Resources, References & Recommended Reading
April 2007 E-Conference
From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: Making the Shift
Environmental Activism •
Environmental Ethics
Social Movements •
Miscellaneous
EcoRes Forum Panelists and Guests: Background & Discussion Papers
Additional Recommendations: Readings & Web Links
Environmental Activism (Top)
Coleman, Daniel A. EcoPolitics: Building a Green Society New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Erickson, Brad. Call to Action: Handbook for Ecology, Peace and Justice. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990.
Moyer, Bill. The Four Activist Roles. Website. Nonviolence Training Project. 21 November 2006: http://www.nonviolence.org.au/downloads/moyer_charts.pdf.
Moyer, Bill; McAllister, JoAnn; Finley, Mary Lou; and Steven Soifer. Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements. British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2001.
-. The Movement Action Plan Abstracted from The Practical Strategist: Movement Action Plan (MAP): Strategic Theories for Evaluating, Planning and Conducting Social Movements. Bill Moyer. San Francisco: Social Movement Empowerment Project, 1990. Website. 12 December 2006: http://nonviolencehelp.tripod.com/downloads/practical_strategist.pdf.
Environmental Ethics (Top)
-. Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology. Fourth edition. Zimmerman, ME, et al (eds). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2004.
Des Jardins, Joseph R. Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy. Third edition. Stamford, CT: Wadsworth, 2001.
Gardiner, Stephen M. "Ethics and Global Climate Change." Ethics 114 (2004): 555-600
Hinman, Lawrence M. Ethics Updates: Environmental Ethics Resources. Website. University of San Diego. 12 December 2006: http://ethics.sandiego.edu/Applied/Environment/.
Schmidtz, David and Elizabeth Willott. Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Warren, Karen. Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What It Is and Why It Matters. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Warren, Karen. "The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism." Environmental Ethics, Vol 12(2):125-146, Winter 1990.
Social Movements (Top)
Brown, Lester R. Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2003. Earth Policy Institute: http://www.earth-policy.org.
Gerlach, Luther P. “The Structure of Social Movements: Environmental Activism and Its Opponents”, Waves of Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties, Jo Freeman and Victoria Johnson, eds. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. 1 November 2006: http://192.5.14.110/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1382/MR1382.ch9.pdf.
Moyer, Bill. The Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements. Website. Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service. 21 November 2006: http://paceebene.org/pace/the-eight-stages-of-successful-social-movements.
Laszlo, Ervin. Macroshift: Navigating the Transformation To a Sustainable World. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2001.
Miscellaneous (Top)
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005.
Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown & Co, 2002.
Laszlo, Ervin. The Chaos Point: The World At the Crossroads. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 2006.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Third edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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