List of non-fiction environmental writers
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Notable non-fiction environmental writers include:
American non-fiction environmental writers[]
Other non-fiction environmental writers[]
Author | Sex | Lifespan | Nationality | Theme(s) | Selected book | |
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Douglas Adams | M | 1952–2001 | English | Conservation movement | Great Ape Project (co-authored) | |
Günter Altner | M | 1936–2011 | German | Environmental ethics | ||
Ndyakira Amooti | M | 1955 or 1956 – 1999 | Ugandan | Conservation movement | ||
Lawrence Anthony | M | 1950–2012 | South African | Conservation movement | Babylon's Ark | |
Lady Eve Balfour | F | 1899–1990 | English | Organic movement | The Living Soil | |
Sharon Beder | F | Australian | Civil engineering | Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism | ||
Tzeporah Berman | F | 1969– | Canadian | Temperate rainforest: clearcutting | ||
Christopher Booker | M | 1937– | English | Various themes | The Real Global Warming Disaster | |
Michael Braungart | M | 1958– | German | Industrial waste | ||
Harold Brookfield | M | 1926– | British and Australian | Rural development, family farms | ||
Hans Bruyninckx | M | 1964– | Belgian | Environmental social science | ||
Verity Burgmann | F | 1952– | Australian | Indigenous land rights | Power, Profit and Protest | |
Helen Caldicott | F | 1938– | Australian | Anti-nuclear movement | ||
Mark Carwardine | M | 1959– | Endangered species | Last Chance to See (co-authored) | ||
Pratap Chatterjee | M | Various themes | ||||
Cormac Cullinan | M | Environmental law | Wild Law | |||
Mark Diesendorf | M | Australian | Sustainable energy | Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy | ||
David Fig | M | South African | Various themes | |||
Tim Flannery | M | 1956– | Australian | Climate change | The Weather Makers | |
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | F | Japanese | Genetic engineering | The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development | ||
Masanobu Fukuoka | M | 1913–2008 | Japanese | Natural farming | ||
John Gibbons | M | Irish | Climate change | |||
Paul Gilding | M | Australian | Various themes | |||
Herbert Girardet | M | Various themes | Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges | |||
Chris Goodall | M | 1955– | English | Various themes | Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate | |
Uri Gordon | M | 1976– | Israeli | Direct action | ||
Nicky Hager | M | 1958 | New Zealander | Various themes | Seeds of Distrust | |
Julia Hailes | F | 1961– | English | Ethical consumerism | The New Green Consumer Guide | |
Clive Hamilton | M | 1953– | Australian | Various themes | Requiem for a Species | |
John L. Harper | M | 1925–2009 | British | Population biology | Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems (co-authored) | |
Lisa Harrow | F | 1943– | Sustainable living | |||
Rizwana Hasan | F | 1968– | Bangladeshi | Environmental law: ship breaking | ||
Dieter Helm | M | British | Energy | |||
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (biologist) | M | 1959– | Australian | Coral reefs | ||
Thomas Homer-Dixon | M | 1956– | Canadian | Petroleum industry | The Upside of Down | |
Kenneth Hsu | M | Swiss | Various themes | |||
Mike Hulme | M | 1960– | English | Climate change | Why We Disagree About Climate Change | |
Leonie Joubert | F | South African | Climate change | Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate | ||
Rahanna Alicia Juman | F | Trinidad and Tobago | Wetlands, Ecology | Wetlands of Trinidad & Tobago[1] | ||
Yoshikazu Kawaguchi | M | 1939– | Japanese | Natural farming | ||
David Keith | M | Canadian | Climate change | |||
Petra Kelly | F | 1947–1992 | German | Disarmament | ||
Bruce Kinloch | M | 1919–2011 | British | Wildlife conservation | The Shamba Raiders | |
Satish Kumar | M | 1936– | Indian, English | |||
Nigel Lawson | M | 1932– | British | Climate change | An Appeal to Reason | |
Richard Leakey | M | 1944–2022 | Kenyan | Conservation movement | Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures (co-authored) | |
