有关中国环境和人口的主要文献,最新资料大多是用中文写就的。参考文献可见本人与刘建国共同发表的“China's environment in a globalizing world:How China and the Rest of the World Affect Each Other(Nature 435:1179-1186(2005))”,至于英文方面的相关书籍或期刊,华盛顿的Woodrow Wilson Center(e-mail:[email protected])出版了一系列名为China Environment Series的年刊。世界银行的出版物有China:Air, Land, and Water(Washington, D.C.:The World Bank, 2001),除了纸印本,还有光盘。其他相关书籍还有L.R.Brown的Who Will Feed China?(New York:Norton, 1995);M.B.McElroy, C.P.Nielson与P.Lydon共同编辑的Energizing China:Reconciling Environmental Protection and Economic Growth(Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, 1998);J.Shapiro的Mao's War against Nature(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2001);D.Zweig的Internationalizing China:Domestic Interests and Global Linkages(Ithaca, N.Y.:Cornell University Press, 2002);Mark Elvin的The Retreat of the Elephants:An Environmental History of China(New Haven:Yale University Press, 2004);此外还有曲格平与李金昌合著的《中国人口与环境》(中国环境科学出版社,1992)一书的英译本Population and Environment in China(Boulder, Colo.:Lynne Rienner, 1994)。