List of environmental books
Humans have been writing about the environment for centuries, and the environment has figured prominently as a theme in both Western and Eastern philosophies. Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science, which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement, which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's impact on the environment, have been highly influential. The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring has been regarded as particularly important in popularizing environmental science and helping to launch the modern environmental movement. The emergence of the environmental humanities, including fields like environmental history, has also been important in bridging divides between the sciences and humanities and encouraging further interdisciplinary approaches. The environment also features prominently in much fictional literature.
This page is a list of environmental books. In this context they are notable books that feature the environment as a major theme, including human impacts on the environment.
Non-fiction environmental books
accounts are ones that are presented as factual, although often in the context of subjective argument. Non-fiction environmental books may, for example, be the products of scholarly or journalistic work. The books in this list include fields and styles such as anthropology, conservation science, ecology, environmental history, lifestyle, and memoirs.| Title | Author | Year | Theme and subtheme | ISBN |
| ' | 2005 | Indigenous population and land use | ||
| ' | 2011 | Ecological imperialism | ||
| ' | 2012 | Landscape history | ||
| A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939 | 2006 | Fisheries management | ||
| ' | and Steven Kotler | 2012 | Various themes | |
| ' | 1963 | Agriculture; Indonesia | ||
| All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management | 2006 | Fisheries management; conservation | ||
| ' | 2006 | Energy | ||
| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | 2007 | Local food | ||
| AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors | 1968 | Pollution: air pollution | ||
| An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming | 2008 | Global warming | ||
| Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants | 1967 | Waste: oil refinery and petrochemical wastewaters | ||
| ' | 2019 | Activism, conservation, Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice | ||
| Atlas of Our Changing Environment | United Nations Environment Programme | 2005 | Climate change | |
| ' | Stephen J. Pyne | 2007 | Wildfires; Canada | |
| Babylon's Ark, The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo | and Graham Spence | 2007 | Wildlife conservation | |
| Beyond the Limits | , Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers | 1992 | Population | |
| Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak | 2006 | Energy | ||
| ' | 2006 | Pollution | ||
| A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis | 2005 | Various themes | ||
| Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It | 1999 | Biological weapons | ||
| Black Faces, White Spaces | 2014 | Environmental justice | ||
| Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming | 2007 | Environmentalism | ||
| The Blue Economy | 2010 | Technology: biomimetics | ||
| A Blueprint for Survival | and Robert Allen | 1972 | Survival | |
| ' | 1987 | Chicanx theory; borderlands | ||
| Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants | 2013 | Botany, Indigenous knowledge | ||
| Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan | 2018 | Whaling; sustainability | ||
| Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security | and L. Hunter Lovins | 1982 | Energy | |
| Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation | 2004 | Ecofeminism | ||
| Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System | 2007 | Uranium mining; nuclear | ||
| The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era | 1999 | Global warming | ||
| ' | 2004 | Various themes | ||
| Challenging the Chip | Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow | 2006 | Waste: electronic waste | |
| Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England | 1983 | Land and water: hunting and fishing | ||
| The Chilling Stars | and Nigel Calder | 2003 | Climate change: cosmic rays | |
| Cinderella of the New South: A History of the Cottonseed Industry, 1855-1955 | Lynette Boney Wrenn | 1995 | Agriculture | |
| A Civil Action | 1996 | Pollution: water pollution | ||
| The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity | and Clint Wilder | 2007 | Clean technology | |
| Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change | and Boyd Cohen | 2011 | Climate change | |
| Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options | and Benjamin K. Sovacool | 2011 | Climate change mitigation and global energy security | |
| ' | Haydn Washington and John Cook; foreword by Naomi Oreskes | 2011 | Climate change denial | |
| Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action | and Philip Sutton | 2008 | Global warming | |
| ' | and Carl Pope | 2017 | Global warming and sustainable cities | |
| Climber's Paradise: Making Canada's Mountain National Parks, 1906-1974 | PearlAnn Reichwein | 2014 | environmental history, mountaineering, history of canada, national parks | ISBN |
| The Coal Question | 1865 | Coal: peak coal | ||
| Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love | 2008 | Mining: mountain removal mining | ||
| ' | 2005 | Various themes | ||
