LibGuides: Climate Change: Research Resources

Resources

Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (formerly Water Resources Abstract)
Abstracts of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use, and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal, and government publications. Coverage: 1967 - present. Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Updated monthly.
FRAME: Natural Resource Management Communities
FRAME is a peer-to-peer network of Natural Resource Management practitioners, facilitating knowledge transfer and relationships building, enabling members to grow best practices around development challenges.
Maplecroft environmental atlas & natural hazards risk dataset (WB)
Provides comprehensive analysis of the key risks to business in the areas of climate change vulnerability and adaptation; emissions and energy use; environmental regulation; and ecosystem services. It includes 26 indices and interactive maps.
ScienceDirect
A collection of over 2,500 journal titles, 400+ titles of which are subscribed and available full-text from 1995-present, with the backfiles of journals in economics, econometrics and finance available as far back as 1967. Elsevier Science journals form the core of the collection and titles focus on science, technology, and medicine, but mathematics, economics and other disciplines are represented. Browse individual journal issues or search across all of them. Users may also set up search alerts and personal profiles. A list of all journal titles offered by ScienceDirect is available from their web site.
SSRN (Social science research network)
Covers new scholarship in accounting, economics, finance, legal scholarship and management, and provides access to thousands of abstracts and full-text research papers. World Bank Policy Research Working Papers, IMF Working Paper series, and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) are searchable in SSRN.
Wiley InterScience Journals
Provides access to books, reference works and journals.

Most of the journals available online in full-text. Some journals have restricted access to the librarians or HQ staff only. Please request articles via Ask a Librarian form. Find more journals on climate change/environment in this page.

AMBIO: A Journal of Environment and Society
Provides broad and diverse perspectives on important developments in environmental research, policy and related activities, which helps understand contemporary sustainability changes and how proposed solutions may be implemented.
Climate and Development
Academic journal dedicated climate variability, climate change and climate policy along with development needs, impacts and priorities.
Climate Policy
The peer-reviewed journal provides analysis on all aspects of climate policy, including mitigation and adaptation: Adaptation, mitigation, governance, and negotiations -- Policy design, implementation and impact -- Economic, social and political issues at stake in responding to climate change -- Implementation of transformational policies, strategies and approaches aimed at achieving low-emissions and climate-resilient development.
Climate Research
Provides papers on all aspects of the interactions of climate with organisms, ecosystems and human societies.
Climatic Change
Provides interdisciplinary research on climate change including meteorology, anthropology, agricultural science, astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, geography, policy analysis, economics, engineering, geology, ecology, or history of climate.
Environmental finance: climate change, emissions, weather, investment, lending, insurance
Updated every day, Environmental-Finance.com is an online news and analysis service established in 1999 to report on sustainable investment, green finance and the people and companies active in environmental markets.

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WBG Library keeps hard copies of the latest 3 years.
Environmental Politics
An international, multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, this focuses on: political parties, private actors, NGOs, social movements, and campaigns; the design, negotiation, and implementation of environmental policy; and environmental political thought, as well as explores the ideas generated by environmental groups and other organizations that underpin policy and governance, and critically and normatively examines environmental concerns.
Impact Assessment & Project Appraisal
An international refereed journal and the official publication of the International Association for Impact Assessment, this provides a diverse range of papers, including interdisciplinary papers, that focus on the environmental, social, health, sustainability, and/or other assessments of projects, programmes, plans and policies.
Local Environment
A refereed journal focuses specifically on sustainability planning, policy and politics in relation to theoretical, conceptual and empirical studies at the nexus of equity, justice and the local environment. It is an inclusive forum for diverse constituencies and perspectives to engage in a critical examination, evaluation and discussion of the environmental, social and economic policies, processes and strategies which will be needed in movement towards social justice and sustainability - "Just Sustainabilities" - at the local scale.
Nature: Climate Change
Topics covered in the journal include: Adaptation; Anthropology; Atmospheric science; Biochemistry; Communication; Cryospheric science; Ecology; Economics; Energy; Ethics; Geography; Health; Hydrology; Impacts and vulnerability; Mitigation; Modelling; Oceanography; Palaeoclimate*; Philosophy; Policy and governance; Political science; Psychology; Sociology; Sustainability and development.
Science
Provides research across the sciences.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
United Nations Environment Programme. Climate Change
UN Gateway to Climate Change
Global Environment Facility
Global Climate Observing System
Convention on Biological Diversity
FAO and Climate Change
WHO Climate Change
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Climate change is impacting human lives and health in a variety of ways. It threatens the essential ingredients of good health – clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply and safe shelter – and has the potential to undermine decades of progress in global health.
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
The Ozone Secretariat, UNEP
World Bank Carbon Finance Unit
OECD on Climate Change
The OECD works to support governments and international bodies, including by providing rigorous data, analysis and policy recommendations, to raise ambition and improve outcomes on climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and financing.
World Resources Institute
CGIAR & Climate Change
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (formerly The Pew Center on Global Climate Change)
UN CC: e-Learn
UN Climate Change: e-Learn: Think, Talk, Act Climate.

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This site provides information on e-learning courses on climate change and green economy.
OLC courses on climate change (WBG only)
Online learning sessions for the WBG staff

Journal Ranking

Eigenfactor - ranking and mapping scientific knowledge
Eigenfactor ranks scholarly journals in the natural and social sciences, as well as newsprint, Ph.D. theses, and popular magazines.

Citation Searching

Use citation searches to find articles citing other articles or to find cited references for an author.

EconPapers
Find a paper and click on the "View citations in EconPapers" link. For articles in EconPapers only. Not fully implemented yet.

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More information about Citations in Economics can be found here: http://citec.repec.org/
Google Scholar
Search scholarly articles and working papers.
IngentaConnect

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