📚 Natural Resources

Books with natural resources on their catalogue record, first published between 1865 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject natural resources in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 27,887 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The coal question	William Stanley Jevons	1865	32
	Le voyage de Monsieur Perrichon	Eugène Labiche	1888	24
	Man and nature	George Perkins Marsh	1865	21
	The rural life problem of the United States	Horace Plunkett	1910	21
	Environmental and natural resource economics	Thomas H. Tietenberg	1984	20
	Environmental science	Daniel D. Chiras	1985	14
	Environmental And Natural Resource Economics	Jonathan M. Harris	2002	14
	The land and wildlife of North America	Peter Farb	1964	12
	Sustaining our natural resources	Jen Green	2011	12
	Perspectives on conservation	Henry Jarrett	1958	11
	Man and environment	Robert Arvill	1967	10
	Dictionary of environmental science and technology	Andrew Porteous	1991	10
	People, Land and Water	Guy Bessette	2006	10
	World population and resources	Political and Economic Planning.	1954	9
	Natural resource conservation	Owen, Oliver S.	1975	9
	Finding out about geothermal energy	Matt Doeden	2014	9
	Highways of progress	James Jerome Hill	1910	8
	The fight for conservation	Pinchot, Gifford	1910	8
	Environmental science	Karen Arms	1990	8
	The quiet crisis	Stewart L. Udall	1963	7
	The plundered planet	Paul Collier	2010	7
	Natural resources and people	Kenneth A. Dahlberg	1986	6
	Sustainable Resource Management	Stefan Bringezu	2009	6
	Long Term Control of Exhaustible Resources	P. Lasserre	2013	6
	Non-Renewable Resources Extraction Programs and Markets	J. Hartwick	2013	6
	Circular Economy	Walter R. Stahel	2019	6
	Civilized to Death	Christopher Ryan	2019	6
	Resource economics	Alan Randall	1981	5
	Natural resource economics	Jon M. Conrad	1987	5
	Gem identification made easy	Antoinette Leonard Matlins	1989	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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