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Grand Challenges - Climate and Environment Emergency: Online resources

The themes of this challenge focus on 'solutions' to the climate emergency, our use of water resources, sustainable finance, and how the University will become carbon neutral.

This guide highlights a range of resources to explore these challenges.

 

Library Search

Library Search

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 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 

Here are some sample searches - but try some some of your own.

climate change and carbon

water resilience and climate change

climate emergency and media

climate change mitigation 

sustainable finance and climate change

Top Tip! Refine your search results to online results only whilst you are researching away from the Library

Databases

Media reporting of Climate Change

CarbonBrief's analysis of the climate papers most featured in the media in 2024.

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

How big is your environmental footprint?

Discover climate research produced by University of Exeter staff and students

University of Exeter Research Groups

  • The Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) is an interdisciplinary centre leading cutting-edge research into the problems of, and solutions to, environmental change. 
  • The European Centre for Environment & Human Health is a world-leading, transdisciplinary research and education centre informing the future health of the planet and people. The centre conducts world-class research investigating the complex connections between the environment and human health, and works with decision makers at local, national and international scales to put this evidence into practice.
  • Green Futures site provides information about our research, partnerships and courses. You can view information about all our inter-disciplinary centres and institutes working on the environmental and climate challenge. 
  • The Global Systems Institute is thought-leading in understanding global changes, solving global challenges and helping create a flourishing future world together, through transformative research, education and impact.
  • The Centre for Resilience Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW) is an interdisciplinary centre leading research to discover solutions that will make a difference to peoples' lives and protect the future of water systems locally, nationally and internationally in the face of climate change.

Google

Google Scholar Search

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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