LibGuides: Climate and Ecological Emergency: Resources

Finding Resources Using Library Search

Library Search

Search across the print and online collections for books, chapters, articles, journals and lots more.

Library Search will help you discover books, journals, articles, audio visual material and more on your chosen topic. This is a good place to start when you are beginning to research a topic as you can draw on content from a variety of different sources.

For more in depth research in databases and archives, use the A-Z Databases List.

Databases for Climate Research

Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
This is a full text database providing research literature focused on environmental sciences including climate change, renewable energy and urban planning.

SCOPUS This link opens in a new window
This is a multidisciplinary research database providing scholarly literature across the life sciences, medicine, social sciences and humanities, allowing the exploration of different themes in climate change research.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This is a multidisciplinary research database providing scholarly literature across the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, allowing the exploration of different themes in climate change research.

Discover climate research produced by University of Exeter staff and students

Useful Links

University of Exeter Research

University of Exeter - Environment and Climate Emergency Working Group White Paper
An Independent Review commissioned by the Vice Chancellor’s Executive Group.
Global Systems Institute
We are uniting a trans-disciplinary group of researchers, educators and partners to look beyond single ‘environmental’ issues to a truly systemic view of coupled global changes in the human social and economic sphere and the biosphere.

How big is your environmental footprint?

WWF carbon footprint calculator
The planet is in crisis - from climate change to the pollution in our oceans and devastation of our forests. It's up to all of us to fix it. Take your first step with the WWF environmental footprint calculator.

Library Search

You can search for broad topics like climate emergency or climate change 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

For example you could try usaing search terms like these to explrre themes - or try some search terms of your own choosing.:

climate change and tourism
climate change and carbon
climate emergency and media

Media reporting of Climate Change

CarbonBrief's analysis of the climate papers most featured in the media in 2022:

You can see how this has changed over the past few years by viewing previous analyses:

Climate MOOCs

FutureLearn MOOCs developed by University of Exeter

MOOC stands for ‘massive open online course’, i.e. free, easily accessible, online courses open to all.

Climate Change: the Science
Learn about the science of climate change, the risks it poses and how human activity is changing our world.
Climate Change: Solutions
Explore the potential solutions to climate change and how they relate to the UN's sustainable development goals.

If you've used any other useful MOOCs to learn about climate change, let us know via the feedback form.

Research Resources in our Archives and Special Collections

Climate change has risen up the agenda in recent decades. Find out more about the primary sources within our archive collections which touch on this theme.

Archives relating to Climate Change and Environmental Issues