To broaden your understanding of strong sustainability it is useful to read about the component issues (such as climate change, globalisation, etc) and sustainability issues in general. Here are some books that we can recommend. |
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| Brown, P.G., Garver, G. et al | Right Relationship Building a Whole Earth Economy | San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2009 | | | Capra Fritjof | The Hidden Connection: Integrating The Biological, Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability | DoubleDay, 2002 | | | Daly, H | Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development | | | | Daly, H. | Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development, Selected Essays of Herman Daly (Advances in Ecological Economics) | Edward Elgar (2008) | | | Diamond, Jared | Collapse | Penguin Group (2005) | | | Flannery, Tim | The Weather Makers | Atlantic Monthly Press (2006) | | | Girardet, Herbert and Mendonça, Miguel | A Renewable World. Energy, Ecology, Equality | Devon: Green Books, 2009 | | | Gore Al | An Inconvenient Truth | Rodale, 2006 | | | Gunderson, Lance and Holling, C S (editors) | Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems | Island Press, 2001 | | | Hamilton, C. | Requiem for a Species | Allen & Unwin (2010) | | | Harré, Niki and Atkinson, Quentin D, Eds | Carbon Neutral by 2020 | Craig Potton (2007) | SANZ board members Maggie Lawton and Klaus Bosselmann were co-contributors to this positive book about creating a carbon neutral society here in the South Pacific. The editors are both psychologists from the University of Auckland and their interest in wellbeing led them to tackle this important issue. | | Jackson, T | Prosperity Without Growth Economics for a Finite Planet | London: Earthscan, 2009 | | | Kolbert, Elizabeth | Field Notes from a Catastrophe | Bloomsbury Publishing (2006) | | | Light, A. and Rolston III, H. (Eds.) | Environmental Ethics An Anthology | Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, | | | Lynas, M. | Six Degrees. Our Future for a Hotter Planet | UK: Fourth Estate, 2007 | | | Meadows, D.H., Randers, J., Meadows, Dennis | Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update | | | | Nadeau, R. | Environmental Endgame | NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006 | | | Orr, David W | The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror | Island Press, 2005 | | | Orr, David W | Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect | Island Press, 2004 | | | Orr, David W | Ecological Literacy | SUNY Press, 1991 | | | Speth, J. | The Bridge at the End of the World | Boston: Yale University Press, 2008 | | | Stone, Michael K. and Barlow, Zenobia (eds) | Ecological Literacy: Educating our Children for a Sustainable World | UC Press, 2005 | | | Sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand Inc | Strong Sustainability for New Zealand: principles and scenarios | Nakedize (2009) | This is the book version of our own paper on strong sustainability, what it is, and how it can be achieved in New Zealand and elsewhere. | | Sveiby, K-E and Skuthorpe, T. | Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People | London: Allen and Unwin, 2006 | | | Taylor, Rhys; Frame, Bob; Delaney, Kate and Brignall-Theyer, Melissa | Work In Progress Edition 2: 4 Future Scenarios for New Zealand | Manaaki Whenua Press (2007) | Scenarios | | Wright, Ronald | A Short History of Progress | Carroll & Graf, 2005 | |
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Is Thinking in Systems: A Primer by D H Meadows worth recommending?