Historical Background Reading List

Rachel Carson  Silent Spring   Penguin Classics 2000, (first published 1962)

Donella Meadows et al  The Limits to growth  Club of Rome Report, Earth Island, 1972

James Lovelock Gaia A new look at life on Earth Oxford University Press 1995 (first

published 1982)

World Commission on Environment and Development  Our Common Future Oxford University Press 1987

Donella Meadows et al, Beyond the Limits, Earthscan 1992

Paul Hawken, Amory B Lovins, L Hunter Lovins (1999) Natural Capitalism -  The Next Industrial Revolution Earthscan Publications , paperback version 2000   

ISBN 1 85383 763 6

Amaryta Sen (1999) Development as freedom Oxford University Press                

ISBN 0 19 289330 0

Von Weizsacker E, Lovins A.B., Lovins L.H. (1998) Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use, Earthscan Publications  Ltd

David Pearce, Edward B Barbier (2000) Blueprint for a sustainable economy Earthscan Publications Ltd , London

Meadows R., Meadows D.H., (2004) The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update Chelsea Green Publishing Company