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Communicating Science and the Environment

PWR 2CR - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Ross, C.
Last Updated: 12-Dec-2012

A guide to resources for PWR 2CR:  Communicating Science and the Environment.   Topics include communicating science and environmental research about climate change, biodiversity, energy, agricultural and water issues and the activism and policies surrounding these topics.

Subject Librarians

Kathleen Gust
Engineering Librarian for Outreach Instruction and Electronic Resources
Engineering Library (Terman)
(650) 723-8877

Subjects

General and interdisciplinary

Around Stanford

Stanford Environmental Portal
Sustainable Choices at Stanford
Woods Institute for the Environment

Background/Reference sources about the Environment

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Battleground : environment / Robert William Collin.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » GE105 .C65 2008 V.1
Globalization and the environment : capitalism, ecology & power / Peter Newell.
Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2012.
Green » Stacks » JZ1324 .N49 2012
Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change / S. George Philander, editor.
Los Angeles : SAGE, c2008.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » QC981.8 .G56 E47 2008 V.1
Encyclopedia of global warming / editor, Steven I. Dutch.
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » QC981.8 .G56 E46 2010 V.1
Encyclopedia of world environmental history / Shepard Krech III, J.R. McNeill, Carolyn Merchant, editors.
New York : Routledge, 2004.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » GF10 .E63 2004 V.1
World at risk : a global issues sourcebook.
2nd ed. Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2010.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » JZ1242 .W67 2010
Environmental politics : interest groups, the media, and the making of policy / Norman Miller.
Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers, c2002.
Green » Stacks » GE170 .M54 2002
Adapting to a changing environment : confronting the consequences of climate change / Tim R. McClanahan and Joshua E. Cinner.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Hopkins » Stacks » QC903 .M395 2012
Biological diversity : exploiters and exploited / Paul Hatcher and Nick Battey.
Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Falconer » Stacks » QH541.15 .B56 H38 2011
Great debates in American environmental history / Brian Black and Donna L. Lybecker.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » GF503 .B527 2008 V.1

Suggested Databases for the Environment

Try these suggested databases  and these additional: 

CAB Abstracts [electronic resource].
Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CAB International, [19--]-
Environment index [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub., [2002-
Environmental sciences & pollution management [electronic resource].
[S.l.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, [199-]-
ProQuest statistical insight [electronic resource].
[Bethesda, Md.] : Congressional Information Service

Internet Resources for the Environment

National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
United Nations Environmental Data Explorer
United Nations Sustainable Development National Information Database
World Environmental Library
Worldwatch Institute