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Notable non-fiction environmental writers include:

## American non-fiction environmental writers

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Main article: List of American non-fiction environmental writers

## Other non-fiction environmental writers

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Author  | Sex  | Lifespan  | Nationality  | Theme(s)  | Selected book

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Douglas Adams | M | 1952–2001 | English | Conservation movement | Great Ape Project (co-authored)
Günter Altner | M | 1936–2011 | German | Environmental ethics |
Ndyakira Amooti | M | 1955 or 1956 – 1999 | Ugandan | Conservation movement |
Lawrence Anthony | M | 1950–2012 | South African | Conservation movement | Babylon's Ark
Lady Eve Balfour | F | 1899–1990 | English | Organic movement | The Living Soil
Sharon Beder | F |  | Australian | Civil engineering | Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Tzeporah Berman | F | 1969– | Canadian | Temperate rainforest: clearcutting | Clayoquot & Dissent
Christopher Booker | M | 1937– | English | Various themes | The Real Global Warming Disaster
Michael Braungart | M | 1958– | German | Industrial waste |
Harold Brookfield | M | 1926– | British and Australian | Rural development, family farms | Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, Analysing and Using Agricultural Diversity
Hans Bruyninckx | M | 1964– | Belgian | Environmental social science |  |
Verity Burgmann | F | 1952– | Australian | Indigenous land rights | Power, Profit and Protest
Helen Caldicott | F | 1938– | Australian | Anti-nuclear movement |
Mark Carwardine | M | 1959– |  | Endangered species | Last Chance to See (co-authored)
Pratap Chatterjee | M |  |  | Various themes |
Cormac Cullinan | M |  |  | Environmental law | Wild Law
Mark Diesendorf | M |  | Australian | Sustainable energy | Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy
David Fig | M |  | South African | Various themes | Uranium Road: Questioning South Africa's Nuclear Direction
Tim Flannery | M | 1956– | Australian | Climate change | The Weather Makers
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | F |  | Japanese | Genetic engineering | The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development
Masanobu Fukuoka | M | 1913–2008 | Japanese | Natural farming |
John Gibbons | M |  | Irish | Climate change |
Paul Gilding | M |  | Australian | Various themes |
Herbert Girardet | M |  |  | Various themes | Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges
Chris Goodall | M | 1955– | English | Various themes | Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate
Uri Gordon | M | 1976– | Israeli | Direct action |
Nicky Hager | M | 1958 | New Zealander | Various themes | Seeds of Distrust
Julia Hailes | F | 1961– | English | Ethical consumerism | The New Green Consumer Guide
Clive Hamilton | M | 1953– | Australian | Various themes | Requiem for a Species
John L. Harper | M | 1925–2009 | British | Population biology | Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems (co-authored)
Lisa Harrow | F | 1943– |  | Sustainable living | What Can I Do?
Rizwana Hasan | F | 1968– | Bangladeshi | Environmental law: ship breaking | Laws Regulating Environment in Bangladesh
Dieter Helm | M |  | British | Energy | The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong – and How to Fix it
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (biologist) | M | 1959– | Australian | Coral reefs |
Thomas Homer-Dixon | M | 1956– | Canadian | Petroleum industry | The Upside of Down
Kenneth Hsu | M |  | Swiss | Various themes | Klima Macht Geschichte: Menschheitsgeschichte als Abbild der Klimaentwicklung
Mike Hulme | M | 1960– | English | Climate change | Why We Disagree About Climate Change
Leonie Joubert | F |  | South African | Climate change | Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate
Rahanna Alicia Juman | F  |  | Trinidad and Tobago  | Wetlands, Ecology  | Wetlands of Trinidad & Tobago[1]
Yoshikazu Kawaguchi | M | 1939– | Japanese | Natural farming |
David Keith | M |  | Canadian | Climate change | A Case for Climate Engineering
Petra Kelly | F | 1947–1992 | German | Disarmament |
Bruce Kinloch | M | 1919–2011 | British | Wildlife conservation | The Shamba Raiders
Satish Kumar | M | 1936– | Indian, English |  |
Nigel Lawson | M | 1932– | British | Climate change | An Appeal to Reason
Richard Leakey | M | 1944–2022 | Kenyan | Conservation movement | Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures (co-authored)
