Botkin Environmental Science Earth as Living Planet 8th txtbk

Further Reading 21
FURTHER READING
Botkin, D.B.,
(Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000).
Discusses many of the central themes of this textbook, with special
emphasis on values and science and on an urban world. Henry
David Thoreau’s life and works illustrate approaches that can
help us deal with modern environmental issues.
Botkin, D.B.,
21 st (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). An
analysis of the myths that underlie attempts to solve environmental
issues.
Leopold, A., (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1949). Perhaps, along with Rachel Carson’s Silent
Spring, one of the most influential books of the post–World
War II and pre–Vietnam War era about the value of the environment.
Leopold defines and explains the land ethic and
writes poetically about the aesthetics of nature.
Lutz, W., (Washington, DC:
Population Reference Bureau, 1994). A summary of current information
on population trends and future scenarios of fertility,
mortality, and migration.
Montgomery, D.K., (Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press, 2007).
Nash, R.F.,
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988). An introduction
to environmental ethics.