Books

Books

On this page we have gathered books written by the founders of the Balaton Group and, further down, books by our members and others connected with the group. A small percentage of each sale through the Amazon affiliate links provided for many books on this page benefits the Balaton Group. However, in most cases, you should be able to find alternative sellers.

The page is updated from time to time – scroll to the end to find the most recently added books.

By our founders

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers
Limits to Growth: A report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind
Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William Behrens

(Click here to read it online in various formats.)

The Global Citizen
Donella Meadows
The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Building Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities
Linda Booth Sweeney, Dennis Meadows

Groping in the Dark: The First Decade of Global Modeling
Donella Meadows, John Richardson, Gerhart Bruckmann
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Donella Meadows (Diana Wright, ed.)
Toward Global Equilibrium: Collected Papers
Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows
Ending Hunger: An idea whose time has come
The Hunger Project – Donella Meadows and John Richardson
The Climate Change Playbook: 22 Systems Thinking Games
Dennis Meadows, Linda Booth Sweeney, Gillian Martin Mehers

By our members and others

Image 2.0: Integrated Modeling of Global Climate Change
Joseph Alcamo
Sustainability is for Everyone
Alan AtKisson
Life Beyond Growth
AtKisson Group – Alan AtKisson and ISHES – Junko Edahiro
Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist’s World
Alan AtKisson
The Sustainability Transformation: How to Accelerate Positive Change in Challenging Times
Alan AtKisson
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Because We Believe in the Future
Because We Believe in the Future: Collected Essays on Sustainability, 1989 – 2009
Alan AtKisson
Tackling Complexity: A Systemic Approach for Decision Makers
Andrea Bassi, Gilbert Probst
Transition to a Sustainable Society: A Backcasting Approach to Modeling Energy and Ecology
Wouter Biesiot, Henk Mulder
When a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guide for Helping Kids Explore Interconnections in Our World Through Favorite Stories
Linda Booth Sweeney
Connected Wisdom: Living Stories about Living Systems
Linda Booth Sweeney
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Systems and Models. Complexity, Dynamics, Evolution, Sustainability (Hartmut Bossel)
Systems and Models. Complexity, Dynamics, Evolution, Sustainability
Hartmut Bossel
System Zoo 1 Simulation Models – Elementary Systems, Physics, Engineering
Hartmut Bossel
Systems Zoo 2 Simulation Models. Climate, Ecosystems, Resources
Hartmut Bossel
Systems Zoo 3 Simulation Models. Economy, Society, Development
Hartmut Bossel
Modeling and Simulation (Hartmut Bossel)
Modeling and Simulation
Hartmut Bossel
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Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future: Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders (Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski)
Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future: Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders
Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski
An Introduction to Ecological Economics (Robert Costanza, Herman Daly, Robert Norgaard, John Cumberland, Robert Goodland)
An Introduction to Ecological Economics
Robert Costanza, Herman Daly, Richard Norgaard, John Cumberland, Robert Goodland
Landscape Simulation Modeling: A Spatially Explicit, Dynamic Approach (Modeling Dynamic Systems) (Robert Costanza, Alexey Voinov)
Landscape Simulation Modeling: A Spatially Explicit, Dynamic Approach (Modeling Dynamic Systems)
Robert Costanza, Alexey Voinov
The Local Politics of Global Sustainability (Robert Costanza, Herman Daly, Thomas Prugh)
The Local Politics of Global Sustainability
Robert Costanza, Herman Daly, Thomas Prugh
Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (Robert Costanza, Lisa Graumlich, Will Steffen)
Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
Robert Costanza, Lisa Graumlich, Will Steffen
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Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability (Ecological Economics)
Robert Costanza, Bobbi Low, Elinor Ostrom, James Wilson
Understanding and Solving Environmental Problems in the 21st Century (Robert Costanza)
Understanding and Solving Environmental Problems in the 21st Century
Robert Costanza
Four visions of the century ahead: Will it be Start Trek, Ecotopia, Big Government, or Mad Max? (technological optimism and skepticism) (Robert Costanza, The Futurist
Four visions of the century ahead: Will it be Start Trek, Ecotopia, Big Government, or Mad Max? (technological optimism and skepticism)
Robert Costanza (The Futurist; Feb 1999; 33, 2; pg. 23)
Affluenza: How Overconsumption is Killing Us – and how to fight back (John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas Naylor)
Affluenza: How Overconsumption is Killing Us – and how to fight back
John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas Naylor
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas Naylor)
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas Naylor
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Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America (John de Graaf)
Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
John de Graaf
What’s the Economy for, Anyway? Why It’s Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness (John de Graaf, David Batker)
What’s the Economy for, Anyway? Why It’s Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness
John de Graaf, David Batker
Sustainability Science (Bert de Vries)
Sustainability Science
Bert de Vries
