Soil
- Mark Ashman and Geeta Puri. Essential Soil Science, Wiley, 2002, 9780632048854
- Peter Birkeland. Soils and Geomorphology, Oxford University Press USA, 1999 (3rd edition), 9780195078862
- Nyle C. Brady and Ray R. Weil. The Nature and Properties of Soils, Prentice Hall (14th edition), 2007, 9780135133873
- Stanley W. Buol, Randal J. Southard, Robert C. Graham and Paul A. McDaniel. Soil Genesis and Classification, Wiley-Blackwell (5th edition), 2003, 9780813828732
- Robert W. Day. Soil Testing Manual: Procedures, Classification Data, and Sampling Practices, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2000, 9780071363631
- John M. Kimble, Ronald F. Follett and B. A. Stewart (eds). Assessment Methods for Soil Carbon, CRC, 2000, 9781566704618
- William Bryant Logan. Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, W. W. Norton, 2006, 9780393329476
- Jeff Lowenfels. Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web, Timber Press, 2006, 9780881927771
- Fred Magdoff and Harold van Es. Building Soils for Better Crops, Sustainable Agriculture Network (2nd edition), 2000, 9781888626056
- Raymond W. Miller and Duane T. Gardiner. Soils in Our Environment, Prenctice Hall (11th edition), 9780132191043
- James B. Nardi. Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners, University of Chicago Press, 2007, 9780226568522
- Daniel D. Richter and Daniel Markewitz. Understanding Soil Change: Soil Sustainability over Millennia, Centuries and Decades, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 9780521039437
- Cynthia Rosenzweig and Daniel Hillel. Climate Change and the Global Harvest: Potential Impacts of the Greenhouse Effect on Agriculture, Oxford University Press USA,1998, from (secondhand), 9780195088892
- Amy Stewart. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, Algonquin Books, 2005, 9781565124684
- Adel El Titi (ed). Soil Tillage in Agroecosystems, CRC, 2002, 9780849312281
- Alan Wild. Soils, Land and Food: Managing the Land during the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 9780521527590
- David W. Wolfe. Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life, Perseus Publishing, 2002, 9780738206790
Agriculture
Farming
- Dennis T. Avery. Saving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental triumph of High-Yield Farming, Hudson Institute, 2000, 1558130691
- Jason Clay, World Wildlife Fund. World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-By-Commodity Guide to Impacts and Practices, Island Press, 2004, 1559633700
- Otto C. Doering, J. C. Randolph, Jane Southworth et al (eds.). Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems, Springer, 2002, 1402070284
- Robin B. Matthews, Martin J. Kropff, Dominique Bachelet, H. H. van Laar (eds). Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on Rice Production in Asia, Cabi Publishing, 1995, 0851989594, $115
- Linda O. Mearns (ed.). Issues in the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture: Applications to the Southern United States, Springer, 2003, 1402016182, $109.00
- Dale Allen Pfeiffer. Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture, New Society Publishers, 2006, 0865715653
- Seth Pritchard and Jeffrey Amthor. Crops and Environmental Changes, Haworth Press (US), 2005, 1560229136
- Manava V. K. Sivakumar, Raymond P. Motha, Haripada P. Das (eds). Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture: Impacts and Mitigation, Springer, 2005, 3540224904
- Vaclav Smil. Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production, The MIT Press, new edition, 2004, 0262693135
- Judy Soule and Jon Piper. Farming in Nature’s Image: An Ecological Approach to Agriculture. Island Press, 1991, 0933280890
- Zoltan Tuba (ed). Ecological Responses and Adaptations of Crops to Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Food Products Press, 2005, 1560221216
- Sylvan H. Wittwer. Food, Climate, and Carbon Dioxide, CRC, 1995, 0873717961
- William R. Cline. Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country, Peterson Institute (US), 2007, 9780881324037
- Anna Lewington. Plants for People, Eden Project Books (Transworld Publishers), 2003, 1903919088
- Eric Millstone and Tim Lang. The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where and Why, Earthscan, 2003
- R.H.V. Corley and P.B.H. Tinker. The Oil Palm, Blackwell Science, 2003 (4th edition), from second-hand, 9780632052127
- Alison Benjamin. A World Without Bees. Guardian Newspapers Ltd, 2008, 9780852650929
- Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode. Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 9780521673877
- Marie-Monique Robin. Le Monde Selon Monsanto: De La Dioxine Aux OGM, Une Multinationale Qui Vous Veut Du Bien, Editions la Decouverte (Paris, France), 2008, 9782707149183
- Bee Wilson. The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us, John Murray, 2005 (new edition), 9780719565984
Food and diet
The food industry
- Murray, Sarah. Moveable feasts: the incredible journeys of the things we eat. London: Aurum, 2007. 1845132343
- José Bové, François Dufour, André Coutin, translation by Jean Birrell. Food for the Future: Agriculture for a Global Age, Polity Press, 2005, 074563205X
- Jane Eastham, Liz Sharples and Stephen Ball (eds.). Food Supply Chain Management, Elsevier Limited, 2004, 0750647620
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Tony Loftas and Jane Ross (eds): Dimensions of Need: An Atlas of Food and Agriculture, ABC-Clio Inc, US, 0874368537
