This page includes a list of resources (including books, articles, documentaries, and online / media sources) related to environmental and eco-social work issues.

***Please note that although we have done our best to make this list as comprehensive as possible, this list is by no means exhaustive, nor indicative of every available environmental /eco-social work resource out there. For print resources, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) were included whenever possible.***

BOOKS, E-BOOKS, & BOOK CHAPTERS:

Baer, H. A., & Burgmann, V. (2012). Climate politics and the climate movement in Australia. Melbourne

University Publishing. ISBN-10: 0522861334

Bakan, J. (2011). Childhood under siege: How big business targets your children. Toronto, ON: Penguin Group.

ISBN-13: 9781439121221 

Bond, P. (2012). Politics of climate justice: Paralysis above, movement below. University of Natal Press. ISBN-

10: 1869142217

Building Bridges Collective. Space for movement? Reflections from Bolovia on climate justice, social

movements and the state. UK: Leeds University Press. ISBN-10: 0853162948

Coates, J. (2003). Ecology and social work: Towards a new paradigm. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing. ISBN-

10: 1552661075

Hawken, P. (2007). Blessed unrest: How the largest movement in the world came into being, and why no one

saw it coming. New York, NY: Viking.

Gray, M., Coates, J., & Hetherington, T. (Eds.). (2012). Environmental social work. New York: Routledge. ISBN-

10: 0415678129

Jones, P. (2012). Transforming the curriculum: Social work education and ecological consciousness. In Gray,

M., Coates, J., & Hetherington, T. (Eds.). (2012). Environmental social work, 213-230. New York: Routledge.

Kingsolver, B. (2012). Flight behaviour. USA: Harper Collins. ISBN-10: 0062124269.

Klein, N. (2014). This changes everything: Capitalism vs. the climate. Toronto, ON: Random House of Canada.

ISBN-10: 1451697392

Kolbert, E. (2006). Field notes from a catastrophe: Man, nature, and climate change. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN-

10: 1596911301

Kolbert, E. (2014). The sixth extinction: An unnatural history. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company.

ISBN 13: 978-1-250-06218-5

Lynas, M. (2008). Six degrees: Our future on a hotter planet. USA: National Geographic. ISBN-10: 1426203853

Lynas, M. (2011). The god species: Saving the planet in the ages of humans. Great Britain: Fourth Estate. ISBN-

10: 000731342X

Masson, J. M. & McCarthy, S. (1995). When elephants weep: The emotional lives of animals. New York, NY:

Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0385314282

Marhsall, G. (2007). Carbon detox. USA: Gaia.

Marhsall, G. (2014). Don't even think of it: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change. USA: Bloomsbury.

ISBN-13 9781620401330

McKibben, B. (1989). The end of nature. USA: Anchor.

McKibben, B. (2007). Deep economy: The wealth of communities and the durable future. New York, NY:

Henry Holt and Company, LLC. ISBN-13: 978-0805087222

McKibben, B. (2010). A new world, Eaarth: Making a life on a tough new planet. New York, NY: St. Martin’s

Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-312-54119-4

McKibben, B. (2014). Oil and honey: The education of an unlikely activist. USA: St Martin's Griffin.

Oreskes, N. & Conway, E. M. (2014). The collapse of western civilization: A view from the future. Chichester,

NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0231169547

Pipher, M. (2013). The green boat: Reviving ourselves in our capsized culture. New York, NY: Penguin Group

(USA) Inc. ISBN-10: 1594485852

Sutton, P.W. (2007). The environment: A sociological introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Torkar, B. (2-14). Toward climate justice: Perspectives on the climate crisis and social change (2nd ed.). USA: New

Compass Press. ISBN-10: 8293064080

Zaph, M. K. (2009). Social work and the environment: Understanding people and place. Toronto, ON: Canadian

Scholars’ Press Inc. ISBN-10: 1551303574

NEWS & MAGAZINE ARTICLES:

Gregg, A. (2012, September 5). 1984 in 2012: The assault on reason [Blog post]. Retrieved from 

http://allangregg.com/1984-in-2012-%E2%80%93-the-assault-on-reason/

McKibben, B. (2012, July 19). Global warming’s terrifying new math: Three simple numbers that add up to

global catastrophe – and that make clear who the real enemy is [Magazine article]. Rolling Stone. Available from http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

Linnitt, C. (2014, July 7). Alarming' new study finds contaminants in animals downstream of oilsands [Blog

post]. Desmong Canada. Available from

http://www.desmog.ca/2014/07/07/alarming-new-study-finds-contaminants-animals-downstream-oilsands

Linnitt, C. (2013, November 28). How Beaver Lake Cree heats up the landmark tar sands trial [Newspaper

article]. Huffington Post. Available from http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/carol-linnitt/tar-sands-trial_b_4352278.html 

