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This is a list of environmental non-fiction writers.

Author Sex Lifespan Nationality Theme(s) Selected book
Edward Abbey M 1927–1989 American Various themes The Monkey Wrench Gang
Virginia Abernethy F 1934– American Carrying capacity Population Politics: The Choices that Shape our Future
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
Terry L. Anderson M American Free-market environmentalism Free Market Environmentalism (co-authored)
Lawrence Anthony M 1950–2012 South African Conservation movement Babylon's Ark
Ron Arnold M 1937– American Natural resources
Isaac Asimov M 1920–92 American Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb (co-authored)
Ed Ayres M American Various themes God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future
Ronald Bailey M 1953– American Global warming
Lady Eve Balfour F 1899–1990 English Organic movement The Living Soil
Bruce Barcott M American Wildlife The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier
Peter Barnes M American Carbon emissions Climate Solutions: A Citizen's Guide
Albert Bates M 1947– American Various themes Climate in Crisis
Glenn Beck M 1964– American Various themes An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
Roy Beck M American Urban planning
Sharon Beder F Australian Civil engineering Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Art Bell M 1945– American Climate change The Coming Global Superstorm
Tom Bender M American Green architecture Environmental Design Primer
Tzeporah Berman F 1969– Canadian Temperate rainforest: clearcutting Clayoquot & Dissent
Henry Beston M 1888–1968 American Natural history The Outermost House
Robert O. Binnewies M 1937– American Environmental protection Palisades: 100,000 acres in 100 years
Brian Black M American Various themes Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
H. Emerson Blake M American Ecology
Murray Bookchin M 1921–2006 American Social ecology Our Synthetic Environment (pseudonymously)
Christopher Booker M 1937– English Various themes The Real Global Warming Disaster
Stewart Brand M 1938– American Various themes Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Michael Braungart M 1958– German Industrial waste
Harold Brookfield M 1926– British and Australian Rural development, family farms Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, Analysing and Using Agricultural Diversity
Hans Bruyninckx M 1964– Belgian Environmental social science
Lester R. Brown M 1934– American Various themes World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
Marilyn A. Brown F American Various themes Climate Change and Global Energy Security
Michael Brune M American Various themes Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal
Robert Bryce M American Various themes Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
Verity Burgmann F 1952– Australian Indigenous land rights Power, Profit and Protest
Helen Caldicott F 1938– Australian Anti-nuclear movement
Ernest Callenbach M 1929– American Simple living
David George Campbell M 1949– American Tropical wildlife A Land of Ghosts
Archie Carr M 1909–1987 American Sea turtle conservation A Naturalist in Florida
Donald Eaton Carr M 1903–1986 American Air and water pollution Death of the Sweet Waters
Rachel Carson F 1907–1964 American Environmental impact of pesticides Silent Spring
Mark Carwardine M 1959– Endangered species Last Chance to See (co-authored)
Steve Chase M American Environmental justice
Pratap Chatterjee M Various themes Gold, Greed, and Genocide: Unmasking the Myth of the '49ers
Ward Churchill M 1947– American Indigenous land rights Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization
Theo Colborn M American Endocrine disruptors Our Stolen Future : How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival (co-authored)
Melissa Coleman F 1969– American Back-to-the-land movement This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
Barry Commoner M 1917– American Ecology Making Peace with the Planet
Philip Connors M American Wilderness Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout
Erik M. Conway M American
Joseph Bharat Cornell M American Outdoor education Sharing Nature with Children
Greg Craven M American Climate change What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
Heidi Cullen F American Climate change The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet
Cormac Cullinan M Environmental law Wild Law
E. Kyle Datta M American Renewable energy Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security (co-authored)
Laurie David M 1958– American Climate change Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You!
