WITH some bad environmental dictionaries on the market, it is refreshing to find a good one. Its 8000 entries span ecology, law, geography and philosophy. Gondwanaland is there next to global warming and Silent Spring is sandwiched between silage and silica. Gaia gets a page to herself, but Greenpeace only a sentence. Inevitably there are gaps: there is no sign of carbon footprint or the scarily shattered Larsen B ice shelf, for instance. But, from aa to zygote, choices are sound and definitions are solid and unspun.
The Oxford Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
Oxford University Press
