• Living in the Environment: Miller, Wadsworth, 1994
(a general view of environmental issues. A textbook but well written and presented)

• The Roots of Modern Environmentalism: Pepper, Routledge, 1986
(a good review of different outlooks, not as good as Eco-socialism (see below) but easier to read!)

• Our Stolen Future: Colborn, Myers & Dumanoski, Little Brown, 1986
(investigates the effects of synthetic chemicals, particularly on hormones)

• Silent Spring: Rachel Carson, Hamilton, 1965
(the classic book that first drew attention to the effects of toxic chemicals)

• Environmental Systems: White Mottershead etc., Chapman & Hall, 1994

• Human Impact on the Environment: Goudie

• Changing the Face of the Earth: Simmons, Blackwell, 1989

• State of the World: Worldwatch Institute

• Man Made the Town: Middleton

• Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice: Pepper, Routledge, 1993
(Philosophical defence of the Marxist Approach, but written for university students. Not easy to read, but worth it!)

• How Deep is Deep Ecology?: Bradford, Times Change Press, 1989
(the classic book that first drew attention to the effects of toxic chemicals)

• Environmentalism: O'Riordon, Pio, 1981

• Catastrophe or Cornucopia: Cotgrave, Wiley, 1982

• Gaia: Lovelock, OUP, 1979
(important theory for many 'Deep Greens')

• Population Bomb: Erlich, 1970
(we have a go at this in this book, but see for yourself)

• Small is Beautiful: Schumacher, Blond & Briggs, 1973

• Managing the Commons: Harden & Baden, Freeman, 1977
(includes 'the tragedy of the commons')

• Whose Common Future?: The Ecologist, Earthscan, 1993
(good on discussing Hardin)

• The Green Reader: Dobson (Ed.), Deutsch, 1991

• Green Political Thought: Dobson, Hyman, 1990

• What on Earth is to ba Done?: Red-Green Study Group, 1995
(tries to bridge the gap between 'Reds' and 'Greens')

• Ecology for Beginners: Croall & Rankin, Icon, 1992

• Green Consumer Guide: Elkington & Hailes, Gollancz, 1988

• Green Capitalism: Elkington & Burke, Gollancz, 1987

• Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man: Engels
(or, if you're feeling adventurous, try Anti-Dühring by Engels: again, not easy but worth it)

• Marx & Engels on Ecology: Parsons, 1977, Greenwood
(Out of print, but very good if you can find it - as long as you ignore the Stalinist madness in the second half of the introduction!)

• Economic and Political manuscripts of 1848: Marx

• Socialism & Human Survival: Australian DSP, 1990, New Course

• Marxism & Ecology: Grundmann, Clarendon, 1991

• The Conditions of the Working Class in England (Engels) & some chapters of Capital and Gundrisse (Marx) also have some useful material on conditions in the towns and cities.

• The Energy Question: Foley, Penguin, 1987
(A good general review of uses and sources of energy)

• The Future of Energy Use: Hill, O'Keefe & Snape, Earthscan, 1995

• The Greenhouse Effect: Boyle & Ardill, New English Library, 1989
(Clearly explains the causes and possible effects of global warming)

• Turning Up the Heat: Pearce

• How the Other Half Dies: Susan George, 1976, Penguin
(Some of the examples are a bit out-of-date, but still the best explanation of the real reasons for world hunger)

• Natural Disaster: Acts of God, Acts of Man: Wijerman & Timberlake, Earthscan

• A Fate Worse than Debt: Susan George, 1988, Penguin

• Ill Fares the Land: Susan George, 1984, Penguin

• A Long and Terrible Shadow: Berger, 1991

• Open Veins of Latin America: Galeano, 1971

• The Diversity of Life: E. O. Wilson: Harvard, 1992

• The Fate of the Forest: Hecht & Cockburn: Penguin, 1990
(Excellent on the history of exploitation and the fight to defend the Amazon)

• Fight for the Forest: C. Mendes, LAS, 1992

• Introduction to World Forstry: Westoby, 1989

• In the Rainforest: Caulfield

• The Dammed: F. Pearce, 1992
(Deals with the waste of mega-projects and the alternatives)

• The Threatening Desert: Alan Grainger, Earthscan, 1990

• Our Food, Our Land: Richard Body, Rider, 1991 (on government food policy)

• Jobs and the Environment: Tindale, SERA, 1996
(Provides some useful facts and info, but New Labour-type solutions are pathetic)

• Transport and the Environment: TGWU, 1995

• The Lucas Aerospace Plan: A New Trade Unionism in the Making: Wainwright & Elliot, Alison and Busby, 1982

• Swords to Ploughshares: Renners, Worldwatch Institute

• Shaping Cities: Marcia Lowe, World Watch Institute, 1991

• Alternatives to Automobiles: Marcia Lowe, World Watch Institute, 1991

• Beyond the Car: Essays on the Auto Culture: Zielenski & laird (eds.), Steel Rail Press, 1995

• Reclaiming our Cities and Towns: Engwicht, New Society Publishers, 1993

• Ever Since Darwin: Stephen Jay Gould, Penguin, 1980
(We would recommend virtually all of Gould's writings, but this is probably the best in dealing with science in society and it's distortions)

• The Doctrine of DNA: Biology as Ideology: Lewontin, Penguin, 1993
(the best & most readable scientific challenge to biological determinism)

• Not in our Genes: Rose, Lewontin & Kamin, Penguin, 1998

• More than the Parts: Biology and Politics: Birk & Silvertowm (eds), Pluto, 1984

• The People of the Lake: Leakey & Lewin, Pelican, 1991

• Origins Reconsidered: Leakey & Lewin, Abacus, 1992

• Stark: Ben Elton, 1989

• Last Chance to See: Douglas Adams