Environmental Bookshelf

— from the Sierra Club - Iroquois Group —

A list of new environment-related titles compiled by Elizabeth Elkins, Director, Moon Library, SUNY-ESF; Elizabeth Wallace, Science & Engineering Librarian, Syracuse University Library

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The SU libraries now have a Focus the Nation site listing recent publications available at SU and ESF libraries. Thanks to librarians Elizabeth Wallace and Tom Keays for putting this great resource together!

Check it out at http://library.syr.edu/information/focusthenation/

[Anonymous] 2006. Assessments of regional and global environmental risks: Designing processes for the effective use of science in decisionmaking. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future.

[Anonymous] 2006. Excursions in geology and history: Field trips in the middle Atlantic states. Boulder, Colo: Geological Society of America.

[Anonymous] 2007. Long-term ecological change in the northern gulf of Alaska. 1st ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Acid rain in the Adirondacks : An environmental history. 2007. Ithaca: Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press.

Beerling DJ. 2007. The emerald planet : How plants changed earth's history. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Bonar SA. 2007. The conservation professional's guide to working with people. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Botshon A. 2007. Saving sterling forest: The epic struggle to preserve New York's highlands. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Bouler JL. 2007. Exploring Florida's emerald coast : A rich history and a rare ecology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Burt W. 2007. Marshes: The disappearing edens. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Costanza R, Graumlich L, Steffen WL. 2007. Sustainability or collapse?: An integrated history and future of people on earth. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press in cooperation with Dahlem University Press.

Cumberlidge C. 2007. Design and landscape for people : New approaches to renewal. London: Thames & Hudson.

Day L. 2007. Field guide to the natural world of New York City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; In association with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

Good JEG. 2007. Alpine plants : Ecology for gardeners. Portland: Timber Press.

Grose P. 2007. Power to people: The inside story of AES and the globalization of electricity. Washington: Island Press.

Harris DS and Ruggles DF. 2007. Sites unseen: Landscape and vision. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Hickman GC and Hickman SM. 2002. The ecology action guide. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings.

Kappel WM, Teece MA, Onondaga Lake Partnership, Onondaga Environmental Institute, Geological Survey. 2007. Paleoenvironmental assessment and deglacial chronology of the Onondaga trough, Onondaga County, New York. Reston, Va.: U.S. Geological Survey.

Kibel PS. 2007. Rivertown: Rethinking urban rivers. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Kirk AG. 2007. Counterculture green : The whole earth catalog and American environmentalism. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas.

Lambin EF. 2007. The middle path: Avoiding environmental catastrophe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lanner RM. 2007. The bristlecone book: A natural history of the world's oldest trees. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Pub. Co.

Long-term ecological change in the northern gulf of Alaska. 2007. 1st ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Lovegrove R. 2007. Silent fields: The long decline of a nation's wildlife. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Marsh KR. 2007. Drawing lines in the forest: Creating wilderness areas in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Moral Rd. 2007. Environmental disasters, natural recovery and human responses. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Odum HT. 2007. Environment, power, and society for the twenty-first century : The hierarchy of energy. New York: Columbia University Press.

Pellow DN. 2007. Resisting global toxics: Transnational movements for environmental justice. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Preston R. 2007. The wild trees: A story of passion and daring. 1st ed. New York: Random House.

Rothman H. 2007. Blazing heritage : A history of wildland fire in the national parks. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Scott DS. 2007. Smelling land: The hydrogen defense against climate catastrophe. Westmount, Quebec: Canadian Hydrogen Association.

Shulman S. 2006. Undermining science: Suppression and distortion in the Bush administration. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Snitow A. 2007. Thirst : Fighting the corporate theft of our water. 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Sustainable urbanism: Urban design with nature /. 2008. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley.

Sustaining life on earth: Environmental and human health through global governance. 2008. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Terrill C. 2007. Unnatural landscapes: Tracking invasive species. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Turner JS. 2007. The tinkerer's accomplice : How design emerges from life itself. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Weisman A. 2007. The world without us. 1st ed. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press.

Whitty J. 2007. The fragile edge: Diving and other adventures in the south pacific. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.