- Susanne Freidberg. French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age, Oxford University Press, USA, 2004, 0195169611
- Eric Millstone. The Penguin Atlas of Food, Penguin, 2003, 0142002240
- Michael Pollan. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Penguin Press HC, 2006, 1594200823
- Steve F. Sapontzis. Food for Thought: The Debate over Eating Meat, Prometheus Books, 2004, 1591021189
- Andrew Seth, Geoffrey Randall. Supermarket Wars: The Future of Global Food Retailing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 1403919100
- Peter Singer, Jim Mason. Eating: what we eat and why it matters, arrow, 2006, 0099504022
- Steve Striffler. Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food, Yale University Press, 2005, 0300095295
- Thomas F. Pawlick. The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying our Food Supply – and What We Can Do About It, Barricade Books, 2005, 1569803021
- Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield, Steven Gorelick. Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness, Zed Books, 2002, 9781842772331
- Anthony Weis. The Global Food Economy, Zed Books, 2007, 9781842777954
- Paul Roberts. The end of food: the coming crisis in the world food industry, Bloomsbury, 2008, 9780747588818
- Tristram Stuart. Waste: uncovering the global food scandal, Penguin, 2009 9780141036342
World hunger and potential solutions
- Daniel Charles. Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food, Perseus Books Group, 2002, 073820773X
- Nigel Halford. Plant Biotechnology: Current and Future Applications of Genetically Modified Crops, Wiley, 2006, 0470021810
- Dana L. Jackson and Laura L. Jackson (eds.). The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems, Island Press, 2002, 1559638478
- Rattan Lal, Norman Uphoff, Bobby Stewart and David O. Hansen (eds). Climate Change and Global Food Security, CRC, 2005, 0824725360
- Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collings, Peter Rosset, Institute of Food and Development Policy, Oakland, World Hunger: Twelve Myths, Grove Press, 1998, 1853834939,:
- Jeffrey A. McNeely, Sara J. Scherr. Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity, Island Press, 2002, 1559636459
- Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Ebbe Scholer. Seeds of Contention: World Hunger and the Global Controversy over GM Crops, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001, 0801868262
- Peter Pringle. Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto – The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest, Simon & Schuster, 2005, 074326763X
- Eric Schloser (foreword) Andrew Heintzman, Evan Solomon (eds). Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World’s Food Crises, House of Aransi Press, 2006, 0887847447
- Vandana Shiva. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, South End Press, 2000, 0896086070
- Vaclav Smil. Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century, The MIT Press, 2001, 0262692716
- Kevin Watkins, Penny Fowler. Rigged Rules and Double Standards: Trade, Globalisation, and the Fight against Poverty, (Oxfam Campaign Reports), Oxfam Publishing, 2004, 0855985259
Fish, fishing and fisheries
Health
- Joan L. Aron and Jonathan A. Patz (eds). Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective, John Hopkins University Press, 2001, 0801865824
- Kristie L. Ebi, Ian Burton, Joel B. Smith. Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions, Routledge, 2005, 9058096866
- Roger Few and Franziska Matthies (eds). Flood Hazards and Health: Responding to Present and Future Risks, Earthscan Publications, 2006, 1844072150
- Christon J. Hurst. Viral Ecology, Academic Press, US, 2000, 0123626757
- William Jobin. Dams and Disease: Ecological Design and Health Impacts of Large Dams, Canals and Irrigation Systems, Taylor & Francis, 1999, 0419223606
- Wilhelm Kirch, Bettina Menne, Roberto Bertolini (eds). Extreme Weather Events and Public Health Responses, Springer-Verlag, 2005, 3540244174
- A. J. McMichael, D. H. Campbell-Lendrum, C. F. Corvalan et al (eds). Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and Responses, World Health Organisation, 2003, 0854035257
- Bettina Menne and Kristie L. Ebi. Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies for Human Health, Steinkopff Darmstadt (Springer), Germany, 2005, 3798515913
- Bettina Menne, Anthony McMichael, Roberto Bertollini, Colin Soskolne. Climate Change and Stratospheric Ozone Depletion: Early Effects on Our Health in Europe, World Health Organization, 2001, 9289013559
- Dade E. Moeller. Environmental Health, Harvard University Press, 3rd edition, 2004, 0674014944
- Arno Karlen. Plague’s progress: a social history of man and disease, Victor Gollancz, 1995, 0575061359
- World Health Organisation. Climate Change and Human Health, World Health Organisation, 1996, 0119516101
- Paul Thagard. How Scientists Explain Disease, Princeton University Press, USA, 1999, 069105083X, $26.95
- Committee on the Economics of Antimalarial Drugs, Kenneth J. Arrow, Claire Panosian, and Hellen Gelbrand (eds). Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance, National Academies Press, 2004, 9780309092180
- Peter Hammer. Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care, Duke University Press, 2003 9780822332480
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