Introduction
This list of articles and sites is not representative, but just a start towards assembling resources on these topics.
Environmental Ethics Journals
The "NPU" link by a journal entry will take you to the access page for an electronic version of the journal via the databases available at the North Park library. The dates following "NPU" refer to the issues available from that database. Note that NPU subscribes to multiple databases; it is possible one of the other databases at North Park includes issues not available via the linked database.
Food
- Bentley, A. (2006): The politics on our plates, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 53, Iss. 8, p. B13. A review of current books regarding the politics and ethics of food choice.
- Bailey, R. (2000): Billions served, Reason, April. Interview with Norman Borlaug, the "Father of the Green Revolution."
- Fitzgerald, D. (2005): Readings List from Course STS.429, "Food and Power in the Twentieth Century," MIT OpenCourseWare, Spring.
- Shapin, S. (2007): Vegetable love: The history of vegetarianism, The New Yorker, January 22.
Growth & Population
- Anderson, T. A., Ed. (2004), You Have to Admit It's Getting Better: From Economic Prosperity to Environmental Quality, Hoover Institution Press, ISBN 0-8179-4482-6. Argues economic growth and environmental quality go together if structures such as limited government and property rights are in place.
- Emmett, R. B. (2006), Malthus reconsidered: Population, natural resources, and markets, PERC Policy Series, Issue PS-38, November. Argues that in contrast to the well-known "Malthusian nightmare," Thomas Malthus actually believed "... that basic institutions such as property rights, marriage, and free markets would restrain excessive population and encourage economic growth."
- Gapminder: An amazing visualization of a number of different global human welfare indicators.
Sustainability
- Choucri, N. (2006): Readings List from Course 17.181, "Sustainable Development: Theory, Research and Policy," MIT OpenCourseWare, Spring.
