Borden, Carla M. Contemporary Indian Tradition: Voices on Culture, Nature, and the Challenge of Change. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1989.

Chapple, Christopher and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2000.

Gadgil, Madhav and Ramachandra Guha. Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India. New York: Routledge. 1995.

Guha, Ramachandra. The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya. Berkeley: University of California Press.2000.

Merchant, Carolyn. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. New York: Routledge. 1992.

Mies, Maria and Vandana Shiva. Ecofeminism. London and New Jersey: Zed Books. 1993. (especially the chapter “ The Chipko Women’s Concept of Freedom”)

Rangan, Haripriya. Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History. New York: Verso, 2000.  http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no21781.htm

Shiva, Vandana. Staying Alive. London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1989. ( The chapter “Women in the Forest” which addresses Chipko specifically)

Shiva, Vandana. Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. 1991.

Shrestha, Nanda R. In the Name of Development: A Reflection on Nepal. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 1997.

Shrestha, Nanda R. and Dennis Conway. Forest Land, the State and the Rural Poor: Conflicts Over Frontier Settlement in Contemporary Nepal. Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace. 1992.

Shestha, Nanda R. "Losing Shangri-La?: The Environmental Degradation of Kathmandu". Education About Asia. Spring 1998. Vol.3, Number 1.(11-18).

Shepard, Mark. Gandhi Today: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi's Successors. Washington,D.C.: Seven Locks Press. 1987.

Weber, Thomas. Hugging the Trees: The Story of the Chipko Movement. New Delhi: Viking Penguin. 1988.

Chapters from books:

Contemporary Indian Tradition. Ed. Carla M. Borden. Washington D.C.: Simithsonian Institution Press.
      Berreman, Gerald. "Chipko: A Movement to Save the Himalayan Environment and People". (239-266).

Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought : Essays in Environmental Philosophy.  Ed. J. Baird Callicott and Roger T. Ames. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1989. 
      Callicott, J. Baird and Roger T. Ames. “The Asian Traditions as a Conceptual Resource 
      for Environmental Philosophy” and “Epilogue: On the Relation of Idea and Action” (279-290).
      Deutsh, Eliot. “A Metaphysical Grounding for Natural Reverence: East-West”.(259-266).
      Larson, Gerald James. “Conceptual Resources in South Asia for Environmental Ethics. (267- 278).

Women Healing Earth. Ed. Rosemary Radford Ruether.
      Dietrich, Gabriele. “The World as the Body of God”. (82-98).
      Gnanadason, Aruna. “Toward a Feminist Eco-Theology for India” (74-81).
      Shiva, Vandana. “Let Us Survive: Women, Ecology and Development”. (65-73).
 

Worldviews and Ecology. Ed. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 1993.
      Brown, Brian. “Toward a Buddhist Ecological Cosmology”. (124-137)
      Chapple, Christopher Key. “Hindu Environmentalism: Traditional and Contemporary Resources”. 
       (113-123).
 

Journal Articles

Data bases have made a range of scholarly journal articles available to school libraries.
The following are available on Expanded Academic Index or on web sites.

Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta. "Chipko Movement: Of Floated Myths and Flouted Realities".
http://www.mtnforum.org/resources/library/bandj99a.htm

Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta. "Sustainablilty and Survival in a Mountain Context". AMBIO: Journal Human Environment. 21 (4): 297-302.

Byers, Elizabeth and Meeta Sainju. "Mountain Ecosystems and Women: Opportunities for Sustainable Development and Conservation" . Part I
http://www.mtnforum.org/resources/library/byerx94a1.htm

Denniston, Derek. "Saving the Himalaya". World Watch. Nov-Dec 1993. v6 n6 p10(12).

Dogra, Bharat. "Development-India: 'Green Revolution' Bad News for Poor Laborers" Environment Bulletin. Novemeber 22, 2000. pITEM00332001.

Dogra, Bhart. "Environment-India: Eroding the Gains from Forest Protection". Enviroment Bulletin. Jan 25, 2000 pITEM00031001.

Dogra, Bharat. "Whither the Chipko Years?: The Fading Gains of Himalayan Conservation". Inter Press Service. June 5, 2002.
http://www.indiatogether.org/environment/articles/postchipko.htm

Dunn, Sara. "Tuesday Women: From Shrug to Hug". The Guardian (London). April 18, 1989.

Emmott, Bill and Vandana Shiva. "Is 'Development' Good for the Third World?" The Ecologist. April 2000 v30 12 p22.

Hutchinson, Robert A. “ A Tree Hugger Stirs Villagers in India to Save Their Forests: Sunderlal Bahuguna and the Chipko Movement”.Smithsonian. Feb. 1988 v18 n11 p184 (10).

Karan, P.P. “Environmental Movements in India”. The Geographical Review. Jan 1994 v84 n1 p32(10).

Karan, P.P. and S. Iijima. “Environmental Stress in the Himalaya”. The Geographical Review. 1985. v75 p71-92.

Mukerji, Debashish. "Pulling a Fast One". The Week. December 7, 1997.
http://www.the-week.com/97dec07/events2.htm

May, R.R. "Women of Uttarakhand: On The Frontiers of the Environmental Struggle".
http://bostonglobalaction.net/UK/chipko.html

Narasimhan, Sakuntala. “The Roots of a Movement: India”. Connexions. Winter 1993
N41 p22(2). (Excerpted from “A Hug for the Himalayas” in Deccan Herald, India. Dec. 13, 1992.)

Nelson, Brian. "Chipko Revisited". Whole Earth Review. Summer 1993. n79p116(8).

Pirta, R.S. "Voice of the Mountains: Looking for an Alternative Paradigm".
http://www.mtnforum.org/resources/library/pirtr00b.htm

Shiva, Vandana. "The Chipko Earth Charter". Sanctuary. 12 (3): 44-49.

Shiva, Vandana. “Reversing Globalization: What Gandhi Can Teach Us”. The Ecologist. May-June 1999. v29 i3 p224 (2).

Shiva, Vandana and J. Bandyopadhyay. " The Evolution, Structure and Impact of the Chipko Movement". Mountain Research and Development. 1986. 6 (2). 133-142.

Shepard, Mark. "Chipko: North India's Tree Huggers". Coevolution Quarterly. Fall 1981. (62-70).

Shepard, Mark. "Hug the Trees: Chandi Prasad Bhatt and the Chipko Movement".
http://www.markshep.com/nonviolence/GT_Chipko.html

Swain, Ashok. "Democratic Consolidation? Environmental Movements in India". Asian Survey. September 1997. v37 n9 p818(15).

Toufexis, Anastasia. "Endangered Species: Violence Against Environmentalists. Time. April27,1992. v139 n17 p48 (3).

UNESCO Courier. “Interview: Vandana Shiva Talks to Judith Bizot”. Dec 2001. p36 (4).