Climate Change Books
A number of excellent books have been published about climate change in the past few years. Consider using books as sources for your research before delving into the scientific literature which can be highly technical.
Many of our books are available in e-book format and can be read online on any device. We also have a collection of print books which can be borrowed.
Some good search terms (depending on your topic) include climate change, global warming, sea level rise, global average temperature, carbon sequestration, and climate change adaption or mitigation.
Print books on climate change topics can be found on the third floor in the G section and on the 4th floor in the Q and T sections. Once you find the book you need (see boxes below for instructions), take it to the first floor service desk to check it out with your Rowan card.
Finding a Book by Topic
Use the search box labeled Library Search on the Campbell Library home page to search for books.
Enter topic keywords in the Library Search box, such as "electric vehicles."
When the results list is displayed, go to the left sidebar to refine your results.
Limit to books by checking Books under the Resource Type limiter, then selecting Apply Filter. (In some cases you may have to use the Show More button to see the Books resource type.)
Click on the availability link of the book you are interested in, which may be Available Online or Available in Campbell Library Remote Storage.
To limit further to e-books only, check the box for Available Online under the Limit To facet.
To limit further to print books only, check the box for Held in the Library under the Limit To facet.
Selected Books about Climate Change
2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change by
Experts broadly agree that stabilising greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere to avoid dangerous GHG-induced climate change could be accomplished only with concerted efforts by all large emitting nations. Toward this purpose, delegations of 195 nations adopted the Paris Agreement (PA) on 12 December 2015. The PA outlines goals and a structure for international cooperation to slow climate change and mitigate its impacts over decades to come. This book is intended to answer some of the primary factual and policy questions about the PA and its implications for the United States.
ISBN: 9781536105001Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Adaptation to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise by
The book provides a concise and interdisciplinary outlook on the impacts of climate change on coastal areas and how coastal communities adapt to them. The first chapter analyses how sea level rise, changing ocean conditions, or increased climate variability and the socio-environmental context of the coastal zone leads to vulnerable communities. The second chapter addresses adaptation strategies and tools, and gives some examples of their application around the world. The third chapter describes participative action research projects undertaken in New Brunswick and how this community based approach has enabled communities to increase their climate resilience.
ISBN: 9789401798877Publication Date: 2015-04-29
The Agile City by
In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global warming-and blunt its effects-by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly. Adapting buildings (39 percent of greenhouse-gas emission) and communities (slashing the 33 percent of transportation related emissions) offers numerous other benefits that tax gimmicks and massive alternative-energy investments can't match. Rapidly improving building techniques can readily cut carbon emissions by half, and some can get to zero. These cuts can be affordably achieved in the windshield-shattering heat of the desert and the bone-chilling cold of the north. Intelligently designing our towns could reduce marathon commutes and child chauffeuring to a few miles or eliminate it entirely. Agility, Russell argues, also means learning to adapt to the effects of climate change, which means redesigning the obsolete ways real estate is financed; housing subsidies are distributed; transportation is provided; and water is obtained, distributed and disposed of. These engines of growth have become increasingly more dysfunctional both economically and environmentally. The Agile City highlights tactics that create multiplier effects, which means that ecologically driven change can shore-up economic opportunity, can make more productive workplaces, and can help revive neglected communities. Being able to look at multiple effects and multiple benefits of political choices and private investments is essential to assuring wealth and well-being in the future. Green, Russell writes, grows the future.
ISBN: 9781610910279Publication Date: 2012-06-22
Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change by
This book examines global climate models that predict increases over time in average temperature worldwide, with significant impacts on local patterns of temperature and precipitation. The extent to which such changes present a risk to food supplies, farmer livelihoods, and rural communities depends in part on the direction, magnitude, and rate of such changes, but equally important on the ability of the agricultural sector to adapt to changing patterns of yield and productivity, production cost, and resource availability. Study findings suggest that, while impacts are highly sensitive to uncertain climate projections, farmers have considerable flexibility to adapt to changes in local weather, resource conditions, and price signals by adjusting crops, rotations, and production practices. Such adaptation, using existing crop production technologies, can partially mitigate the impacts of climate change on national agricultural markets.
ISBN: 9781622579358Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Carbon Sequestration to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation by
This book provides an understanding of the role of human activities in accelerating change in global carbon cycling summarizes current knowledge of the contemporary carbon budget. Starting from the geological history, this volume follows a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the role of human activities in perturbing carbon cycling by quantifying changes in different reservoirs and fluxes of carbon with emphasis on the anthropogenic activities, especially after the industrial revolution. It covers the role of different mitigation options - natural ecological, engineered, and geoengineered processes as well as the emerging field of climate engineering in avoiding dangerous abrupt climate change. Although the targeted audience is the educators, students, researchers and scientific community, the simplified analysis and synthesis of current and up to date scientific literature makes the volume easier to understand and a tool policy makers can use to make an informed policy decisions.
ISBN: 9783319538433Publication Date: 2017-04-07
Finding a Book by Title
Use the search box labeled Library Search on the Campbell Library home page (www.lib.rowan.edu/campbell) to search for books.
Example 1 - a print book
Enter a title in Library Search box such as "Bridge Monitoring: A Practical Guide."
First result is this book in print format - Available at Campbell Library Remote Storage (TG305 .M53 2016)
Click the "Library Pickup" option for your title and the item will be sent to the library Information Desk in Campbell. Please allow 1-2 business days for this process of retrieval. You will be notified when it is ready for you to come pick it up. Books can be returned to the same Information Desk or our return box outside Campbell.
Example 2 - an e-book
Enter a title in Library Search box such as "Sustainable Mass Transit."
First result is this e-book - click on link that says Available Online.
Scroll to middle of page where it says View Online, click on "Ebook Central Ebooks."
Read the book online or download it to read.
NOTE: If you have a complete citation for a book, you can use the Citation Search form located in the Search Tools section of the Campbell Library home page to find it.