Lysack, M. (2015, January 5). The ethical imperative of limits [Online article]. Policy Options. Available from

http://policyoptions.irpp.org/issues/enviornmental-faith/lysack

VIDEO & AUDIO (ONLINE SHOWS, FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES & INTERVIEWS):

Gregg, A. (2012). Allan Gregg in Conversation: Interview with Joel Bakan on how big business targets

children [Video & Audio file]. Available from http://tvo.org/programs/allan-gregg  and http://www.podcasts.com/allan_gregg_in_conversation_video/episode/joel_bakan_on_how_big_business_targets_children

CBC's Fifth Estate (Producer). (2014, January 10). Silence of the labs [Video]. Available from

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/the-silence-of-the-labs

Deranger, E. (Communication Director). (2014). The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and big oil: Eriel

Deranger tar sands exposed [Video]. Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXDaRrFDelA

Klein, N. (Writer), & Lewis, A. (Director). (2015). This changes everything [Documentary]. In A. Lewis & J.

Barnes (Producers). Available from www.cinemapolitica.org/film/changes-everything

Lameman, C. (Presenter). (2012). Powershift 2012 keynote presentation Crystal Lameman (Beaver Lake Cree

Nation) [Video]. Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kds5cLuEr_4

The Knowledge Network (Producer). (2014). The tipping points [Online/TV series]. Available from

https://www.knowledge.ca/program/tipping-points

JOURNAL / SCHOLARLY ARTICLES & REPORTS:

Australian Association of Social Workers [AASW]. (2010). Code of ethics. Retrieved from

http://www.aasw.asn.au/document/item/740

Besthorn, F. H., & McMillen, D. P. (2002). The oppression of women and nature: Ecofeminism asa framework

for an expanded ecological social work. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 83(3), 221-232.

Brand, U., Bullard, N., Lander, E., & Mueller, T. (Eds.). (2009 November). Contours of climate justice: Ideas

for shaping new climate and energy politics. Critical Currents, Dag Hammarskjöld Occasional Paper Series, 7, 1 - 113. Available from https://www.tni.org/files/download/contoursofclimatejustice.pdf

British Association of Social Workers [BASW]. (2002). Code of ethics. Retrieved from

http://www.basw.co.uk/about/code-of-ethics/

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bronfenbrenner, U., Ceci, S. J. (1994). Nature-nurture reconceptualized in developmental perspective: A

bioecological model. Psychological Review, 101(4), 568-586. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.101.4.568

Dewane, C. J. (2011). Environmentalism & social work: The ultimate social justice issue. Social Work Today,

11(5), 20. Available from http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/092011p20.shtml

Gray, M. Coates, J., & Hetherington, T. (2007). Hearing Indigenous voices in mainstream social work.

Families in Society, 88(1), 55-66. doi: 10.1606/1044-3894.3592

Gray, M., & Coates, J. (2012). Environmental ethics for social work: Social work’s responsibility to the non-

human world. International Journal of Social Welfare, 21, 239-247. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2011.00852.x

Heinsch, M. (2012). Getting down to Earth: Finding a place for nature in social work practice. International

Journal of Social Welfare, 21, 309-318. doi: 10.1111/j.1468- 2397.2011.00860.x

International Federation of Social Workers [IFSW]. (2005). International policy statement on globalization and

the environment. Retrieved from http://www.ifsw.org/p38000222.html

International Federation of Social Workers [IFSW]. (2012). Global standards for the education and training of

the social work profession. Retrieved from http://ifsw.org/ policies/ global-standards/

Lysack, M. (2015). Effective policy influencing and environmental advocacy: Health, climate change, and

phasing out coal. International Social Work, 58(3), 435-447. doi: 10.1177/0020872814567485

Lysack, M. (2010). Environmental decline, loss, and biophilia: Fostering commitment in environmental

citizenship. Critical Social Work, 11(3), 48-66.

Lysack, M. (2012). The abolition of slavery movement as a moral movement: Ethical resources, spiritual

roots, and strategies for social change. Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 31(12), 150-171. doi: 10.1080/15426432.201.647962

Miller, S. E., Hayward, A., & Shaw, T. V. (2012). Environmental shifts for social work: A principles approach.

International Journal of Social Welfare, 21, 270-277. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2011.00848.x

Nesmith, A., & Smyth, N. (2015). Environmental justice and social work education: Social workers’

professional perspectives. Social Work Education, 34(5), 484-501. doi: 10.1080/02615479.2015.1063600

Reynolds, V. (2011). Resisting burn-out with justice-doing. The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and

Community Work, 4, 27-45.

Schmitz, C. L., Matyók, T., Sloan, L. M., & James, C. (2012). The relationship between social work and

environmental sustainability: Implications for interdisciplinary practice. International Journal of Social Welfare, 21, 278-286. doi: 10.1111/j.1468- 2397.2011.00855.x