Green political philosophy

References and further reading

	Berry, W. (1981) The Gift of Good Land, San Francisco, CA: North Point Press. (A thoughtful, provocative and beautifully written book about agriculture, conservation, and human community and responsibility.)
	Bookchin, M. (1990) Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future, Boston, MA: South End Press. (A philosophical and programmatic statement by a leading social ecologist.)
	Bramwell, A. (1989) Ecology in the 20th Century: A History, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. (A very critical history.)
	Callicott, J.B. (1989) In Defense of the Land Ethic, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (A collection of essays on issues and topics deriving from Leopold’s ’land ethic’. Includes an account of American Indian environmental ethics.)
	Catton, W.R. (1980) Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. (Argues that overpopulation threatens to exceed or ‘overshoot’ the earth’s carrying capacity.)
	Cowen, T. (1992) ‘Consequentialism Implies a Zero rate of Intergenerational Discount’, in P. Laslett and J.S. Fishkin (eds), Justice Between Age Groups and Generations, ‘Philosophy, Politics, and Society’, series 6, New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, ch. 8. (Argues on consequentialist grounds against applying any social rate of discount.)
	Cowen, T. and Parfit, D. (1992) ‘Against the Social Discount Rate’, in P. Laslett and J.S. Fishkin (eds), Justice Between Age Groups and Generations, ‘Philosophy, Politics, and Society’, series 6, New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, ch. 7. (A critique of the very idea of a social rate of discount.)
	de-Shalit, A. (1995) Why Posterity Matters: Environmental Policies and Future Generations, London: Routledge. (An intelligent discussion of a notoriously vexed topic.)
	Devall, B. and Sessions, G. (1985) Deep Ecology, Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books. (A wide-ranging critique of anthropocentrism and a defence of a ‘deep ecology’ ethic.)
	Dobson, A. (1990) Green Political Thought, London: Unwin Hyman. (A useful introduction.)
	Dryzek, J. (1987) Rational Ecology, Oxford: Blackwell. (An attempt to apply rational choice theory to environmental decision making.)
	Foreman, D. (1993) Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, New York: Crown. (A passionate and sometimes amusing analysis of a number of issues by a leading radical environmentalist.)
	Goodin, R.E. (1992) Green Political Theory, Cambridge: Polity Press. (A clear and systematic account of what a rationally reconstructed green political philosophy might look like.)
	Heilbroner, R.L. (1975) An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, New York: W.W. Norton; revised 1975. (An economist’s sombre inquiry into the trends and tendencies that are likely to lead to environmental disaster and political repression.)
	Johnson, L.E. (1991) A Morally Deep World: An Essay on Moral Significance and Environmental Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Argues that animal species and ecosystems have morally considerable interest that humans must take into account.)
	Laslett, P. and Fishkin, J.S. (1992) Justice Between Age Groups and Generations, Philosophy, Politics, and Society, series 6, New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press. (A collection of essays about intergenerational issues.)
	Leiss, W. (1972) The Domination of Nature, New York: George Braziller. (Explores the theme of the domination or ‘conquest’ of nature in Western thought.)
	Leopold, A. (1949) A Sand County Almanac, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press; repr. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. (The concluding section – ’The Land Ethic’ – is widely considered to be a modern classic of environmental thinking.)
	Locke, J. (1690) Two Treatises of Government, repr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. (Propounds a theory of property according to which ownership and value are determined by the labour expended in obtaining and transforming land and other natural goods.)
	Nash, R.F. (1989) The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. (Holds that the history of environmental ethics is the story of an ever more extensive widening of the circle of moral considerability – roughly, from the ascription of ‘natural rights’ to humans to the ‘rights’ of nature itself.)
	O’ Neill, J. (1993) Ecology, Policy and Politics: Human Well-being and the Natural World, London: Routledge. (A sophisticated and wide-ranging analysis of a variety of issues ranging from green value theory to green economics.)
	Ophuls, W. (1977) Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity: Prologue to a Theory of the Steady State, San Francisco, CA: W.H. Freeman. (A defence of no-growth or ‘steady-state’ economy and society.)
	Ostrom, E. (1991) Governing the Commons, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Analyses strategies for bringing those resources we have in common under rational and responsible collective control.)
	Partridge, E. (1981) Responsibilities to Future Generations, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. (An excellent anthology.)
	Passmore, J. (1980) Man’s Responsibility for Nature, London: Duckworth, 2nd edn. (Defends the view that humans have a special species-specific responsibility to protect and preserve the natural environment.)
	Pois, R.A. (1986) National Socialism and the Religion of Nature, London: Croom Helm. (A historical exploration of ‘environmental’ themes in Nazi theory and practice.)
	Porritt, J. (1984) Seeing Green: The Politics of Ecology Explained, Oxford: Blackwell. (A useful primer on the political theory and practice of the green movement.)
	Sagoff, M. (1988) The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A wide-ranging critique of conventional ‘economic’ thinking about environmental issues.)
	Worster, D. (1994) Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn. (A useful survey of key themes and thinkers.)
	Sikora, R.I. and Barry, B. (1978) Obligations to Future Generations, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. (A collection of essays about intergenerational justice and related issues.)
	Taylor, P.W. (1986) Respect For Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (A philosophical inquiry into the foundations of environmental ethics and human responsibility.)
	Wenz, P. (1988) Environmental Justice, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Attempts to formulate a theory of justice that takes animals and the ecosystem into account.)