Stanford University. He died Sep. 14, 2003. (From World Who's Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation)
Birth Control
Por Stacks HQ 766.H35
Exploring New Ethics for Survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle.
Por Stacks HB 871 .H347
The Limits of Altruism : an ecologist's view of survival
Por Stacks BF 637 .H4 H37 1977
Living within Limits : ecology, economics, and population taboos.
Por Stacks HQ 766.7 .H35 1993
Nature and Man's Fate
Gor Stacks QH 361. H25
The Ostrich Factor: our population myopia
(EBOOK/NET LIBRARY)
Population, Evolution, & Birth Control; a collage of controversial readings.
Gor Stacks HB851 .H28
Por Stacks HB851 .H28
Promethean Ethics : living with death, competition, and triage.
Por Stacks BJ1012 .H28
Science, Conflict, and Society : readings from Scientific American.
Gor Oversize Q 125 .S434
Questions? Comments? Call the Library at 780-5344 (Gorham), 780-7272 (Portland), or 753-6540 (Lewiston).
Geothermal
Selected Works available at USM on Geothermal Energy
Suggested by Library Staff
Alternative Fuels and the Environment
Gor Stacks TD 195 .E49 A44 1995
Geothermal Energy
Gor Stacks TJ 280.7 .B47
Geothermal Energy: Its Past, Present, and Future Contributions to the Energy Needs of Man
Gor Stacks TJ 280.7 .A74 1978
Geothermal Energy: Power from the Depths
(Electronic Access via URSUS)
Geothermal energy; Resources, Production, Stimulation
Gor Stacks TK 1041 .G4
Geothermal Systems: Principles of Case Studies
Gor Stacks GB 1199.5 .G47
Geothermics
Gor Stacks GB 1199.5 .G6313
Seafloor Spreading Centers: Hydrothermal Systems
Gor Stacks QE 511.7 .S4
Tapping the Earth's Natural Heat
Gor Gov. Docs I 19.42:1125
Geothermal Today: Geothermal Energy Program Highlights
Por Gov. Doc. E 1.2: G29/5
Questions? Comments? Call the Library at 780-5344 (Gorham), 780-7272 (Portland), or 753-6540 (Lewiston).
Nature in Literature
Selected works about Nature In Literature
Suggested by Library Staff
American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice and Ecocriticism: the Middle Place
Por. Stacks PS153 I52 A33 2001
Lew. Stacks PS153 .I52 A33 2001
American Year; Nature Across America Through the Four Seasons as Observed by the Great Writers and Naturalists of Past and Present
Gor. Stacks QH104 .C55 (1961)
Arnold's Poetic Landscapes
Por. Stacks PR4024 .R65 (1969)
Gor. Stacks PR4024 .R65
Back to Nature; the Arcadian Myth in Urban America
Por. Stacks E169.1 .S343 (1969)
Gor. Stacks E169.1 .S343
Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism
Por. Stacks PR143 .B49 2001
Beyond the Land Itself; Views of Nature in Canada and the United States
Por. Stacks PR143 .K5 (1970)
Brontes and Nature
Por. Stacks PR4169 .D8 1986
Complete Poems of Robert Frost
Por. Stacks PS3511 .R94 1964
Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gor Stacks PS1600 .F03
Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing
Available via Electronic Access (1998)
Early Epic Scenery: Homer, Virgil and the Medieval Legacy
Por. Stacks PA3015 .N3 A5
Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature
Por. Stacks PN682 .N3 E25 1972
New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans Through Whitman
Gor. Stacks PS169 .E25 T5 (1979)
Lew. Stacks PS169 .E25 T5
Poetry of Nature: Rural Perspectives in Poetry from Wordsworth to the Present
Gor. Stacks PR585 .N3 K44 1981
Reading and Writing Nature: The Poetry of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop
Por. Stacks PS310 .N3 R68 1990
Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing
Por. Stacks PS3057 .N3 T46 2000
Treasury of Great Nature Writing
Por. Stacks PS509 .N3 K5 (1957)
Gor. Stacks PS509 .N3 K5
Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as a Feminist Space
Lew. Stacks HQ1190 .A4 2000
Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal
Por. Stacks PS3053 .C296 1985
Walden
Gor. Reserves PS3048 .A1 1997
Questions? Comments? Call the Library at 780-5344 (Gorham), 780-7272 (Portland), or 753-6540 (Lewiston).
