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Environmental Values in American Culture

By Willett M. Kempton, James S. Boster and Jennifer A. Hartley


How do Americans view environmental issues? From EarthFirst! members to sawmill workers, this study by a team of cognitive anthropologists offers both good and bad news for those addressing environmental issues in the public arena. On the one hand it reveals surprising similarities in the way different groups of Americans view long-term global environmental change, and on the other it shows that Americans have serious misunderstandings about these issues, which skews public support for policies.

Ecological Identity

Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist
By Mitchell Thomashow

Mitchell Thomashow, a preeminent educator, shows how environmental studies can be taught from different perspective, one that is deeply informed by personal reflection. Through theoretical discussion as well as hands-on participatory learning approaches, Thomashow provides concerned citizens, teachers, and students with the tools needed to become reflective environmentalists.

Global Accord

Environmental Challenges and International Responses
Edited by Nazli Choucri

Global Accord is a holistic approach to a complex set of environmental issues. It provides a much-needed analytical framework for examining how individuals, groups, and nations create environmental dislocations, and how nations can work together to solve ecological problems that cross their borders. The fifteen essays cover theoretical and empirical dimensions, actors and processes, law and economics, and international institutions and systems.

Global Environmental Accords series

Institutions for the Earth

Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection
Edited by Peter M. Haas, Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy

Valuing the Earth, Second Edition

Economics, Ecology, Ethics
Edited by Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend

Valuing the Earth collects more than twenty classic and recent essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its proper ecological and ethical context. They vividly demonstrate that, contrary to current macroeconomic preoccupations, continued growth on a planet of finite resources cannot be physically or economically sustained and is morally undesirable.

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