Mappae Mundi: Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective: Myths, Maps and Models (Bert de Vries, Johan Goudsblom)
Mappae Mundi: Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective: Myths, Maps and Models
Bert de Vries, Johan Goudsblom
Escape from the Energy Crisis (Japanese) (Junko Edahiro)
Escape from the Energy Crisis (Japanese)
Junko Edahiro
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Energy Self-Sufficiency Strategy of My Home (Japanese) (Junko Edahiro)
Energy Self-Sufficiency Strategy of My Home (Japanese)
Junko Edahiro
Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (Duane Elgin)
Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich
Duane Elgin
Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future (Duane Elgin)
Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future
Duane Elgin
The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? (Duane Elgin)
The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going?
Duane Elgin
Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness (Duane Elgin)
Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness
Duane Elgin
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Making a Living While Making a Difference: Conscious Careers in an Era of Interdependence (Melissa Everett)
Making a Living While Making a Difference: Conscious Careers in an Era of Interdependence
Melissa Everett
Socioecological Transitions and Global Change (Marina Fischer-Kowalski & Haberl)
Socioecological Transitions and Global Change
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl
Creating Regenerative Cities (Herbert Girardet)
Creating Regenerative Cities
Herbert Girardet
The Gaia Atlas of Cities (Herbert Girardet)
The Gaia Atlas of Cities
Herbert Girardet
Creating Sustainable Cities (Herbert Girardet)
Creating Sustainable Cities
Herbert Girardet
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Large-Scale Water Transfer: Emerging Environmental and Social Issues (Water resources development) (Genady Golubev, Asit Biswas)
Large-Scale Water Transfer: Emerging Environmental and Social Issues (Water resources development)
Genady Golubev, Asit Biswas
Macroeconomics in Context (Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, Julie Nelson, Brian Roach, & Mariano Torras)
Macroeconomics in Context
Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, Julie Nelson, Brian Roach, Mariano Torras
Principles of Economics in Context (Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, Julie Nelson, Brian Roach, & Mariano Torras)
Principles of Economics in Context
Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, Julie Nelson, Brian Roach, Mariano Torras
Microeconomics in Context (Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, Julie Nelson, Brian Roach, & Mariano Torras)
Microeconomics in Context
Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, Julie Nelson, Brian Roach, Mariano Torras
What Can We Hope for the World in 2075? (Neva Goodwin, Hildegarde Hannum)
What Can We Hope for the World in 2075?
Neva Goodwin, Hildegarde Hannum
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Twenty-first Century Macroeconomics: Responding to the Climate Challenge (Neva Goodwin and Jonathan Harris)
Twenty-first Century Macroeconomics: Responding to the Climate Challenge
Neva Goodwin and Jonathan Harris
The Consumer Society (Frontier Issues in Economic Thought) (Neva Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, David Kiron)
The Consumer Society (Frontier Issues in Economic Thought)
Neva Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, David Kiron
What if Money Grew on Trees? Asking the Big Questions about Economics (What If?) (Neva Goodwin, David Boyle)
What if Money Grew on Trees? Asking the Big Questions about Economics (What If?)
Neva Goodwin, David Boyle
As if the Future Mattered: Translating Social and Economic Theory into Human Behaviour (Evolving Values for a Capitalist World)(Neva Goodwin)
As if the Future Mattered: Translating Social and Economic Theory into Human Behaviour (Evolving Values for a Capitalist World)
Neva Goodwin
The Great Mindshift: Linking Forerunners of a New Sustainability Paradigm (Maja Gopel)
The Great Mindshift: Linking Forerunners of a New Sustainability Paradigm
Maja Gopel
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The Vision of Women on Sustainable Life – Quo Vadis, Femina? (Marie Haisova)
The Vision of Women on Sustainable Life – Quo Vadis, Femina?
Marie Haisova
Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economics and Local Currencies (Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Bernard Lietaer)
Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economics and Local Currencies
Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Bernard Lietaer
The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems (Gwendolyn Hallsmith)
The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems
Gwendolyn Hallsmith
Impediments on Environmental Policy-Making and Implementation in Central and Eastern Europe: Tabula Rasa vs Legacy of the Past
Peter Hardi
Environmental Protection in East-Central Europe: A Market-Oriented Approach (Peter Hardi)
Environmental Protection in East-Central Europe: A Market-Oriented Approach
Peter Hardi
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Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project (James Hornig)
Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project
James Hornig
Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Tim Jackson)
Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
Tim Jackson
Living in the Cracks: A look at rural social enterprises in Britain and the Czech Republic (Nadia Johanisova)
Living in the Cracks: A look at rural social enterprises in Britain and the Czech Republic
Nadia Johanisova
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (David Korten)
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
David Korten
Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (David Korten)
Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
David Korten
