Part 4: Impact on the natural world

Compiled by Caroline Davidson, 14 February 2007 (updated Jan 2013).

Winds

• Jan De Blieu and Harry Foster. Wind: How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth and the Land, Houghton Mifflin, US, 1999, 039595794X
• Lyall Watson. Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind, Hodder and Stoughton, 1984, 034032449X (out of print)

Snow, ice and glaciers

• Jonathan L. Bamber and Antony J. Payne (eds). Mass Balance of the Cryosphere: Observations and Modelling of Contemporary and Future Changes, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 0521808952
• Paul A. Mayewski and Frank White. The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change, University of New Hampshire Press, 2002, 1584650621
• Atle Nesje and Svein Olaf Dahl. Glaciers and Environmental Change, Hodder Arnold, 2000, 0340706341
• D. N. Thomas. Frozen Oceans: The Floating World of Pack-Ice, Firefly Books, 2004, 0565091883
• D. N. Thomas and G. S. Dieckmann. Sea Ice: An Introduction to its Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 0632058080
• United Nations Environment Programme. Global Outlook for Ice & Snow, UNEP, 2007, 9789280727999
• James Balog. Extreme Ice Now: Progress Report, National Geographic Society, May 2009, 9781426204012
• Willi Dansgaard. Frozen Annals, Niels Bohr Institute, 2005. Not commercially available, but can be obtained from the Niels Bohr Institute. See http://www2.nbi.ku.dk/side59440.htm, 8799007800

Mountains

• Martin Beniston. Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands, Hodder Arnold Publications, 2000, 0340706368
• Henry F. Diaz. Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present & Future, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003, 1402013868
• M. F. Price and T. H. Mather (eds). Global Change in the Mountains, Taylor & Francis, 1999, 1850700621

Deserts and arid lands

• Michael Allaby and Richard Garratt. Deserts (Biomes of the Earth), Facts on File Inc, 2006, 0816053200, £ 24.50
• J. Clarke and D. Noin (eds). Population and Environment in Arid Regions (Man and the Biosphere series), Taylor & Francis, 1997, 1850709629
• Elliot M. Fratkin. Ariaal Pastoralists of Kenya: Surviving Drought and Development in Africa’s Arid Lands, Prentice Hall, 1997 (out of print), second edition (pb) published by Allyn & Bacon, US, 0205391427
• John C. Krieg. Desert Landscape Architecture, St Lucie Press, 1998, 1574442252, £ 68.99
• A. M. O. Mohamed. Reclaiming the Desert; Towards a Sustainable Environment in Arid Lands, Taylor & Francis, 2006, 0415411289
• Office of Technology Assessment (US). Water-Related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Arid/Semiarid Lands: Selected Foreign Experience, University Press of the Pacific, US, 2004, 1410218325
• Jim Flegg. Deserts: a miracle of life, Blandford, 1993, 0713722800
• Annie Proulx and Martin Stupich. Red Desert: History of a Place, University of Texas Press, 2008, 9780292714205

Peatlands and wetlands

• Darold Batzer and Rebecca R. Sharitz (eds). Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands, University of California Press, 2007, 0520247779
• Dan Charman. Peatlands and Environmental Change, John Wiley and Sons 2002, 0470844108
• Sylvia M. Haslam. Understanding Wetlands: Fen, Bog and Marsh, CRC, 2003, 0415257948
• Jan Kvet, J. Jenik, L. Soukupova (eds). Freshwater Wetlands and their Sustainable Future: A Case Study of Trebon Basin Biosphere Reserve, Czech Republic, Taylor & Francis, 2001, 185070550X
• William J. Mitsch and James G. Gosselink. Wetlands, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd edition, 2000, 047129232X (new ed. due out this September)

Groundwater

• Robert Jerome Glennon. Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters, Island Press, 2003, 1559634006
• Paul Younger. Groundwater in the Environment: An Introduction, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 1405121432

Freshwater

• B. Moss. Ecology of Fresh Waters: Man and Medium, Past to Future, Blackwell Publishing Professional, 3rd edition, 1998, 0632035129

Rivers and lakes

• J. C. J. H. Aerts and P. Droogers. Climate Change in Contrasting River Basins, Cabi Publishing, 2004, 0851998356
• Peter Annin. The Great Lakes Water Wars, Island Press, 2006, 1559630876
• Mark Cioc. The Rhine: An Eco-Biography 1815-2000, University of Washington Press, 2005, 0295985003
• Michael Goulding. Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon, Smithsonian Books, 2003, 1588341356
• R. Horner. Thames Barrier, Thomas Telford Ltd, 1984, 0727702491
• Eric O. Odada and Daniel O. Olago (eds.). The east African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity, Springer, 2002, 1402007728
• Sandra Postel. Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature, Island Press, US, 2003, 1559634448
• Julian Crandall Hollick. Ganga: A Journey Down the Ganges River, Island Press, 2007, 9781597263863

