The Online Books Page

Environmental quality

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Pollution
• Environmental protection
• Environmental degradation

• Air quality
• Environmental economics
• Environmental ethics
• Environmental health
• Environmental law
• Environmental monitoring
• Environmental policy
• Environmental psychology
• Water quality

• Quality of environment

• Catching Our Breath: Next Steps for Reducing Urban Ozone (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Protecting Visibility in National Parks and Wilderness Areas (1993), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Changing by Degrees: Steps To Reduce Greenhouse Gases (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Rethinking the Ozone Problem in Urban and Regional Air Pollution (1991), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009), by Frank Uekötter (page images at Pitt)

• Modeling Mobile-Source Emissions (2000), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Cost Effectiveness of Carbon Monoxide Control Strategies (Chicago: Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality, 1973), by Jay E. Norco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Monitoring for Gaseous Pollutants in Museum Environments (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2006), by Cecily M. Grzywacz (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2022), by Jennifer Gabrys (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Airborne Contagion and Air Hygiene: An Ecological Study of Droplet Infections (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Commonwealth Fund by Harvard University Press, 1955), by William Firth Wells (multiple formats at Google)

• Resources for Our Future: Key Issues and Best Practices in Resource Efficiency (The Hague Center for Strategic Studies/TNO report; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2013), by R. Weterings, Ton Bastein, Arnold Tukker, Michel Rademaker, and Marjolein de Ridder (PDF with commentary at hcss.nl)

• Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold (report of CSIS Europe program, 2013), by Heather A. Conley, contrib. by David L. Pumphrey, Terence M. Toland, and Mihaela David (PDF with commentary at csis.org)

• Greening the Financial Sector: How to Mainstream Environmental Finance in Developing Countries (c2012), ed. by Doris Köhn (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)

• A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism (Cham: Springer, c2022), by Marvin T. Brown
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by Michael Marder, illust. by Anais Tondeur (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Modernity (c1996), by John Leonard (PDF with commentary at jleonard.net)
• A Sacred Place to Dwell: Living With Reverence Upon the Earth (Shaftewbury et al. Element, c1993), by Henryk Skolimowski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecocene Politics (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Mihnea Tanasescu (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Human Dignity: Values and Justice, ed. by Miloslav Bednár (multiple formats at Google)

• Ecology Begins at Home: Using the Power of Choice (2008 and 1989 editions), by Archie Duncanson (PDF files with commentary at alternativ.nu)

• Environmental Scarcity and Global Security (Headline Series #300; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1993), by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)
• The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Mark Kenneth Jaccard (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Greening IT: How a Greening IT Can Form a Solid Base for a Low-Carbon Society (c2009), ed. by Adrian T. Sobotta, Irene N. Sobotta, and John Gøtze
  • PDF with commentary at wfsf.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Nursing, Health, and the Environment: Strengthening the Relationship to Improve the Public's Health (1995), ed. by Andrew M. Pope, Meta A. Snyder, and Lillian H. Mood (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Katrina Smith Korfmacher (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Environmental Health Series: Radiological Health (full serial archives)
• Our Synthetic Environment (published under Lewis Herber pseudonym; New York: Knopf, 1962), by Murray Bookchin, contrib. by William A. Albrecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toil and Toxics: Workplace Struggles and Political Strategies for Occupational Health (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by James C. Robinson (HTML at UC Press)
• Issues in Risk Assessment (1993), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Surface Water Monitoring: A Framework for Change (1987), by United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Evaluation of the U.S. Navy's Extremely Low Frequency Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program (1997), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Environmental Monitoring for Nuclear Safeguards (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies (c2002), ed. by David Vogel and Robert A. Kagan (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• Environmental Scarcity and Global Security (Headline Series #300; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1993), by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)
• The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Mark Kenneth Jaccard (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Ecology in Development: A Rationale for Three-Dimensional Policy (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1984), by Brian Spooner (HTML at UNU)
• Impasses of the Post-Global ("Theory in the Era of Climate Change v2"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2012), ed. by Henry Sussman (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities press)
• Telemorphosis ("Theory in the Era of Climate Change v1"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2012), ed. by Tom Cohen (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Climate Alarmism Reconsidered (2004), by Robert L. Bradley (PDF with commentary at IEA)
• The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems (1994), ed. by Braden R. Allenby and Deanna J. Richards (page images at NAP)
• Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (electronic edition, c2009), by David J. C. MacKay (PDF and HTML with commentary at withouthotair.com)
• Our Common Future (1987), by World Commission on Environment and Development (HTML at eytv4scf.net)
• Disposal of Industrial and Domestic Wastes: Land and Sea Alternatives (1984), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Greening of Global Warming (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Robert O. Mendelsohn (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• The Diseconomics of Growth (1972), by H. V. Hodson (HTML at Athelstane)
• Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, ed. by Paul C. Stern, Oran R. Young, and Daniel Druckman (page images with commentary at NAP)
• One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment (1990), by Cheryl Simon Silver and Ruth S. DeFries (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do?, by Gerald O. Barney, contrib. by Jane Blewett and Kristen R. Barney (HTML and PDF at millenniuminstitute.net)
• Food Environment Education: Agricultural Education in Natural Resource Management, by Lindsay J. Falvey (HTML at Melbourne)

• Ecopsychology: Harmony of Communication with Nature; Psychic Self-Regulation; Spiritual Heart; Spiritual Development; Man and God, Destiny; Meaning of Life; Upbringing of Children; Art, Chakras, Kundalini; Ecopsychologists Cognize and Study God (2008), by Vladimir Antonov, trans. by Mikhail Nikolenko and Maxim Shafeyev (PDF at swami-center.org)
• Weaving a Way Home: A Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Leslie Van Gelder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family Environment and Delinquency (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1962), by Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor T. Glueck, contrib. by Rose W. Kneznek (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under narrower terms.