Rachel Carson
Selected Books by Rachel Carson
Suggested by Library Staff
Born in1907 Rachel Carson, biologist, graduated from Johns Hopkins Univeristy with a Masters Degree. She worked for a time at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory on Cape Cod, as well as the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, where she retired as a Biologist and Chief Editor in 1952. She wrote important works on the use of chemicals for agriculture that were maligned by chemical companies. Her influence in environmental topics served as a catalyst for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. She died in 1964. (G.Young--Environmental Encyclopedia 1998)
Always, Rachel : the Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964
Gor Stacks QH31.C33 A4 1995
Por Stacks QH31 .C33 A4 1995
The Edge of the Sea (1955)
Por Stacks QH91 .C3
Lost Woods : the Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
Lew Stacks QH81 .C3546 1998
The Sea Around Us (1951)
Gor Stacks GC21.C3 1966
The House of Life : Rachel Carson at Work
Gor Stacks QH31.C33 B7
Sense of Wonder
Por Stacks QH51 .C35
Silent Spring
Gor Stacks SB959 .C3
Por Stacks QH545.P4 C38 1962
Lew Stacks QH545.P4 C38 1994
Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalists Picture of Ocean Life (Item available at other locations)
Por Stacks QH92 .C3 1967
Questions? Comments? Call the Library at 780-5344 (Gorham), 780-7272 (Portland), or 753-6540 (Lewiston).
Wind Power
Books About Wind Energy at USM
Suggested by Library Staff
Small Wind Electric Systems [electronic resource] : A U.S. Consumer's Guide
POR Gov Doc E 9.2:2003017802
Colorado's Clean Energy Choices [electronic resource]
POR Gov Doc
E 1.2:2004003209
Wind Energy, the Facts
GOR Stacks HD9502.5.W55 W56 1999
Wind Energy Basics : A Guide to Small and Micro Wind Systems
GOR Stacks TJ820 .G55 1999
Renewable Energy [microform] : DOE's Funding and Markets for Wind Energy and Solar Cell Technologies : Report to Congressional Requesters
Por GovDoc: Fiche GA 1.13:RCED-99-130
Wind Energy
POR Maine Doc E 15.10:Wi 763
Wind Power Today [microform] : Wind Energy Program Highlights
POR Gov Doc E 1.38/5:
Wind Energy in America : A History
GOR Stacks TK1541 .R54 1996
Alternative Fuels and the Environment
GOR Stacks TD195 .E49 A44 1995
NWTC, National Wind Technology Center : Research, Development, and Testing to Support the Wind Industry
POR Gov Doc E 1.2:W 72/2
Global Renaissance : A 5 Year Plan to Save Our Planet
LEW Stacks GF75 .H33 1992
Wind Energy Systems
GOR Stacks TK1541 .J64 1985
Wind Energy : Technical Information Guide
POR Gov Doc E 1.8:W 72
Solar and Wind Energy : An Economic Evaluation of Current and Future Technologies
GOR Stacks TJ810 .K28 1984
Homemade Electricity : An Introduction to Small-Scale Wind, Hydro, and Photovoltaic Systems
GOR Stacks TK1005 .H6 1984
Introduction to Wind Turbine Engineering
GOR Stacks TJ825 .W87 1983
Home Energy for the Eighties
GOR Stacks TJ163.5 .D86 W64
Wind Energy
GOR Stacks TK1541 .K67
Windmill Power for City People : A Documentation of the First Urban Wind Energy System
GOR Stacks TK1541 .E53 1977
Wind Power
GOR Stacks TK1541 .S55
Handbook of Solar and Wind Energy
GOR Stacks TJ810 .H5
Wind Energy Utilization : A Bibliography with Abstracts. Cumulative Volume 1944-1974
GOR Stacks TK1541 .Z95
The Autonomous House : Design and Planning for Self-Sufficiency
GOR Stacks TH7413 .V32
Energy Into Power; the Story of Man and Machines
GOR Stacks TJ147 .S74
Questions? Comments? Call the Library at 780-5344 (Gorham), 780-7272 (Portland), or 753-6540 (Lewiston).
Seminal Works Bibliography
(The titles in this bibliography were selected by the Environmental Science & Policy Program faculty)
*These books are on-order
Works are linked, whenever possible, to URSUS or Maine INFOnet records.
Some items may need to be obtained via Interlibrary Loan.
GENERAL
The Brundtland Commission, World Commission on Environment and Development's report, Our Common Future (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987).
Gor Stacks HD 75.6 .O97 1987
Commoner, B., Closing Circle: Nature, Man and Technology (New York, Knopf, 1971).
