McPhee, John. "Atchafalaya" in The Control of Nature. New York, 1989.

Coates, Peter. "The Natures of Nature" Ch. 1 in Nature. Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times. University of California Press, 1998. 1-22.
 

Ancient Ideas and Attitudes toward Nature

Oelschlaeger, Max. " The Idea of Wilderness" and "Ancient Mediterranean Ideas of Humankind and Nature: the Passage from Myth to History,"Chapters 1and 2 in The Idea of Wilderness. Yale University Press 1991, pp. 1-67.

Hargrove, Eugene C. "Philosophical Attitudes," Chapter 1 in Foundations of Environmental Ethics. Prentice Hall, 1989, 14-47.

Hughes, Donald. "Concepts of the Natural World," Chapter 4 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.

Hughes, Donald. "Early Greek and Roman Environmentalists," in Lester J. Bilsky, Ed., Historical Ecology: Essays on Environment and Social Change, Kennikat Press, 1980, 183.

Black, John, "The Western World View" "Dominion Over Nature," and "The Concept of Stewardship," Chs. 2-5 in The Dominion of Man. University Press, Edinburgh, 1970.

Ferkiss, Victor. "To Serve Man or to Serve Nature?" Ch. 1 in Nature, Technology, and Society. Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis, New York, 1993.

White, Lynn. "The Historical Roots of the Environmental Crisis," Science vol 155, no. 3767, 10 March 1967, 1203-1207.

Coates, Peter. "Ancient Greece and Rome" Ch. 2 in Nature. Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times. University of California Press, 1998, 23-39.
 

Pleistocene / Hunter Gatherers

Shepard, Paul. "How We Once Lived," in Coming Home to the Pleistocene. Shearwater Books 1998. Chapter 2, pp. 37-50.

Shepard, Paul. "How the Mind Once Lived," in Coming Home to the Pleistocene. Shearwater Books 1998. Chapter 4, pp. 51-66.

Harris, Marvin. "Murders in Eden," in Cannibals and Kings. Vintage 1977.
 

Origins of Agriculture

Hughes, Donald. "Ecological Crises in Earlier Societies," Chapter 3 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.

Ponting, Clive, "The First Great Transition," Ch. 4 in A Green History of the World. Penguin, 1991.

Diamond, Jared. "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race," Discover, May 1997, 64-66.

Harris, Marvin. "The Hydraulic Trap," in Cannibals and Kings. Vintage 1977.
 

Ecology of Greece

Rackham, Oliver. "Ecology and pseudo-ecology: the example of ancient Greece, in Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity, Routledge 1996,16-43.

Rackham, Oliver. "Ancient Landscapes," in Murray and Price, eds., The Greek City from Homer to Alexander, Clarendon, 1990, pp. 85-111.

Hughes, Donald. "Introduction: Ecology in the Greek and Roman Worlds," Chapter 1 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994. y

Hughes, Donald. "The Environment: Life, land, and Sea in the Mediterranean Region," Chapter 2 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.
 

Resources

Purcell, Nicholas. "Rome and the management of water: environment, culture, and power," in Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity, Routledge 1996, 180-212.

Hughes, Donald. "Wildlife Depletion: Hunting Fishing and the Arena," Chapter 6 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.

Fox, Robin Lane. :Ancient hunting: from Homer to Polybius," in Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity, Routledge 1996, pp. 119-153.

Newmyer, Stephen T. "Plutarch on Justice Toward Animals: Ancient Insights on a Modern Debate" Scholia 1 (1992) 38 ff.

Steiner, Gary. "Descartes on the Moral Status of Animals," Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, vol 80, no. 3 (1999) 28-51 (forth coming).
 

Deforestation, Soil Erosion, Grazing

Hughes, Donald. "Deforestation, Overgrazing and Erosion," Chapter 5 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.

van Andel, Tjeerd, Eberhard Zangger, and Anne Dmitrack. "Land Use and Soil Erosion in Prehistoric and Historical Greece," Journal of Field Archaeology 17.4 (1990) 379-396.

Smith, Catherine Delano. "Where was the ‘wilderness’ in Roman times?" in Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity, Routledge 1996, pp. 154-179.

Köhler-Rollefson and Rollefson, "The impact of Neolithic subsistence strategies on the environment: The Case of Ain Ghazal, Jordan," in Man’s Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape. Rotterdam 1990, 3-14 goats
 

Agriculture

Hanson, Victor Davis. "The Attack on Agriculture," Pt. 1 of Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, University of California Press, 1998, 32-76.
 

Industry

Hughes, Donald. "Industrial Technology and Environmental Damage," Chapter 7 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.

Oleson, John. "Reassessing Classical Technology," in Greek and Roman Lifting Devices: The History of a Technology. Toronto 1984.
Nriagu, Jerome. "Tales Told in Lead," Science vol. 281 11 September 1998, 1622-1623.
 

Urbanism

Hughes, Donald, "The effect of classical cities on the Mediterranean landscape, "Ekistics 42 (1976) 332-342.

Hughes, Donald. "Urban Problems," Chapter 9 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.

Scobie, "Slums, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Roman World," KLIO 68 (1986) 399-422.

Ponting, Clive, "The Rise of the City," Ch. 14 in A Green History of the World. Penguin, 1991.
 

Parks and Gardens

Hughes, Donald. "Groves and Gardens, Parks and Paradises," Chapter 10 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.
 

Fall of Rome

Hughes, Donald. "Agricultural Decline," Ch. 8 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.

Hughes, Donald. "Environmental Problems as Factors in the Decline of the Greek and Roman Civilizations" Chapter 11 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.
 

After Antiquity

Coates, Peter. "The Middle Ages," Ch. 3 in Nature. Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times. University of California Press, 1998, 40-66.

Coates, Peter. "The Advent of Modernity," Ch. 4 in Nature. Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times. University of California Press, 1998. 67-81.

Oelschlaeger, Max. "The Alchemy of Modernism," Chapter 3 in The Idea of Wilderness. Yale University Press 1991, pp. 68-96.

Oelschlaeger, Max. " Wild Nature: Critical Responses to Modernism," Ch. 4 in The Idea of Wilderness. Yale University Press 1991, pp. 97-132.

Descartes. Discourse on Method. 1637.

Burke, James and Robert Ornstein. "Journey’s End," in The Axemaker’s Gift. Tarcher/Putnam 1995, pp. 253-278.