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When Corporations Rule the World (David Korten)
When Corporations Rule the World
David Korten
The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism (David Korten)
The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism
David Korten
Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth (David Korten)
Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth
David Korten
The Convergence Process: A public participatory pathway for societies to sustainability and social equity (Sigrun Maria Kristinsdottir)
The Convergence Process: A public participatory pathway for societies to sustainability and social equity
Sigrun Maria Kristinsdottir
The Way Out: Kick-starting Capitalism to Save Our Economic Ass (Hunter Lovins, Boyd Cohen)
The Way Out: Kick-starting Capitalism to Save Our Economic Ass
Hunter Lovins, Boyd Cohen
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins, Paul Hawken)
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins, Paul Hawken
Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change (Hunter Lovins, Boyd Cohen)
Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change
Hunter Lovins, Boyd Cohen
Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate (Hunter Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, et al.)
Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate
Hunter Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, et al.
Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute)
Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
A New Dynamic – Effective Business in a Circular Economy (Amory Lovins, Michael Braungart, Ellen MacArthur Foundation)
A New Dynamic – Effective Business in a Circular Economy
Amory Lovins, Michael Braungart, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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The Essential Amory Lovins: Selected Writings (Amory Lovins, Cameron Burns)
The Essential Amory Lovins: Selected Writings
Amory Lovins, Cameron Burns
Farms of Tomorrow Revisited (Steven McFadden, Trauger Groh)
Farms of Tomorrow Revisited
Steven McFadden, Trauger Groh
Reframing the Problem of Climate Change: From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions (Diana Mangalagiu, Joan David Tabara, Klaus Hasselmann, Carlo Jaeger, Gerd Leipold)
Reframing the Problem of Climate Change: From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions
Diana Mangalagiu, Joan David Tabara, Klaus Hasselmann, Carlo Jaeger, Gerd Leipold
Achieving Environmental Objectives (Gillian Martin Mehers, Susana Calvo)
Achieving Environmental Objectives
Gillian Martin Mehers, Susana Calvo
Revolt from the Center (Niels Meyer)
Revolt from the Center
Niels Meyer
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When No Means Yes: Danish Visions of a Different Europe (Niels Meyer, J.T. Ross Jackson, Hanne Norup Carlsen)
When No Means Yes: Danish Visions of a Different Europe
Niels Meyer, J.T. Ross Jackson, Hanne Norup Carlsen
An Environmental History of Russia (Ruben Mnatsakanian, Paul Josephson, Nicolai Dronin, Aleh Cherp et al)
An Environmental History of Russia
Ruben Mnatsakanian, Paul Josephson, Nicolai Dronin, Aleh Cherp et al
Environmental Legacy of the Former Soviet Republics (Ruben Mnatsakanian)
Environmental Legacy of the Former Soviet Republics
Ruben Mnatsakanian
Sustainability Decoded: How to Unlock Profit Through the Value Chain (Laura Musikanski)
Sustainability Decoded: How to Unlock Profit Through the Value Chain
Laura Musikanski
How to Account for Sustainability (Laura Musikanski)
How to Account for Sustainability
Laura Musikanski
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Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate: Sustainability and Economic Perspectives (Kevin Noone, Ussif Rashid Sumaila, Robert Diaz)
Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate: Sustainability and Economic Perspectives
Kevin Noone, Ussif Rashid Sumaila, Robert Diaz
Climate-Challenged Society (Richard Norgaard, John Dryzek, David Schlosberg)
Climate-Challenged Society
Richard Norgaard, John Dryzek, David Schlosberg
Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future (Richard Norgaard, John Dryzek, David Schlosberg)
Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future
Richard Norgaard, John Dryzek, David Schlosberg
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (Richard Norgaard, John Dryzek, David Schlosberg)
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society
Richard Norgaard, John Dryzek, David Schlosberg
Controlling Your Future: Six Steps to a Better Life (Richard Norgaard)
Controlling Your Future: Six Steps to a Better Life
Richard Norgaard
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Integrated Electricity Resource Planning (Jorgen Norgard, A.de Almeida, Arthur Rosenfeld, Jacques Roturier)
Integrated Electricity Resource Planning
Jorgen Norgard, A.de Almeida, Arthur Rosenfeld, Jacques Roturier
Development with Sustainable Use of Electricity (Jorgen Norgard, Adam Gula, A. de Almeida)
Development with Sustainable Use of Electricity
Jorgen Norgard, Adam Gula, A. de Almeida
Energy and the Ecological Economics of Sustainability (John Peet)
Energy and the Ecological Economics of Sustainability
John Peet
Budapest Zoo: Designed for Nature (Miklos Persanyi)
Budapest Zoo: Designed for Nature
Miklos Persanyi
Performance Measurement for Sustainable Development: Compendium of Experts, Initiative and Publications (Laszlo Pinter, Peter Hardi)
Performance Measurement for Sustainable Development: Compendium of Experts, Initiative and Publications
Laszlo Pinter, Peter Hardi
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A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years (Jorgen Randers)
A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
Jorgen Randers
Shelter in India (Sustainable Development Series) (Aromar Revi)
Shelter in India (Sustainable Development Series)
Aromar Revi
Recovering from Earthquakes: Response, Reconstruction and Impact Mitigation in India (Aromar Revi, Shirish Patel)
