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A selection of journals available through Goldsmiths Library about the Environment.
- Business Strategy and the Environment
Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE) is the leading academic journal in its field with peer-reviewed contributions of a high quality. It seeks to provide original contributions that add to the understanding of business responses to improving environmental performance. - Capitalism Nature Socialism
An international, multi-disciplinary journal of ecosocialism, encompassing anticapitalist perspectives that are both egalitarian and environmental in orientation. The primary aim in CNS is to help create a red-green intellectual culture, essential to the development of a red-green politics. - Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
A resource for the ever increasing number of organisations concerned about social and environmental responsibilities in the context of sustainable development and are interested in developing tools and case studies to improve their performance and accountability in these areas. - Environmental Policy and Governance
An international, inter-disciplinary journal affiliated with the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
A multidisciplinary journal for reporting studies of innovations and socio-economic transitions that aim to enhance an environmentally sustainable economy. - Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
A pluralist and heterodox journal of economic research, principally concerned with questions of urban and regional restructuring, globalization, inequality, and uneven development. - Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
The leading journal for the publication of high-quality articles that present cutting-edge research in analytical methods for urban planning and design. - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
An international journal of critical, heterodox, and interdisciplinary research into the relations between the political and the spatial. It advances debates on the spatialization of politics and the politicization of spatial relations. The journal welcomes original contributions that integrate empirical and theoretical analyses to engage, advance, challenge, and reframe debates about the political. - Gender & Development
Since 1993, Gender & Development has aimed to promote, inspire, and support development policy and practice, which furthers the goal of equality between women and men. - Global Environmental Change
A peer-reviewed international journal publishing high quality, theoretically and empirically rigorous articles, which advance knowledge about the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change. - Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
An international journal that provides a forum for the critical analysis of environmental policy and planning. - Media +Environment
Open access, online, peer-reviewed journal of transnational and interdisciplinary ecomedia research. - Antennae - The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture
Open access, online, peer-reviewed journal on nature in visual culture.
A selection of books available though Goldsmiths Library about Environmentalism.
Environmental Ethics by
Extensively revised and expanded in this third edition, Environmental Ethics examines morality from an environmental perspective. Featuring a wide range of accessible selections - from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research - it addresses both theory andpractice.
ISBN: 9780190259228Publication Date: 2018-06-19
Environmental Ethics and Film by
Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms. In contemporary society, film has provided a powerful instrument for the moulding of such ethical attitudes. Through a close examination of the medium, Environmental Ethics and Film explores how historical ethical values can be re-imagined and re-constituted for more contemporary audiences. Building on an extensive back-catalogue of eco-film analysis, the author focuses on a diverse selection of contemporary films which target audiences¿ ethical sensibilities in very different ways. Each chapter focuses on at least three close readings of films and documentaries, examining a wide range of environmental issues as they are illustrated across contemporary Hollywood films. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of environmental communication, film studies, media and cultural studies, environmental philosophy and ethics.
ISBN: 9780415747271Publication Date: 2015-10-02
Is Racism an Environmental Threat? by
The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in domination, colonialism, and the logics of capitalism. Ghassan Hage proposes that both racism and humanity's destructive relationship with the environment emanate from the same mode of inhabiting the world: an occupying force imposes its own interest as law, subordinating others for the extraction of value, eradicating or exterminating what gets in the way. In connecting these two issues, Hage gives voice to the claim taking shape in many activist spaces that anti-racist and ecological struggles are intrinsically related. In both, the aim is to move beyond what makes us see otherness, whether human or nonhuman, as something that exists solely to be managed.
