This guide highlights a range of resources to explore the challenge of what can YOU do now about climate change and the biodiversity crisis?
The challenge will explore what we can do right now: how we can support a more sustainable future; what actions can we take to drive change – small or large? What can we do to engage with others and how can we support them to live in better balance with nature? What are the inevitable changes we need to prepare for in the face of climate change?
This guide highlights a range of resources to explore these challenges.
Use Library Search to find climate related book and journal content from a range of full text resources.
You can search for broad topics like climate climate change or biodiversity crisis and browse by date to see the latest publications, or run more focused searches on themes of topic relating to the climate and/or environment
Here are some sample searches - but try some some of your own.
community action AND environment
environment AND change AND campaign
biodiversity crisis AND campaign
Top Tip! Refine your search results to online results only whilst you are researching away from the Library
You have access to a wide range of databases at the University which will help you research various aspects of social inequality. You can access all the databases from the A-Z list, but take a look at a few of the recommended databases below.
To quickly find policy documents and reports, you can also use the following databases:
Issues around various aspects of Climate Change are featured in news reporting. You can explore some of the University's current newspaper services for up to date commentary on these issues
You can use Google Scholar to quickly search across a broad range of scholarly literature. Use this sample search and then run some searches on other topics relevant to your challenge.
Use the Making the most of Google Scholar LibGuide for advice on running effective searches.
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