Other Key Reading Resources

Visioning a Sustainable World

Other Key Reading Resources

William M. Stigliani

University of Northern Iowa

Fundamental concepts of sustainability

United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) Our Common Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

P.F. Barlett and G.W. Chase (eds.) (2004) Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

A.E. Edwards (2005) The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers.

D.Orr (2006) Framing sustainability. Conservation Biology 20:265-266.

P. Hawken (2007) Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. New York: Viking.

A.E. Edwards (2010) Thriving beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers.

P.M. Senge (2006) The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday.

D.H. Meadows (2008) Thinking in Systems: A Primer. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company.

P. Senge, B. Smith, N. Kruschwitz, J. Laur, and S. Schley (2008) The Necessary Revolution. New York: Doubleday.

What have been the costs and benefits of the Industrial Revolution?

History of the Industrial Revolution

J.R. McNeill (2000) An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World: Something New under the Sun. New York: Norton.

P. Hawken et al. (1999) Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. New York: Little, Brown and Co.

Historical Perspectives of Energy Consumption, (http://www.wou.edu/las/physci/GS361/electricity%20generation/HistoricalPerspectives.htm)

Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy (2008). History of Energy in the United States: 1635-2000. http://www.eia.doe.gov/aer/eh/frame.html

Environmental impacts of Industrial Revolution

W. Steffen et al. (2005) Global Change and the Earth System: a Planet under Pressure. IGBP Series. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

R. Alkemadeet al. (2009) GLOBIO3: A framework to investigate options for reducing global terrestrial biodiversity loss. Ecosystems 12: 374-390.

J. Rockström et al. (2009) A safe operating space for humanity. Nature 461: 472-475.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment (IPCC) (2007). http://www.ipcc.ch/

Murphy et al. (2009) An observationally based energy balance for Earth since 1950. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D17107, doi: 10.1029/2009JD012105.

R.J. Nicholls and A. Cazenave (2010) Sea-level rise and its impacts on coastal zones. Science 328:1517-1520.

U.S. Global Change Research Program (2009) Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [www.globalchange.gov/usimpacts]

Union of Concerned Scientists (2009) Confronting Climate Change in the Midwest: Iowa. www.ucsusa/mwclimate

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis. Island Press, Washington, DC.

M.M. Mekonnen and A.Y. Hoekstra (2011) National Water Footprint Accounts: the Green, Blue, and Grey Water Footprint of Production and Consumption. UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education. Delft: The Netherlands.

D. Rogich et al. (2008). Material Flows in the United States: a Physical Accounting of the U.S. Industrial Economy . Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.

B.S. Halpern et al. (2008) A global map of human impact on marine ecosystems. Science 319: 948-952.

Economic and social impacts of the Industrial Revolution

National Research Council (2010) Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

D.J. Talberth et al. (2007) The Genuine Progress Indicator 2006: A Tool for Sustainable Development. Oakland, California: Redefining Progress.

Maryland Genuine Progress Indicator: how state’s economic progress impacts its long-term prosperity. http://www.green.maryland.gov/mdgpi/

Gross National Happiness. (http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/Default.aspx

The Worldwatch Institute (2010) 2010 State of the World: Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability. New York: Norton.

What is the potential of renewable and carbonless energy systems to replace fossil fuels?

D.J.C. MacKay (2009) Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air. Cambridge: UIT Cambridge, Ltd.

REN21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century) (2011) Renewables 2011: Global Status Report. (http://www.ren21.net/Portals/97/documents/GSR/REN21_GSR2011.pdf)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2011) Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. Geneva: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Science Magazine (2010) Scaling Up Alternative Energy (special section). Science 329: 779-803.

T. Seba (2010) Solar Trillions: 7 Market and Investment Opportunities in the Emerging Clean-Energy Economy. First Beta Edition.

R. Pernick and C. Wilder (2008) The Clean Tech Revolution. New York: Harper.

DOE/NETL Advanced Carbon Dioxide Capture R&D Program: Technology Update, September, 2010. U.S. Department of Energy

Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada. National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy.