ISBN: 9780745692272Publication Date: 2017-05-30
Psychology for Sustainability by
Psychology for Sustainability, 4th Edition -- known as Psychology of Environmental Problems: Psychology for Sustainability in its previous edition -- applies psychological theory and research to so-called "environmental" problems, which actually result from human behavior that degrades natural systems. This upbeat, user-friendly edition represents a dramatic reorganization and includes a substantial amount of new content that will be useful to students and faculty in a variety of disciplines¿and to people outside of academia, as well. The literature reviewed throughout the text is up-to-date, and reflects the burgeoning efforts of many in the behavioral sciences who are working to create a more sustainable society. The 4th Edition is organized in four sections. The first section provides a foundation by familiarizing readers with the current ecological crisis and its historical origins, and by offering a vision for a sustainable future.The next five chapters present psychological research methods, theory, and findings pertinent to understanding, and changing, unsustainable behavior. The third section addresses the reciprocal relationship between planetary and human wellbeing and the final chapter encourages readers to take what they have learned and apply it to move behavior in a sustainable direction. The book concludes with a variety of theoretically and empirically grounded ideas for how to face this challenging task with positivity, wisdom, and enthusiasm. This textbook may be used as a primary or secondary textbook in a wide range of courses on Ecological Psychology, Environmental Science, Sustainability Sciences, Environmental Education, and Social Marketing. It also provides a valuable resource for professional audiences of policymakers, legislators, and those working on sustainable communities.
ISBN: 9781848725799Publication Date: 2015-08-21
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment by
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. The collection traces the development of ecocriticism from its origins in European pastoral literature and offers fifteen rigorous but accessible essays on the present state of environmental literary scholarship. Contributions from leading experts in the field probe a range of issues, including the place of the human within nature, ecofeminism and gender, engagements with European philosophy and the biological sciences, critical animal studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism, and climate change. A chronology of key publications and bibliography provide ample resources for further reading, making The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment an essential guide for students, teachers, and scholars working in this rapidly developing area of study.
ISBN: 9781107029927Publication Date: 2013-12-23
A selection of databases available through Goldsmiths Library useful for green issues and environmental research.
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowGreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Partially in Library Search - British Library Sounds This link opens in a new windowListen to a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. Most items are open access but some require a Goldsmiths login.
Not in Library Search - Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowCredo Reference is an online database of encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference texts with access to 3,476,088 full text articles in 942 titles from 116 publishers covering a wide range of subjects.
In Library Search - Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) This link opens in a new windowThe primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Partially in Library Search - Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new windowHuman Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects. Our editorial board includes Laetitia Atlani-Duault (IRD; Hunter College/CUNY), Olivier Bercault (University of San Francisco), Phillip Cantrell (Longwood University), Catherine Filloux (Playwright), Pamela Graham (Columbia University), Adam Jones (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus), Laura McGrew (Consultant, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation), David Scheffer (Northwestern University), and Ruti Teitel (New York Law School; London School of Economics.) In Library Search
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowSearch for 'environmental activism' to find a range of films on this issue.
- Practical Law: EnvironmentPractical Law is an online legal know how service. The Environment section gives detailed legal guidance such as practice notes, current awareness and standard documents that relate to Environment Law.
- The Environmental Research InstituteThe ERI is part of North Highland College UHI. We have rapidly evolving research profile and provide a high quality, vibrant research environment. Our young, highly-motivated team have the ethos of multi- and inter-disciplinary securely embedded. The ERI has become a focus for promoting excellence in research in the region, largely due to the ability of its investigators to work with stakeholder, commercial, academic and educational organisations alike.
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ResearchThe Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the scientific frontier on inter-disciplinary climate impact research for global sustainability and contributing knowledge and solutions for a safe and just climate future.
- The Seed BoxThe Seed Box is an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented pilot program in Environmental Humanities funded by Mistra (The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research) and Formas (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning).
- Stockholm Environment InstituteOur work spans climate, water, air and land-use issues, and integrates evidence and perspectives on governance, the economy, gender and human health.
- Centre for Alternative TechnologyCentre for Alternative Technology is an educational charity dedicated to researching and communicating positive solutions for environmental change.
- ClientEarthAn environmental charity with a unique approach - using the power of our laws to protect life on Earth.
- Committee on Climate ChangeThe Committee on Climate Change (the CCC) is an independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008.
- GristFounded in 1999, Grist is a beacon in the smog — an independent, irreverent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck.
- Mothers of InventionClimate change is a man-made problem — with a feminist solution! Join former Irish President Mary Robinson and comedian Maeve Higgins in this uplifting new podcast, celebrating amazing women doing remarkable things in pursuit of climate justice.
- Planet Ark
Planet Ark help people, governments and businesses reduce their impact on the environment. Planet Ark Environmental Foundation is an Australian not-for-profit organisation with a vision of a world where people live harmoniously with nature. - Real ClimateRealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary.