A number of authors, besides those affiliated with The Science & Environmental Policy Project, are writing on environment and related topics from a variety of perspectives: legal, cultural, and economic, as well as science. Their books may prove useful in learning more about these issues. The following books can either be ordered on-line through Amazon.com or through the publisher (links provided for both). The articles that follow are either linked or are available through the newspapers and magazines in which they appeared.

BOOKS

Attendees browse through supplemental books and reports at the SEPP-GMU International Institute conference "Scientific Integrity in the Public Policy Process," held at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C

A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism by Gregg Easterbrook, contributing editor, U.S. News & World Report (Viking, 1995)

Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation by Justice Stephen Breyer (Harvard University Press, 1993; paperback, 1995)

But Is It True? by Aaron Wildavsky (Harvard University Press, 1994) (hardcover)

Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Fear Global Warming by Thomas Gale Moore (Cato Institute, 1998) (hardcover)

Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation by Frank Furedi (Cassell, 1997)

Down to Earth: A Contrarian View of Environmental Problems by Matt Ridley (Institute of Economic Affairs/London, 1995)

Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism by Joseph L. Bast, Peter J. Hill, and Richard C. Rue (Madison Books, 1994)

Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse by Ronald Bailey (St. Martin's Press, 1993) (out of print, but worth looking for)

Exploding Population Myths by Jim Peron (Heartland Institute, 1995)

Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense? by Dixy Lee Ray (Regnery Gateway, 1993) (hardcover)

Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards, edited by Michael S. Greve and Fred L. Smith, Jr. (Praeger, New York, 1992)

Excessive Force: Power, Politics, and Population Control by Elizabeth Liagin, (Information Project for Africa, 1997)

Environmentalism at the Crossroads: Green Activism in America by Jonathan Adler (Capital Research Center, 1996)

Facts Not Fear: A Parent's Guide to Environmental Education by Michael Sanera and Jane Shaw (Competitive Enterprise Institute, 1996)

Facts vs. Fears: A Review of the 20 Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times by Adam J. Lieberman (American Council on Science and Health, 1997)

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, by Alan D. Sokal and Jean Bricmont (Picador/St. Martins Press, December 1998, 300 pp.)

Free Market Energy: The Way to Benefit Consumers, edited by S. Fred Singer (Universe Books, 1984)

Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom by Peter W. Huber (Basic Books, 1991)

Global Climate Change: Human and Natural Influences, edited by S. Fred Singer (Paragon House, 1989)

Global Greens: Inside the International Environmental Establishment by Jim Sheehan (Capital Research Center, 1998)

Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air? by Roger Bate and Julian Morris (Institute of Economic Affairs/London, 1994)

Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints, edited by Tamara L. Roleff (Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1997) (hardcover)

Gore: A Political Life, by Robert Zelnick (National Book Network, March 1999, 380 pp.)

Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism by Martin W. Lewis (Duke University Press, 1992) (hardcover)

Growth, the Environment and the Distribution of Incomes: Essays by a Sceptical Optimist (Economists of the Twentieth Century) by Wilfred Beckerman (Edward Elgar, 1995)

Haunted Housing: How Toxic Scare Stories Are Spooking the Public Out of House and Home by Cassandra Moore (Cato Institute, 1997)

Health, Lifestyle & Environment: Countering the Panic by The Social Affairs Unit of the Manhattan Institute (Manhattan Institute, Washington, D.C. 1991)

Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate by S. Fred Singer (Independent Institute, Oakland, California, 1997)

In a Dark Wood: The Fight Over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology by syndicated newspaper columnist Alston Chase (Houghton Mifflin, 1995)

Klimalüge by Manfred Mueller (Irene Müller Verlag, 1998). For more information, see www.itcm.com/ENERI .

Knowledge and the Federal Courts by Kenneth R. Foster and Peter W. Huber (MIT Press, 1997)

Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?, by Michael Ruse (Harvard University Press, 1999, 320 pp.)

