Snake Oil
Subtitled 'how fracking's false promise of plenty imperils our future', this is the latest in a series of informative books that I have reviewed by…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Bankrupting Nature
Authors: Anders Wijkman, Johan Rockström
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
This report to the Club of Rome by authors with a background in politics and environmentalism is one of the most thorough analyses of the…… Read More »
Is the Planet Full?
This multi-author volume examines the impacts of population growth through many disciplinary lenses from departments within Oxford University. The flyleaf refers to the Julian Simon…… Read More »
Divided Nations
Ian Goldin is Director of the Oxford Martin School, which includes over 300 leading Oxford researchers from medicine, physical and social sciences and humanities working…… Read More »
Spindrift
A wind-swept Peter Reason peers out of the back cover of this beautifully written account of his wilderness pilgrimage at sea - he retired from…… Read More »
Holonomics
Authors: Maria Moraes Robinson, Simon Robinson
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
The authors of this ground breaking book dedicate it to Henri Bortoft, who was teaching at Schumacher College during the MSc in holistic science pioneered…… Read More »
Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change
This is a technical work about renewing damaged ecosystems based on the author's own experience of restoration ecology with a number of case studies. Ecological…… Read More »
Environment and Food
Although written as a textbook, this is a highly accessible and comprehensive account of the relationship between environment and food, both now and potentially in…… Read More »
Environmental Security
Authors: Richard A. Matthew, Rita Floyd
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Surprisingly, this is the first multidisciplinary volume on the developing field of environmental security dealing with the interaction between economic development, population growth and resource…… Read More »
Occupy Spirituality
This powerful dialogue between two radical thinkers from different generations highlights the connection between contemplation and action and calls for a more radical engagement with…… Read More »