Research Catalog

Title

The top 50 sustainability books / [written by Wayne Visser].

Author

Visser, Wayne

Publication

Sheffield, UK : Greenleaf Pub., c2009.

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Additional Authors

University of Cambridge. Programme for Sustainability Leadership.

Description

255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 20 cm.

Summary

This unique title draws together in one volume some of the best thinking to date on the pressing social and environmental challenges we face as a society. These are the Top 50 sustainability books as voted for by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership's alumni network of over 3,000 senior leaders from around the world. In addition to profiles of all 50 titles, many of the authors share their most recent reflections on the state of the world and the ongoing attempts by business, government and civil society to create a more sustainable future.Many of these authors have become household names in the environmental, social and economic justice movements -- from Rachel Carson, Ralph Nader and E.F. Schumacher to Vandana Shiva, Muhammad Yunus and Al Gore. Others, such as Aldo Leopold, Thomas Berry and Manfred Max-Neef, are relatively undiscovered gems, whose work should be much more widely known.

Alternative Title

Top fifty sustainability books

Subject

• Sustainability > Bibliography
• Sustainable development > Bibliography

Genre/Form

Bibliographies

Note

• "University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Polly Courtice -- 1. A Sand County Almanac: Aldo Leopold (1949) -- 2. Silent Spring: Rachel Carson (1962) -- 3. Unsafe At Any Speed: Ralph Nader (1965) -- 4. The Population Bomb: Paul L. Ehrlich (1968) -- 5. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth: R. Buckminster Fuller (1969) -- 6. The Limits to Growth: Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jurgen Randers and William W. Behrens III (1972) -- 7. Small Is Beautiful: E.F. Schumacher (1973) -- 8. Gaia: James Lovelock (1979) -- 9. The Turning Point: Fritjof Capra (1982) -- 10. Our Common Future: ('The Brundtland Report') World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) -- 11. The Dream of the Earth: Thomas Berry (1988) -- 12. A Fate Worse Than Debt: Susan George (1988) -- 13. Staying Alive: Vandana Shiva (1989) -- 14. Blueprint for a Green Economy: David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward B. Barbier (1989) -- 15. For the Common Good: Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr (1989) -- 16. Human Scale Development: Manfred Max-Neef (1989) -- 17. Changing Course: Stephan Schmidheiny and the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD) (1992) -- 18. The Ecology of Commerce: Paul Hawken (1993) -- 19. Maverick: Ricardo Semler (1993) -- 20. When Corporations Rule the World: David C. Konen (1995) -- 21. Biomimicry: Janine M. Benyus (1997) -- 22. Cannibals with Forks: John Elkington (1997) -- 23. The Hungry Spirit: Charles Handy (1997) -- 24. Banker to the Poor: Muhammad Yunus (1998) -- 25. The Crisis of Global Capitalism: George Soros (1998) -- 26. Factor Four: Ernst von Weizsacker, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (1998) -- 27. False Dawn: John Gray (1998) -- 28. Development as Freedom: Amartya Sen (1999) -- 29. No Logo: Naomi Klein (1999) -- 30. Natural Capitalism: Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (1999) -- 31. Business as Unusual: Anita Roddick (2000) -- 32. The Mystery of Capital: Hernando de Soto (2000) -- 33. The Civil Corporation: Simon Zadek (2001) -- 34. Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser (2001) -- 35. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Bjorn Lomborg (2001) -- 36. Cradle to Cradle: William McDonough and Michael Braungart (2002) -- 37. Globalization and its Discontents: Joseph E. Stiglitz (2002) -- 38. The Corporation: Joel Bakan (2004) -- 39. Presence: Peter Senge, C. Otto Schermer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers (2004) -- 40. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: C.K. Prahalad (2004) -- 41. The River Runs Black: Elizabeth C. Economy (2004) -- 42. Capitalism as if the World Matters: Jonathon Porritt (2005) -- 43. Capitalism at the Crossroads: Stuart L. Hart (2005) -- 44. Collapse: Jared Diamond (2005) -- 45. The End of Poverty: Jeffrey D. Sachs (2005) -- 46. The Chaos Point: Ervin Laszlo (2006) -- 47. Heat: George Monbiot (2006) -- 48. An Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore (2006) -- 49. When the Rivers Run Dry: Fred Pearce (2006) -- 50. The Economics of Climate Change: Nicholas Stern (2007) -- Conclusion / Mike Peirce.

ISBN

• 9781906093327 (pbk.)
• 1906093326 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 436266149
• SCSB-11710358

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library