Books & Journals - Climate Change - A Global Issue - Research Guides at United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library

Journals

Climatic Change
Climatic Change is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the totality of the problem of climatic variability and change - its descriptions, causes, implications and interactions among these.
Climate Policy
A leading international peer-reviewed academic journal, publishing on all aspects of climate change policy, including adaptation and mitigation, governance and negotiations, policy design, implementation and impact, and the full range of economic, social and political issues at stake in responding to climate change.
Environmental Research Letters
Covers all areas of environmental science, providing a coherent and integrated approach including research articles, perspectives and review articles.
Nature
Weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. Nature also provides news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.
WIREs Climate Change
A forum to promote cross-disciplinary discussion of a global phenomenon with long-term societal implications, and and provides an important new encyclopedic reference for climate change scholarship and research.

Books

These books and many more are available at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. You can search for further titles of interest in the Library catalogue.

Air Pollution and Climate Change / Grzegorz Peszko; Markus Amann; Yewande Awe; Gary Kleiman; Tamer Samah Rabie
ISBN: 1464818355
Date: 2022-12-30
This report analyzes international experience to identify effective pathways to coherent policy packages that harness synergies and manage tensions between climate mitigation and air-quality management.
Climate Neutral and Resilient Farming Systems / Udaya Sekhar Nagothu (Editor)
ISBN: 1003273173
Date: 2022-11-04
This book presents evidence-based research on climate-neutral and resilient farming systems and further to provide innovative and practical solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating the impact of climate change.
Climate Change and the UN Security Council / Shirley V. Scott (Editor); Charlotte Ku (Editor)
Date: 2018
In this book, a team of experts examines the range of political and legal considerations and options for the United Nations Security Council to respond to climate insecurity.
Climate Change, Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction / Suraj Mal (Editor) et al...
Date: 2017
This book provides insights into impacts of climatic extremes and strategies for disaster risk reduction. It includes studies on rainfall and temperature trends, floods and drought disasters, weather and climatic related disasters, risk assessment and responses in different ecosystems of the world.
Paris Climate Agreement: A Beacon of Hope / Salawitch et al.
Date: 2017
This volume presents an Empirical Model of Global Climate developed by the authors and uses that model to show that global warming will likely remain below 2ºC, provided certain conditions are met.
Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development / Uitto et al.
Date: 2017
Evaluates climate change strategies and actions, and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries.
Displacement, Development, and Climate Change / Nina Hall
ISBN: 9781138190535
Date: 2016-04-01
This book focuses on one critical challenge: climate change. This book helps us to understand how institutions established in the 20th century are adapting to a 21st century world.
Energy and Global Climate Change: Bridging the Sustainable Development Divide / Cherian
Date: 2015
Based on a detailed examination of major UN global climate change and sustainable development negotiated outcomes over the course of several decades, this book focuses on two global development challenges faced by the UN and its member states: access to sustainable energy for all, and global climate change.
Climate Change and Human Development / Reid
Date: 2014
Climate Change and Human Development offers a rich compendium of real life scenarios and brings home the realities of how poor people are suffering from and coping with climate change impacts today.
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: an historical ecology / Peter Gufu Oba
Date: 2014
This book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past environmental changes and reflects on the lessons for current and future environmental challenges.

Reference Books

The Atlas of Climate Change: mapping the world's greatest challenge / Dow & Downing
Date: 2011
Details the vast science of climate change, providing a guide to this field.This 2nd edition reflects the latest developments in research and the impact of climate change, and current efforts to mitigate and adapt to changes in the world’s weather.
Handbook on Energy and Climate Change / Fouquet
Date: 2013
Up to date encyclopedic handbook that provides an introduction to the topic of climate change.
Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society / Dryzek, Norgaard & Schlosberg
Date: 2011
Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This Handbook is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond.
Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law / Gray, Tarasofsky, & Carlarne
Date: 2016
Provides an authoritative overview of all aspects of international climate change law as it currently stands, with guidance for how it should develop in the future.
Oxford Handbook of Land Economics / Duke & Wu
Date: 2014
Describes the latest developments in the fields of economics that examine land, including natural resource economics, environmental economics, regional science, and urban economics.

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