Gor Stacks GF 75 .C65
Por Stacks GF 75 .C65
Holling, C. S., Understanding the complexity of economic, ecological, and socials systems,“ Ecosystems, v. 4, p. 390-405 (2001).
Gor Serial Stacks and electronic access via URSUS
McDonough, W., Braungart, M., Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. (New York : North Point, 2002).
Gor Stacks TD794.5 .M395 2002
McKibben, Bill, The End of Nature (Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1990).
Gor Stacks GF 75 .M38 1989
Por Stacks GF 75 .M38 1989
Lew Stacks GF 75 .M38 1989
National Research Council,Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999).
Gor Stacks HC79 .E5 O97 2002
Perelman, Lewis J. The Global Mind: Beyond the Limits to Growth (New York:Mason/Charter, 1976).
Por. Stacks
QH541 .P42
Uhl, Christopher and Amy Anderson, “Green Density: Universities Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future,” Bioscience, Vol. 51, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 36-42.
Por Serials Stacks
Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint Reducing Human Impact on the Earth (Gabriola Island, BC: Canada, New Society Publishers, 1996).
Gor Stacks HC79 .E5 W32 1995
Wilson, Edward O., The Future of Life (New York, Random House, 2002).
Gor Stacks QH75 .W535 2000
PLANNING
Arendt, Randall G.,
Conservation Design for Subdivisions: A Practical Guide to Creating Open Space Networks (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996).
Gor Stacks HD 1390.2 .A73 1996
Lew Stacks HD 1390.2 .A73 1996
Daniels, Tom, When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999).
Por Stacks HT 334 .U5 D35 1999
Daniels, Thomas L., Kellerman, John W., and Mark B. Lapping, The Small Town Planning Handbook (Chicago, American Planning Association, 1995).
Por Stacks HT 167 .D36 1995
Kunstler, James H., The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Touchstone Books, 1994).
Gor Stacks NA 2542.35 .K86 1994
Por Stacks NA 2542.35 .K86 1994
Mazmanian, Daniel A. and Michael E. Kraft, Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).
Gor Stacks GE 180 .T69 1999
Porter, Douglas R., Managing Growth in America's Communities (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997).
Gor Stacks HT 384 .U5 P67 1997
Lew Stacks HT 384 .U5 P67 1997
ECONOMICS
Brown, Lester R., Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, W.W. (New York, Norton and Company, 2001).
Gor Stacks HC 79 .E5 B759 2001
Lew Stacks HC 79 .E5 B759 2001
Costanza, R., Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability (New York, Columbia University, 1991).
Por Stacks HD 75.6 .E29 1991
Cohen, Lizabeth, Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York, Knopf, 2003).
Por Stacks HC 110 .C6 C537 2003
Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Captialism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Boston, BackBay Books: 2000).
Por Stacks HC 106.82 .H39 1999
ENERGY
Lovins, Amory B., Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace (New York, Harper Collins, 1979).
Gor Stacks TJ163.2 .L678 1979
Peet, J., Energy and the Ecological Economics of Sustainability, (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1992).
Gor Stacks HC79.E5 P42 1992
ETHICS
Daly, H., and J. Cobb, For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994).
Por Stacks HD 75.6 .D35 1994
Naess, Arne, Ecology, Community, and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Por Stacks GF 21 .N34 1989
Reed, M., and O. Slaymaker, “Ethics and sustainability: a preliminary perspective,” Environment and Planning A 25: 723-739 (1993).
(Available via Interlibrary Loan)
Sagoff, M., “At the shrine of Our Lady Fatima or why all political questions are not economic,” In: Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Applications, L.P. Pojman ed., (Boston, MA: James and Bartlett, 1994) p. 443-450.
Gor Stacks GE42 .E58 2001
Schumacher, E. F., Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered (London, Blond and Briggs Ltd., 1973).
Por Stacks HB 171 .S384 1973
NATURAL RESOURCES
Hardin, Garrett, “The Tragedy of the Commons" Science, 162 (1968):1243-1248.
Gor Serials Stacks
Por Serials Stacks
Kurlansky, Mark, Cod (New York, Penguin Books, 1997).
Por Stacks PN 6071 .C66 K87 1997
Levin, Ted, "Reviving the River of Grass," Audubon, Vol. 103, No. 4, July 2001, pp. 54-61.
Por Serials Stacks
Leopold, Aldo, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (New York, Oxford University Press, 1949).
Gor Stacks QH 81 .L56 1987
Lew Stacks QH 81 .L56 1987
Meffe, G., and C. Carroll, Principles of Conservation Biology (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc., 1994).
Por Stacks QH75 .M386 1997
Strasser, Susan, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (New York, Owl Books, 2000).
Gor Stacks HD4482 .S77 1999
POPULATION
Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich. The Population Explosion, ; Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Por Stacks HB871 .E33 1990
Lew Stack HB871 .E33 1990
Population, Resources and the Environment: Critical Challenges, United Nations Population Fund, 1991.
Available via Courier Service
Hollingsworth, W., Ending the Explosion: Population Policies for a Humane Future,
Seven Locks Press, 1996.
Lew Stacks
RA644.A25 E53 1990
Meadows, Donella; Dennis Meadows; Jorgen Randers; Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future, Chelsea Green 1992.
Gor Stacks HD75.6 .M43 1992
Lew Stacks HD75.6 .M43 1992
Lester R. Brown, Gary Gardner, and Brian Halweil; Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge,W.W. Norton, 1999.
Gor Stacks HB849.41 .B7 1999
Cohen, Joel E., How Many People can the Earth Support? ;New York : Norton, , 1995
Lew Stacks HB1953 .C64 1995
Grant; Lindsey, Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet, Seven Locks Press, 1996
Gor Stacks
HB849.4 .G73 1996
All of the University of Southern Maine's Databases can be accessed from the homepage of the USM Library. Notice , overlap of subject matter will occur in these databases, this listing indicates a recommended first choice of databases for searches for journal articles, conference proceedings and reports in that field of information. Always remember to check general and related databases as well.
See "i" icons and Information/Help screens located on the USM Library Homepage and its links for more information about each database. To access the following databases choose Indexes and Databases from the USM Library Homepage. Please also make use of the Finding Articles at USM page created by Barb Mann.
There is no authority control for the Internet. In choosing Internet resources it is imperative to evaluate the authenticity of the source. Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources (UCLA College Library) provides excellent evaluation criteria. The following selected resources have been chosen because of authenticity and comprehensiveness of coverage.
When deciding on the appropriate citation style, keep the following in mind: the Humanities, such as English and History and Philosophy usually use a different citing style than the sciences and social sciences. Humanities often use MLA and Turabian, while the social sciences, such as Psychology and Anthropology may use APA. In the hard sciences Wagner T. and R. Sanford, 2005 suggest each field often has its own style: note example. Check with your instructor on which citation form to use. The EndNote program may or may not be useful in creating these citations.
Use the format below to cite any literature used in your report (e.g., your textbook, journal articles, books, and so forth). In the text of your report, if you cite specific information, or quote data or persons, cite references using the author’s surname, and year of publication (e.g., Botkin and Keller, 2003); give the page number for the source quoted or paraphrased (to help avoid plagiarism—for example, Botkin and Keller, 2003, p. 234). Sources must be credited if you obtain ideas or thoughts from them, even if you are not giving a direct quote.
No single, correct citation format exists; each discipline (e.g., biology, economics, etc.) and each journal has a preferred citation format. Thus, what is presented below is one particular style but you will see other styles in your research. The most important aspect is to be consistent and to ensure all necessary information is contained in the citation.
For the purposes of this textbook, when you write lab reports use the following citation format from the Soil Science Society of America Journal (it is a typical science format), unless your instructor recommends a different one.
Connell, J. L. 1974. Species Diversity in Tropical Coral Reefs. Science 234:23-26.
O'Rourke, D., L. Connelly, and C.P. Koshland. 1996. Industrial Ecology: A Critical Review. International Journal of Environment Pollution 6:89-112.
McHarg, I. L. 1971. Design with Nature. Doubleday, Garden City, NY.
Botkin, D.B. and E.A. Keller. 2003. Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet. 4th ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America. 1998. Publications Handbook & Style Manual. ASA, CSSA, SSCA, Madison, WI.
Rabe, G.B. 1999. Sustainability in a Regional Context: The Case of the Great Lakes Basin. p. 248-281. In D.A. Mazmanian and M.E. Kraft (ed.) Towards Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Citations for Internet (web) sites should be similar to print media citations, including author, publication date, article title, site title, URL, and date the information was posted (or when the address was accessed).
Sanchirico, J.N. and R.G. Newell. 2003. Catching Market Efficiencies: Quota-Based Fisheries Management. Resources 150 [Online], 23 Sept. 2003.
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2004. Home Page [Online]. Available at http://www.epa.gov (verified 3 June 2004).
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