International Hydropower Association et al. (2000) Hydropower and the World’s Energy Future. http://www.ieahydro.org/reports/Hydrofut.pdf

Feasibility Assessment of the Water Energy Resources of the United States for New Low Power and Small Hydro Classes of Hydroelectric Plants (2006). U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

B. K. Sovacool. Valuing the greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear power: A critical survey. Energy Policy, Vol. 36, 2008, p. 2950.

Unlocking the Sunbelt Potential for Photovoltaics, European Photovoltaic Industry Association, September, 2010.

International Energy Agency (2010) Technology Roadmap: Solar Voltaic Energy. Paris, France.

Lu et al. (2009) Global potential for wind-generated electricity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 10933–10938.

World Wind Energy Association (2011) World Wind Energy Report 2010. Bonn: WWEA http://www.wwindea.org/home/images/stories/pdfs/worldwindenergyreport2010_s.pdf

Renewable Fuels Association (2011) 2011 Ethanol Industry Outlook. Washington, DC: REA. http://www.ethanolrfa.org/page/-/2011%20RFA%20Ethanol%20Industry%20Outlook.pdf?nocdn=1

B.D. Green and R.G. Nix, (2006) Geothermal - Energy Under Our Feet, Geothermal Resource Estimates for the United States. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US Department of Energy. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/geothermal/pdfs/40665.pdf

R. Bertani (2009) Geothermal Energy: an Overview on Resources and Potential. International Geothermal Days, Slovakia 2009. http://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/pdf/IGAstandard/ISS/2009Slovakia/I.1.Bertani.pdf

J.M. Cullen, J.M. Allwood, and E.H. Borgstein (2011) Reducing energy demand: what are the practical limits? Environmental Science & Technology 45(4): 1711-1718.

H.D. Crane, E.M. Kinderman, and R. Malhotra (2011) A Cubic Mile of Oil: Realities and Options for Averting the Looming Global Energy Crisis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McKinsey and Company (2009) Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy. Version 2 of the Global Greenhouse Gas Abatement Cost Curve. (www.mckinsey.com/globalGHGcostcurve)

Can corporations be profitable and at the same time exert minimal impact on the Earth?

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (2010) Vision 2050: the New Agenda for Business. Geneva: WBCSD. http://www.wbcsd.org/web/projects/BZrole/Vision2050-FullReport_Final.pdf

R.C. Anderson (2009) Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose – Doing Business by Respecting the Earth. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

M. Tueth (2010) Fundamentals of Sustainable Business: A Guide for the Next 100 Years. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co.

A. Steffen (ed.) (2011) Business. Chapter in: World Changing: a User’s Guide for the 21st Century. New York: Abrams, pp. 351-381.

W. McDonough and M. Braungart (2002) Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York: North Point Press.

J.M. Benyus (1997) Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York: HarperCollins.

Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World. http://www.global100.org/

S.L. Hart (2007) Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, and Humanity. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing.

D.C. Esty and A.S. Winston (2009) Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2011) World Economic and Social Survey 2011: The Great Green Technological Transformation. New York: United Nations.

R. Ayres and C. van der Lugt (2011) Manufacturing: investing in energy efficiency and resource efficiency. Chapter in: UNEP, Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication, pp. 239-283. www.unep.org/greeneconomy

How can we design sustainable cities where 70% of the world’s population will live in 2050?

Northern Light Productions and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (2009) Portland: Quest for the Livable City. DVD (www.makingsenseofplace.org)

J. Campoli and A.S. MacLean (2007) Visualizing Density. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

J. Fitzgerald (2010) Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

R. Hopkins (2008) The Transition Handbook: from Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. White River Jct., Vermont: Chelsea Green.

B. McKibben (2007) Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. New York: Times Books.

P. Calthorpe (2011) Urbanism in an Age of Climate Change. Washington, DC: Island Press.

P. Newman, T. Beatley, and H. Boyer (2009) Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Peak Climate Change. Washington, DC: Island Press.

P.M. Condon (2010) Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies for the Post-Carbon World. Washington, DC: Island Press.

T. Beatley (2011) Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning. Washington, DC: Island Press.

G. Franta (2010) Cooling the Warming: the Connection between Climate Change and the Built Environment. Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute.

M. Carter (2006) Greening the Ghetto. Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/majora_carter_s_tale_of_urban_renewal.html

A. Steffen (ed.) (2011) Cities. Chapter in: World Changing: a User’s Guide for the 21st Century. New York: Abrams, pp. 191-251.

