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Communicating Science and the Environment

PWR 2CR - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Ross, C.
Last Updated: 25-Apr-2013

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.

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Background/Reference sources about the Environment

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

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » GE105 .C65 2008 V.1
Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2012.
Green Library » Stacks » JZ1324 .N49 2012
Los Angeles : SAGE, c2008.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » QC981.8 .G56 E47 2008 V.1
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » QC981.8 .G56 E46 2010 V.1
New York : Routledge, 2004.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » GF10 .E63 2004 V.1
2nd ed. Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2010.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » JZ1242 .W67 2010
Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers, c2002.
Green Library » Stacks » GE170 .M54 2002
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Marine Biology Library (Miller) » Stacks » QC903 .M395 2012
Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Biology Library (Falconer) » Stacks » QH541.15 .B56 H38 2011
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » GF503 .B527 2008 V.1

Suggested Databases for the Environment

Try these suggested databases  and these additional: 

Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CAB International, [19--]-
This one is good for agricultural and biological topics.
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub., [2002-
[S.l.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, [199-]-
[Bethesda, Md.] : Congressional Information Service
Assorted statistics can be found in this database.
[San Diego, etc., Sociological Abstracts, inc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .S67 V.52:NO.6 2004
If you need the sociology literature try this one first.