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Books in the Library

Recent Data & Scholarship

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Call Number: E98.P5 K56 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
Call Number: E99.D1 E87 2019
Publication Date: 2019
Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
Call Number: PR6063.A1686 V47 2020
Publication Date: 2020
Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network by Urban Climate Change Research Network
Call Number: HT241 .C595 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Engineering Response to Climate Change by Robert G. Watts
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 E56 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East: Securing Livelihoods, Building Peace by Christopher Ward & Sandra Ruckstuhl
Call Number: HD1698.M53 W37 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Building for a Changing Culture and Climate: World Atlas of Sustainable Architecture by Ulrich Pfammatter
Call Number: NA2542.36 .P48813 2014
Publication Date: 2014
The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert by Eyal Weizman
Call Number: DS113.75 .W45 2015
Publication Date: 2015
The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security by Eric Toensmeier & Hans Rudolf Herren
Call Number: S494.5.A65 T64 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Architecture of Nature: Nature of Architecture by Diana Agrest & John Angus McPhee
Call Number: NA680 .A47 2018
Publication Date: 2018

Historical Data & Scholarship

Man, Climate and Architecture by Baruch. Givoni
Call Number: NA2541 .G58x 1969
Publication Date: 1969
Climatological Data, New York. by National Climatic Data Center (U.S.)
Call Number: QC983 .A5
Publication Date: 1976
The Challenge of Global Warming by Dean E. Abrahamson
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 C42 1989
Publication Date: 1989
Man and Nature by George P. Marsh
Call Number: GF31 .M35 1965
Publication Date: 1965
U.S. Climate Action Report - 2002, Third National Communication of the United States of America, etc., May 2002 by United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 U52 2002
Publication Date: 2002

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Kimmerer
Ebook available on Proquest Ebook Central.
Print also available in the library, call number E98.P5 K56 2013

Books, Articles & Events in Databases

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Over 180,000 high quality, multidisciplinary ebooks. Climate titles in this database include: "Climatic history and the future" (Lamb, 2011), "Slide Mountain, or, The folly of Owning Nature" (Steinberg, 1995), "Nature in fragments : the legacy of sprawl" (Johnson, 2005), and "The Little Data Book on Climate Change" (World Bank 2011)
OAPEN: Open Access Publishing in European Networks This link opens in a new window
Academic books from European publishers, primarily in humanities and social sciences. Climate titles in this database include "A Future History of Water" (Ballestero, 2019)
Knovel This link opens in a new window
Includes ebooks from many different publishers, a data search tool, a periodic table and other interactive tools in Engineering and Chemistry. Climate titles in this database include "Weather Data with Climate Change Scenarios" (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, 2004)
IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Journals, transactions, and magazines published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Climate titles in this database include "A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming" (MIT Press, 2010)
You will also see brief records, but not full text, for conference proceedings and other content.

Please note IEEE has decided to discontinue support of the Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) browser for the IEEE Xplore Digital Library as of 31 May 2022.
Voices from the Great Hall This link opens in a new window
The Voices from the Great Hall digital platform encompasses all known sound and video recordings made in the Hall and held by The Cooper Union, documenting over 3,000 Great Hall program. Search under Theme for "Environment" to find lectures on glaciers, coral reefs, pollution, sustainable agriculture, and much more.

For a list of current and past books read by the Race & Climate Reading Group, visit: library.cooper.edu/rccreading

Cooper community strike for climate - AtCooper 2019

Open Data Online

NYC Open Data: Free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners. Climate data includes "Sea Level Rise Maps," " Natural Gas Consumption by ZIP Code," and "Inventory of New York City Greenhouse Gas Emissions."

Climate Data Online: Provides free access to NCDC's archive of global historical weather and climate data in addition to station history information.

Climate Change Knowledge Portal: This project of the World Bank provides global data on historical and future climate, vulnerabilities, and impacts.

Climate Change Initiative Open Data Portal: A single point of access for the key Essential Climate Variable datasets from all the expert CCI project teams, covering: Aerosol, Cloud, Fire, Greenhouse gases, Glaciers, Ice sheets, Land cover, Ocean colour, Ozone, Sea ice, Sea level, Sea surface temperature, and Soil moisture.