Selected Readings
Balmford, Andrew, A. Bruner, P. Cooper, R. Costanza, S. Farber, R. E. Green, M. Jenkins, P. Jefferiss, V. Jessamy, J. Madden, K. Munro, N. Myers, S. Naeem, J. Paavola, M. Rayment, S. Rosendo, J. Roughgarden, K. Trumper and R. Kerry Turner. “Economic Reasons for conserving wild nature.” Science 297 (2002): 950-953.
Daily, Gretchen T. Soderqvist, S. aniyar, K. Arrow, P. Dasgupta, P. Ehrlich, C. Folke, A-M Jansson, B-O Jansson, N. Kautsky, S. Levin, J. Lubchenco, K-G Maler, D. Simpson, D. Starrett, D. Tilman and B. Walker. “The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value.” Science Magazine 289.5478 (2000): 395-396.
Daly, H.E. “Sustainable Development: Definitions, Principles, Policies.” Invited Address, World Bank, April 30, 2002. Washington D.C.
Deutsch, Lisa, C. Folke and K. Skanberg. “The critical natural capital of ecosystem performance as insurance for human well-being.” Ecological Economics 44 (2003): 205–217.
Dobson, Andrew, A. Balmford, L. Bennun, B. Brink, D. Cooper, I. M. Côté, P. Crane, N. Dudley, I. Dutton, R. Green, R. Gregory, J. Harrison, E. Kennedy, C. Kremen, N. Leader-Williams, T. Lovejoy, G. Mace, R. May, P. Mayaux, P. Morling, J. Phillips, K. Redford, T. Ricketts, J. Paul Rodríguez, M. Sanjayan, P. J. Schei, A. S. van Jaarsveld, B. Walther. “Ecology: Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2010 Target.” Science, New Series, 307.14 (January 2005): 212-213.
Ehrlich, P. “The scale of the human enterprise and biodiversity loss.” In J. H. Lawton and R. M. May (eds.). Extinction Rates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Ehrlich, P. and A. Ehrlich. “The Value of Biodiversity,” Ambio 21 (1992): 219-226.
Ehrlich, P. and P. H. Raven. “Butterflies and Plants: A study in coevolution,” Evolution 18 (1964): 586-608.
IUCN Special Report. “Species Extinction.”
Kellert, S. R. The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society. Washington: Island Press, 1996.
McDaniel, Carl and D. Borton. “Increased Human Energy Use Causes Biological Diversity Loss and Undermines Prospects for Sustainability.” BioScience 52.10 (October 2002): 929-935.
Norgaard, Richard. “Co-Evolutionary Development Potential.” Land Economics 60 (May 1984): 160-73.
Pimm, Stuart. The World according to Pimm. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Pimm, Stuart, G. J. Russell, J. L. Gittleman, and T. M. Brooks. “The Future of Biodiversity.” Science, New Series, 296.5222 (1995): 347-350.
Pimm, Stuart and P. Raven. “Extinction by Numbers.” Nature 403 (2000): 843-845.
Ponting, Clive. A Green History of the World. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
Roodman, David. “Getting the Signals Right: Tax Reform to Protect the Environment and the Economy.” Worldwatch Paper (134) May 1997.
Smil, Vaclav. The Earth’s Biosphere. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
Smil, Vaclav. Cycles of Life. New York: Scientific American Library, 1997.
Vitousek, Peter, P. Ehrlich, A. Ehrlich and P. Matson. “Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis,” Bioscience 36.6 (1986): 368-373.