Reading list for Env Biosci in a Changing Climate

HR902 Soil, Water and Mineral Nutrition

Brady, N.C. & Weil, R.R. (2002). The Nature and Properties of Soils. Prentice
Hall.
Lambers, H. (1998). Plant Physiological Ecology. Springer-Verlag New York.
ISBN 0387983260
Bardgett, R (2005). The biology of soil. A community and ecosystem
approach. Oxford University Press

HR903 Bioscience, Politics and Social Acceptability

Mepham, B (2005). Bioethics, an introduction for the biosciences. Oxford
University Press

HR926 Environmental Microbiology

General text book

Madigan, Martinko, Dunlap, Clark. Brock Biology of microorganisms. 2012.

13th ed, Pearson.

Websites:

MicrobeWiki: http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/

Virtual microbiology: http://learn.chm.msu.edu/vibl/index.html

HR919 Env Accounting and Ecosystem Services

None of these texts are core but they all provide useful background material and
context to the module and will assist you in providing more information on specific
subjects covered in the lectures.

General overview

Humanity's footprint: Momentum, impact and our global environment -

Dodds
National environmental accounting: Bridging the gap between ecology and
ecology - Hecht
 What is land for? The food, fuel and climate change debate - Winter & Lobley
(2009)
Virtual Water: Tackling the threat to our planet's most precious resource -
Allan (2011)
Food versus fuel: An informed introduction to biofuels - Rosillo-Calle &
Johnson (2010)

Life Cycle Assessment

The Hitchhiker's guide to LCA - Baumann and Tillman

LCA for mere mortals: A primer on environmental LCA - Schenck

Footprinting

Our ecological footprint: Reducing human impact on the earth - Wackernagel

and Rees (1996)
Sharing Nature's Interest: Ecological footprints as an indicator of
sustainability - Chambers, Simmons and Wackernagel (2000)
PAS2050: Specification for the assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions
of goods and services - BSi
How bad are bananas? The carbon footprint of everything - Berners-Lee
(2010)
Globalization of water: Sharing the planet's freshwater resources - Hoekstra
and Chapagain (2008)

Ecosystem Services

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?: How Money Really Does Grow On
Trees. Tony Juniper
UK National Ecosystem Assessment
An introductory guide to valuing ecosystem services
Biodiversity off-setting - UK
The value of the worlds ecosystem services and natural capital - Constanza
et al., 1997
Thompson, K. (2010). Do we need pandas? The uncomfortable truth about
biodiversity. Green Books.

HR920: Climate Change

Books:

Recommended texts:

Global Climate Change, By Arnold J Bloom, Sinauer Associates Inc.

 Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, By John Houghton, Cambridge
University Press
Global Warming. Avery short introduction. By Mark Maslin, Oxford uNiversity
Press

Other relevant reading:

Climate Change and Biodiversity, Edited by Thomas E Lovejoy and Lee

Hannah Yale University Press
Plant Growth and Climate Change, Edited by James IL Morrison and Michael
D Morecroft, Blackwell
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change, A Guide to the Debate, By
Andrew E Dessler and Edward A Parson, Cambridge University Press
Global Warming. A very short introduction. By Mark Maslin Oxford University
Press
Environmental Change: Key Issues and Alternative Perspectives. By Frank
Oldfield. Cambridge University Press
Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Facts, Policy
Analysis, and Applications By Mohan Munasinghe and Rob Swart. Cambridge
University Press
A Climate Modelling Primer - Third Edition by Kendal McGuffie and Ann
Henderson Sellers. Wiley.
On line:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 4th Assessment.
http://www.ipcc.ch/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 3rd Assessment.
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/index.htm
US National Climatic Data centre.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

DVD:

An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore

The Great Global Warming Swindle Martin Durkin

HR922 Organic and other low input systems

General Reading

Briggs, S. Organic Cereal and Pulse Production: A Complete Guide .

