IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

THE CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL CHOICES: PRACTICAL ADVICE FROM THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
Browers, Michael, and Leon Warren. Three Rivers Press, 1999.

This book presents statistics, describes solutions, and endorses steps for readers to take to live more ecologically based lifestyles as consumers of the Earth's resources.

ECOTOURISM AND CERTIFICATION: SETTING STANDARDS IN PRACTICE
Honey, Martha (Ed.). Island Press, 2002.

Ecotourism and Certification offers a valuable overview of ecotourism certification and lays out the basic challenges and strategies for establishing certification programs. It includes case studies from Australia, Central America, Europe, South Africa and Kenya.

THE END OF POVERTY: ECONOMIC POSSIBILITIES FOR OUR TIME
Sachs, Jeffrey. Penguin Press, 2005.

In The End of Poverty, celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs proposes nine specific steps to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. In presenting his argument, he offers a comprehensive education on global economics, including why globalization should be embraced rather than fought, why international institutions such as the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank need to play a strong role in this effort, and the reasons why extreme poverty exists in the midst of great wealth. He also shatters some persistent myths about poor people and shows how developing nations can do more to help themselves.

IN DEFENSE OF GLOBALIZATION
Bhagwati, Jagdish. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Drawing on references from history, philosophy and literature as well as some "state of the art econometric analysis," Bhagwati sets out to prove that the antiglobalization movement has exaggerated claims that globalization has done little good for poor countries.

THE MARKET FOR VIRTUE: THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Vogel, David. Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

The Market for Virtue offers a comprehensive, in-depth review of the contemporary corporate social responsibility movement in both the United States and Europe. While acknowledging the movement's achievements in improving labor, human rights, and environmental conditions in developing countries, the author argues that CSR's potential for significant change in corporate behavior is exaggerated.

SHADES OF GREEN: BUSINESS, REGULATION, AND ENVIRONMENT
Gunningham, Neil A., and Robert A. Kagan, and Dorothy Thornton. Stanford University Press, 2003.

This in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand provides an extensive and systematic empirical study of why firms achieve the levels of environmental performance that they do.

TAKE IT PERSONALLY: HOW TO MAKE CONSCIOUS CHOICES TO CHANGE THE WORLD
Roddick, Anita. Red Wheel Weiser, 2001.

Anita Roddick presents a vibrant collection of photographs, essays, montages, and quotes on the driving issues behind globalization from impassioned writers and activist organizations, including Global Exchange and the Rainforest Action Network.

TAPPING THE GREEN MARKET
Shanley, Patricia (Ed.), and Alan R.Pierce (Ed.), Sarah A. Laird (Ed.), Abraham Guillen (Ed.).Earthscan Publications, 2002.

Using case studies and global profiles of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), Tapping the Green Market explains the use and importance of market-based tools such as certification and eco-labelling for guaranteeing best management practices of NTFPs in the field.