BOOKS - Conservation & Environment

John Terborgh. Requiem for Nature. 248 pages. Shearwater Books, 1999. US | UK | DE | FR | CA

Robert Kaplan. The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy. 476 pages. Vintage Books 1997. US | UK

David W. Ehrenfeld. The Arrogance of Humanism. 308 pages. Oxford University Press 1981. US | UK

William Robert Catton. Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. 320 pages. University of Illinois Press 1982 (1980). US | UK

Eugene Linden. The Future in Plain Sight: The rise of the "True Believers" and other clues to the coming instability. 288 pages. Penguin Putnam 2002 (1998). US | UK

John F. Oates. Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies Are Failing in West Africa. University of California Press, 1999. 338 pages. 9 maps. 31 b/w photos. US | UK

William Weber, Lee J.T. White, Lisa Naughton-Treves (eds.) African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation: an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Yale University Press, 2001. 624 pages. US | UK

W.D. Newmark. Conserving Biological Diversity in East African Forests: A study of the Eastern Arc Mountains. Springer 2002. 200 pages. US | UK

Richard B. Peterson. Conversations in the Rainforest: Culture, values and the environment in Central Africa. Westview Press, 2000. 320 pages. US | UK

Andrew Goudie (ed. in chief). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental change and human society. 2 volumes. 1,440 pages. 300+ original articles. Oxford University Press. 2001. US | UK | DE | FR | CA

David Quammem. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. Pimlico & Touchstone Books, 1997. US | UK | DE | FR | CA

John G. Robinson & Elizabeth L. Bennett (eds.) Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests. 604 pages. Columbia University Press, 1999. US | UK

Robert A. Fimbel, Alejandro Grajal & John G. Robinson (eds.) The Cutting Edge. The effects of logging on wildlife. 832 pages. Columbia University Press 2001. US | UK | DE | FR | CA

Adrian Cowell. The Decade of Destruction: The crusade to save the Amazon rain forest. Documents the massive forest destruction in Rondônia caused by the World Bank's infamous Polonoroeste loan. Also a Channel Four documentary. (1990). US | UK

Adrian Cowell. The Tribe that Hides from Man. Cowell joined FUNAI expeditions to make first contact with the Kreen-Akrore (Panara) Indians in the early 1960s along the route of the Cuiabá - Santarém Road. Also a Channel Four documentary. (1977). US | UK

William W. Bevis. Borneo Log: The Battle for Sarawak's Forests. University of Washington Press, 1995. 245 pages. US | UK

C.A. Hamilton. Deforestation in Uganda. 104 pages. Oxford University Press, 1985. UK