Below is a list of texts, grouped by general course theme, thathave been used by previous sections of ES 401. It is meant to serve as a resource for faculty teaching 401 as they are planning their syllabi. This list will be updated after each semester. Please note that only general texts are listed, not project-specific readings.
Conflict Resolution
Ecosystem Management
Environmental Education
Environmental Justice
Land and Community
Materialism / Consumerism
Natural Resources - Ecological, Economic, and Cultural Assets
Pollution
Sense of Place
Stewardship
Sustainability
Transportation
Vermont - Cultural and Natural History
Conflict Resolution
Making Collaboration Work: Lessons from Innovation in Natural Resource Management, Julia M. Wondolleck and Steven L. Yaffee (2000)Resolving Environmental Conflict: Towards Sustainable Community Development, Chris Maser (1996)
Ecosystem Management
Ecosystem Management: Lessons from Around the World (2000 World Conservation Union Report)Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems, Gretchen Daily, ed. (1997)The Politics of Ecosystem Management, Hanna J. Cortner and Margaret A. Moote (1999)Ecological Integrity: Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health, David Pimentel, Laura Westra, and Reed F. Noss, eds. (2000)
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Environmental Education
Beyond Ecophobia, Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education, David Sobel (1996)Earth in Mind, David W. Orr (1994)Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist, Mitchell Thomashow (1995)Ecological Literacy: Education and Transition to a Postmodern World, David W. Orr (1992)Education for Sustainability, John Huckle and Stephen Sterling (1996)Environmental Education for Empowerment, William Stapp and Arjen E.J. Wals (1996)Global Teacher, Global Learner, Graham Pike and David Selby (1988)Into the Field: A Guide to Locally Focused Teaching, Ann Zwinger, Claire Walker Leslie, John Tallmadge and Tom Wessels (1999)Reading the Forested Landscape, Tom Wessels (1997)Stories in the Land, A Place-based Environmental Education Anthology, John Elder, ed. (1998)The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places, Gary Nabhan and Stephen Trimble (1994)The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder (1990)The Sense of Wonder, Rachel Carson (1956)The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History, Christopher McGrory-Klyza and Stephen Trombulak (1999)
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Environmental Justice
Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline, J. Timmons Roberts and Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss (2001)Crimes Against Nature, Karl Jacoby (2001)The Struggle for Ecological Democracy, Daniel Faber, ed. (1998)Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago, David Naguib Pellow (2002)
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Land and Community
A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds, Gary Snyder (1995)Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities, Jim Howe, Ed McMahon and Luther Probst (1997)Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities, Timothy Beatley (2000)Partnerships in Communities: Reweaving the Fabric of Rural America, Jean Richardson (2000)Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town, Brian Donahue (1999)Saving America's Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation, Samuel N. Stokes et al. (1989)The Book of Yaak, Rick Bass (1996)The Land that Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, William A. Shutkin (2000)The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History, Christopher McGrory-Klyza and Stephen Trombulak (1999)Wilderness Comes Home: Rewilding the Northeast, Chris McGrory-Klyza, ed. (2001)
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Materialism / Consumerism
Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature on Modern America, Jennifer Price (1999)Our Ecological Footprint, Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees (1996)Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, John Ryan et. al (1997)Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950's America, Alison Clark (1999)
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Natural Resources - Ecological, Economic, and Cultural Assets
Ethical Land Use: Principles of Policy and Planning, Timothy Beatley (1994)Home Economics, Wendell Berry (1987)Lewis Munford and the Ecological Regions: The Politics of Planning, Mark Luccarelli (1995)Resolving Environmental Conflict-Towards Sustainable Community, Chris Maser (1996)The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, Peter M. Senge (1990)
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Pollution
A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr (1995)Effluent America, Martin Melosi (2001)When Smoke Ran Like Water, Devra Davis (2002)The Uses of Ecology: Lake Washington and Beyond, W.T. Edmondson (1991)Taken for a Ride, Jack Doyle (2000)Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1979, Scott Hamilton Dewey (2000)
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Sense of Place
A Place in Space, Gary Snyder (1996)Home From Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler (1998)The Experience of Place, Tony Hiss (1991)The Land of Little Rain, Mary Austin (1940)The World is My Home, James Michener (1992)
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Stewardship
Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21rst Century, Philip Shabecoff (2000)Ecological Design, Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cohen (1995)For the Health of the Land, Aldo Leopold (1999)Silent Spring, Rachel Carson (1962)So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh, Stephen C. Trombulak, ed. (2001)The New Agrarianism: Land, Culture, and the Community of Life, Eric T. Freyfogle, ed. (2001)The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History, Christopher McGrory-Klyza and Stephen Trombulak (1999)A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold (1949 )The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays, Aldo Leopold (1991)Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, Curt Meine (1988)
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Sustainability
A Survey of Sustainable Development, Jonathan Harris, Timothy Wise, Kevin Gallagher, and Neva Goodwin, eds. (2001)Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World, Alan Atkisson (1999)Common Lands, Common People, Richard Judd (1997)Earth Habitat: Eco-Injustice and the Church's Response, Dieter Hessel (2001)Earth in Mind, David W. Orr (1994)Going Wild, Jan Dizard (1999)Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice, Laura Westra and Bill Lawson. eds., 2nd edition (2001)Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature on Modern America, Jennifer Price (1999)Hope, Human and Wild, Bill McKibben (1995)Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town, Brian Donahue (1999)The Economy of the Earth, Mark Sagoff (1990)The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History, Christopher McGrory-Klyza and Stephen Trombulak (1999)Visions of a New Earth, Harold Coward and Daniel McGuire, eds. (2000)
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Transportation
City Routes, City Rights: Building Livable Neighborhoods and Environmental Justice by Fixing Transportation, Stephen H. Burrington and Bennet Heart (1998)Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes, Judy Corbett, Michael Corbett, and Robert L. Thayer (2000)Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community, Timothy Beately and Kristy Manning (1997)Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities, Timothy Beatley (2000)Our Built and Natural Environment: A Technical Review of Interactions Between Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality, EPA (2000)Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence, Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy (1999)Triumph of the Mundane: The Unseen Trends that Shape our Lives and Environment, Hal Kane (2000)
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Vermont - Cultural and Natural History
Common Lands, Common People, Richard Judd (1997)Reading the Forested Landscape, Tom Wessels (1997)So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh, Stephen C. Trombulak, ed. (2001)The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History, Christopher McGrory-Klyza and Stephen Trombulak (1999)
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