Marks, Robert B. 2012. China. Its Environment and History. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
McNeill, J.R. and Peter Engelke. 2014. The Great Acceleration. An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
In addition, a number of relevant academic articles, books, and book chapters will be made available to the students through Canvas.