Selected Readings
General Readings
French, Hilary. Vanishing Borders. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
Paehlke, Robert C. Democracy’s Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity and the Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Visions for a Sustainable Future
Albert, M., Cagan, L., Chomsky, N., Hahnel, R., King, M., Sargent, L., and Sklar, H. Liberating Theory, South End Press, Boston, 1986
Albert, M. and Hahnel, R. Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century, South End Press, Boston, 1991
Ekins, Paul. “The Sustainable Consumer Society: A Contradiction in Terms?” International Environmental Affairs 3.4 (1991): 243-258.
Goodland, Robert, H. Daly and S. El Serafy (eds.). Population, Technology and Lifestyle: The Transition to Sustainability. Washington: Island Press, 1992.
Odum, Howard and E. Odum. A Prosperous Way Down. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2001.
Schor, Juliet and B. Taylor. Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-First Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
Speth, James. Red Sky at Morning. New Haven: The Yale Univesity Press, 2004.
Williamson, T. What Comes Next? National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, Washington, D.C., 1997
Well-Being and Happiness
Diener, E. and C. Diener. “The Wealth of Nations revisited: Income and the quality of life,” Social Indicators Research 36 (1995): 275-286.
Diener, E. and R. E. Lucas. “Personality and Subjective Well-being.” In D. Kahneman, E. Diener and N. Schwartz, (eds.). Understanding Well-being: Scientific Perspectives on Enjoyment and Suffering. New York: Russell Sage, 1998.
Kasser, Tim. The High Price of Materialism. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.
Lane, R.E. The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000
Smil,V. Energy at the Crossroads, MIT Press, Boston, 2004: pp. 97-105
Supportive Public Policies
Anielski, Mark. “Fertile Obfuscation: Making money whilst eroding living capital.” Presented at 34th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, June 2-4, 2000: Vancouver, http://www.pembina.org/pdf/publications/fertile.pdf.
Cohen, Joel. How Many People Can the Earth Support? New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.
Daly, Herman and J. Farley. Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications. Washington: Island Press, 2004.
Daly, Herman and J. Cobb. For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment and a Sustainable Future. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1989.
Daly, Herman. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Growth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Daly, Herman. Steady-State Economics (2e). Washington: Island Press, 1991.
Daly, Herman and K. Townsend (eds.). Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Daly, Herman (ed.). Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics. Northampton: Edward Elgar, 1999.
Davidson, E. You Can’t Eat GNP: Economics as If Ecology Mattered. Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2000.
French, Hilary. “Investing in the Future: Harnessing Private Capital Flows for Environmentally Sustainable Development.” Worldwatch Paper (139), February 1998.
Macower, Joel and D. Fleischer. Sustainable Consumption and Production Strategies for Accelerating Positive Change. New York: Environmental Grantmakers Association, 2003.
Mastny, Lisa. “Purchasing Power: Harnessing Institutional Procurement for People and the Planet.” Worldwatch Paper (166) July 2003.
Michalos, Alex. Good Taxes. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1997.
National Research Council. Nature’s Numbers: Expanding the National Income Accounts to Include the Environment. Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1999.
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Environmentally Related Taxes in OECD Countries: Issues and Strategies. Paris: OECD, 2001.
Roodman, David. “Getting the Signals Right: Tax Reform to Protect the Environment and the Economy.” Worldwatch Paper (134) May 1997.
Roodman, David. The Natural Wealth of Nations. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
Von Weizsacker, Ernst and J. Jesinghaus. Ecological Tax Reform. London: Zed books, 1992.
Economics for Community
Czech, Brian. Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000.
Daly, Herman and J. Farley. Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications. Washington: Island Press, 2004.
Daly, Herman and J. Cobb. For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment and a Sustainable Future. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1989.
Daly, Herman. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Growth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Daly, Herman. Steady-State Economics (2e). Washington: Island Press, 1991.
Durning, Alan and Y. Bauman. Tax Shift. Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch, 1998.
Nadeau, Robert L. The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Roodman, David. “Getting the Signals Right: Tax Reform to Protect the Environment and the Economy.” Worldwatch Paper (134) May 1997.
Roodman, David. The Natural Wealth of Nations. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
Sustainable Business Practices
Bakan, J. the Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, Viking Canada, Toronto, 2004
Elkington, John. The Chrysalis Economy. Oxford: Capstone Publishing Inc., 2001.
Hawken, Paul, A. Lovins and L. Lovins. Natural Capitalism. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1999.
Hawken, Paul. The Ecology of Commerce. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Holliday, Chad and J. Pepper. Sustainability Throughout the Market: Seven Keys to Success. Geneva: WBCSD, 2001.
International Institute for Environment and Development and WBSCD. Breaking New Ground: Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development. Geneva: WBSCD, 2002.
Korten, David. When Corporations Rule the World. San Francisco: Barret-Koehler Publishers, 1996.
McDonough, William and M. Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Von Weizsacker, Ernst, A. Lovins and L. Lovins. Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use. Earthscan Publications Ltd., 1999.
Willard, Bob. The Sustainability Advantage. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2002.
World Resources Institute, UN Environment Programme and WBCSD. Tomorrow’s Markets: Global Trends and Their Implications for Business. Washington: World Resources Institute, 2002.
International Institutions
Biermann, Frank. “The Case for a World Environment Organization,” Environment 42.9 (2000): 23-31.
Charnovitz, Steve. “A World Environment Organization,” Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 27.2 (2002): 323-363.
Chertow, M. R. and D. C. Esty (eds.). Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Choucri, N. (ed.). Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.
Environmental Law Institute. Harnessing Consumer Power. Washington: ELI, 2003.
Esty, Daniel and M. Ivanova (eds.). Global Environmental Governance: Options and Opportunities. New Haven: Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2002.
Esty, Daniel. ”Toward Data-Driven Environmentalism: The Environmental Sustainability Index,” Environmental Law Reporter: News and Analysis 31.5 (2001): 10603.
Haas, Peter M., R. Keohane and M. Levy. Institutions for the Earth: Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.
Juma, Calestous. “The Perils of Centralizing Global Environmental Governance,” Environment Matters: Annual Review, July 1999-June 2000, 13.
Weiss, E. and H. Jacobson. Engaging Countries: Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.
Young, Oran (ed.). The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Lifestyle Solutions
Dominguez, J. and V. Robin. Your Money or Your Life. US: Penguin Books, 1992.
Elgin, D. Voluntary Simplicity. New York: William Morrow, 1993.
Halwell, Brian. “Home Grown: The Case for Local Food in a Global Market.” Worldwatch Paper (163) November 2002.