Sustainability
Growing healthier communities based on sustainable energy use, agricultural production, building design, economic development and more.
Selected Books at the UMass Libraries
Beyond the limits: confronting global collapse, envisioning a sustainable future by Donella Meadows
Call Number: HD75.6 .M43 1992ISBN: 0930031555Publication Date: 1992Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941 by John Claborn; Greg Garrard (Contribution by); Richard Kerridge (Contribution by)
Call Number: PS153.N5 C485 2018ISBN: 9781350009424Publication Date: 2018Coping with the Climate Crisis by Rabah Arezki (Editor); Patrick Bolton (Editor); Karim El Aynaoui (Editor); Maurice Obstfeld (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book QC903 .C675 2018ISBN: 9780231547352Publication Date: 2018Eco-tech : the whole-earther's guide to the alternate society by Robert De Ropp
Call Number: S501.2 .D47ISBN: 0440022339Publication Date: 1975Extreme Conservation by Joel Berger
Call Number: GF75 .B474 2018ISBN: 9780226366265Publication Date: 2018Farming with Native Beneficial Insects by Eric Lee-Mäder, Jennifer Hopwood, Lora Morandin, Mace Vaughan, Scott Hoffman Black
Call Number: SB976.I56 F37 2014ISBN: 9781612122830Publication Date: 2014Growing greener cities: urban sustainability in the twenty-first century by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter
Call Number: HT241 .G76 2008ISBN: 0812220374Publication Date: 2008Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st Century by Rutherford Platt
Call Number: HT243 .U6 H86 2006ISBN: 1558495541Publication Date: 2006Learning native wisdom : what traditional cultures teach us about subsistence, sustainability, and spirituality by Gary Holthaus
Call Number: GE42 .H65 2008ISBN: 0813124875Publication Date: 2008Localist movements in a global economy : sustainability, justice, and urban development in the United States by David J. Hess
Call Number: HC110.E5 H47 2009ISBN: 9780262012645Publication Date: 2009Participatory Action Research and the Environment by Fadia Hasan
Call Number: GE25 .H37 2019ISBN: 9781138234734Publication Date: 2018Planning for Climate Change by Elisabeth M. Hamin; Yaser Abunnasr; Robert L. Ryan
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9780815391678Publication Date: 2019The power of sustainable thinking : how to create a positive future for the climate, the planet, your organization and your life by Bob Doppelt
Call Number: GF78 .D66 2008ISBN: 1844075958Publication Date: 2008Reinventing an Urban Vernacular by Terry Moor
Call Number: HD7293 .M647 2017ISBN: 9781138682528Publication Date: 2017The step-by-step guide to sustainability planning : how to create and implement sustainability plans in any business or organization by Darcy Hitchcock
Call Number: HD30.255 .H584 2008ISBN: 1844076164Publication Date: 2008Sustainable Thinking by Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
Call Number: Z716.4 .A445 2018ISBN: 0838916880Publication Date: 2018Two billion cars : driving toward sustainability by Daniel Sperling
Call Number: HE5611 .S67 2009ISBN: 0195376641Publication Date: 2009Who Do We Choose to Be? by Margaret J. Wheatley
Call Number: E-Book HD57.7ISBN: 9781523083671Publication Date: 2017The willing world : shaping and sharing a sustainable global prosperity by James Bacchus
Call Number: HC79.E5 B327 2018ISBN: 9781108428217Publication Date: 2018
Finding Books at the UMass Libraries
Use the Library Catalog to locate books at the UMass (and Five College) Libraries
Below are examples of Subject Headings that may be used in searching the library catalogs (and many databases as well):
Agricultural Conservation
Architecture and Society
Buildings – Environmental aspects
City Planning – Citizen Participation
Common Good
Dwellings – Energy conservation
Ecological Houses
Garden Cities
Green Products
Greenbelts
Green Roofs (Gardening)
Greenways
House Construction – Environmental aspects
Human Geography
Open Spaces
Personal Space
Public Spaces
Renewable Energy Sources
Sustainable Architecture
Sustainable Buildings
Sustainable Development
Urban Homesteading
Facilitate great discussions with these booklets:
- A World of Health: Connecting People, Place and PlanetCall Number: RA 565 .W67 (Du Bois Library)Publication Date: 2010
- Discussion Course on Discovering a Sense of Place by Northwest Earth InstituteCall Number: HT241 .D57 (Du Bois Library)Publication Date: 2007
- Discussion Course on Global Warming: Changing Co2urse by Meg O'Brien and Deirdre DonahueCall Number: QC981.8.G56 D57 (Science & Engineering Library)Publication Date: 2008
- Discussion Course on Healthy Children - Healthy Planet by Northwest Earth InstituteCall Number: HQ769 .D57 (Du Bois Library)Publication Date: 2006
- Discussion Course on Menu for the Future by Northwest Earth InstituteCall Number: S494.5 .D57 (Du Bois Library)Publication Date: 2011
- Discussion Course on Sustainable Systems at Work by Meg O'BrienCall Number: HD30.255 .D57 2009 (Du Bois Library)Publication Date: 2009
- Discussion Course on Voluntary Simplicity by Lacy Cagle and Meg O'BrienCall Number: BJ1496 .D57 (Du Bois Library)Publication Date: 2011
- Hungry For Change: Food, Ethics and Sustainability by Northwest Earth InstituteCall Number: S494.5 .H86 2011 (Du Bois Library)Publication Date: 2011
An e-text book
An open text book.
- Sustainability: A Comprehensive FoundationRecommended for first and second-year college students. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field.
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