Hello eco-loggers, I requested reading suggestions for Masters students in Armenia who are taking a required environmental science course. The students are studying Law, Engineerng, Public Health, Business and Political Science. Here is the reading list I compiled from responses.
"Engineering within Ecological Constraints" Peter C. Schulze, National Academy Press, Washington, 1996. The book is available on the U.S. National Academy of Sciences web page free of charge if you download individual chapters. "Conservation Biology: Research Priorities for the Next Decade" (2001) ed. Michael E. Soule and Gordon H. Orians, Society for Conservation Biology/Island Press. "Public Policies for Environmental Protection" (2000) ed. Paul R. Portney and Robert N.Stavins, Resources for the Future. "Cartoon Guide to the Environment." Larry Gonick Eupsychian Management A. H. Maslow. "We Build the Road as We Travel: Mongragon, A Cooperative Social System" Roy Morrison. "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property" Lewis Hyde. "The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development" Frederique Apffel-Marglin (ed) . Environmental Science : Toward a Sustainable Future by Richard T. Wright, Prentice Hall; 9 edition (April 19, 2004), 736 pages, ISBN: 0131442007 Laboratory Manual for Environmental Science Travis P. Wagner, Robert Sanford ISBN: 0-471-67191-6 Sustaining the Earth Miller Sand County Almanac Leopold Walden Thoreau Breakfast of Biodiversity VanderMeer and Perfect "Tropical Nature". Aldo Leopolds Land Ethic compare it to Soviet author Vladamir Vernadsky- he wrote a masterful piece on the biosphere Earth in Mind David Orr The Arrogance of Humanism David Ehrenfeld Living Within Limits Garret Hardin Collapse Jared Diamond Classics in Environmental Studies Nico Nelissen (ed). by International Books (may be hard to find). Environment, the Science Behind the Stories Brennan and Withgott, Pearson, San Francisco, CA, USA. "Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Environmental Issues Thomas Easton. McGraw Hill. Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions Jr., G. Tyler Miller Forging Environmental Markets Source: Issues in science and technology [0748-5492] Quinn yr:2000 vol:16 iss:3 pg:45 http://www.issues.org/issues/16.3/quinn.htm Web Links http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/haas/nature101.htm http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv02n01.html United Nations (many of them are free downloads) such as: UN Millennium Campaign Website http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/ UN Millennium Project Website http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/ UN Millennium Development Goals Website http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ UN Millennium Development Goals: Report 2005 http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_dev_report.htm UN Millennium Development Goals: Progress Chart http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp UN Millennium Development Goals: Indicators Database http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp UN World Youth Report 2005 http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/wyr05.htm UN Millennium Development Goals Youth Website http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/mdgs/index.asp UN Millennium Development Goals: Youth Action Guide http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/site/pp.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=260482 Renee A. Richer, PhD Assistant Professor Director, Environmental Conservation and Research Center American University of Armenia 40 Baghramian Avenue #136 Yerevan, Armenia 375019 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (374-10)51-26-90
