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The Top 50 Sustainability Books Contents Introduction Polly Courtice, Director, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership 8 THE TOP 50 SUSTAINABILITY BOOKS 1 A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold L11949) 2 Silent Spring Rachel Carson (1962) 3 Unsafe At Any Speed Ralph Nader (1965) 4 The Population Bomb Paul L. Ehrlich (1968) 5 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth R Buckminster Fuller (1969) 6 The Limits to Growth Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers and William W. Behrens III (1972) 7 Small Is Beautiful E.F. Schumacher (1973) 8 Gaia James Lovelock (1979) 9 The Turning Fritjof Capra (1982) 10 Our Common Future ('The Brundtland Report') World Commission on Environment and Development (19871 11 The Dream of the Earth Thomas Berry (1988) 12 A Fate Worse Than Debt Susan George (1988) 13 Staying Alive Vandana Shiva (1989) 14 Blueprint for a Green Economy David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward B. Barbier (1989) 15 For the Common Good Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr (1989) 16 Human Scale Development Manfred Max-Neef (1989) 17 Changing Course Stephan Schmidheiny and the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD) (1992) 18 The Ecology of Commerce Paul Hawken (1993) 19 Maverick Ricardo Semler (1993) 20 When Corporations Rule the World David C. Korten (1995) 21 Biomimicry Janine M. Benyus (1997) 22 Cannibals with Forks John Elkington (1997) 23 The Hungry Charles Handy (1997) 24 Banker to the Poor Muhammad Yunus (1998) 10 14 18 22 27 31 38 42 47 52 56 60 65 70 77 82 87 91 95 99 104 108 113 118 25 The Crisis of Global Capitalism George Soros (1998) 26 Factor Four Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (1998) 27 False Dawn John Gray (1998) 28 Devement as Freedom Amartya Sen (1999) 29 No Logo Naomi Klein (1999) 30 Natural Capitalism Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L Hunter Lovins (1999) 31 Business as Unusual Anita Roddic(2000) 32 The Mystery of Capital Hernando de Soto (2000) 33 The Civil Corporation Simon Zadek (2001) 34 Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser (2001) 35 The Skeptical Environmentalist Björn Lomborg (2001) 36 Cradle to Cradle William McDonough and Michael Braungart (2002) 37 Globalization and its Discontents Joseph E. Stiglitz (2002) 38 The Corporation Joel Bakan (2004) 39 Presence Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and BettySue Flowers (2004 40 The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid C.K. Prahalad (2004) 41 The River Runs Black Elizabeth C. Economy (2004 42 Capitalism as if the World Matters Jonathon Porritt (2005) 43 Capitalism at the Crossroads Stuart L. Hart (2005) 44 Collapse Jared Diamond (2005) 45 The End of Poverty Jeffrey D. Sachs (2005) 46 The Chaos Point Ervin Laszlo (2006) 47 Heat George Monbiot (2006) 48 An Inconvenient Truth AI Gore (2006) 49 When the Rivers Run Dry Fred Pearce (2006) 50 The Economics of Climate Change Nicholas Stem (2007) Conclusion Mike Peirce, Deputy Director, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership 123 127 135 139 143 147 154 158 162 167 171 176 182 187 192 200 204 209 214 219 223 228 233 238 242 247 252 254 255 About the author About CPSL