Recovering from Earthquakes: Response, Reconstruction and Impact Mitigation in India
Aromar Revi, Shirish Patel
Paradise Poisoned: Learning About Conflict, Terrorism and Development from Sri Lanka’s Civil Wars (John Richardson)
Paradise Poisoned: Learning About Conflict, Terrorism and Development from Sri Lanka’s Civil Wars
John Richardson
Breakthrough: Emerging New Thinking: Soviet and Western Scholars Issue a Challenge to Build a World Beyond War (Authors including John Richardson)
Breakthrough: Emerging New Thinking: Soviet and Western Scholars Issue a Challenge to Build a World Beyond War
Authors include John Richardson
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Business Dynamics (John Sterman)
Business Dynamics
John Sterman
The Economic Long Wave: Theory and Evidence (John Sterman)
The Economic Long Wave: Theory and Evidence
John Sterman
Modeling for Learning Organizations (Systems Dynamics Series) (John Sterman, John D. W. Morecroft)
Modeling for Learning Organizations (Systems Dynamics Series)
John Sterman, John D. W. Morecroft
Developing Principles and Models for Sustainable Forestry in Sweden (Managing Forest Ecosystems) (Harald Sverdrup, Ingrid Stjernquist)
Developing Principles and Models for Sustainable Forestry in Sweden (Managing Forest Ecosystems)
Harald Sverdrup, Ingrid Stjernquist
Cultural Theory (Michael Thompson, Richard Ellis, Aaron Wildavsky, Trustee Mary Wildavsky)
Cultural Theory
Michael Thompson, Richard Ellis, Aaron Wildavsky, Trustee Mary Wildavsky
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Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archeology
Sander van der Leeuw, James McGlade
The Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems (Sander van der Leeuw, Timothy Kohler, et al)
The Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems
Sander van der Leeuw, Timothy Kohler, et al
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth (Mathis Wackernagel, William Rees, Phil Testemale)
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
Mathis Wackernagel, William Rees, Phil Testemale
Sharing Nature’s Interest: Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability (Mathis Wackernagel, Nicky Chambers, Craig Simmons)
Sharing Nature’s Interest: Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability
Mathis Wackernagel, Nicky Chambers, Craig Simmons
Bankrupting Nature: Denying our planetary boundaries (Anders Wijkman and Johan Rockström)
Bankrupting Nature: Denying our planetary boundaries (Anders Wijkman and Johan Rockström)
Anders Wijkman, Johan Rockström
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Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future
Steven McFadden
+2 degrees. Why We Should Warm Up To Save The World (German)
Helga Kromp-Kolb, Herbert Formayer
Sustainable Agriculture – From Common Principles to Common Practice
Laszlo Pinter and Fritz J. Häni, eds.
Capacity Building for Integrated Environmental Assessment and Reporting
Laszlo Pinter, Kaveh Zahedi, David R. Cressman
Social Ecology. Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space
Haberl, H., Fischer-Kowalski, M., Krausmann, F., Winiwarter, V. (Eds.)
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Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity
Schandl H., Fischer-Kowalski, M., West, et al.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, Area 9/1e – Ecological and Environmental Sciences
Fischer-Kowalski, M., H. Rau and K. Zimmerer (eds.)
Driving over a cliff? Business Lessons from the World’s Car Industry
Graeme Maxton, John Wormald
Time for a Model Change: Re-engineering the Global Automotive Industry
Graeme Maxton, John Wormald
The End of Progress: How Modern Economics Has Failed Us
Graeme Maxton
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Reinventing Prosperity: Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality and Climate Change
Graeme Maxton, Jorgen Randers
One percent is enough: Fighting social inequality, unemployment and climate change with little growth (German)
Jorgen Randers, Graeme Maxton
Change! Why we need a radical turnaround (German)
Graeme Maxton
Global Climate Emergency (German)
Graeme Maxton, Maren Urner, Felix Austen
The Happiness Policy Handbook – How to Make Happiness and Well-Being the Purpose of Your Government
Laura Musikanski, Rhonda Phillips, Jean Crowder
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Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense: A Handbook for Investors, Businesses, Finance Professionals, and Everybody Else
Michael Shuman, Gwendolyn Hallsmith
Cities on a Finite Planet. Towards transformative responses to climate change
Sheridan Bartlett, David Satterthwaite
Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South
David Satterthwaite, Diana Mitlin
Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature
Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite
Water and Sanitation in the World’s Cities: Local Action for Global Goals
David Satterthwaite, Gordon McGranahan, UN-Habitat
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Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World: Finding Solutions in Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Jorge E. Hardoy, Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite
The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities
David Satterthwaite
The Environment for Children: Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards That Threaten Children and Their Parents
David Satterthwaite, Roger Hart, Caren Levy, Diana Mitlin, David Ross, Jac Smit, Carolyn Stephens
Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World
Jorge E. Hardoy, David Satterthwaite
Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy
Richard Heinberg, David Fridley
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Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Richard Heinberg
Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
Richard Heinberg

