RBB Archive Weekly Peek
Posted by: Rebecca Vnuk
Issues surrounding the environment are big in the news these days, and big in trade and educational publishing too, as Booklist‘s March 1 Spotlight on the Environment highlights. Reference publishers have been busy delivering relevant materials as well.
Berkshire, for example, has a 10-volume Encyclopedia of Sustainability (also available online). The first part, The Spirit of Sustainability, came out late in 2009. Other volumes cover business, law, natural resources, ecosystem management, and other topics. Sage has published an electronic-only Green Society series comprising Green Energy: An A-Z Guide and six other titles. Sage is also the publisher of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Environment and Society (2007).
Additional contexts and perspectives are offered by titles such as Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism (Scarecrow, 2009), Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Gale, 2008), and Great Debates in American Environmental History (Greenwood, 2008). Late last year ABC-CLIO published Encyclopedia of the U.S. Government and the Environment: History, Policy, Politics; the RBB review is coming up in the April 15 issue of Booklist.
Finally, Gale publishes GREENR: Global Reference for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, a database focusing on academic study of the environment and sustainability.