Observing Global Climate Change by Kirill Kondratyev and A. P. Cracknell (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 1998)

Patterns of Corporate Philanthropy: Funding Enemies, Forsaking Friends by Austin Fulk. (Capital Research Center, 1996)

Phantom Risk: Scientific Interference and the Law by Kenneth R. Foster (MIT Press, 1993)

Polluted Science: The EPA's Campaign to Expand Clean Air Regulations by Michael Fumento (American Enterprise Press, 1997)

Population and Development in Poor Countries: Selected Essays by Julian L. Simon (Princeton University Press, 1992)

Population and Development: A Critical Introduction by Frank Furedi (St. Martin's Press, 1997) (hardcover)

Population Matters: People, Resources, Environment, and Immigration by Julian L. Simon (Transaction, 1996)

Protecting the Environment: Old Rhetoric, New Imperatives by Jo Kwong Echard, Studies in Organization Trends (Capital Research Center, 1990)

Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns. Edited by Jay Lehr (John Wiley & Sons, 1997).

Science and the Retreat from Reason by John Gillot and Manjit Kumar (Monthly Review Press, 1998) (hardcover)

Science Under Siege : How the Environmental Misinformation Campaign Is Affecting Our Lives by Michael Fumento (William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1996)

Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem by Robert Jastrow, William Nierenberg, and Frederick Seitz (The Marshall Press/Jameson Books, Inc., Ottawa, Illinois 1990)

Searching for Safety by Aaron Wildavsky (Transaction Publishers, 1987)

Silencing Science by Steven Milloy and Michael Gough (1998)

Small is Stupid: Blowing the Whistle on the Green by Wilfred Beckerman (Duckworth Press, 1995)

Taking the Environment Seriously, edited by Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1993)

The Doomsday Myth by Charles Maurice and Charles W. Smithson (Hoover Institution Press, 1984)

The Economics of Population: Key Writings by Julian L. Simon (Transaction, 1998)

The Flight from Science and Reason, edited by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 775, 1996)

The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information by Jean-Francois Revel (Random House, 1992) (out of print, but worth looking for used)

The Global Warming Debate: The Report of the European Science & Environment Forum, edited by John Emsley (Bourne Press Limited, 1996)

The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism by Charles T. Rubin (The Free Press, 1994)

The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions Versus Climate Reality by Robert C. Balling, Jr. (Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1992) (hardcover)

The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, by Ayn Rand.

The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity through the Ages, by Tom Bethell (St. Martins Press, 1998)

The Nuclear Energy Option: An Alternative for the '90s, by Bernard Leonard Cohen (Plenum, 1990).

The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000 by Julian L. Simon and Herman Kahn (Basil Blackwell, 1984) (out of print, but should be fairly easy to find used)

The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch (W.W. Norton & Co, 1996) (hardcover)

The State of Humanity, edited by Julian L. Simon (Blackwell Publishers, 1995)

The True State of the Planet: Ten of the World's Premier Researchers in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movement, edited by Ronald Bailey (The Free Press, 1995)

The Way the World Works, by Jude Wanniski (Gateway Editions, 1998)

Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered by Wilfred Beckerman (CATO Institute, 1996) (hardcover)

Toxic Terror: The Truth About the Cancer Scares by Dr. Elizabeth Whelan (Jameson Books, 1993)

Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal with Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (among other things) by Dixy Lee Ray (Regnery Gateway, 1990) (out of print, but should be easy to find used)

RECENT ARTICLES

Please note: only the abstracts of the Science articles will be available unless you subscribe to Science Online. These articles should be available at many libraries.

in Science, May 16, 1997-- "Global Climate Forecasting Still Cloudy," by Richard Kerr, exposes flaws in global climate models.

in Science, November 7, 1997-- "Apocalypse Not," by Gary Taubes, exposes claim of tropical disease epidemics due to global warming as a myth.

in Science, November 21, 1997-- "Carbon Dioxide and Vegetation," research paper by Graham D. Farquhar, reveals benefits of increased CO2 on plants.

in The Economist, December 20, 1997--"Environmental Scares," shows that forecasters of resource scarcity and environmental doom are invariably wrong.