Little Book on Applied Ecology: Appendix II. Some Possible Readings for More Depth in “Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACE”:
*Altieri, Miguel. 1989. Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture. A more sustainable food system which is much more in concert with Nature and ethical science than industrial agriculture. http://globalalternatives.org/taxonomy/term/12
Armstrong, Karen. 1993. A History of God. Karen helps us to understand humanity! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/04/case-for-god-karen-armstrong
*Berry, Wendell. 2003. The Art of Commonplace: the Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Berry is a wonderful thinker who is truly the master naturalist/positively ethical applied community ecologist!! http://blog.spu.edu/sot/2011/02/16/book-review-the-art-of-the-commonplace/ http://brtom.typepad.com/wberry/works-chronological.html
Bohlen, P.J. & Gar House. 2009. Sustainable Agroecosystem Management: Integrating Ecology, Economics, and Society. We are naturalists in whole interacting systems. http://books.google.com/books/about/Sustainable_Agroecosystem_Management.html?id=ohrCU0lIxIEC
*Brimlow, R.W. 2006. What About Hitler? Wrestling with Jesus’s Call to Nonviolence in an Evil World. War begets War. Pacifism, nonviolence, diplomacy, satyagraha, peaceful protest, civil disobedience, economic & political noncooperation are true routes to PEACE! https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58743-065-7
*Brody, Hugh, 2000. The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World. Terrific book by this anthropologist! Some good insights into how to be a “master naturalist”—in a holistic fashion. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jan/28/society
Brown, Peter. 2015. Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene: An Emerging Paradigm. “Straightening the whole mess out.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCf4glFzxM
*Brooker, R.J. et al. 2017. Principles of Biology, 2nd Ed. We all need to have a solid understanding of life systems in order to be good citizens and voters! https://cbs.umn.edu/contacts/robert-brooker
*Catton, William. 1982. Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. Drop into this wonderful book to see what condition our condition is in. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602943/
*Coates, Peter. 1998. Nature: Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times. Another must-read for “naturalists.” http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520244788
Conrad, Jessica. 2014. Sharing Revolution: The essential economics of the commons. It is by enhancing the assets of commonwealth that we will realize quality life for all. (There are several “recent” good books discussing this “commons” topic and important reality.) http://onthecommons.org/magazine/our-new-ebook-sharing-revolution
Corbett, J. & M. Corbett. 2000. Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes. Some good thoughts, concepts, strategies and tactics. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=crp_fac
Cox, G.W. & M.D. Atkins. 1979. Agricultural Ecology: An Analysis of World Food Production Systems. A good/old book to use to begin to peek into agroecology. http://books.google.com/books/about/Agricultural_Ecology.html?id=wmxoQgAACAAJ
*Daly, Herman E. 1991. Steady-State Economics, 2nd ed. 1996. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. An ecological economic world-system. https://eebweb.arizona.edu/courses/Ecol206/DalyHermanSteady-StateEconomics.pdf
Daly, Herman E.; Cobb, John B., Jr. 1994. For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, 2nd ed. Addresses the Why? for ecological economics! http://www.ecobooks.com/books/comgood.htm
Doughty, Robin W. 1983. Wildlife and Man in Texas: Environmental Change and Conservation. Read this and other books by Doughty, and get insights into what Texas looked like in the 1800s, etc. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/geography/faculty/rdoughty
Galeano, Eduardo. 2013. Children of the Days. A Calendar of Human History. Everyone should have a book by Galeano in their library! https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/books/review/children-of-the-days-by-eduardo-galeano.html
Goldman, Daniel. 2009. Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything. After life cycle/whole systems analysis of energetics/material flow/etc. we often find that:
- renewable energies aren’t so renewable,
- appropriate is inappropriate,
- natural is unnatural, and
- that green isn’t green.
http://www.danielgoleman.info/topics/ecological-intelligence/
*Haberl, Helmut et al. 2016. Social Ecology: Society-Nature Relations Across Time and Space. This book deals with the current state of the art in social ecology as researched by the Vienna School of Social Ecology! https://www2.hu-berlin.de/iri-thesys/refbase/files/jonasonielsen/2017/305_JonasO.Nielsen2017.pdf
Haidt, Jonathan. 2012. The Righteous Mind. Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. A good up-to-date book on human behaviors. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-righteous-mind-by-jonathan-haidt.html
Jackson, Wes. 1992. Becoming Native to This Place. A great little quick-read which can facilitate our process of becoming naturalists. http://neweconomy.net/publications/lectures/Jackson/Wes/becoming-native-to-this-place
Isenberg, Andrew. 2000. The Destruction of the Bison. A wonderful book which “corrects” mis-/dis-information about “the buffalo.” ftp://ftp.uic.edu/pub/depts/econ/wpaper/cchis/docs324/III.%20Bison.shtml
Kirschenmann, Frederick. 2010. Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher. Fred is a leader in moving us toward sustainable agriculture, agroecology, and “positively ethical applied community ecology/PEACE.” http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813173733
Loflin, B., S. Loflin, & S.L. Hatch. 2006. Grasses of the Texas Hill Country. There are many good plant identification books/websites which can be helpful in this process. … This book is excellent with good photos! http://www.tamupress.com/product/Grasses-of-the-Texas-Hill-Country,1875.aspx http://essmextension.tamu.edu/plants/ http://www.wildtexas.com/wildguides/
Mann, Charles. 2005. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Recent archaeological/anthropological information on the Americas/the World before Columbus’ “discovery.” http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/09baker.html?_r=0
Mann, Charles. 2011. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. Recent archaeological/anthropological information on the world after Columbus. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/1493-uncovering-the-new-world-columbus-created-by-charles-c-mann-book-review.html?pagewanted=all
McDaniel, Carl. 2005. Wisdom for a Livable Planet. About some very significant leaders in “positively ethical applied community ecology/PEACE.” http://tupress.org/books/wisdom-for-a-livable-planet
