Eco-browsing…..

*Ecosystems * Boundaries * Climate * Coasts * Circularity * Community Empowerment * Consciousness * Energy * Fields * Floes * Food * Forests * Fungi * Gardens * Groundwater * Hedges * History * Ice * Indigenous Knowledge * Environmental Justice * Lakes * Landscapes * Legal Standing * Local Know-how * Meadows * Nature-connectedness * Nature Rights * Plants * Power * Regenerative Agriculture * Rivers * Seas * Snow * Soil * Springs * The Amazon * The Cryosphere * Tipping Points * Trees * Wildlife – Wonders, Declines, Conservation * Warming * Water * Wildflowers * Woodlands * ……….

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This Green Bookshelf springs from a love of reading, nature and exploration. Once you’ve been bitten by the reading bug, you can travel through the Amazon or the sub-Arctic without getting bitten by bugs, and without flying. The books listed here won’t tell you what to do about global warming, biodiversity decline, plastic avoidance, or what to eat. But, you might be inspired by someone’s writing. You might find authors, or their readers, with something that works for you. If nothing else, you can have fun reading, and talking about it over a lovely cup of tea. Cake optional.

Resilience

vibrant cluster of mushrooms on tree trunk
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Rupert Read, Liam Kavanagh, and Rosie Bell. The Climate Majority Project: Setting the Stage for an Urgent, Mainstream Climate Movement. London Publishing Partnership, 2023..

Lance H. Gunderson and C. S. Holling. Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. Island Press, 2002.

Kenneth E. Seligson. The Maya and Climate Change: Human-Environmental Relationships in the Classic Period Lowlands. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Eco-topical

Ecosystems

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Samantha Harvey, Orbital (London: Vintage, 2024).

James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979, Reissued with a new preface and corrections, 2000).

James Lovelock with Bryan Appleyard, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (London: Penguin, 2019).

Donnella H. Meadows. Systems Thinking: A Primer (White River Junction: Chelsea Green, 2008).

Howard T. Odum, The Environment, Power and Society (Columbia: Columbia University Press, 2007).

Landscapes – Forests, Woodlands, Hedges, Gardens, Fields, Meadows

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John W. Dover (Ed.), The Ecology of Hedgerows and Field Margins (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019).

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison, Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm, and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests (London: Witness, 2025).

Christopher Hart with Jonathan Thomson, Hedgelands: a Wild Wander Around Britain’s Greatest Habitat (London: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2024).

Paul Lamb, Of Thorn and Briar: a Year with a West Country Hedgelayer (London: Simon & Schuster, 2025).

Richard Mabey. The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space in Between (London: Profile Books, 2025).

Richard and Nina Muir, Hedgerows: Their History and Wildlife (London: Michael Joseph, 1987).

Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain (London: William Collins, 2023).

John Lewis-Stempel. A Natural History of England (London: Transworld, 2024 ebook)

Ecotones: nature-culture mind-merge….See also “Plants, Wildflowers, Fungi…” and “Trees…”

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Rob Dunn. Never Home Alone: from Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live. New York: Basic Books, 2018.

Peter Godfrey-Smith. Other Minds. The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life. London: William Collins, 2016.

Peter Godfrey-Smith. Metazoa. Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness. London: William Collins, 2020.

Petru Popescu, Amazon Beaming (London: Abacus, 1993).

Eco-fiction, Science Fiction…

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Brian Aldiss. Hothouse. London: Penguin, 1961.

Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo and Other Stories. Oxford: OUP, 2023.

Sarah Hall, Helm . London: Faber & Faber, 2025.

Olga Tokarczuk. Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead. London: Fitzcarraldo, 2009.

Nature Rights, Legal Standing, Personhood…

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Christopher D. Stone. Should Trees Have Standing?: Law, Morality and the Environment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, Third Edition).

Robert MacFarlane, Is a River Alive? (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2025).

The Amazon

Photo by Jools. Earthwatch Expedition, Peruvian Amazon, 2012.

Complicite, The Encounter. See also Ecotones (above) for : Petru Popescu, Amazon Beaming (London: Abacus, 1993).

