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Books

  • Abbott, Carl. Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
  • Allen, Patricia. Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.
  • Appleyard, Donald. Livable Streets. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
  • Barlow, M. Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. New York: The New Press, 2008.
  • Barty-King H. Water: An Illustrated History of Water Supply and Wastewater in the United Kingdom. Shrewsbury, UK: Quiller Press, 1992.
  • Bell, Simon and Stephen Morse. Measuring Sustainability. Learning From Doing. London: Earthscan, 2003.
  • Berelowitz, Lance. Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination. Vancouver, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005.
  • Blomley, Nick. Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property. New York:
  • Routledge, 2004.
  • Brooks, K. N., P. F. Ffolliott, H. M. Gregersen and L. F. DeBano. Hydrology and the Management of Watersheds. Ames, IA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
  • Calthorpe, Peter. The Next Urban Metropolis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995.
  • Dash, M. C. Ecology, Chemistry and Management of Environmental Pollution. New York:
  • Macmillan, 2004.
  • Dittmar, Hank and Gloria Ohland, eds. The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.
  • Energy Information Administration (EIA). International Energy Outlook 2008. Washington, DC: EIA Publications, 2008.
  • Ewing, Reid. Traffic Calming: State of the Practice. Washington, DC: Institute of Transportation Engineers/Federal Highway Administration, 1999.
  • Foster, K., A. Stelmack and D. Hindman. Sustainable Residential Interiors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
  • Gleick, P. The World's Water: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999.
  • Global Wind Energy Council. Global Wind 2008 Report. Brussels, Belgium: Global Wind Energy Council, 2008.
  • Grant, Jill. Planning the Good Community: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 2006.
  • Grava, Sigurd. Urban Transportation Systems: Choices for Communities. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
  • Gray, N. F. Drinking Water Quality: Problems and Solutions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Hardoy, Jorge E., Diana Miltin and David Satterthwaite. Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World. London: Earthscan, 2004.
  • Hatch, Alex. Cracks in the Asphalt: Community Gardens of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA: Pasha Press, 2008.
  • Hellmund, Paul Cawood and Daniel Smith. Designing Greenways: Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.
  • Hills, Richard L. Power From Wind: A History of Windmill Technology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Ighacimuthu, S. Environmental Awareness and Protection. New Delhi, India: Phoenix
  • Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1998.
  • International Energy Agency (IEA). World Energy Outlook 2008. Paris: IEA Publications, 2008.
  • Kellogg, Scott and Stacy Pettigrew. Toolbox for Sustainable City Living. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2008.
  • Kidd, J. S. and Renee A. Kidd. Air Pollution Problems and Solutions. New York: Chelsea House, 2006.
  • Klingle, Matthew. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
  • Kopec, D. Health, Sustainability and the Built Environment. New York: Fairchild Books, Inc.,
  • 2009.
  • Lansing, Jewel. Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851–2001. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2003.
  • Lawn, Philippe. Sustainable Development Indicators In Ecological Economics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006.
  • Lawson, Laura. City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
  • Leeds, Rob, et al. Non-Point Source Pollution: Water Primer. Columbus: Ohio State University Extension, 1996.
  • Lowi, M. Water and Power: The Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Lundkvist, Lennart J. The Hare and the Tortoise: Clean Air Policies in the United States and Sweden. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980.
  • MacColl, E. Kimbark. The Growth of a City: Power and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1915 to 1950. Portland, OR: Georgian Press, 1979.
  • MacColl, E. Kimbark. The Shaping of a City: Business and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1885 to 1915. Portland, OR: Georgian Press, 1976.
  • Mallon, Karl. Renewable Energy Policy and Politics: A Handbook for Decision-Making. London: Earthscan, 2006.
  • Miller, Robert W. Urban Forestry: Planning and Managing Urban Greenspaces. Upper Sadlle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.
  • Moll, Gary and Sara Ebenreck. Shading Our Cities: A Resource Guide for Urban and Community Forests. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1989.
  • Morris, D. Self-Reliant Cities: Energy and Transformation in Urban America. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1982.
  • Mougeot, Luc J. A. Growing Better Cities: Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development. Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research Centre, 2006.
  • National Research Council. Compensating for Wetland Losses Under the Clean Water Act. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2001.
  • Newman, Peter and Jeffrey Kenworthy. Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009.
  • Ohlsson, L. Hydropolitics: Conflicts Over Water as a Development Constraint. London: Zed Books, 1995.
  • Palahniuk, Chuck. Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon. New York: Crown, 2003.
  • Perlin, John. From Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
  • Reisner, M. Cadillac Desert: the American West and Its Disappearing Water. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.
  • Roseland, M. Toward Sustainable Communities; Resources for Citizens and Their Governments. Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1998.
  • Rosillo-Calle, Frank, Sarah Hemstock, Peter de Groot, and Jeremy Woods. The Biomass Assessment Handbook: Bioenergy for a Sustainable Environment. London: Earthscan, 2008.
  • Sharma, B. K. Environmental Chemistry. Meerut, IN: Goel Publishing House, 2005.
  • Staddon, C. Managing Europe's Water Resources: 21st Century Challenges. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Books, 2009.
  • Talen, Emily. New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures. London: Routledge, 2005.
  • Tchobanoglous, G., H. Theisen and S. A. Vigil. Integrated Solid Waste Management. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
  • Tolley, Rodney. Sustainable Transport: Planning for Walking and Cycling in Urban Environments. Cambridge, UK: Woodhead Publishing, 2003.
  • Weinberg, Adam S., David N. Pellow and Allan Schnaiberg. Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
  • Westra, L. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees. London: Earthscan Press, 2009.
  • World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). Our Common Future. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Journals

  • American Journal of Public Health (American Public Health Association)
  • American School & University (Penton Media)
  • Cities (Elsevier)
  • Conservation Biology (John Wiley & Sons)
  • Ecological Applications (Ecological Society of America)
  • Energy & Buildings (Elsevier)
  • Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development (MetaPress)
  • Environment and Urbanization (SAGE Publications)
  • Geoforum (Elsevier)
  • Global Environmental Change (Elsevier)
  • Global Environmental Politics (MIT Press)
  • Journal of Engineering, Design & Technology (Emerald)
  • Journal of Planning Literature (SAGE Publications)
  • Landscape Journal (University of Wisconsin Press)
  • Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (Elsevier)
  • Planning (American Planning Association)
  • Planning Practice & Research (Taylor & Francis Group)
  • Renewable Resources Journal (Renewable Natural Resources Foundation)
  • The Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier)
  • Urban Design International (Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Urban Studies (SAGE Publications)
  • Water, Science and Technology (IWA Publishing)
  • Water and Environment Journal (John Wiley & Sons)

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