| The Colors of Nature | and Lauret E. Savoy | 2011 | Nature writing | |
| The Columbian Exchange | 1972 | Columbian exchange | ||
| The Coming Global Superstorm | and Whitley Strieber | 1999 | Global warming | |
| Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture | International Water Management Institute and Earthscan | 2007 | Agriculture: agricultural hydrology | |
| Confessions of an Eco-Warrior | 1991 | Earth First!; environmental activism | ||
| ' | and Warren Leon | 1999 | Consumerism | |
| Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy | 2011 | Energy: nuclear energy | ||
| A Contract with the Earth | and Terry L. Maple | 2007 | Environmental protection and restoration | |
| The Control of Nature | 1989 | Geoengineering | ||
| ' | 2007 | Global warming | ||
| ' | and William McDonough | 2002 | ||
| Carolyn Merchant | 1990 | Environmental history and history of science | ||
| The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud | 2008 | Global warming: denial | ||
| Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness | 1968 | |||
| Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison | 2008 | Toxic waste | ||
| The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What's Blocking Clean Power in the United States | 2008 | Energy | ||
| The Discovery of Global Warming | 2003 | Global warming: history of scientific discoveries | ||
| Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination | Julie Cruikshank | 2014 | Anthropology; Indigenous History; Colonialism | |
| ' | 2017 | Economics; Doughnut ; sustainability | ||
| ' | 2006 | Energy: hydropower | ||
| Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet | 2010 | Climate change | ||
| Earth from the Air | 2010 | Aerial landscape photography | ||
| Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit | 1992 | | ||
| Eating Animals | 2009 | Food industry | ||
| Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching | and Bill Haywood | 1985 | Eco-terrorism | |
| ' | 1986 | Ecological imperialism; introduced species: epidemics | ||
| ' | , Colin R. Townsend, and John L. Harper | 2006 | ||
| The Economical Environmentalist | 2009 | Lifestyle | ||
| Ecotage! | 1972 | Eco-terrorism | ||
| Encounters at the Heart of the World | 2014 | Environmental history | ||
| Encounters with the Archdruid | 1971 | |||
| ' | 2004 | Overfishing | ||
| The End of Nature | 1989 | Global warming | ||
| The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World | 2004 | Energy | ||
| ' | , Michael J. Crosby, Adrian J. Long, and David C. Wege | 1998 | Wildlife conservation | |
| Endgame | 2006 | Anti-civilization | ||
| ' | and Marilyn A. Brown | 2007 | Energy | |
| ' | 2006 | Energy | ||
| Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology | 1986 | Nanotechnology | ||
| ' | and Ted Howard | 1980 | Resource conservation | |
| ' | and Donald R. Leal | 1997 | Free-market environmentalism | |
| Environmental Principles and Policies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction | 2006 | Various themes | ||
| An Essay on the Principle of Population | 1798 | Population | ||
| ' | 2010 | Energy: petroleum energy | ||
| ' | 1947 | Nature conservation | ||
| Everybody Loves a Good Drought | 1996 | Economics; development | ||
| The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850–1920 | Conservation movement | |||
| ' | Paul Fleischman | 2014 | Various themes | |
| Factor 5: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Increase in Resource Productivity | , et al. | 2009 | Resource efficiency | |
| ' | 1989 | Radiation exposure; nuclear weapon tests | ||
| ' | , Paul Paddock | 1967 | Overpopulation: food security | |
| Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat | , Isabel Oakeshott | 2014 | Factory farming; fish farming | |
| The Fate of the Earth | 1982 | Nuclear disarmament | ||
| Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret | 2001 | Waste: toxic waste recycled in fertilizer | ||
| Feral: Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding | 2013 | Re-wilding | ||
| Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change | 2006 | Climate change: causes and effects | ||
| Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait | Bathsheba Demuth | 2019 | Environmental history | |
| Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It | 2009 | Food industry | ||
| The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution | , Gregory Conko | 2004 | Agriculture: genetically modified food | |
| Free Market Environmentalism | , Donald R. Leal | 2001 | Environmental economics | |
| Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion | 2005 | Pollution: air pollution: atmospheric dispersion modeling | ||
| ' | Robin Wall Kimmerer | 2003 | Botany, Indigenous knowledge | |
| The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development | 2006 | Genetically modified organisms | ||
| The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World | 2006 | Pollution: water pollution | ||
| Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism | 1997 | Anti-environmentalism and free-market environmentalism | ||
| God is Red: A Native View of Religion | 1973 | Environmental degradation; anthropocentrism | ||
| The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans | 2011 | Various themes | ||
| ' | , Mike Kingsford, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg | 2008 | Various themes | |
| ' | 2016 | Climate change | ||
| The Green Bible | 2008 | Religion | ||
| The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems | 2008 | Economics | ||
| The Green Crusade | 1998 | Environmentalism | ||
