Literature Guide: Deforestation and Defoliation

WCIU Journal: Environmental Studies Topic

Timothy Skinner, MLS, is the Librarian for William Carey International University and a member of Frontier Ventures.

February 12, 2021

Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS

(Note: An asterisk indicates online resources held by Latourette Library.)   

Library of Congress Classification

QK 763  Defoliation                                                              

SD 418 – SD 418.3  Deforestation

Library of Congress Subject Headings, Including Related Terms

Clearing of Land                                             

Defoliants                              

Defoliation

Deforestation                         

Forest Conservation                                        

Forest fires                             

Forest Protection                                            

Plants—Extinction

Periodical Articles

Amsberg, Joachim von. 1998. “Economic Parameters of Deforestation.” The World Bank Economic Review 12, no. 1: 133-53.

Oatsvall, N. S. 2013. “Trees versus Lives: Reckoning Military Success and the Ecological Effects of Chemical Defoliation During the Vietnam War.” Environment and History 19, no. 2: 427-58.

Reagan, Leslie J. 2011. “Representations and Reproductive Hazards of Agent Orange.” The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 39, no. 1 (Spring): 54-61.

Stairs, David C. 1999. “Design and Deforestation.” Leonardo 32, no. 4: 273-79.

Stellman, Steven D., and Jeanne M. Stellman. 2004. “Exposure Opportunity Models for Agent  Orange, Dioxin, and Other Military Herbicides Used in Vietnam, 1961–1971.” Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology (July): 354-62. 

Reference Books with Relevant Articles:

Dictionary of the Vietnam War (1988)

Facts on File Dictionary of Environmental Science (1991)

Books

Barbier, Edward, and Joan C. Burgess, eds. 2001. Tropical Deforestation and Land Use. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Buckingham, William A. 1982. Operation Ranch Hand: The United States Air Force and Herbicides in Southeast Asia, 1961-1971. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.

*Koninck, Rodolpe de. 1999. Deforestation in Vietnam. Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research Center.

*Kreike, Emmanuel. 2010. Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia: The Global Consequences. Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner.

Kreike, Emmanuel. 2021. Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Man and  Nature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

*Magulis, Sergio. 2004. Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. World Bank Publications.

Neilands, J. B., et al. 1972. Harvest of Death—Chemical Warfare in Vietnam and Cambodia. New York: Free Press.

Rogers, David K., James J. Furgal, and William Gary McGuire. 2019. Last Three Soldiers Standing – Defoliation of the Korean DMZ: What the Departments of Defense and Veteran Affairs Don’t Want You to Know. Independently published.

Seymour, Frances, and Jonah Busch. 2016. Why Forests? Why Now? The Science, Economics, and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change. Washington D.C.: Center for Global Development.

Zierler, David. 2011. The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think about the Environment. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Films:

Agent Orange: 30 Years Later. Directed by John Trinh.

Logging Wars. An action/adventure film, starring Alan Ladd, Gilbert Roland, Jeanne Crain, Lyle Bettger, and Noah Berry, portrays the American West during the late 1800s.