Miller, Char. 2001. On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Miller is a prolific author of research works on environmental history, etc.!! https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/8103.Char_Miller
Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. 1990. Resource Conservation and Management. An old textbook, but a very good book for a starter into PEACE! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resource_management
Moerman, Daniel. 1998. Native American Ethnobotany. Much valuable information. http://books.google.com/books/about/Native_American_Ethnobotany.html?id=UXaQat5icHUC
Nash, Roderick Frazier. 1990. American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History. A good history of “positively ethical applied community ecology/PEACE”. http://books.google.com/books/about/American_environmentalism.html?id=rGJRAAAAMAAJ
Norton, Bryan. 1998. Toward Unity Among Environmentalists. Norton has helped us understand the history/policy leading to efforts of “positively ethical applied community ecology and the influences of Pinchot and Muir. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/30301526?uid=3739920&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103886007461
Odum, H.T. & E.C, Odum. 2004. The Prosperous Way Down. Drs. Howard Odum and David Pimentel helped some of us to think energetically. “Our civilization can thrive in a future where we live with less.“ http://prosperouswaydown.com/
*Orr, David. 1992. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. This is a very good book by the educator who wrote the classic paper, “What Is Education For?” http://books.google.com/books/about/Ecological_Literacy.html?id=iKJbrKO9TwgC
Pimentel, David. 1980. Handbook of Energy Utilization in Agriculture. Dr. Pimentel the way in this area for agriculture! https://rodaleinstitute.org/organic-pioneer-dr-david-pimentel/
*Prashad, Vijay. 2012. The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. Until we haves understand how we seriously exploit the people south of the Tropic of Cancer through our conventional life-styles (and until we understand how these life-styles detrimentally affect other species directly & indirectly), we can never claim to be true “naturalists” or “positively ethical applied community ecologists”. http://www.actionaidusa.org/2014/01/return-south-review-poorer-nations
Real, L.A. & Brown, J.H. 1991. Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. Papers which ecologists have been introduced to in their education. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3613618.html
*Reiman, J. & P. Leighton. 2010. The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice. To cling onto Nature we all must be naturalists/”positively ethical applied community ecologists/PEACE”. But it is difficult to be a naturalist in prison. … “Natural” isn’t natural unless we all are able to appreciate and benefit from Nature, … and the poor, including those in prison, have just as much right to be “master naturalists” as the rich—and maybe more. (If you can’t take in & digest this, remember that in ecology, all is connected—and connected in what are very complex systems.) http://books.google.com/books/about/The_rich_get_richer_and_the_poor_get_pri.html?id=CvjtAAAAMAAJ
Reynolds, H.L. et al. 2010. Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum. I truly believe that if we are going to make much headway toward “positively ethical applied community ecology/PEACE”, we are going to have to realize ecology across curricula/campuses: http://bannedbookscafe.blogspot.com/2013/09/normal-0-false-false-false.html
*Sapolsky, R. M. 2017. Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst. This book brings us “up to date” in terms of neurological and psychological understanding of human behavior. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/books/review/behave-robert-m-sapolsky-.html
*Savoy, A. 2016. Holistic Management, Third Edition: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment. For us Savory’s diagram of a “holistic thought model for decision-making” has been his most important contribution. However, perhaps he has gotten too balled up in the planned-controlled rotation-grazing possibilities for appropriate “MANagement”! https://www.context.org/iclib/ic25/wood/
Schmidly, David. 2002. Texas Natural History: A Century of Change. Nature is dynamic!! http://www.abebooks.com/Texas-Natural-History-Century-Change-David/1278620942/bd
Schumacher, E.F. 1973. Small Is Beautiful. Truly a CLASSIC! Sabio, Simple, Small, Slow, Sharing, Sustainable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful
*Smil, Vaclav. 2013. Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken From Nature. 2017. Energy in Nature and Society. Any naturalist worth his or her salt must read Smil! http://www.vaclavsmil.com/category/books/
Stone, M.K. & Z. Barlow. 2005. Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World. We must teach children (and their immediate & extended family & friends) about how to realize quality life for all (including other species) for as long as possible, and how to be satisfied with needs instead of wants. http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781578051533
Turner, M.W. 2009. Remarkable Plants of Texas. A fun book! http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/turrem
*Vitek, Bill & Wes Jackson. 2008 Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge. We need to be much less hubristic and recognize our limitations to truly think & act critically and sanely. http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Virtues_of_Ignorance.html?id=2-8BaV-_LpUC
*Weatherford, Jack. 1988. Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. Contributions to ecology (& democracy) from “Native Americans.” http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1185432?uid=3739920&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103885493491
*Wilson, E.O. 1992. The Diversity of Life. 2014. The Meaning of Human Existence. These are just two of many great books by this wonderful “ant-man” at Harvard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience_%28book%29 http://www.paperbackswap.com/Edward-O-Wilson/author/
*Wilson, E.O. 2016. Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. E.O. tells Why? and How? we need to support Nature. https://eowilsonfoundation.org/half-earth-our-planet-s-fight-for-life/
*Worster, Donald. 1994. Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. This book should be read by all “naturalists.” https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/cs525/2009/10/21/natures-economy-donald-worster/
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This following URL takes developing PEACE-makers to many other classic books dealing with “positively ethical applied community ecology/PEACE”: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/ecology Also, The Economist magazine, the NYT, the BBC, NPR, PBS, The New Yorker do give a very good daily/weekly overviews of the state-of-the-states of the world.