Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability
EJ Course Textbooks
* = most commonly used
Adger, W. Neil, ed. Fairness in adaptation to climate change. MIT press, 2006.
Agyeman, Julian. Sustainable communities and the challenge of environmental justice. New York: New York University Press, 2005.
Alkon, Alison Hope, and Julian Agyeman. Cultivating food justice: race, class, and sustainability. MIT Press, 2011.
Barlow, Maude, and Tony Clarke. Blue gold: The fight to stop the corporate theft of the world's water. The New Press, 2005.
Bauer, Joanne R., ed. Forging environmentalism: justice, livelihood, and contested environments. ME Sharpe, 2006.
Bryant, Bunyan, ed. Environmental justice: Issues, policies, and solutions. Island Press, 1995.
Bullard, Robert D., Rueben C. Warren, and Glenn S. Johnson, eds. The quest for environmental justice: Human rights and the politics of pollution. Counterpoint, 2005.
Bullard, Robert. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder: Westview, 1990.
Bullard, Robert Doyle, ed. Confronting environmental racism: Voices from the grassroots. No. GTZ-956. Boston: South End Press, 1993.
Camacho, David Enrique Cuesta, ed. Environmental injustices, political struggles: Race, class, and the environment. Duke University Press, 1998.
Carmin, JoAnn, and Julian Agyeman, eds. Environmental inequalities beyond borders: local perspectives on global injustices. MIT Press, 2011.
Carruthers, David V., ed. Environmental justice in Latin America: Problems, promise, and practice. MIT Press, 2008.
*Cole, Luke W., and Sheila R. Foster. From the ground up: Environmental racism and the rise of the environmental justice movement. NYU Press, 2001.
Coward, Harold, ed. Traditional and Modern Approaches to the Environment on the Pacific Rim: Tensions and Values. SUNY Press, 1998.
Dodds, Walter K. Humanity's footprint: momentum, impact, and our global environment. Columbia University Press, 2008.
Glave, Dianne D., and Mark Stoll, eds. To love the wind and the rain: African Americans and environmental history. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
Gore, Al. An inconvenient truth: The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it. Rodale, 2006.
Gottlieb, Robert, and Anupama Joshi. Food justice. MIT Press, 2010.
Greeley, Andrew M. The Catholic Imagination. Univ of California Press, 2001.
Heise, Ursula K. Sense of place and sense of planet: The environmental imagination of the global. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Gruenewald, David A., and Gregory A. Smith, eds. Place-based education in the global age: Local diversity. Routledge, 2014.
Lerner, Steve, and Robert D. Bullard. Diamond: A struggle for environmental justice in Louisiana's chemical corridor. MIT Press, 2006.
Lerner, Steve. Sacrifice zones: the front lines of toxic chemical exposure in the United States. MIT Press, 2010.
*McGurty, Eileen. Transforming environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the origins of environmental justice. Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Milbrath, Lester W. Envisioning a sustainable society: Learning our way out. Suny Press, 1989.
Park, Lisa Sun-Hee, and David N. Pellow. The slums of Aspen: immigrants vs. the environment in America's Eden. NYU Press, 2011.
Pellow, David N. Resisting global toxics: Transnational movements for environmental justice. The MIT Press, 2007.
*Pellow, David and R. Brulle. Power, Justice and the Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2005.
Pellow, David N., and Lisa Sun-Hee Park. The Silicon Valley of dreams: Environmental injustice, immigrant workers, and the high-tech global economy. NYU Press, 2002.
Peña, Devon Gerardo. Mexican Americans and the environment: tierra y vida. University of Arizona Press, 2005.
Rischard, Jean-Francois. High noon: Twenty global problems, twenty years to solve them. Basic Books, 2002.
Sandler, Todd. Global challenges: an approach to environmental, political, and economic problems. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Sawyer, Suzana. Crude chronicles: indigenous politics, multinational oil, and neoliberalism in Ecuador. Duke University Press, 2004.
*Schlosberg, David. Defining environmental justice: theories, movements, and nature. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Scully, Matthew. Dominion: The power of man, the suffering of animals, and the call to mercy. Macmillan, 2003.
Sen, Amartya Kumar. The idea of justice. Harvard University Press, 2009.
Speth, James Gustave, and David Zinn. The bridge at the end of the world: Capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability. Yale University Press, 2008.
Washington, Sylvia Hood, Heather Goodall, and Paul Rosier, eds. Echoes from the poisoned well: Global memories of environmental injustice. Lexington Books, 2006.