Conford P (2001). The Origins of the Organic Movement. Floris Books;
Edinburgh
Davies, G. & Lennartsson, M. Organic Vegetable Production: A Complete
Guide.
 Davies, G. & Turner, B. Weed Management for Organic Farmers, Growers and
Smallholders: A Complete Guide
Hajek, A. (2003) Natural Enemies: An Introduction to Biological Control.
Cambridge University Press.
Lampkin N. H. (1990). Organic Farming. Farming Press; Ipswich
Pretty, J. Agri-culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
Pretty, J. The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and Our
Place in It.
Wright, J. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity -
Lessons from CubaWeb sites

Websites

Web site on evolution of crop plants - University of California

UK Soil Association

IFOAM web site - International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements

UK Advisory Committee on Organic Standards (ACOS)

Apple production - Pesticide Action Network

ABACUS Organic Associates

Countryside and Community Research Institute

Garden Organic

Abbey Home Farm

Papers

Sustainable Agriculture in the Middle Ages: The English Manor by Jules Pretty

Farmers' extension practice and technology adaptation: Agricultural

revolution in 1719th century Britain by Jules Pretty

Reports

UNEP report - Our Nutrient World

Extra information recommended by Matt Reed

General academic

Buck, Getz and J. Guthman (1997) From farm to table: The organic vegetable
commodity chain of northern california. Sociologia Ruralis, 37(1) pp. 3-19

Tovey, H. (1997) Food, environmentalism and rural sociology: On the organic

farming movement in Ireland. Sociologia Ruralis, 37(1)

UK

Conford, P. (2001) The origins of the organic movement, (Edinburgh: Floris

Books)

Reed, M. (2001) Fight the future!: How the contemporary campaigns of the
UK organic movement have arisen from their composting of the
past. Sociologia Ruralis, 41(1) pp. 131-146

Smith, E. and T. Marsden (2004) Exploring the 'limits to growth' in UK

organics: Beyond the statistical image. Journal of Rural Studies, 20(pp. 345-
357

North America

Journalistic

Formartz, S. (2006) Organic inc. Natural foods and how they grew, (New York:
Harcourt)

Pollan, M. (2006) The omnivore's dilemma, (London: Penguin)

Academic

Guthman, J. (2004) Agrarian dreams. The paradox of organic farming in

california, (Berkley: University of California Press)

Rest of the World

Holt, G. and M. Reed (eds.) (2006) The sociology of organic

agriculture, (Wallingford, CABI)
 Lockie, S., K. Lyons, G. Lawrence and D. Halpin (2006) Going organic.
Mobilizing networks for environmentally responsible food
production, (Wallingford: CABI)

Websites

http://www.ifoam.org/

http://www.organicmonitor.com/

http://www.organicconsumers.org/

www.soilassociation.org

http://www.organictradeboard.co.uk/

Information - livestock

http://www.omsco.co.uk/ Organic milk supply co-op

http://www.olmc.co.uk/ Organic livestock marketing co-op

http://www.organicvet.co.uk/ Organic veterinary compendium

http://www.organicadvice.org.uk/ Institute of Organic Trainers and Advisers

HR923 Biological Invasions in Changing Environments

We have designated two main core texts to support your learning in this module.

These books provide general frameworks for invasion biology and ecology and are
particularly useful in providing additional background reading to introductory
lectures. They also provide a number of case studies which may be referred to by
individual lecturers:

Lockwood JL, Hoopes MF & Marchetti MP, 2007. Invasion Ecology. Blackwell
Publishing
Davis MA, 2009. Invasion Biology. Oxford University Press

Other texts provide further insights into invasion ecology:

Williamson M, 1996. Biological Invasions. Chapman & Hall.

Mooney HA, Hobbs RJ, 2000. Invasive Species in a Changing World. Island
Press.
Additional literature will be cited by lecturers and key references will be provided via
lecture notes as appropriate.

