Background Information
- Companion to American Environmental HistoryIn print only. On reserve at the checkout desk, call number: GE 195 .C655 2010
"Gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history. Provides a complete historiography of American environmental history." - Congressional Research Service (CRS) ReportsCRS reports provide Congress with both anticipatory and on-demand research and analysis to support their legislative, oversight, and representational duties. All reports adhere to the core values of CRS; they are authoritative, objective and nonpartisan. Reports range in length from several pages to more than one-hundred pages and cover the full breadth of topics of interest to Congress.
- Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature (2007)"The basic task of this book is to explore what, exactly, is meant by ‘justice’ in definitions of environmental and ecological justice."
- Encyclopedia of American Environmental HistoryIn print only, Bizzell Reference Collection, call number GE 150 .E53 2011.
Edited by OU Professor Dr. Kathy Brosnan, this work includes more than 750 articles covering every significant issue, event, law, and figure in U.S. environmental history. - Encyclopedia of Environment and Society (2007)Includes more than 1,000 entries on "key individuals, polices, problems, processes, and theoretical concepts that sit astride what has traditionally been known as 'society' and the 'environment.'
- Environmental Justice Atlas"The environmental justice atlas documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues."
- Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader (2018)"This reader collects a wide range of primary source documents on the rise and evolution of the environmental justice movement."
- Oxford Handbook of Environmental HistoryIn print only. On reserve at the checkout desk, call number GF 13 .O84 2014
"Follows the evolution of environmental history from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies. Authors both review past developments in environmental history and project future trends." - Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities (2017)Access to 1 copy of this book. "...a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship."
- Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice (2017)"Wide-ranging discussion of current debates, controversies, and questions in the history, theory, and methods of environmental justice research, contributed by over 90 leading social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, and scholars from professional disciplines from six continents."
- Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility (2014)"Toxic Communities examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards. "
- Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of GlobalizationContains over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization. Includes entries on concepts derived from across the social sciences, from sociology and anthropology to political science, economics, and human geography.