Subject Guides: Anthropology: Humans & Climate Change

Potential Resources

Sample subject terms to use in LibrarySearch:

Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Environmental refugees
Forced migration
Human beings -- Effect of climate on
Human rights
Human security

Selection of Relevant Texts:

Bioarchaeology of Climate Change and Violence by Ryan P. Harrod; Debra L. Martin
Climate Change, Resilience and Cultural Heritage by Mehrnaz Rajabi
The Climate Connection: Climate Change and Modern Human Evolution by Renèe Hetherington; Robert G. B. Reid
The impacts of climate change on human health in the United States: A scientific assessment by U.S Global Change Research Program
Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility by Mriam Cullen and Scott Matthew
Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities by Victoria Reyes-García (Editor)

This is a selection of journals related to the human dimensions of climate change. To search for additional journals of interest, try a Journal Search in LibrarySearch or a subject search on Human Ecology -- Periodicals, Climatic Changes -- Periodicals, Climatology -- Periodicals, or Environmental policy -- Periodicals.

Anthropology Plus
Covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research
Environment Complete
Article literature in areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
GreenFile
Literature addressing all aspects of human impacts on the environment.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital archive of more than 1,000 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, some dating from the 19th century.
PAIS
Index to the literature of public and social policy, and other aspects of the social sciences.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a variety of research sources in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

University of Maine's Electronic Dissertations and Theses
Provides access to the scholarly, educational, and creative works of the University of Maine community, primarily from 1996-present, with additional scattered issues prior to this time. Where there is an abstract only (and no full text), you will find the print dissertation in UMaine's Special Collections Department.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Searchable citations of dissertations, many with full text available.

DART-Europe E-Theses Portal
Access nearly 600,000 European theses and dissertations.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Online catalog of materials held by over 72,000 libraries worldwide; includes citations of dissertations and theses. Can place an ILL request within WorldCat results.

Maine's Climate Future, 2020 Update
This report demonstrates the progression of accelerating change in the climate in Maine and its effects, reflecting dramatic evidence for accelerating climate change around the globe with the often dire consequences of those changes. This report looks at examples of evidence of effects in Maine drawn from the scientific literature and news media accounts of Maine people and their experiences.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports
The IPCC prepares comprehensive Assessment Reports about knowledge on climate change, its causes, potential impacts and response options. The IPCC also produces Special Reports, which are an assessment on a specific issue and Methodology Reports, which provide practical guidelines for the preparation of greenhouse gas inventories.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
With 196 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and its successor, the 2016 Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement has been ratified by 195 of the UNFCCC Parties. The ultimate objective of these treaties is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.

Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future
Also known as the Brundtland Report, this commission was convened by the United Nations in 1983 to address the global nature of sustainability issues.

Report of the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change
Includes The Anchorage Declaration, which describes a series of recommendations to address climate change on the national and international level.

Additional Resources on the Web

Glacier Hub
GlacierHub seeks to expand and deepen the understanding of glaciers. It provides information about current scientific research, it tells stories of people who live near glaciers or who visit them, and it offers accounts of the efforts of communities and organizations to address the challenges brought by glacier retreat.
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Newsroom
News on the intergovernmental climate process, along with reports of how governments, people, companies and cities across the world are taking action.
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to advance strong policy and action to address the twin challenges of energy and climate change.