Selected publications

Items marked with an asterisk (*) are posted online

NATURE CONSERVATION IN URBAN REGIONS

*Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines. Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 22. IUCN, 2014. Written in collaboration with Joseph T. Edmiston, Glen Hyman, Jeffrey A. McNeely, Pedro da Cunha e Menezes, Brett Myrdal, and Adrian Phillips. Versions in other languages: French, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese (all online).

*The Urban Imperative: Urban outreach strategies for protected area agencies (editor and contributor). CIPA for IUCN, 2005. Includes 26 articles by 34 authors from 11 countries.  

*Urban dwellers and protected areas: Natural allies. In Jeffrey A. McNeely, ed., Friends for Life: New partners in support of protected areas. IUCN, 2005.

*California’s urban protected areas: Progress despite daunting pressures. Parks 11 (3), 2001, 4-15.

*Natural Neighbors: Encouraging cooperation between conservation agencies, museums, and similar institutions to introduce more urban people to the natural world. In Samantha Weber, ed. Engagement, Education, and Expectations: The future of parks and protected areas. George Wright Society, 2016.

INTEGRATIVE THOUGHT AND ACTION

*Integrating ideas and organizations toward a new paradigm. Eruditio 6 (2015).

SUSTAINABILITY

A Sustainable World: Defining and measuring sustainable development (editor and contributor). CIPA and Earthscan (London) for IUCN, 1995. 16 chapters by authors from 10 countries. Choice, a journal of the American Library Association, said the book "Should be read by anyone interested in the future of the world’s human/economic/environmental interactions." Lynton Keith Caldwell, the dean of environmental policy scholars, wrote in Environmental Conservation that "This book provides perhaps the most coherent answer we have yet had to [clarifying the concept of sustainability]."

ETHICS AND POLICY

Linking Values and Policy for Sustainable Development: An international strategy to build the sustainability ethic into decision-making. IUCN, 1995. Updated in *Raising Annoying Questions: Why values should be built into decision-making. CIPA, 2001.

CONVENING

The Power of Convening: Collaborative policy forums for sustainable development (editor, with Ilze M. Gotelli, and contributor). CIPA, IUCN, and Claremont Graduate University, 1990. Includes 14 papers by authors from 7 countries. Summarized in the online paper *The Power of convening.

*Convening thinkers and doers: Sweden's Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. In The Power of Convening. Reprinted in the 50th anniversary issue of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation 's journal, Development Dialogue, no. 60, August 2012.

IMPACT ASSESSMENT

*The California Environmental Quality Act: An innovation in state and local decision-making (principal author). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1974.

*Environmental Impact Requirements in the States: NEPA’s offspring. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1975.

INFORMATION GUIDES

General editor, Who’s Doing What Series (CIPA and others, 1972-2001). A series of resource guides on global problems. Included the World Directory of Environmental Organizations: A handbook of national and international organizations and programs, governmental and non-governmental, concerned with protecting the Earth’s resources (6 print editions, 1972-2001; published in Web form from 2003-2008), the standard reference, about which Booklist said: "An essential purchase for academic institutions with environment-related curricula."

General editor, California Information Guides Series (CIPA, 1969-1999). The series included The California Handbook (Trzyna was principal editor of its 8 editions, about which the Los Angeles Times said "No other contemporary guide covers so much California ground," and which Sunset magazine called "An astonishing compendium").