| ' | Ozzie Zehner | 2012 | Consumerism and renewable energy | |
| Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage | 2006 | Business | ||
| Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy | 2007 | Energy | ||
| Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence | 2008 | Energy: renewable energy | ||
| Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis | 2005 | Energy | ||
| Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada | Harold Coward, Andrew J. Weaver | 2004 | Climate change: effects in Canada | |
| ' | Charles, Prince of Wales, with Tony Juniper, Ian Skelly | 2010 | Climate change and agriculture | |
| Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science | 2009 | Global warming | ||
| Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do | 2006 | Global warming | ||
| High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future | 2007 | Global warming | ||
| The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines | 2012 | Climate change: hockey stick controversy | ||
| The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science | 2010 | Climate change | ||
| Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America | 2008 | Sustainable development | ||
| How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Stopping Climate Change | 2007 | Consumerism | ||
| Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future | and Clive Hamilton | 1997 | Ecological economics | |
| The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health | 2006 | Food industry | ||
| The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate | 2004 | Climate change | ||
| The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives On a Cleaner Planet | 2007 | Environmental skepticism | ||
| An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems | 2007 | Climate change denial | ||
| An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It | 2006 | Global Warming | ||
| An Introduction to Sustainable Development | , with Kazi F. Jalal, John A. Boyd | 2007 | Sustainable development | |
| The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World | 2015 | History of ecology | ||
| It's a Matter of Survival | , David Suzuki | 1991 | Survival | |
| Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World | 2010 | Renewable energy: solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy, and more | ||
| Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed | 2009 | Asbestos in construction: fibrosis | ||
| Last Chance to See | , Mark Carwardine | 1990 | Wildlife conservation | |
| Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder | 2005 | Nature deficit disorder | ||
| Latin American World Model | , Hugo Scolnick, et al. | 1976 | Ecology Population | |
| ' | Annette Kolodny | 1984 | Ecofeminism | |
| The Legacy of Luna | 2000 | Forest conservation | ||
| Life in 2050 | 2011 | Various themes | ||
| The Limits to Growth | , Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrens III | 1972 | Population | |
| Living in the Hothouse: How Global Warming Affects Australia | 2005 | Climate change | ||
| The Living Soil | 1943 | Organic farming | ||
| The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century | 2005 | Various themes | ||
| The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment | , David K. van Keuren | 2004 | Ocean environment; envirotech | |
| Making Peace with the Planet | 1990 | |||
| Man and Nature | 1864 | Environmental degradation | ||
| ' | 2010 | U.S land policy | ||
| Managing Urban America | , Robert E. England, John Peter Pelissero | 1979 | Urban planning | |
| Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition | , Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter | 2003 | Megaprojects | |
| ' | Christine M. DeLucia | 2018 | Indigenous history | |
| Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming | , Erik M. Conway | 2010 | Climate change denial; politics; lobbying | |
| ' | 1992 | Tribal cultures and modernity | ||
| Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement | Susan Rimby | 2012 | Environmental History, Conservation, Progressive Era, Women's History | |
| The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels | Alex Epstein | 2014 | Energy: fossil fuels | |
| ' | 2007 | Mining: coal mining | ||
| The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins | Anna Tsing | 2015 | Ethnography | |
| Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution | , Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins | 1999 | Ecosystem services: full-cost accounting | |
| A Nature Conservation Review | 1977 | Nature conservation | ||
| Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada | Claire Elizabeth Campbell | 2017 | Historic sites; human and environmental history | |
| The Navajo People and Uranium Mining | , Timothy Benally, Esther Yazzie-Lewis | 2006 | Mining: uranium mining | |
| The New Green Consumer Guide | 2007 | Consumerism | ||
| No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference | 2019 | Global warming; climate crisis | ||
| Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy | , John H. Price | 1975 | Energy | |
| Nourishing the Planet | Agriculture: sustainable agriculture | |||
| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | 2006 | Food industry | ||
| Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent | 1971 | Latin America; mining | ||
| Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth | 1968 | Spaceship Earth; conservation | ||
| Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb | , Frederik Pohl | 1991 | Various themes | |
| Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis | 2009 | Climate change | ||
| Our Plundered Planet | 1948 | Environmental degradation; soil | ||
| Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution | 2002 | Biotechnology | ||
| Our Stolen Future | , Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers | 1996 | Endocrine disruptors | |
| Our Synthetic Environment | 1962 | Pesticides | ||
| ' | 1994 | Various themes | ||
| ' | 2004 | Energy | ||
| The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 | 2009 | Conservation | ||
| ' | 2003 | Energy | ||
| The Pesticide Question: Environment, Economics and Ethics | , Hugh Lehman | 1993 | Pesticides | |
| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | 1974 | Nature narrative | ||
| Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate | 2005 | Various themes | ||
| Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters | Kate Brown | 2013 | Environmental history; energy; nuclear power | |
| Political Animals and Animal Politics | Marcel Wissenburg, David Schlosberg | 2014 | Animal welfare: animal ethics and environmental politics | |
| The Population Bomb | 1968 | Population | ||
| ' | 2008 | Population | ||
| ' | 2004 | Energy | ||
| Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future | 2010 | Energy | ||
| Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement | David Pellow and Bob Brulle | 2005 | Environmental justice | |
| Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation | 2003 | Social movements; Australia | ||
| Prosperity Without Growth | 2009 | Environmental economics | ||
| Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon | Cindy Ott | 2012 | Environmental history | |
| Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation | , et al. | 1992 | Biodiversity conservation | |
| Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option | 2007 | Various themes | ||
| The Real Global Warming Disaster | 2009 | Global warming | ||
| Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment | 2004 | Environmentalism | ||
| Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England | 2000 | Agriculture and fossil fuels | ||
| ' | 1991 | Various themes | ||
| Renewable Electricity and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability | 2007 | Energy | ||
| Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change | 2010 | Climate change: climate change denial | ||
| The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we Can Still Save Humanity | 2007 | Various themes | ||
| ' | 2008 | Risk | ||
| River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin | 2006 | Various themes | ||
| The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right | and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | 1997 | Pollution: water pollution | |
| Road to Survival | 1948 | anti-capitalist environmentalism | ||
| The Sacred Balance | 1997 | Various themes | ||
| A Sand County Almanac | 1949 | Nature conservation | ||
| Science Under Siege: The Politicians' War on Nature and Truth | 1998 | Politics | ||
| ' | 2007 | Climate change | ||
| ' | 2007 | Climate change: Kyoto Protocol and Australian politics | ||
| The Sea Around Us | 1951 | Marine biology | ||
| Secrets and Lies | and Bob Burton | 1999 | Anti-environmentalism | |
| Selling Solar: The Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets | 2009 | Energy | ||
| Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 | Joy Parr | 2010 | Environmental history; embodied history | |
| The Shamba Raiders: Memories of a Game Warden | 1972 | Wildlife conservation | ||
| Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay | Claire Elizabeth Campbell | 2004 | environmental history, history of canada | |
| A Short History of Progress | 2004 | Environmental history | ||
| Siberia, Siberia | 1991 | Environmental degradation | ||
| Silence of the Songbirds | 2007 | Various themes | ||
| Silent Spring | 1962 | Pesticides | ||
| Silent Spring & other writings on environment | 2018 | Environmental science | ||
| ' | 2007 | Climate change | ||
| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | 2014 | Extinction: human activities | ||
| The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World | 2001 | Various themes | ||
| Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered | 1973 | Various themes | ||
| Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size | , et al. | 2002 | Economics | |
| State of the World | Worldwatch Institute | 1984– | Global environmental challenges | Various |
| ' | , et al. | 2010 | Sustainability and consumerism | |
| States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century | 2006 | Environmental history; conservation; Canada | ||
| Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene | 2016 | Environmental change; pollution | ||
| Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming | 2007 | Global warming | ||
| Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity | 2009 | Climate change: fossil fuels | ||
| Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions | 2010 | Various themes | ||
| Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization | 1993 | Various themes | ||
| Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean | Lisa-ann Gershwin | 2013 | Overfishing; global warming; various themes | |
| Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges | 2007 | Various themes | ||
| Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming | and Ross McKitrick | 2002 | Global warming | |
| Tasmania's Wilderness Battles: A History | 2008 | Wilderness | ||