HR924 Biodiversity & Conservation

The following textbooks are essential reading for this module:

Pullen, A. S. (2002) Conservation Biology (Fifth Edition - 2009) ISBN 978-0-

521-64482-2
Groom, M. J., Meffe, G. K. & Carroll, C. R. (2006) Principles of Conservation
Biology (Third edition) ISNB 978-0-87893-518-5
Wilson, E. O. (1988) Biodiversity ISBN 0-309-03739-5

The following textbooks are recommended reading for this module (choose
dependent on your interest and the time you have available)

Reaka-Kudla, M. L. et al. (1997) Biodiversity II ISBN 0-309-05584-9

Thompson, J. N. (2005) The Geographic Mosaic Theory of Coevolution ISBN
0-226-79762-7
Silvertown, J. (2005) Demons in Eden, the Paradox of Plant Diversity ISBN 0-
226-75771-4
Shiva, V. (1993) Monoculture of the mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and
Scientific Agriculture ISBN 978-18567492171
Harberd, N. (2006) Seed to Seed, the Secret Life of Plants ISBN 0-7475-7039-
6

The following textbook provides a good background to the ecological concepts of

biodiversity:

Begon, M., Harper, J. L. & Townsend, C. R. (1986) Ecology ISBN 063213397

HR933 Challenges of Global Food Security

Food security, nutrition and sustainability (2010). Edited by Geoffrey
Lawrence, Krista Lyons and Tabatha Wellington. Earthscan.

Food security (2010). Bryan L. McDonald. Polity

Food Security and Global Environmental Change (2010). John Ingram (Editor),
Polly Ericksen (Editor), Diana Liverman (Editor). Earthscan
 The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules
on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security (2008). Tasmin
Rajotte(Author), Geoff Tansey (Editor). Earthscan.

Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (2008). Carolyn Steel.

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: lessons

from Cuba (2009). Julia Wright. Earthscan.

HR945 Environmental Protection, Risk Assessment and Safety

Sustainable energy without the hot air URL

Get a free download of Prof David Mackay's book

How the Laws of Physics Constrain Our Sustainable Energy Options URL

Watch TEDxWarwick - David MacKay

LA9A9 International Environmental Law

Indicative Reading List

A. Bodansky, The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate

Change: A Commentary (1993) 18 Yale Journal of International Law 451-558.

J. Coleman, Environmental Barriers to Trade and EC Law (1993) 2(11) EELR

295.

Peter GG Davies, European Union Environmental Law Ashgate, London, 2004.

R. French, The Changing Nature of Environmental Protection: Recent

developments Regarding Trade and the Environment in the European Union
and the World Trade Organization (2000) XLVII Netherlands International Law
Review 1.

L. Gormley, Free Movement of Goods and the Environment in J. Holder ed.,

The Impact of EC Environment Law in the UK (1997) 289.

W. Grant, D.Matthews and P. Newell, The Effectiveness of European Union

Environmental Policy, London: Macmillan, 2000

L. Kramer, EC Environmental Law London, 5th edition Sweet and Maxwell,

2003
 L. Kramer, Casebook on EC Environmental Law Oxford: Hart Publishing , 2002

M. Lee, EU Environmental Law Oxford: Hart Publishing , 2005.

J. and S, McEldowney, Environmental Law and Regulation Oxford: 2000.

J and S McEldowney, Environmental Law Longman, 2010

J. Scott, EC Environmental Law London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1998.

Han Somsen (Editor), Yearbook of European Environmental Law Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 2000 - .

S. Tromans, EC Waste Law - A Complete Mess? (2001) 13 (2) JEL 133.

H. Wilkinson, Subsidiarity and EC Environmental Policy: Taking Peoples

Concerns Seriously (1994) 6(1) JEL 85.

Also see

European Environmental Law Review ( monthly)

The Yearbook of Environmental Law (yearly)

Review of EC and International Environmental Law (tri-annually)