Dom Phillips & Contributors, How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist’s Deadly Quest for Answers (London: Ithaca, 2025).on Library, 11am.

Andrew Revkin, The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rainforest (Washington DC: Island Press, 1990, 2004).

Wildlife – Wonders, Declines, Conservation…

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Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare (Edinburgh: Canongate).

Derek Gow, Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man’s Quest to Rewild Britain’s Waterways (White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green, 2020).

Jamie Lorimer, Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation After Nature (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.)

Michael Malay, Late Light: The Secret Wonders of a Disappearing World (London: Manilla Press, 2023).

Michelle Nijhuis, Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (New York: Norton, 2021).

Bug Life…Wonders, Declines, Conservation

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Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022).

Sally Coulthard. The Book of the Earthworm.

Dr Nikki Gammans, Dr Richard Comont, Gill Perkins. Bumblebees: An Introduction.

David Goulson, Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (London: Jonathan Cape, 2021).

Barry Henwood and Phil Sterling. A Field Guide to Caterpillars of Great Britain and Ireland. Illustrated by Richard Lewington.

Erica McAlistair. The Secret Life of Flies.

Ice, Snow, Sea Ice, Floes, Permafrost…

Photo by Jools. Mudboil! (Melting permafrost symptom.) CNSC, Earthwatch Expedition 2013.

William E. Glassley, A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of Greenland Ice. New York: Bellevue, 2018.

Trees…. See also “Plants, Wildflowers, Fungi”… “Landscapes”

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Richard Powers, The Overstory (London: Vintage, 2018).

.Callum Robinson, Ingrained: the Making of a Craftsman (London: Transword, 2024).

Suzanne Simard. Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest. London: Allen Lane, 2021.

Peter Wohlleben. The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate. Discoveries from a Secret World (London: Harper Collins, 2016).

Plants, Wildflowers, Fungi…

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Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence. Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence. The Bridge St Press, 2023.

Michael Chinery. Britain’s Plant Galls: A Photographic Guide. Pemberley Books, 2011.

Zoe Schlanger, The Light Eaters: How the New Science of Plant Intelligence Expands Our View of Life on Earth (London: 4th Estate, 2024).

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures (The Bodley Head, 2020).

Robin Wall-Kimmerer. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses London: Penguin, 2021.

See also “Ecotones – Nature / Culture Mind-Merge”.

Water – Clouds, Rain, Seas, Tides, Coasts, Lakes, Rivers, Streams, Springs, Groundwater…

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David Attenborough and Colin Butfield, Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness (London: John Murray, 2025).

Yuan Aves, Intertidal: the Hidden World Between Land and Sea (London: Ithaka, 2025).

Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wilderness (London: Bloomsbury, 2023).

Helen Czerski, Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World (London: Penguin, 2023).

Rose George. Every Last Fish: What Fish do for Us and What We Do to Them. London: Granta, 2025

**Looking for Is a River Alive? See Nature Rights (above).

Planet, Footprints, Warming, Climate, Weather, Energy…

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Brett Christophers, The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet (London: Verso, 2024).

Mike Berners-Lee, How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything (London: Profile Books, Revised 2020 Edition). See also There is no Planet B (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Updated, 2021).

Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilisation (New York: W.W.Norton, 2025).

Hannah Ritchie, Not the End of the World (London: Vintage, 2024).

Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future (London: Orbit, 2020).

John Vaillant, Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (London: Sceptre, 2023).

Society, History, Community, Economy, Markets…

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Partha Dasgupta. On Natural Capital. London: Witness Books, 2025.

Adam Greenfield, Lifehouse (London: Verso,2024).

Jason Hickel, Less is More (London: Penguin, 2022).

David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life (New York: W.W.Norton, 2018).

Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to think Like a 21st Century Economist (Random House, 2018).

Rupert Read, Liam Kavanagh & Rosie Bell (Eds.). The Climate Majority Project: Setting the Stage for a Mainstream, Urgent Climate Movement (London Publishing Partnership, 2024).

Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: an Economy of Gifts and Abundance, London: Penguin, 2024

Nature-Connectedness

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Nick Hayes and Jon Moses. Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You, London: Bloomsbury, 2025.

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