Jeremy Leggett | M | 1954– | English | Various themes | Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis
Howard Liddell | M | 1945–2013 | British | Sustainable development and passive housing | Eco-minimalism – The Antidote to Eco-bling
Andre Lima | M | 1971– | Brazilian | Various themes | Ecological-economic zoning of the Light Environmental Laws
Bjørn Lomborg | M | 1965– | Danish | Various themes | The Skeptical Environmentalist
James Lovelock | M | 1919–2022 | English | Various themes | The Revenge of Gaia
Ian Lowe | M |  | Australian | Various themes | Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option
Philip Lymbery | M | 1965– | British | Industrial agriculture | Farmageddon
Mark Lynas | M | 1973– | British | Various themes | Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Andri Snær Magnason | M | 1973– | Icelandic | Hydroelectricity | Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation
Thomas Robert Malthus | M | 1766–1834 | English | Population growth | An Essay on the Principle of Population
Samuel Mann | M |  | New Zealand | Sustainability | The Green Graduate: Educating Every Student as a Sustainable Practitioner
George Marshall | M | 1964– | British | Climate change | Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
David Maybury-Lewis | M | 1929–2007 |  |  | Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
Alastair McIntosh | M | 1955– | Scottish | Various themes |
Ian McKay | M | 1962– | English |  |
Anupam Mishra | M | 1948– | Indian | Water management |
George Monbiot | M | 1963– | English | Climate change |
Andrew Montford | M |  | English | Climate change | The Hockey Stick Illusion
N. K. Sukumaran Nair | M | 1942– | Indian | Pamba River |
Andrew Nikiforuk | M |  | Canadian |  |
Helena Norberg-Hodge | F |  |  | Sustainable living | Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
Mark O'Connor | M | 1945– | Australian | Various themes |
Guy Pearse | M |  | Australian | Climate change | High and Dry
Sharon Pincott | F |  | Australian | Conservation Movement | Elephant Dawn
Ian Plimer | M | 1946– | Australian | Various themes | Heaven and Earth
Li Quan | F |  | Chinese | Tiger conservation | Rewilded, Saving the South China Tiger
(bilingual, English and Chinese)
Jørgen Randers | M | 1945– | Norwegian | Climate change | 2052 - A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
Valentin Rasputin | M | 1937– | Russian | Water management |
Derek Ratcliffe | M | 1929–2005 | British | Conservation movement | A Nature Conservation Review (2 volumes)
Emma Romeu | F |  | Cuban |  |
David Mayer de Rothschild | M | 1978– | British | Various themes |
Palagummi Sainath | M | 1957– | Indian | Various themes |
R. Murray Schafer | M | 1933– | Canadian | Acoustic ecology | The Tuning of the World (The Soundscape), republished as The Soundscape
Hermann Scheer | M | 1944–2010 | German | Renewable energy | Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy
E. F. Schumacher | M | 1911–1977 | British | Appropriate technology | Small Is Beautiful
Philip Sherrard | M | 1922–1995 | British | Religion and environmentalism |
Vandana Shiva | F | 1952– | Indian | Various themes |
Stanislav Edward Shmelev | M |  | British | Ecological economics | Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice
Rick Smith | M | 1968– | Canadian | Medical toxicology | Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health (co-authored)
Lawrence Solomon | M | 1948– | Canadian | Various themes | The Deniers
David Suzuki | M | 1936– | Canadian | Various themes | The Sacred Balance
Peter Tertzakian | M |  | Canadian | Energy industry | The End of Energy Obesity
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta | M | 1955– | Indian | Energy in India | Gas Wars
Josef Velek | M | 1939–1990 | Czechoslovak, Czech |  |
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker | M | 1939– | German |  |
Sanjay Singh Yadav | M |  | Indian |  | The Environmental Crisis of Delhi
Lü Zhi | F | 1965– | Chinese | Conservation of giant pandas and other species | Giant Pandas in the Wild

## See also

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* List of environmental books

## References

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1. ^ Gobin, Judith (2011-12-31). "Book Review - Wetlands of Trinidad and Tobago by Rahanna Juman". Living World, Journal of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club. ISSN 1029-3299.

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