Osha Gray Davidson M 1954– American Natural history The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef
Kenneth S. Deffeyes M American Peak oil Hubbert's Peak
Mark Derr M American Environment of Florida Some kind of paradise : a chronicle of man and the land in Florida
Jared Diamond M 1937– American Various themes "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"
Nate Dickinson M 1932–2011 American Wildlife management Common Sense Wildlife Management: Discourses on Personal Experiences
Mark Diesendorf M Australian Sustainable energy Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy
Marjory Stoneman Douglas F 1890–1998 American Everglades The Everglades: River of Grass
Morgan Downey M American Oil Oil 101
K. Eric Drexler M 1955– American Molecular nanotechnology Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (not the foreword)
Gregg Easterbrook M 1953– American Various themes A Moment on the Earth
Curtis Ebbesmeyer M 1943– American Flotsam Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science
Anne H. Ehrlich F 1933– American Human overpopulation The Stork and The Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma (co-authored)
Paul R. Ehrlich M 1932– American Human overpopulation Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (co-authored)
Robert E. England M American
Daniel C. Esty M American Environment of Connecticut Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
Dan Fagin M 1963– American Environmental health Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
David Fig M South African Various themes Uranium Road: Questioning South Africa's Nuclear Direction
Arthur Firstenberg M 1950– American Microwave engineering Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution
Tim Flannery M 1956– Australian Climate change The Weather Makers
Christopher Flavin M American Natural resources Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution
Paul Fleischmann M 1952– American Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
David Foreman M 1947– American Wilderness Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching (not the foreword)
Hilary French F American Environmental analysis
Thomas Friedman M 1953– American Various themes Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America
Howard Friel M American Various themes Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr F Japanese Genetic engineering The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development
Masanobu Fukuoka M 1913–2008 Japanese Natural farming
Francis Fukuyama M 1952– American
Buckminster Fuller M 1895–1983 American Approaching the Benign Environment (co-authored)
Medard Gabel American Various themes Environmental Design Science Primer
Ross Gelbspan M American Global warming The Heat Is On
John Gibbons M Irish Climate change
Paul Gilding M Australian Various themes
Harold Gilliam M American San Francisco Bay Area Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Bay: The Struggle to Save San Francisco Bay
Herbert Girardet M Various themes Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges
Juan Gonzalez M 1947– American Various themes Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse
Chris Goodall M 1955– English Various themes Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate
Jeff Goodell M American Energy Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
David Goodstein M 1939– American Fossil fuels Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
Uri Gordon M 1976– Israeli Various themes
Al Gore M 1948– American Climate change An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Nicky Hager M 1958 New Zealander Various themes Seeds of Distrust
Dan Haifley M American Oceanography
Julia Hailes F 1961– English Ethical consumerism The New Green Consumer Guide
John D. Hamaker M 1914–1994 American Various themes
Clive Hamilton M 1953– Australian Various themes Requiem for a Species
Terri Crawford Hansen F 1953– American Indigenous rights
Garrett Hardin M 1915–2003 American Human overpopulation Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
John L. Harper M 1925–2009 British Population biology Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems (co-authored)
Jonathan Harr M American Water pollution A Civil Action
Jonathan Baxter Harrison M 1835–1907 American Forests
Lisa Harrow F 1943– Sustainable living What Can I Do?
Rizwana Hasan F 1968– Bangladeshi Environmental law: ship breaking Laws Regulating Environment in Bangladesh
Paul Hawken M 1946– American Environmental justice Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
Steven F. Hayward M American
Richard Heinberg M American Oil depletion The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Dieter Helm M British Energy The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong – and How to Fix it
Lawrence Joseph Henderson M 1878– American Environmental science The Fitness of the Environment
Julia Butterfly Hill F 1974– American Clearcutting The Legacy of Luna
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (biologist) M 1959– Australian Coral reefs
Thomas Homer-Dixon M 1956– Canadian Petroleum industry The Upside of Down
Erich Hoyt M 1950– American Conservation: cetaceans Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
Kenneth Hsu M Swiss Various themes Klima Macht Geschichte: Menschheitsgeschichte als Abbild der Klimaentwicklung
Mike Hulme M 1960– English Climate change Why We Disagree About Climate Change
John Ivanko M 1966– American
Wes Jackson M 1936– American Polyculture
