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Blewitt, J. (2008)
Understanding Sustainable Development.
London: Earthscan
This powerful new textbook, by a topic instructor in the field, is the first to unravel sustainable development and provide readers with the deep understanding so often missing in other texts. The book adopts a multi-perspective approach designed specifically to allow access to the topic from a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds and to develop understanding of a diversity of approaches and traditions at different levels.
www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=3766

Capra, F. (1997)
The Web of Life
London: Harper Collins.
Capra argues that at the end of the 20th century we are shifting away from the mechanistic world of Descartes and Newton to a holistic, ecological view. He establishes patterns between ideas from such diverse fields as Buddhism and quantum physics.
www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Life-Synthesis-Mind-Matter/dp/0006547516/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295719260&sr=1-1

Capra, F. (2002)
The Hidden Connections
London: Harper Collins.
Capra demonstrates conclusively how tightly humans are connected with the fabric of life and makes it clear that it is imperative to organise the world according to a different set of values and beliefs, not only for the well-being of human organisations, but for the survival and sustainability of humanity as a whole.
www.amazon.co.uk/Hidden-Connections-Science-Sustainable-Living/dp/0006551580/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Daly, H. E. (2007)
Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
This book seeks to identify the blind spots and errors in standard growth economics, alongside the corrections that ecological economics offers to better guide us toward a sustainable economy - one with deeper biophysical and ethical roots. These include: limits to growth; full-world versus empty-world economics; uneconomic growth; definitions of sustainability; peak oil; steady-state economics; allocation versus distribution versus scale issues and globalization versus internationalization. This fascinating work will appeal to scholars and academics of ecological, environmental, development, and environmental resource economics and studies
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ecological-Economics-Sustainable-Development-Selected/dp/1847209882/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295719648&sr=1-1

Datschefski, E. (2001)
TheTotal Beauty of Sustainable Products
Switzerland: RotoVision,
Major issues such as pollution, deforestation, species loss and global warming are all side-effects of the activities that provide consumers with the endless array of goods on the market today. This book reveals that, far from hampering creativity, taking stock of environmental issues can produce designs of "total beauty". The author examines a diverse range of products from lipsticks to cars using icons and a scoring system to assess their "sustainability".
www.amazon.co.uk/Beauty-Sustainable-Products-Design-Fundamentals/dp/2880465451/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295721056&sr=1-1

Henriques, A. and J. Richardson, J. (2004)
The Triple Bottom Line: Does it All Add Up?
London: Earthscan Ltd
This collection provides a review of what has already been achieved in stimulating change in corporate culture and bringing businesses to an appreciation of the importance and benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and good environmental performance. It further explores the conceptual and practical limits of the metaphor of the TBL and sets out what can be achieved through regulation and legislation, presenting detailed professional procedures for environmental accounting and management and social auditing.
www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=337

Henson, B. (2008)
The Rough Guide To Climate Change
London: Penguin Books.
The Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Discover how rising temperatures and sea levels, plus changes to extreme weather patterns, are already affecting life around the world. The guide unravels how governments, scientists and engineers plan to tackle the problem and includes in-depth information and lifestyle tips about what you can do to help.
www.amazon.co.uk/Climate-Change-Guides-Reference-Titles/dp/1858281059/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295789409&sr=1-1-spell

Imhoff, D. (2005)
Paper or Plastic
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
In this fascinating look at the world of packaging, writer Daniel Imhoff and photographer/designer Roberto Carra give consumers, product designers, and policymakers the information we need to take steps toward a more sustainable future. They delve into the histories and life cycles of packaging materials and look at the countless ways that packaged goods shape our culture.
www.amazon.co.uk/Paper-Plastic-Searching-Solutions-Overpackaged/dp/1578051177

Korten, D. (2009)
Agenda for a New Economy
San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Today’s economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows in this timely new book, the steps being taken to address it including pouring trillions of dollars into bailouts for the Wall Street institutions that created the mess – do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. The financial failure now in the public spotlight is only the tip of the iceberg. The system’s social and environmental failures are even more destructive. Putting patches on a failed system is like treating a cancer with band-aids.
www.amazon.co.uk/Agenda-New-Economy-Phantom-Wealth/dp/1605092894/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295722810&sr=1-1

Meadows, D. H. and Wright, D. (2009)
Thinking in Systems: A Primer.
London: Earthscan.
Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.
www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=56981

McDonough, W. and Braungart, M. (2002)
Cradle to Cradle Remaking the Way We Make Things
New York: North Point Press.
How can we avoid environmental disaster? Nowadays, in the home, most of us do our bit: we recycle. But what about industry, where the real damage is done? The strategy is the same: ‘reduce, resize, reuse’ – we try to minimize the damage. But there is a limitation to this well-intentioned approach: it maintains the one-way, ‘cradle to grave’ manufacturing model of the Industrial Revolution, the very model that creates immense amounts of waste and pollution in the first place. What we need is a major rethink, a new approach which directly combats the problem rather than slowly perpetuating it. An exciting, simple and groundbreaking new vision, Cradle to Cradle offers this approach.
www.amazon.co.uk/Cradle-Remaking-Way-Make-Things/dp/0865475873/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295721695&sr=1-2

