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Books

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Nashville State online catalog

Call Numbers for Browsing

GE (Environmental Studies)
GF (Human Ecology)
QL (Zoology)


Recommended Reads

Diversity Amid Globalization: world regions, environment, development. (2009)
G128.D58 2009

Krupp, Fred. Earth, the sequel: the race to reinvent energy and stop global warming. (2008)
TJ163.4 .U6 K78 2008

Climate Change 2007: mitigation of climate change. Report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change.
QC981.8 .C5 M479 2007

Climate Change 2007: the physical science basis. Report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. (Has a CD with the book.)
QC981.8 .C5 S656 2007

Cousteau, Jacques. The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: exploring and conserving our natural world. Forward by Bill McKibben. (2007)
GC30 .C68 A3 2007

Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest: how the largest movement in the world came into being and why no one saw it coming. (2007)
GE195 .H388 2007


Holland, Geoffrey B. The Hydrogen Age: empowering a clean-energy future. (2007)
TP359 .H8 H65 2007

Lomborg, Bjorn. Cool it: the skeptical environmentalist’s guide to global warming. (2007)
QC981. 8 .G56 L657 2007

Shearman, David J.C. The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy. (2007)
JC423 .S496 2007

Ward, Peter Douglas. Under a Green Sky: global warming, the mass extinctions of the past and what they can tell us about our future. (2007)
QE721.2 .E97 W384 2007

Flores, H. C. Food not lawns: How to turn your yard into a garden and your neighborhood
S494.5 .P47 F56 2006

Macdougall, J.D. Frozen Earth: the once and future story of ice ages. (2004)
QE698 .M125 2004

Ecology. Edited by Carolyn Merchant. 1999.
GF21 .E25 1994

Databases

GreenFILE
General Science Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Science Database (TEL)
Today's Science

Subject index: Environment
Alternative energy
Sustainable development

SIRS
Under “more issues”
Climate change
Global warming
Environmentalism
Overview, timeline, global impact, statistics, research guides, note organizer
Also, includes selected and reviewed websites.
Includes both primary and secondary sources.

Points of View Reference Center
Browse by category: “Earth & environment”
By topics:
Climate change
Global warming
Greenhouse effect
Green jobs
Includes both primary and secondary sources, as well as for and against articles.

also see:
Academic Search Premier
Academic OneFile
OmniFile Full Text Mega (WilsonWeb)

Journals

Browse or search for Environmental Science journals in Journal Finder.
For further instruction on browsing for journals click here.

“Journals by title” and “Journals by subject”: environment
Includes open access (free) journals
Tennessee Conservationist (Bound) 1992 – current

Subject Headings

Global warming
Climate changes -- Effect of human being on
Greenhouse effect
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Urbanization – Environmental aspects
Community development, Urban
Conservation of natural resources
Environment and protect*
Environmental justice
Environmental protection
Environmental management
Green movement
Wise use movement
Energy conservation

DVDS


An Inconvenient Truth (QC981.8 .G56 I53 2006)


Websites

ASEAN Review of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation
Earth 911: The nation’s premier environmental resource. Part of Global Alerts. Contains a lot of links to local information.
Greentie: “The Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technology Information Exchange (GREENTIE) collects, screens and disseminates information on suppliers of technologies, services, research, data and literature pertinent to greenhouse gas mitigation.”
The Story of Stuff: “A 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.”
Greenroofs.org
Green Roof Training Course Nashville
Students for the Environment
Environmental Librarian's Blog

Welcome to the Kisber Library Instruction Page. Here you can find subject guides for your classes and tutorials to help you with the NSCC databases.