Derrick Jensen M 1960– American Civilization A Language Older Than Words
Van Jones M 1968– American Environmental economics The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Leonie Joubert F South African Climate change Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate
Yoshikazu Kawaguchi M 1939– Japanese Natural farming
David Keith M Canadian Climate change A Case for Climate Engineering
Lierre Keith F 1964– American Various themes The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
Kevin Kelly M 1952– American Conservation movement Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Petra Kelly F 1947–1992 German Disarmament
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. M 1954– American Environmental law Crimes Against Nature : How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
Bruce Kershner M 1950–2007 American Old-growth forests Sierra Club Guide to Ancient Forests of the Northeast
Bruce Kinloch M 1919–2011 British Wildlife conservation The Shamba Raiders
Elizabeth Kolbert F 1961– American Various themes Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Satish Kumar M 1936– Indian, English
David Korten M 1937– American Globalization When Corporations Rule the World
Joel Kovel M 1936– American Eco-socialism The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Bernie Krause M 1938– American Acoustic ecology The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
James Howard Kunstler M 1948– American Various themes The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Winona LaDuke F 1959– American Indigenous land rights All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Richard Lamm M 1935– American The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future
Nigel Lawson M 1932– British Climate change An Appeal to Reason
Richard Leakey M 1944– 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
Aldo Leopold M 1887–1948 American Land ethic A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
Howard Liddell M 1945–2013 British Sustainable development and passive housing Eco-minimalism – The Antidote to Eco-bling
Andre Lima M 1971– Brazilian Various themes Ecological-economic zoning of the Light Environmental Laws
Bjørn Lomborg M 1965– Danish Various themes The Skeptical Environmentalist
James Lovelock M 1919– English Various themes The Revenge of Gaia
Amory Lovins M 1947– American Energy policy Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (co-authored)
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
Benton MacKaye M 1879–1975 American Conservation movement The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning
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
Charles C. Mann M 1955– American Science 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Michael E. Mann M 1965– American Climate change The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Samuel Mann M New Zealand Sustainability The Green Graduate: Educating Every Student as a Sustainable Practitioner
Richard Manning M 1951– American American prairie Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape
Emma Marris F 1979– American Environmentalism Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
George Perkins Marsh M 1801–1882 American Conservationism The Earth as Modified by Human Action
Anne Matthews F American Various themes Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains
David Maybury-Lewis M 1929–2007 Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
Timothy R. McClanahan M American Ecology: coral reefs Coral Reefs of the Indian Ocean: Their Ecology and Conservation
Michael J. McGuire M 1947– American Drinking water quality standards
Alastair McIntosh M 1955– Scottish Various themes
Stephen McIntyre M 1947– American Temperature record of the past 1000 years
Ian McKay M 1962– English
Bill McKibben M 1960– American Global warming The End of Nature
Barbara McMartin F 1931–2005 American Adirondack Park The Great Forest of the Adirondacks
John McPhee M 1931– American Various themes The Control of Nature
Dennis Meadows M 1942– American Environmental economics The Limits to Growth (co-authored)
Donella Meadows F 1941–2001 American The Limits to Growth (co-authored)
Anupam Mishra M 1948– Indian Water management
George J. Mitchell M 1933– American World on Fire: Saving an Endangered Earth
George Monbiot M 1963– English Climate change
Andrew Montford M English Climate change The Hockey Stick Illusion
Chris Mooney M 1977– American Various themes Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
David R. Morgan M American Urban planning Managing Urban America (co-authored)
Edward L. Morse M 1942– American 2000s energy crisis
Ted Nace M 1956– American Coal industry Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal
Ralph Nader M 1934– American Environmental economics Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile
N. K. Sukumaran Nair M 1942– Indian Pamba River
Andrew Nikiforuk M Canadian
Helena Norberg-Hodge F Sustainable living Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
Richard B. Norgaard M 1943– American Ecological economics An Introduction to Ecological Economics
Mark O'Connor M 1945– Australian Various themes
Naomi Oreskes F American Global warming Merchants of Doubt (co-authored)
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr. M 1887–1969 American Conservation movement Our Plundered Planet
Riki Ott F American Aquatic toxicology Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Guy Pearse M Australian Climate change High and Dry