| Ten Technologies to Save the Planet or Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate | 2008 ; 2009 | Various themes | ||
| This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate | Naomi Klein | 2014 | Climate change; economics | |
| This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India | Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha | 1992 | Environmental history; use of natural resources in India | |
| A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World | 2007 | Energy | ||
| ' | 2013 | Pollution: cancer cluster | ||
| Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy | David Vogel | 1995 | Environmental regulation | |
| ' | 2007 | Climate change: environmental skepticism | ||
| The Ultimate Resource | 1981 | Resources | ||
| Wangari Maathai | 2007 | Environmentalism | ||
| The Unfinished Twentieth Century | 2001 | Energy: nuclear energy | ||
| ' | and Dennis T. Avery | 2006 | Global warming: natural causes | |
| The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization | 2006 | Various themes | ||
| Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Web of Ecological-Societal Crisis | Joseph C. Arcos, Mary F. Angus, and Frederick J. DiCarlo, eds. | 2005 | Ecological and social crisis | |
| Walden | 1854 | Lifestyle | ||
| Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami | 2013 | Natural disaster: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami | ||
| The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change | 2005 | Climate change | ||
| The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet | 2010 | Climate change | ||
| When Corporations Rule the World | 1995 | Anti-globalization; economics | ||
| Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto | 2009 | Various themes | ||
| Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity | 2009 | Climate change | ||
| Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice | 2003 | Environmental justice | ||
| Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank | Andrew Beattie and Paul R. Ehrlich | 2001 | Biodiversity | |
| ' | and Virginia Morell | 2001 | Wildlife conservation | |
| The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores | 1956 | Conservation: wildlife conservation | ||
| Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security | 2005 | Energy | ||
| Wintergreen | 1987 | Logging | ||
| The World Without Us | 2007 | De-population; the natural world | ||
| ' | Aimee Nezhukumatathil | 2020 | Nature conservation; animal extinction | |
| Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up & Maintain a Worm Composting System | 1982 | Vermicomposting; waste management |
Fiction environmental books
Fiction environmental books feature the environment as a prominent theme. Books in this list include fields such as children's literature, eco-fiction, fantasy, and science fiction.| Title | Author | Year | Theme | ISBN |
| American War | Omar El Akkad | 2017 | Climate change | |
| Antarctica | 1997 | Nature conservation | ||
| The Appeal | 2008 | Pollution: water pollution | ||
| The Back of the Turtle | 2014 | Defoliants | ||
| Blockade | 1998 | Logging | ||
| and Eve Raleigh | 1996 | borderlands | ||
| The Caretaker Trilogy | 2006; 2008; 2009 | Nature conservation | ||
| Carpentaria | 2006 | indigenous studies; Australia; settler colonialism | ||
| Coal | 1976 | poetry collection | ||
| The Cool War | 1981 | Energy; fossil fuel depletion | ||
| Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | 2009 | Animal welfare; hunting | ||
| Earth Abides | 1949 | Disease and population | ||
| The Earthquake in Chile | 1807 | Earthquakes | ||
| Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston | 1975 | Various themes | ||
| Ecotopia Emerging | 1981 | Various themes | ||
| Flight Behavior | 2012 | Climate change | ||
| The Forgotten Enemy | 1949 | Climate change | ||
| Freedom | 2010 | Various themes | ||
| A Friend of the Earth | 2000 | Various themes | ||
| The Green Brain | 1966 | Ecosystems: insects almost extinguished | ||
| Hoot | 2002 | Wildlife conservation | ||
| The Hungry Tide | 2004 | South Asia; environmental transformation | ||
| Ishmael | 1992 | Human-animal relations; sustainability | ||
| The Last Man | 1826 | Pandemic; global catastrophic risk | - | |
| The Lorax | 1971 | Various themes | ||
| MaddAddam | 2013 | Climate change; ecological degradation | ||
| Make Room! Make Room! | 1966 | Population | ||
| The Marrow Thieves | 2017 | indigenous studies; climate change | ||
| The Mockery Bird | 1981 | Symbiosis and Lazarus taxa | ||
| The Monkey Wrench Gang | 1975 | Eco-terrorism | ||
| Mother of Storms | 1994 | Climate change: giant hurricane caused by nuclear explosion | ||
| Old MacDonald Had a Farm | 2001 | Genetically engineered animals | ||
| Oryx and Crake | 2003 | Climate change; ecological degradation | ||
| Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler | 1993 | Ecological collapse; adaptation | |
| Parable of the Talents | Octavia Butler | 1998 | Ecological collapse; adaptation | |
| A Planet for the President | 2004 | Various themes | ||
| Plume | 2012 | Poetry collection | ||
| Process of Elimination | 1998 | Mystery | ||
| Prodigal Summer | 2000 | |||
| Rainforest | 1987 | |||
| Salvage the Bones | 2011 | Environmental justice | ||
| So Far from God | 1993 | Environmental justice | ||
| State of Fear | 2004 | Various themes | ||
| The Winter Vault | 2009 | dams; inundated landscape; Egypt | ||
| The Word for World Is Forest | 1972 | Colonialism | ||
| The Year of the Flood | 2009 | Climate change; ecological degradation | ||
| Zodiac | 1988 | Toxic waste |