Climate Change

Explore contemporary titles on climate change, selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists. In Syndetics Unbound, RCL Librarians recommend a selection of the 90,000+ titles available at rclweb.net.

Updated July 1, 2024
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Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Romm, Joseph
Paper Book
"This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change." - New York Magazine"The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane." - The Daily Beast"A must-read." - The GuardianThe essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our...
Climate change in human history : prehistory to the present
Lieberman, Benjamin
Paper Book
Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting hundreds of thousands of years ago and going up to the present day, this book illustrates how natural climate variability...
A climate policy revolution : what the science of complexity reveals about saving our planet
Kupers, Roland
Paper Book
Humanity's best hope for confronting the looming climate crisis rests with the new science of complexity. The sheer complexity of climate change stops most solutions in their tracks. How do we give up fossil fuels when energy is connected to everything, from great-power contests...
: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living
Parkes, Graham
Paper Book
**Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2021** Coping with the climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face as a species. We know the main task is to reduce our emissions as rapidly as possible to minimise the harm to the world's population now and for generations to come....
Less heat, more light : a guided tour of weather, climate, and climate change
Aber, John D.
Paper Book
A straightforward and fact-based exploration of how weather happens, how it relates to climate, and how science answers major questions about Earth as a system   Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer...
All we can save : truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. "A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?"--The New York Times ...
Human Health and the Climate Crisis
Carlson, Gail
Paper Book
Human Health and the Climate Crisis offers a detailed exploration of the human health aspects of climate change, examining both the direct and indirect human health impacts of climate change while uniquely exploring climate justice -- the equitable protection of all people from climate impacts and...
Global environmental politics
Chasek, Pamela S.
Paper Book
Global Environmental Politics has provided an accurate, up-to-date, and unbiased understanding of the world's most pressing environmental issues for thirty years. The eighth edition continues this practice by covering critical new developments in global environmental politics and policymaking.<...
Cool cities : urban sovereignty and the fix for global warming
Barber, Benjamin R.
Paper Book
A pointed argument that cities--not nation-states--can and must take the lead in fighting climate change Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate...
Imagining the future of climate change : world-making through science fiction and activism
Streeby, Shelley
Paper Book
From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and Leslie Marmon Silko, movie directors such as Bong Joon-Ho, and creators of digital media such as the...
Art and climate change.
Fowkes, Maja
Paper Book
An overview of ecologicallyconscious contemporary artthat responds to today'senvironmental crisis, fromspecies extinction toclimate change. Art and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency. When the future of life on Earth...
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Bittle, Jake
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence The "closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted" (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky) story of climate migration in the United States--the personal stories of those experiencing...

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