Jeremy Leggett | M | 1954– | English | Various themes | Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis | |
Howard Liddell | M | 1945–2013 | British | Sustainable development and passive housing | ||
Andre Lima | M | 1971– | Brazilian | Various themes | ||
Bjørn Lomborg | M | 1965– | Danish | Various themes | The Skeptical Environmentalist | |
James Lovelock | M | 1919– | English | Various themes | The Revenge of Gaia | |
Ian Lowe | M | Australian | Various themes | Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option | ||
Philip Lymbery | M | 1965– | British | Industrial agriculture | Farmageddon | |
Mark Lynas | M | 1973– | British | Various themes | Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet | |
Andri Snær Magnason | M | 1973– | Icelandic | Hydroelectricity | Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation | |
Thomas Robert Malthus | M | 1766–1834 | English | Population growth | An Essay on the Principle of Population | |
Samuel Mann | M | New Zealand | Sustainability | |||
George Marshall | M | 1964– | British | Climate change | Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change | |
David Maybury-Lewis | M | 1929–2007 | Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World | |||
Alastair McIntosh | M | 1955– | Scottish | Various themes | ||
Ian McKay | M | 1962– | English | |||
Anupam Mishra | M | 1948– | Indian | Water management | ||
George Monbiot | M | 1963– | English | Climate change | ||
Andrew Montford | M | English | Climate change | The Hockey Stick Illusion | ||
N. K. Sukumaran Nair | M | 1942– | Indian | Pamba River | ||
Andrew Nikiforuk | M | Canadian | ||||
Helena Norberg-Hodge | F | Sustainable living | Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh | |||
Mark O'Connor | M | 1945– | Australian | Various themes | ||
Guy Pearse | M | Australian | Climate change | High and Dry | ||
Sharon Pincott | F | Australian | Conservation Movement | |||
Ian Plimer | M | 1946– | Australian | Various themes | Heaven and Earth | |
Li Quan | F | Chinese | Tiger conservation | Rewilded, Saving the South China Tiger (bilingual, English and Chinese) | ||
Jørgen Randers | M | 1945– | Norwegian | Climate change | 2052 - A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years | |
Valentin Rasputin | M | 1937– | Russian | Water management | ||
Derek Ratcliffe | M | 1929–2005 | British | Conservation movement | A Nature Conservation Review (2 volumes) | |
Emma Romeu | F | Cuban | ||||
David Mayer de Rothschild | M | 1978– | British | Various themes | ||
Palagummi Sainath | M | 1957– | Indian | Various themes | ||
R. Murray Schafer | M | 1933– | Canadian | Acoustic ecology | , republished as | |
Hermann Scheer | M | 1944–2010 | German | Renewable energy | Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy | |
E. F. Schumacher | M | 1911–1977 | British | Appropriate technology | Small Is Beautiful | |
Philip Sherrard | M | 1922–1995 | British | Religion and environmentalism | ||
Vandana Shiva | F | 1952– | Indian | Various themes | ||
Stanislav Edward Shmelev | M | British | Ecological economics | |||
Rick Smith | M | 1968– | Canadian | Medical toxicology | (co-authored) | |
Lawrence Solomon | M | 1948– | Canadian | Various themes | The Deniers | |
David Suzuki | M | 1936– | Canadian | Various themes | The Sacred Balance | |
Peter Tertzakian | M | Canadian | Energy industry | |||
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta | M | 1955– | Indian | Energy in India | Gas Wars | |
Josef Velek | M | 1939–1990 | Czechoslovak, Czech | |||
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker | M | 1939– | German | |||
Sanjay Singh Yadav | M | Indian | ||||
Lü Zhi | F | 1965– | Chinese | Conservation of giant pandas and other species |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Gobin, Judith (2011-12-31). "Book Review - Wetlands of Trinidad and Tobago by Rahanna Juman". Living World, Journal of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club. ISSN 1029-3299.
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