LIBRARY
PHI 346: Environmental Ethics: Climate Change
e-Books and e-Reports
- Climate change, ethics, and human security byISBN: 0889202338Publication Date: Cambridge University Press. 2010
- Climate Ethics: Essential Readings byPublication Date: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Cold Front: Conflict Ahead in Arctic Waters byISBN: 1582437602Publication Date: 2010"...investigation of the Arctic’s pivotal role in international relations."
- Confronting climate change byISBN: 0415576237Publication Date: 2011Combines sociology, environmental studies and politics
- Energy, the environment and climate change byISBN: 1848164157London : Imperial College Press, c2010.
- Gaia in Turmoil : Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis byISBN: 0262513528Publication Date: MIT press 2010Climatic changes--Environmental aspects; Environmental ethics
- Hope for a Heated Planet: How Americans are Fighting Global Warming and Building a Better Future byISBN: 0813546230Rutgers University Press, c2009.
- Indigenous peoples and climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean byISBN: 0821382373Washington, D.C.: World Bank, c2010.
- Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling : Perspectives and Applications byPublication Date: IGI Global. 2011Climatic changes--Environmental aspects
Websites
- California Climate Change Portal"Based on the inextricable link between energy and greenhouse gas emissions, research into climate change is vital."
- Changing planet: impact on lives and valuesTo engage people in a discussion about climate change.
Take the survey: "What's your Climate Change profile?" - Earth Institute, Columbia Universityadvises national governments and the United Nations on issues related to sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeSpecial Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
- International Institute for Sustainable DevelopmentIISD champions sustainable development around the world through innovation, partnerships, research and communications. [Based in Canada]
- International Programme on the State of the Oceandesigned to consider the cumulative impact of multiple stressors on the ocean, including warming, acidification, and overfishing.
- Kyoto Protocolsets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (2012)
- National Academy of Sciences. Division on Earth & Life StudiesAdvancing the Science of Climate Change : Studies in Progress (2015)
- National Science FoundationHow severe can climate change become in a warming world? Worse than anything we've seen in written history, according to results of a study appearing this week in the journal Science.
- NOAA National Climatic Data Center: FAQs on Global WarmingMaps, charts, statistics that are updated monthly.
- Pew Center on Global Climate ChangeInformation and news, etc. updated frequently
- Project CLAMER (European Science Foundation)Climate Change & European Marine Ecosystem Research. Covers: climate change, lack of sustainable energy sources, economic and political instability, aging populations, poverty, hunger and migration. Updated regularly
- Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global WarmingIncludes Global Warming Impact Zone under "Issues"
- UN Framework Convention on Climate ChangeUN Climate Change website. updated August 2015
- UNHCR urges states to redefine response to climate-induced displacementNews Stories, 6 June 2011
- Union of Concerned ScientistsRenewable Energy Likely to Become Dominant Climate Change Solution by 2050, U.N. Study Concludes
- United Nations NewsEnvironmental Refugees Reshaping Human Geography, Security Council Has Unique Duty to Mobilize Action to Confront Climate Change Threat, Says Secretary-General [July 20, 2011]
- United States Global Change Research ProgramNational Climate Assessment website, updated frequently
Print Books in the Library
- Requiem for a species: why we resist the truth about climate change byCall Number: QC903 .H2185 2010ISBN: 1849710813"Is there a way out?"
- The Flooded Earth: our future in a world without ice caps byCall Number: GB2401.7 .W37 2010ISBN: 0465009492"...human population change, carbon dioxide, global warming, the impact of rising sea levels on agriculture, continental ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica and how they formed and will melt." [Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc.]
- Anthropology and climate change: from encounters to actions byCall Number: QC981.8.C5 A63 2009ISBN: 1598743341"...anthropology's engagement with climate change...issues a call to action."
- The great warming: climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations byCall Number: QC981.8.G56 F34 2009ISBN: 159691601X"...we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives today-and our vulnerability to drought." Book jacket.
- Water supply byCall Number: TD355 .W385 2008ISBN: 0824210794"...explores the global water supply and related issues by gathering articles published over the past six years in popular magazines."
- The biology of polar regions byCall Number: QH541.5.P6 F64 2008ISBN: 0199298130"... a detailed comparison of the Arctic and Antarctic systems, with a particular emphasis on the effects of climate change." [Book jacket.]
Electronic Resources: Articles
- EBSCOhost GreenFILEGreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. ... includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
- EBSCOhost Business Source PremierExample: "Cancun: a first step to replacing Kyoto." Petroleum Economist; Feb2011, Vol. 78. Search: Cancun AND Kyoto. (15 articles)
- Access Science / McGraw-HillClimate Change: Climate Change and Plant Adaptation; Species and Global Climate Change; etc.
- CQ Global ResearcherClimate Change : Will the Copenhagen Accord slow global warming? Feb 2010 • Vol 4, Issue 2 By Reed Karaim
World of Change : Polar Regions
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment ProgrammeAMAP Oslo, Norway. "A Norwegian group studying the Arctic forecasts that within 30 or 40 years the entire Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer. " [The NY Times, Oct 17, 2011]
The polar regions are experiencing rapid changes in climate. These changes are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees of severity at all ecosystem levels, including society. Even larger changes and more significant impacts are anticipated.
- Climate InstitutePolar Ice Melting Spurs Interest in Climate Stabilization
- European Polar Board"...provides strategic science policy advice to the European Commission and international bodies."
- Exploration of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments: Environmental and Scientific StewardshipNational Academies: Division on Earth and Life Studies. Polar Research, Ocean, Climate and Weather, etc.
- Polar Bears InternationalArctic research. Climate change. Environmental stewardship. Sea ice loss. Global warming. Sustainable living. Endangered species news.
- Polar Research Boardinternational consultation and cooperation in all aspects of arctic research.
- World of Change -- NASAdocuments how our planet’s land, oceans, atmosphere, and sun are changing over time.