Tides, seas and oceans

• Grant Bigg. The Oceans and Climate, Cambridge University Press, 2nd revised edition, 2003, 0521016347
• John D. Boon. Secrets of the Tide: Tide and Tidal Current Analysis and Predictions, Storm Surges and Sea Level Trends, Horwood Publishing Ltd, 2004, 1904275176
• John Charles Doornkamp. Greenhouse Effect and Rising Sea Levels in the United Kingdom, M1, 1990, OOP
• Lynne Edgerton. The Rising Tide: Global Warming and World Sea Levels, Island Press, 1991, 1559630671
• Michael H. Glantz. Currents of Change: Impacts of El Nino and La Nina on Climate Change and Society, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2001, 052178672X
• Stephen Griffies. Fundamentals of Ocean Climate Models, Princeton University Press, 2004, 0691118922
• R. E. Hester and R. M. Harrison (eds.). Chemistry in the Marine Environment, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000, 0854042601
• J. Madeleine Nash. El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker, Warner Books, 2003, 0446679925
• S. G. H. Philander. Our Affair with El Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard, Princeton University Press, 2006 (new ed.), 0691126224
• S. G. H. Philander, Renata Dmowska (eds). El Nino, La Nina, and the Southern Oscillation (International Geophysics), Academic Press, 2006, 0125532350
• Michael Pollard. North Sea Surge: The Story of the East Coast Floods of 1953, Terence Dalton, 1982, 0861380215
• David Pugh. Changing Sea Levels: Effects of Tides, Weather and Climate, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 0521825326
• Dobald R. Rothwell, David L. Vander Zwaag. Towards Principled Oceans Governance; Australian and Canadian Approaches and Challenges, Routledge, 2006, 0415383781
• William Sargent. Storm Surge: A Coastal Village Battles the Rising Atlantic, University of New Hampshire, 2004, 1584654066
• Gerold Siedler, John Church and John Gould. Ocean Circulation and Climate: Observing and Modeling the Global Ocean, Academic Press, 2001, 0126413517
• R. A. Warrick, E. M. Barrow, T. M. L. Wigley et al. Climate and Sea Level: Observations, Projections and Implications, Cambridge University Press, 1993, 052139516X
• William Gray. Coral reefs & islands: the natural history of a threatened paradise, David & Charles, 1993, 0715300776
• Alex Mustard. Reefs Revealed, Constable and Robinson, 2007, 9781845296346 (hbk)
• Érik Orsenna, Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In praise of currents, Haus, 2008, 9781905791330
• Michelle Allsopp, Richard Page, Paul Johnston and David Santillo. State of the World’s Oceans, Springer, 2008, 9781402091155
• Dallas Murphy. To Follow the Water: Exploring the Sea to Discover Climate, Basic Books, 2008, 158243350X
• Stefan Rahmstorf and Katherine Richardson. Our Threatened Oceans (The Sustainability Project series), Haus, 2009, 9781906598068
• Stan Ulanski. The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic, Caravan Books, 2008,  9780807832172

Coasts

• Cornelia Dean. Against the Tide: The Battle for America’s Beaches, Columbia University Press, 2001, 0231084196
• Doeke Eisma (ed). Climate Change: Impact on Coastal Habitation, CRC Press Inc, 1995, 087371301X
• Loraine McFadden, Robert Nicholls, Edmund Penning-Rowsell (eds). Managing Coastal Vulnerability, Elsevier, 2006, 0080447031
• Jan Vermaat, Laurens Bouwer, Kerry Turner (eds). Managing European Coasts: Past, Present and Future, Springer, 2005, 3540234543

Forests and plants

• Paige Brown. Climate, Biodiversity and Forests: Issues and Opportunities Emerging from the Kyoto Protocol, World Resources Institute, 1998, 156973285X
• Kenneth M. Chomitz, Piet Buys, Giacomo De Luca, Timothy S. Thomas, Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff. At Loggerheads? Agricultural Expansion, Poverty Reduction, and Environment in the Tropical Forests (World Bank Policy Research Report), World Bank Publications, 2006, 0821367358
• M. Inoue, H. Isozaki (eds). People and Forest Policy and Local Reality in Southeast Asia, the Russian Far East, and Japan (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies), Springer, 2006, 1402016840
• D. F. Karnosky, K. E. Percy, A. H. Chappelka et al (eds.). Air Pollution, Global Change and Forests in the New Millennium, Volume 3, Elsevier Science, 2003, 0080443176
• Eric S. Kasischke and Brian J. Stocks (eds.). Fire, Climate Change and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest, Springer, 2000, 0387988904
• Frank Klotzli, Gian-Reto Walther. Recent Shifts in Vegetation Boundaries of Deciduous Forests, especially due to General Global Warming, Birkhauser, 1999, 3764360860
• Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver Phillips (eds). Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change, Oxford University Press, 2005, 0198567065
• James I. L. Morison, Michael Morecroft (eds). Plant Growth and Climate Change, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 1405131926
• T.G. Northcote, G. F. Hartman (eds). Fishes and Forestry: Worldwide Watershed Interactions and Management, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 0632058099
• K. Omasa, K. Kai, T. Taoda, Z. Uchijima, M. Yoshino. Climate Change and Plants in East Asia, Springer-Verlag Tokyo, 1995, 4431701761
• Richard Primack and Richard Corlett. Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison, Blackwell Publishing, 2005, 0632045132
• Prabhas Chandra Sinha (ed). Climate, Forest, Biodiversity and Desert, SBS Publishing, New Delhi, 2006, 8189741322
• Boyd Strain and Jennifer Cure (for the US Department of Energy). Direct Effects of Increasing Carbon Dioxide on Vegetation, University Press of the Pacific, US, 2005, 1410222233
• Colin Tudge. The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter, Penguin Press Science, 2005, 0141012935
• Sven Wunder. Oil Wealth and the Fate of the Forest, Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics, Routledge, 2003, 0415278678
• P. H. Freer-Smith, M. S. J. Broadmeadow and J. M. Lynch (eds) Forestry and Climate Change, Oxford University Press USA, 2007, 9781845932947
• Oliver Morton. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet, Fourth Estate, 2007, 9780007171798 (hbk)
• Jonathan Adams. Vegetation-Climate Interaction: How Vegetation Makes the Global Environment, Springer, 2007, 9783540324911
• Adrian Forsyth, Michael Fogden, Patricia Fogden. Nature of the Rainforest: Costa Rica and Beyond, Cornell University Press, 2008, 9780801474750
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. State of the World’s Forests 2009, FAO, 2009, 9789251060575
• T. C. Whitmore. An Introduction to Tropical Rain Forests, Oxford University Press, 1998 (2nd revised edition), 9780198501473