United States Green Building Council website: http://www.usgbc.org/

City of Dubuque, official website for Smarter, Sustainable Dubuque. http://www.cityofdubuque.org/index.aspx?NID=1344

City of Charles City (2009) Charles City Streets: Evaluation and Design Report. Elmhurst, IL: Conservation Design Forum.

Can we feed a world of 9 billion people with minimal impacts on the environment?

C.L. Weber and H.S. Matthews (2008) Food-miles and the relative climate impacts of food choices in the United States. Environmental Science & Technology 42(10): 3508-3513.

Science Magazine (2010) Food Security (special section). Science 327: 797-834.

J.W. Clay (2010) Agriculture from 2000 to 2050 –The Business as Usual Scenario. Global Harvest Initiative. http://www.globalharvestinitiative.org/Documents/Clay -Agriculture from 2000 to 2050.pdf

M. Pollan (2006) The Omnivore’s Dilemma. London: Penguin Books.

J. Pretty (2008) Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles, and evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) 363: 447-465.

O. De Schutter (2011) Agro-Ecology and the Right to Food. Report presented at the 16th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council [A/HRC/16/49], 8 March 2011. http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/officialreports/20110308_a-hrc-16-49_agroecology_en.pdf

K. Delate and C.A. Cambardella (2004) Organic production: agroecosystem performance during transition to certified organic grain production. Agronomy Journal 96:1288–1298.

K. Delate, C. Chase, M. Duffy, and R. Turnbull (2006) Transitioning into organic grain production: an economic perspective. Online. Crop Management doi:10.1094/CM-2006-1016-01-RS.

C. Badgley et al. (2007) Organic agriculture and the global food supply. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 22(2): 86-108, published on-line, July 4, 2007, DOI:10.1017/S1742170507001640

Nature (2010) Can science feed the world (special edition). Nature 466: 531, 546-561.

The Worldwatch Institute (2011) 2011 State of the World: Innovations the Nourish the Planet. New York: Norton.

H.R. Herren (2011) Agriculture: investing in natural capital. Chapter in: UNEP, Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication, pp. 31-76. www.unep.org/greeneconomy

F. Thicke (2010) A New Vision for Iowa Food and Agriculture: Sustainable Agriculture in the 21st Century. Fairfield, IA: Mulberry Knoll.

W. Berry (1981) The Gift of Good Land. Berkeley: Counterpoint.

A. Leopold (1949) The land ethic. Chapter in: A Sand County Almanac. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Can ecosystems be restored and maintained through local management and market incentives?

United Nations Environment Programme (2011) Investing in natural capital. Part I in: Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication, pp. 29-196. www.unep.org/greeneconomy

P. Kareiva, H. Tallis, T.H. Ricketts, G.C. Daily, and S. Polasky (eds.) (2011) Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

R. Costanza el al. (1997) The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387: 253-260.

World Wide Fund for Nature (2011) WWF Living Forests Report, Chapter 1: Forests for a Living Planet. Gland, Switzerland: WWF. http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/how_we_work/conservation/forests/publications/living_forests_report/

Nellemann, C., E. Corcoran (eds.) (2010) Dead Planet, Living Planet – Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development. A Rapid Response Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme, GRID-Arendal. www.grida.no

World Resources Institute (WRI) in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, and World Bank (2008) A Guide to World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience-Growing the Wealth of the Poor. Washington, DC: WRI.

P. Barnes (2006) Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

TEEB (2010) The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Mainstreaming the Economics of Nature: A Synthesis of the Approach, Conclusions and Recommendations of TEEB. http://www.teebweb.org/Portals/25/TEEB%20Synthesis/TEEB_SynthReport_09_2010_online.pdf

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (2011) Guide to Corporate Ecosystem Valuation: A Framework for Improving Corporate Decision-Making. Geneva: WBCSD. http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/VSaiYK6enw6XqphqqkTT/WBCSD_Guide_CEV_April_2011.pdf

A. Steffen (ed.) (2011) Planet. Chapter in: World Changing: a User’s Guide for the 21st Century. New York: Abrams, pp. 475-552.

P. Hawken, A. Lovins, and L.H. Lovins (1999) Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next industrial Revolution. New York: Little, Brown and Company.