Environmental Management: Principles and practice

Recommended reading and resources
Introductory books and handbooks
Brown, L.R. (ed.) (annual) State of the World: a WorldWatch Institute report on
progress toward a sustainable society. Norton, New York (readable annual
review of environmental issues and release of data collected by WWI).
O’Riordan, T. (ed.) (1995) Environmental Science for Environmental Management.
Addison Wesley Longman, Harlow.
O’Riordan, T. and Turner, R.K. (eds) (1983) An Annotated Reader in Environmental
Planning and Management. Pergamon, Oxford.
Owen, L. and Unwin, T. (1997) Environmental Management: readings and case
studies. Blackwell, Oxford.
Theodore, L., Dupont, R.R. and Baxter, T.E. (1998) Environmental Management:
problems and solutions. CRC Press, Boulder (Springer, New York) (see part 1).
UNDP (1992) Handbook and Guidelines for Environmental Management and
Sustainable Development. United Nations Development Programme, New York.
UNEP/INFOTERRA/IDS (1997) Guide to Environment and Development Sources
of Information on CD-ROM and the Internet. Intermediate Technology
Publications, London.
Wilson, G.A. and Bryant, R.L. (1997) Environmental Management: new directions
for the twenty-first century. University College London Press, London.
Abstracts
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Environmental Abstracts—Bethesda MD 20814–3389
GeoAbstracts—Elsevier, Norwich, UK NR3 3AP
Internet
This is a small selection, and it should be noted that these sources change, may
disappear, and are often of unknown provenance (compared with established
journals, etc.).
Katz, M. and Thornton, D. (1997) Environmental Management Tools on the Internet.
Soil and Water Conservation Society, Ankeny, ISBN 1–57444059–4.
Schumann, R.W. III (ed.) (1994) Eco-data: using your PC to obtain free environmental
information. Government Institutes Inc., Rockville (MD 20850).
http://www.eea.dk/frames/main.html — European Environmental Agency.
http://www.epa.gov/global warming — Global warming.
http://www.gn.apc.org — Green Net home page.
http://www.iied.org — International Institute for Environment and Development (in
UK telephone [phone]).
http://www.iucn.org — IUCN home page.

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http://www.Panda.org/home.htm — WWF International.
http://www.unep.ch — UNEP site, conference information.
http://www.www.wyw.ac.uk — University of London, Wye College postgraduate
environmental management courses by distance learning.