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List of environmental books

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Humans have been writing about the environment for centuries, and the environment has figured prominently as a theme in both Western and Eastern philosophies. Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science, which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement, which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's impact on the environment, have been highly influential. The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring has been regarded as particularly important in popularizing environmental science and helping to launch the modern environmental movement.^[1] The emergence of the environmental humanities, including fields like environmental history, has also been important in bridging divides between the sciences and humanities and encouraging further interdisciplinary approaches. The environment also features prominently in much fictional literature.

This page is a list of environmental books. In this context they are notable books that feature the environment as a major theme, including human impacts on the environment.

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Griswold, Eliza (21 September 2012). "How 'Silent Spring' Ignited the Environmental Movement". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-20.

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Title	Author(s)	Year(s)	Theme(s)	ISBN(s)
American War	Omar El Akkad	2017	Climate change	ISBN 978-1-5098-5220-8
Antarctica	Kim Stanley Robinson	1997	Nature conservation	ISBN 0-00-225359-3
The Appeal	John Grisham	2008	Pollution: water pollution	ISBN 978-0-385-51504-7
The Back of the Turtle	Thomas King	2014	Defoliants	ISBN 978-1-4434-3162-0
Blockade	Derek Hansen	1998	Logging	ISBN 0-7322-6466-9
Caballero: A Historical Novel	Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh	1996	borderlands	ISBN 978-0-89096-700-3
The Caretaker Trilogy (series)	David Klass	2006; 2008; 2009	Nature conservation	ISBN 978-0-374-32307-3 ISBN 978-0-374-32308-0 ISBN 978-0-374-32309-7
Carpentaria	Alexis Wright	2006	indigenous studies; Australia; settler colonialism	ISBN 978-1439157848
Coal	Audre Lorde	1976	poetry collection	ISBN 978-0393044393
The Cool War	Frederik Pohl	1981	Energy; fossil fuel depletion	ISBN 0-394-29383-5
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead	Olga Tokarczuk	2009	Animal welfare; hunting	ISBN 978-83-08-04398-1
Earth Abides	George R. Stewart	1949	Disease and population	ISBN 9780345487131
The Earthquake in Chile	Heinrich von Kleist	1807	Earthquakes
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston	Ernest Callenbach	1975	Various themes	ISBN 0-553-34847-7
Ecotopia Emerging	Ernest Callenbach	1981	Various themes	ISBN 0-9604320-3-5
Flight Behavior	Barbara Kingsolver	2012	Climate change	ISBN 978-0-06-212427-2
The Forgotten Enemy	Arthur C. Clarke	1949	Climate change
Freedom	Jonathan Franzen	2010	Various themes	ISBN 0-374-15846-0
A Friend of the Earth	T. Coraghessan Boyle	2000	Various themes	ISBN 0-670-89177-0
The Green Brain	Frank Herbert	1966	Ecosystems: insects almost extinguished	OCLC 476046923
Hoot	Carl Hiaasen	2002	Wildlife conservation	ISBN 0-330-41529-8
The Hungry Tide	Amitav Ghosh	2004	South Asia; environmental transformation	ISBN 0-00-714178-5
Ishmael	Daniel Quinn	1992	Human-animal relations; sustainability	ISBN 0-553-07875-5
The Last Man	Mary Shelley	1826	Pandemic; global catastrophic risk
The Lorax	Dr. Seuss	1971	Various themes	ISBN 0-394-82337-0
MaddAddam	Margaret Atwood	2013	Climate change; ecological degradation	ISBN 0-77100-846-5
Make Room! Make Room!	Harry Harrison	1966	Population	ISBN 978-0-7653-1885-5
The Marrow Thieves	Cherie Dimaline	2017	indigenous studies; climate change	ISBN 978-1770864863
The Mockery Bird	Gerald Durrell	1981	Symbiosis and Lazarus taxa	ISBN 978-0-671-44131-9
The Monkey Wrench Gang	Edward Abbey	1975	Eco-terrorism	ISBN 0-397-01084-2
Mother of Storms	John Barnes	1994	Climate change: giant hurricane caused by nuclear explosion	ISBN 0-312-85560-5
Old MacDonald Had a Farm	Mike Resnick	2001	Genetically engineered animals
Oryx and Crake	Margaret Atwood	2003	Climate change; ecological degradation	ISBN 0-7710-0868-6
Parable of the Sower	Octavia Butler	1993	Ecological collapse; adaptation	ISBN 0-941423-99-9
Parable of the Talents	Octavia Butler	1998	Ecological collapse; adaptation	ISBN 1-888363-81-9
A Planet for the President	Alistair Beaton	2004	Various themes	ISBN 0-297-84776-7
Plume	Kathleen Flenniken	2012	Poetry collection	ISBN 978-0-295-99153-5
Process of Elimination	Carolyn Keene	1998	Mystery	ISBN 9780671007393
Prodigal Summer	Barbara Kingsolver	2000		ISBN 0-06-095903-7
Rainforest	Jenny Diski	1987		ISBN 978-0-413-15910-6
Salvage the Bones	Jesmyn Ward	2011	Environmental justice	ISBN 978-1-60819-522-0
So Far from God	Ana Castillo	1993	Environmental justice	ISBN 0-393-03490-9
State of Fear	Michael Crichton	2004	Various themes	ISBN 0-00-718159-0
Under the Feet of Jesus	Helena María Viramontes	1995	Environmental justice, Chicanx	ISBN 9780393326932
The Winter Vault	Anne Michaels	2009	dams; inundated landscape; Egypt	ISBN 978-0747598091
The Word for World Is Forest	Ursula K. Le Guin	1972	Colonialism	ISBN 0-399-11716-4
The Year of the Flood	Margaret Atwood	2009	Climate change; ecological degradation	ISBN 978-0-7475-8516-9
Zodiac	Neal Stephenson	1988	Toxic waste	ISBN 0-87113-181-1

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