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Books recommended by Climate and Health Council
Members and Board members
o Paul Gilding, The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy, April 2011 / 304 pages / 9781408812099 http://paulgilding.com/the-great-disruption
o Juliet Schor, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, Penguin Press HC, May 2010 / 272 pages / 9781594202544 http://www.julietschor.org/the-book/
o N Crisp. Turning the World Upside Down: The search for global health in the 21st Century, Hodder Education, Jan 2010 / 240 pages / 9781853159336 http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/video/nigel-crisp-turning-world-upside-down
o Tim Jackson Prosperity without Growth:Economics for a Finite Planet, Earthscan, October 2009 / 280 pages / 9781844078943 http://www.earthscan.co.uk/ProsperityWithoutGrowth/tabid/102098/Default.aspx
o J. Griffiths, M Rao, F Adshead, and A Thorpe. The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change, London :Earthscan, Sept 2009 / 256 pages / 9781844077298. http://www.earthscan.co.uk/blog/post/Our-Health-Our-Planet.aspx
o Donella Meadows. Thinking in Systems. A Primer, London :Earthscan, February 2009 / 240 pages / 9781844077267. http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=56981
o David McKay. Sustainable Energy - without the hot air, Cambridge :UIT, December 2008 / 380 pages / 9780954452933. http://www.withouthotair.com/ (Can be downloaded as a pdf for free from here)
o Ian Roberts and Phil Edwards. The Energy Glut: The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World, Zed Books, Oct 2010 / 182 pages / 1848135181. http://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/podcasts/2011/01/energy-glut-discussing-politics-fatness-prof-ian-roberts-0
o Philip and Jackie Mills, Fighting Globesity, Random House, September 2010 / 303 pages / 1869419715. http://www.climateandhealth.org/magazine/read/happy-new-year-lets-fight-some-globesity-_161.html
o George Monbiot, Heat: How we can stop the planet burning, Allen Lane, September 2006 / 304 pages / 0713999233. http://www.monbiot.com/2006/11/07/heat/