Suggested Readings
Getting prepared . . .
Here are a few reading suggestions to help you prepare yourself for your trip and for overall environmental awareness. The books are listed in no particular order, and we will be adding more as time goes on. In addition there are many travel handbooks about Costa Rica which are always useful. Also, we highly recommend the books published by INBio. They can be found at: www.inbio.ac.cr/editorial. Most of their books are in both English and Spanish.
You, no doubt, have other books and materials as well. We are interested in what you would recommend.
Dr. Seuss; The Lorax, Random House, Inc., 1971
Wilson, Edward O.; The Diversity of Life; W.W. Norton and Company; 1992.
Reid, Fiona; A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico; Oxford University Press; 1997.
Janzen, Daniel, ed.; Costa Rican Natural History; University of Chicago Press; 1983.
Kricher, John; A Neotropical Companion; Princeton University Press, 1996
Stiles, Gary and Skutch, Alexander; A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica; Cornell University Press, 1989.
Perry, Donald, Life Above the Jungle Floor, Don Perro Press, 1986
DeVries, Philip J.; The Butterflies of Costa Ric, Vol I and II; Princeton University Press; 1987.
Blatt, Harvey, America’s Environmental Report Card, 2nd Edition, The MIT Press, 2011
Brown, Lester, World on the Edge, How to Prevent Environmentl and Economic Collapse, Earth Policy Institute, 2011
Baker, Christopher; Costa Rica Handbook; Moon Publications, 1996.
Rachowiecki, Rob; Costa Rica; Lonely Planet Publications, 1997.
Franke, Joseph; Costa Rica’s National Parks and Preserves; The Mountaineers Press; 1993
Barnes, Peter, Capitalism 3.0, a Guide to Reclaiming the Commons, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2006
Hawken, Paul, The Ecology of Commerce, A Declaration of Sustainability, HarperCollins Publishers, 1993
Mitchell, Meg Tyler and Scott Pentzer, Costa Rica, A Global Studies Handbook, ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2008
Daily, Gretchen C. ed.; Nature’s Services, Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems, Island Press, 1997
Evans, Sterling; The Green Republic, A Conservation History of Costa Rica, U. of Texas Press, 1999
Forsythe, Adrian and Ken Miyata; Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America
, Simon and Schuster, 1984
Savage, Jay M.; The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica, The University of Chicago Press, 2002
Vandermeer, John and Ivette Perfecto, Breakfast of Biodiversity, Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1995
Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint, Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, New Society Publishers,
1996
Cortés, Jorge and Alberto León, The Coral Reefs of Costa Rica’s Caribbean Coast, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, 2002
McDonough, William and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle, North Point Press, 2002
Louv, Richard, Last Child in the Woods, Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006
Anderson, Ray, Mid-Course Correction, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1998
Hardin, Garrett, Tragedy of the Commons, article published in 1968