Trees

• Roger Deakin. Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees, Hamish Hamilton, 2007, 9780241141847 (hbk)
• Susan Freinkel. American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the American Chestnut, University of California Press, 2007, 9780520247307 (hbk)
• David Suzuki and Wayne Grady. Tree: A Life Story, Greystone Books, 2007, 978155365126X
• Nalini Nadkarni. Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees, University of California Press, 2008, 9780520248564

Wildlife and biodiversity

• David G. Ainley. The Adelie Penguin: Bellweather of Climate Change, Columbia University Press, 2002, 023112306X
• Jagtar Bhatti, Rattan Lal, Mick A. Price and Michael J. Apps. Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems, CRC Press Inc, 2006, 0849330971
• K. Danell, A Hofgaard, J. P. Ball et al (eds.). Animal Responses to Global Change in the North, Blackwell Publishing, 1999, 8716163818
• Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman. Seasons of life: the biological rhythms that living things need to thrive and survive, Profile, 2009, 9781861979184
• Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah. Climate Change and Biodiversity, Yale University Press, 2005, 0300119801
• Celia Lowe: Wild Profusion. Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago, Princeton University Press, 2006, 0691124620
• Richard MacKay. The Penguin Atlas of Endangered Species: A Worldwide Guide to Plants and Animals, Penguin, 2002; New edition now available, now just “The atlas of endangered species” published by James & James, 2005, 1844072886
• Anders Moller, Wolfgang Fiedler and P. Berthold (eds). Birds and Climate Change, Academic Press, 2004, 0123736145
• Michael J. Samways. Insect Diversity Conservation, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 0521789478
• Stephen H. Schneider and Terry L. Root (eds). Wildlife Responses to Climate Change (North American Case Studies), Island Press, 2001, 1559639253
• Timothy D. Schowalter. Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Academic Press, US, 2nd edition, 2006, 012088772X
• Hadoram Shirihai. The Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean, Princeton University Press, 2002, 0691114145 (2nd ed. will be out in May 07, 0713664061)
• Navjot S. Sodhi, Barry W. Brook. Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis (Cambridge Tropical Biology Series), Cambridge University Press, 2006, 0521839300
• Mitchell Thomashow. Bringing the Biosphere Home: Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change, The MIT Press, 2001, 0262700999
• Gian-Reto Walther, Conradin Burga and P. J. Edwards (eds). ‘Fingerprints’ of Climate Change: Adapted Behaviour and Shifting Species Ranges, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001, 030646716X
• David A. Wharton. Life at the Limits: Organisms in Extreme Environments, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 0521782120
• Michael Gross. Life on the edge: amazing creatures thriving in extreme environments, Plenum Press, 1996 0306457865
• Norbert Wu and Jim Mastro. Under Antarctic Ice: The Photographs of Norbert Wu, University of California Press, 2004, 0520235045
• John R. Skalski, Kristin E. Ryding and Joshua Millspaugh. Wildlife Demography: Analysis of Sex, Age, and Count Data, Academic Press, 2005, 978012887736 (hbk)
• Kristian N. Hagen. Algae: Nutrition, Pollution Control and energy Sources, Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 9781606920084
• Adrian Hepworth. Wild Costa Rica, New Holland Publishers, 2008, 9781847731135
• Claire Nouvian. The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 9780226595665
• Michael B. Usher. Conserving European Biodiversity in the Context of Climate Change, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2007, 9789287162632
• David S. Wilcove. No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations, Island Press, 2007, 9781559639859

• John F. Burton. Birds and climate change, Christopher Helm, 1995, 0713640456

• Robert L. Peters and Thomas E. Lovejoy (Eds). Global warming and biological diversity, Yale University Press, 1992, 0300059302

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