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
Richard Heinberg
Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis
Richard Heinberg
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
Richard Heinberg
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The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse
Richard Heinberg
Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
Richard Heinberg
The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Richard Heinberg

Managing Complexity in Social Systems: Leverage Points for Policy and Strategy
Christoph Mandl
Silicon Valley Customer Expectations: Resilience and Innovation in a Changing Climate
Marianna Grossman

(Chapter 9 of Sustainable Electricity II)

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Perspectives on Global Change: The TARGETS Approach
Jan Rotmans, Bert de Vries
Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability: A Course in Systems Change
Laura Musikanski, Rhonda Phillips, James Bradbury, John de Graaf, Clinton L. Bliss
Mindfulness for a Happy Life: New Teachings of an Old Tradition for Today’s World
Robert Beatty, Laura Musikanski
Resetting Our Future: A Chicken Can’t Lay a Duck Egg
Graeme Maxton, Bernice Maxton-Lee
Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability: Orientations for Contemporary Research
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Anette Reenberg, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer
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With our own hands: A celebration of food and life in the Pamir mountains of Afghanistan and Tajikistan
Frederik van Oudenhoven, Jamila Haider
What was Education For? Learning in the shadow of climate change
Isak Stoddard

(Chapter in Social Ecology and Education: Transforming Worldvievs and Practices)

Modelling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanisation in Pre-industrial Societies
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann, Barbara Smetschka

(Chapter in Long Term Socio-Ecological Research: Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales)

DAY ZERO: One City’s Response to a record-breaking drought
Leonie Joubert, Gina ZiervogeL
A Finer Future: Creating an economy in service to Life
L. Hunter Lovins, Stewart Wallis, Anders Wijkman, John Fullerton

(PDF e-book also available)

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Ecological Tax Reform: A Policy Proposal for Sustainable Development
Ernst Von Weizsacker, Jochen Jesinghaus

(Online version available)

Tales of the Whirling Rainbow: Myth and Mystery for Our Times
Steven McFadden
Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
Richard Heinberg
Transformation Literacy – Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations
Petra Künkel, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir (eds.)

(Includes contributions from BG members Justine Braby and Catharina Any Sulistyowati)

Riverine Ecosystem Management – Science for Governing Towards a Sustainable Future
Stefan Schmutz, Jan Sendzimir
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Construction Ecology: Nature as the Basis for Green Buildings
Charles J. Kibert, Jan Sendzimir, G. Bradley Guy
Introduction to Development Engineering
Temina Madon, Ashok J. Gadgil, Richard Anderson, Lorenzo Casaburi, Kenneth Lee, Arman Rezaee (eds.)
Wir können auch anders
Maja Göpel
La Troisième voie du vivant
Olivier Hamant
Keeping the World’s Environment under Review – An Intellectual History of the Global Environment Outlook
Jan Bakkes, Marion Cheatle, Nora Mžavanadze, László Pintér, Ronald G. Witt
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