Common Read 2007

Field Notes from a Catastrophe:
Man, Nature, and Climate Change

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jump to: Author Biography & Interviews

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BOOK REVIEWS:

New York Review of Books  (7/13/2006, Vol.53 Issue 12)

New York Times Book Review  (3/12/2006, p8)

Chronicle of Higher Education  (4/14/2006, Vol. 52 Issue 32, pB10-11)

Scientific American   (May2006, Vol. 294 Issue 5, p90-93)

Natural History  (May2006, Vol. 115 Issue 4, p58)

REFERENCE SOURCES:

• The global warming desk reference, edited by Bruce E. Johansen;QC981.8.G56  J64 2002.    
• Encyclopedia of global change : environmental change and human society, Andrew S. Goudie;  GE149  .E47 2002 Ref.
• The encyclopaedic dictionary of environmental change, edited by John A. Matthews; GE10 .E486 2001 Ref.
• International encyclopedia of environmental politics, edited by John Barry and E. Gene Frankland; GE170 .I55 2002 Ref.
• Africa's lakes: atlas of our changing environment. Folio G2446 .C2  A37 2006 Ref.    

AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY

Entry in Biography Resource Center
[Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center.]

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS

Natural Resources Defense Council (from their website, posted 3/15/06)

Grist Magazine ("Field of Nightmares", 4/10/06)

The New Yorker ("A Planetary Problem", 4/25/05)

StopGlobalWarming.org – Audio Interview

More to look into:

INTERNET RESOURCES

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

• National Climatic Data Center
• Arctic Theme Page

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Educational Global Climate Modeling

Environmental Protection Agency

Full Text of the Kyoto Protocol – From the United Nations

Natural Resources Defense Council

Union of Concerned Scientists

IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme

NPR Climate Connections Series

• Climate change worries military advisors (Morning Edition April 16, 2007)
• In a changing Arctic, artists seek to inspire change (Morning Edition May 21, 2007)
• Global Warming: From theory to fact (Morning Edition May 21, 2007)

Cape Farewell – raising awareness about climate change

RealClimate 

MEDIA:

An inconvenient truth, Paramount Classics (DVD); QC981.8 .G56 I53 2006    

What's up with the weather?, Frontline/Nova (VHS); QC981.8.G56 W453 2000    

Sila Alangotok: Inuit observations on climate change, IISD Production (VHS); E99.E7  S49 2000.

The day after tomorrow, 20th Century Fox (DVD); MH Leisure/Film.

FURTHER READING

General Nonfiction

• With speed and violence : why scientists fear tipping points in climate change, Fred Pearce; QC981.8 .C5 P415 2007.
• The science and politics of global climate change : a guide to the debate, drew E. Dessler, Edward A. Parson; QC981.8 .C5 D44 2006.
• An inconvenient truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it, Albert Gore; QC981.8 .G56 G67 2006.
• The revenge of Gaia: earth’s climate in crisis and the fate of humanity, James Lovelock; QH343.4 .L694 2006.
• Global warming: the complete briefing. John T. Houghton; QC981.8.G56 H68 2004.
• Plows, plagues, and petroleum : how humans took control of climate, William H. Ruddiman; QC981 .R763 2005.
• Avoiding dangerous climate change, editor in chief, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber; QC981.8 .C5 A965 2006.
• Kicking the carbon habit: global warming and the case for renewable and nuclear energy, William Sweet; TJ808 .S87 2006.
• Climate-change policy, edited by Dieter Helm; QC981.8.C5  C5114155 2005 .
• Warming and what we can do about it, Albert Gore; QC981.8 .G56 G67 2006.
• The weather makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on earth, Tim Flannery. QC981.8.C5 F438 2005 
• The long summer: how climate changed civilization, Brian Fagan. QC981.8.C5 F34 2004
• The party's over: oil, war and the fate of industrial societies, Richard Heinberg; HD9560.6 H45 2003.
• Climate crash: abrupt climate change and what it means for our future, John D. Cox; QC884 .C69 2005 (Smith College and UMass)
• The Kyoto protocol: a guide and assessment, Michael Grubb with Christiaan Vrolijk and Duncan Brack; K3585.4 .G78 1999
• Thin ice: unlocking the secrets of climate in the world’s highest mountains, Mark Bowen;  QC879.59 .B69 2005 (Amherst and Smith Colleges)

Environmental Economics and Economic Aspects of Environmental Policy

• Environmental economics for non-economists : techniques and policies for sustainable development, John Asafu-Adjaye; [electronic resource]
• Paths to a green world: the political economy of the global environment, Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne; HC79.E5 C557 2005
• Plan B 2.0: rescuing a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble, Lester R. Brown;. HC79 .E5 B7595 2006

Higher Education/Universities and Environmentalism

• Degrees that matter: climate change and the university, Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton; QC981.8 .C5 R367 2007
• Planet U: sustaining the world, reinventing the university, Michael M’Gonigle and Justine Starke; LC189 .M48 2006

Environmental Policy/Protection in Literature and the Arts

• Ecosublime: environmental awe and terror from new world to oddworld, Lee Rozelle; PS163 .R69 2006    
• The future of environmental criticism: environmental crisis and literary imagination, Lawrence Buell;  PS169.E25 B837 2005
• Greening the lyre: environmental poetics and ethics, David W. Gilcrest; PS310.N3 G55 2002
• Thin ice: Inuit traditions within a changing environment, Nicole Stuckenberger; x E99 .E7 .S83743 2007 (Amherst College)
• Writing for an endangered world: literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond, Lawrence Buell; PS169.E25 B84 2001 

Fiction

• A friend of the earth, T. Coraghessan Boyle; PS3552.O932 F75 2000
• Mara and Dann: an adventure, Doris Lessing. PR6023.E833 M357 1999
• State of fear: a novel, Michael Crichton. PS3553.R48 S73 2004
• Books by Kim Stanley Robinson:

  Red Mars; Green Mars; Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy)

  Forty Sign of Rain; Fifty Degrees Below; Sixty Days and Counting

MAGAZINES of special interest:

National Geographic. (June 2007). “The Big Thaw: Ice on the Run, Seas on the Rise.”
Features: Vanishing Sea Ice, p. 32; Big Thaw, p. 56.

New Yorker. Further articles by Elizabeth Kolbert.

Vanity Fair - Green Issue - May 2007

The Economist - Sept 7th, 2006.
(To see articles from this issue of the Economist search Academic Search Premier)

Climatic Change
Geophysical Research Letters
Journal of Climate 
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
Natural History
Nature
Science

SEARCH THE LIBRARY CATALOG
 for more books, journals or videos using some of the following Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Global warming
Global environmental change
Climatic changes
Global temperature changes
Nature--effect of human beings on
Environmental sciences
Greenhouse effect, atmospheric
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Environmental policy
Renewable energy sources
Renewable energy sources -- environmental aspects

YOU CAN ALSO BROWSE THE CATALOG OR THE STACKS IN THESE CALL NUMBER AREAS:

QC981.8 C5 for Climatic changes

QC981.8 G56 for Global Warming

GE 149 for Global Environmental Change

HC79 .E5 for Environmental Economics –

QC981 for Climatology