Porritt, J. (2007)
Capitalism: As if the World Matters
London: Earthscan.
When first published, Capitalism as if the World Matters, by one of the leading ‘eco-warriors’ of our time, shocked a generation of both environmentalists and business people. Jonathon Porritt brushed aside their artificial battle lines with a powerful argument that the only way to save the world from environmental catastrophe is to embrace a new type of capitalism, and to do it quickly.
www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=1417

Senge, P., Laur, J., Schey, S. and Smith, B. (eds), (2006)
Learning for Sustainability
Cambridge MA: SOL,The Society for Organizational Learning Inc.
www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Sustainability-Peter-Senge-Schley/dp/097423902X/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295722713&sr=1-9

Thorpe, S. (2008)
Teaching Guide for the Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability.
Washington, DC: Island Press.
Designing for sustainability is an innovation shaping both the design industry and design education today. Yet architects, product designers, and other key professionals in this new field have so far lacked a resource that addresses their sensibilities and concerns. "The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability" now explores the basic principles, concepts, and practice of sustainable design in a visually sophisticated and engaging style. The book tackles not only the ecological aspects of sustainable design - designers' choice of materials and manufacturing processes have a tremendous impact on the natural world - but also the economic and cultural elements involved.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Designers-Atlas-Sustainability-Ann-Thorpe/dp/1597261009/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295721056&sr=1-6

Tukker, A., Charter, M. and Vezzolli, C. (2008)
System Innovation for Sustainability 1
Sheffield:Greenleaf Publishing.
This book is the result of a unique positive confrontation between experts from business development, design, consumer behaviour and system innovation policy. It examines what sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is and what it could be, provides a state-of-the-art review on the governance of change in SCP policy and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches.
www.amazon.co.uk/System-Innovation-Sustainability-Perspectives-Sustainable/dp/1906093032/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295721056&sr=1-5

Worldwatch Institute (2010)
State of the World 2010
London: Earthscan.
Many of the environmental and social problems we face today are symptoms of a deeper systemic failing: a dominant cultural paradigm that encourages living in ways that are often directly counter to the realities of a finite planet. This paradigm, typically referred to as 'consumerism,' has already spread to cultures around the world and has led to consumption levels that are vastly unsustainable. If this pattern spreads further there will be little possibility of solving climate change or other environmental problems that are poised to dramatically disrupt human civilization.
www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=101796

WATSON, M. (2009)
`MATERIALS AWARENESS' in A. Stibe (ed) (2009) The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: skills for a changing world.
Totnes: Green Books.
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Abdallah, S., Thompson, S., Michaelson, J., Marks, N. and Steuer, N. (2009)
The (un)Happy Planet Index 2.0: Why good lives don’t have to cost the Earth.
London: New Economics Foundation. The [un]Happy Planet Index combines environmental impact with human well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which, country by country, people live long and happy lives.
www.happyplanetindex.org/learn/download-report.html

Boyle, D. (2006)
Are you Happy? New Economics Foundation. Are you happy? traces the history of new economics past, present and future. It asks the biggest question facing humanity - do good lives have to cost the earth? - and finds that the answer lies in a new type of economics, economics as if people and the planet mattered.
www.neweconomics.org/publications/are-you-happy

DEFRA (2008)
Progress Report on Sustainable Products and Materials. A DEFRA report on the sate of play in the UK.
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/business/products/documents/prod-materials-report0708.pdf

DEQ (2009)
Drinking Water: A Comparison of Bottled and Tap Water Using Life Cycle Analysis.
A report by Franklin Associates. DEQ has completed a study that compares a wide range of environmental impacts (including greenhouse gas emissions) of drinking water from the tap, 5-gallon reusables, and single-use bottles. The study confirms that while recycling bottles is environmentally preferable to disposing of them, buying bottled water and recycling the bottles is not the best environmental choice. Drinking water from the tap (waste prevention) typically has substantially lower impacts in most categories of environmental impact.
www.deq.state.or.us/lq/sw/wasteprevention/drinkingwater.htm

Fedrigo, D. and Tucker, A. (2009)
Blueprint for European Sustainable Consumption and Production: Finding the path of transition to a sustainable society.
Brussels: EEB Publications No. 2009/07 This Blueprint for European Sustainable Consumption and Production is a result of a common effort made by representatives from environmental and social organisations and the research community. It brings together cutting-edge analysis, technical expertise, and civil society representation to communicate urgent and priority actions to help Europe change its consumption and production patterns. The document ends with a list of proposed actions and expected leadership from government, business and civil society organisations (CSOs).
www.eeb.org/publication/2009/0905_SCPBlueprint_FINAL.pdf

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