Sustainability

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The recommended reading on this page covers many different aspects of sustainability and sustainable development, and we hope there will be something for everyone to enjoy and learn from.

We will keep adding to it!

 

Environmental Politics & Carboniferous Capitalism 

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine / This Changes Everything 

Bruce Braun- The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada's West Coast

Paul Hawken- Drawdown 

Pascale d’Erm - Soeurs en ecologie: des femmes, de la nature, et du reenchantement du monde.


Environmental Justice 

Benjamin J. Pauli - Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis

Rachel Stein- New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism

Nathaniel Rich - The lawyer who became DuPont’s worst nightmare (Read here)

Urban Political Ecology 

Matthew Gandy - Concrete and Clay : Reworking Nature in New York City

Henrik Ernstson - Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene (Questioning Cities)  

Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, Erik Swyngedouw - In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism (Questioning Cities) 

Myers G (2003) Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa. Syracuse University Press

Stefan, K. (2007) ‘Fanon and Space: colonization, urbanization, and liberation from the colonial to the global city’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25: 701-726.

Rocheleau D E, Thomas-Slayter B and Wangari E (eds) (1996) Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experience. London: Routledge


Land and Community 

Andy Wightman- The Poor had no Lawyers

Adam Crocker - Zapatista Identity and Environmentalism: Public Discourses on Indigenous Rights and the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve Paperback 


Economy

Edward & Robert Skidelsky - How much is enough? Money and the Good Life.

Tim Jackson - Prosperity Without Growth

Kate Raworth - Doughnut Economics

Katherine Trebeck - The Economics of Arrival

Hermann Daly - Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development



Food Systems and Agriculture

Raj Patel - Stuffed and Starved 

Dave Reay - Climate Smart Food (Open Access)


Sustainable Development

Andrew Brooks - The end of development: A global history of poverty and prosperity

Walter Rodney - How Europe underdeveloped Africa

Arturo Escobar - Encountering Development

Amartya Sen - Development as Freedom


Articles 

Karen Bell - ‘A working class green movement is out there but not getting the credit it deserves’ (Read here)

Jaskirin Dhillon - What Standing Rock Teaches Us About Environmental Justice (Read here)

Documentaries

Black Gold

The Lightbulb Conspiracy

Tomorrow/Demain

Chasing Coral

The Blue Heart

The Island President

The Green Lie


To follow 

Colour the trails

Mikaelaloach

Browngirl_outdoorworld

AzzeesforMP

Greens of Colour

Dr. Aynan Elizabeth Johnson

Indigenous women hike 

Climate home news 

West Coast Environmental Law 

Extinction Rebellion 

Carbon Brief 

Sustrans 

Greenpeace 

Greta Thunberg

Fridays for Future Indigenous Climate Action 

Ayakh Melithafa 

Queer Brown Vegan 

Xiye Bastida 

Naomi Klein 

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