David Naguib Pellow M 1969– American Various themes Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
Ron Pernick M American Clean technology The Clean Tech Revolution (co-authored)
Ian Plimer M 1946– Australian Various themes Heaven and Earth
Frederik Pohl M 1919– American Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb (co-authored)
Michael Pollan M 1955– American Food The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Carl Pope M American Various themes Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (co-authored)
Richard Posner M 1939– American Various themes Catastrophe: Risk and Response
Sandra Postel F American Fresh water
Jane Poynter F American
Robert Michael Pyle M 1947– American Forests Wintergreen
Jørgen Randers M 1945– Norwegian Climate change 2052 - A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
Ray Raphael M 1943– American Environment of California Edges: Human Ecology of the Backcountry
Valentin Rasputin M 1937– Russian Water management
Derek Ratcliffe M 1929–2005 British Conservation movement A Nature Conservation Review (2 volumes)
Paul Rauber M American Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress
Andrew Revkin M American Global warming The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World
Jeremy Rifkin M 1945– American Various themes The Green Lifestyle Handbook: 1001 Ways to Heal the Earth (edited by Rifkin)
Paul Roberts M American Various themes The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Emma Romeu F Cuban
Joseph J. Romm M 1960– American Energy The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate
Donald K. Ross M American
David Mayer de Rothschild M 1978– British Various themes
William Ruddiman M American Paleoclimatology Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
Palagummi Sainath M 1957– Indian Various themes
Kirkpatrick Sale M 1937– American Various themes The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement
R. Murray Schafer M 1933– Canadian Acoustic ecology The Tuning of the World (The Soundscape), republished as The Soundscape
Hermann Scheer M 1944–2010 German Renewable energy Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy
Jonathan Schell M 1943– American Nuclear weapons The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now
Auden Schendler M American Sustainability Getting Green Done
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 Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice
Michael Shnayerson M 1954– American Various themes
J. Michael Scott M 1941– American Wildlife
Julian Simon M 1932–1998 American Carrying capacity The Ultimate Resource
Fred Singer M 1924– American Air pollution The Greenhouse Debate Continued
Alexander Skutch M 1904–2004 American Natural history Helpers at Birds’ Nests: A Worldwide Survey of Cooperative Breeding and Related Behavior
Rick Smith M 1968– Canadian Medical toxicology Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health (co-authored)
Ted Smith M 1945– American Electronic waste Challenging the Chip (co-authored)
Gary Snyder M 1930– American Deep ecology
Lawrence Solomon M 1948– Canadian Various themes The Deniers
David A Sonnenfeld M American Environmental social science Challenging the Chip (co-authored)
James Gustave Speth M 1942– American Various themes Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
Jeffrey St. Clair M 1959– American Various themes A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (co-authored)
Sandra Steingraber F 1959– American Pollution Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
Thomas H. Stoner, Jr. M 1960– American Sustainable development Small Change Big Gains: Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur
David Suzuki M 1936– Canadian Various themes The Sacred Balance
John Tallmadge M American Nature Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism (co-edited)
John Tanton M 1934– American
Sarah McFarland Taylor F American Various themes Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology
Peter Tertzakian M Canadian Energy industry The End of Energy Obesity
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta M 1955– Indian Energy in India Gas Wars
Henry David Thoreau M 1817–1862 American Various themes
Josef Velek M 1939–1990 Czechoslovak, Czech
Karen J. Warren F 1947– American Various themes
Arthur Waskow M 1933– American Various themes Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought
Harvey Wasserman M 1945– American Anti-nuclear movement in the United States Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation (co-authored)
Spencer R. Weart M 1942– American Global warming The Discovery of Global Warming
Linda Weintraub F American Various themes Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet
Alan Weisman M 1947– American Human extinction The World Without Us
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker M 1939– German
Adam Werbach M 1973– American
Tom Wessels M American Conservation biology The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future
Rex Weyler M 1947– American Various themes Greenpeace: The Inside Story
Clint Wilder M American Clean technology The Clean Tech Revolution (co-authored)
E. O. Wilson M 1929– American Biodiversity The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
Sanjay Singh Yadav M Indian The Environmental Crisis of Delhi
Bruce Yandle M American Free-market environmentalism Taking the Environment Seriously
Daniel Yergin M 1947– American Energy The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

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