Earthscan was originally founded by the International Institute for Environment and Development in 1987 with the aim to publish original, reliable and significant work to foster the conditions for sustainability by providing an analysis and understanding of these issues.

Authors include Walt Patterson, Al Gore, the IPCC, Tim Jackson, Jonathon Porritt, Felix Dodds, and Sakiko Fukuda-Parr.

Selected recent publications

• Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy (2006)
• The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development (2006)
• An Introduction to Sustainable Development (2007)
• Environmental Principles and Policies (2007)
• Renewable Electricity and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability (2007)
• Risk Governance: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World (2008)
• Selling Solar: The Diffusion of Renewable energy in Emerging Markets (2008)
• Factor 5: A Convenient Truth (forthcoming)
• Resolving Messy Policy Problems (forthcoming)

External links

• Earthscan website