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Environmental Science

Montgomery Library's Guide to Environmental Science Resources

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Recent Titles in Print

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REFERENCE         
REF GE 42 .O84 2017   The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics
     
PHILOSOPHY    
BD 553 .I53 2022    Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics?
     
GEOGRAPHY    
GA 300 .B2513 2019   An Atlas of Geographical Wonders
GB 624 .K655 2019   Wading Right In: Discovering the Nature of Wetlands
GB 661.2 .G58 2023     The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
GE 42 .G67 2019   Morality and the Environmental Crisis
GE 235 .C25 K56 2021   Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
GF 75 .W36 2019   The Uninhabitable Earth
GF 75 .F68 2022     Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution
GN 409.5 .H86 2021   Edible Insects: A Global History
     
SOCIAL SCIENCES    
HC 79 .E5 B68 2021   Gray to Green Communities: A Call to Action on the Housing and Climate Crises
HC 79 .E5 P3478 2024     Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
HD 75.6 .B354 2022   Economics for a Fragile Planet: Rethinking Markets, Institutions and Governance
HD 8039 .F32 U619 2022    Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming
HD 9502 .A2 T324 2020   Global Energy Fundamentals: Economics, Politics, and Technology
HD 9697 .B322 B43 2021   Lithium: The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution
HV 551.2 .B376 2022   Managing the Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, and Wildfire
     
LAW    
KF 3775 .K56 2016   Environmental Law for Biologists
     
SCIENCE (GENERAL)    
Q 175 .A485 2022    The Joy of Science
Q 175 .H2475 2019   The Logic in Philosophy of Science
Q 175.32 .K45 M328 2022    Understanding How Science Explains the World
     
ASTRONOMY    
QB 651 .E48 2021     Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed will Determine our Future in Space
QB 981 .P34 2020   The Little Book of Cosmology
     
PHYSICS    
QB 641 .O54 2020   Mars
QC 6 .S243 2022   More than the Sum of the Parts: Complexity in Physics and Beyond
QC 903 .G56 2022   Global Warming of 1.5: An IPCC Special Report 
QC 981.8 .G56 R53 2019   Losing Earth
     
GEOLOGY    
QE 705 .A1 B35 2022   Paleontology: An Illustrated History
QE 721.2 .E97 H36 2021    Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error
     
BIOLOGY    
QH 31 .H9 B37 2022   The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution
QH 331 .P4695 2020   Philosophy of Science for Biologists
QH 541 .M3865 2022   Coexistence in Ecology: A Mechanistic Perspective
QH 541.15 .B56 A754 2022   The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity
QH 545 .R62 J66 2022   A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road: New Thinking about Roads, People, and Wildlife
QL 568 .A6 C465 2023   The Mind of a Bee
QK 604.2 .M92 A45 2022   Mycorrhizal Dynamics in Ecological Systems
QL 698.9 .L44 2022   Vagrancy in Birds
QL 719 .Y45 Y45 2023   Yellowstone's Birds: Diversity and Abundance in the World's First National Park
     
AGRICULTURE / FORESTRY    
S 605.5 .M347 2021   Organic Food and Farming
SD 411.52.S56 A3 2021   Findings the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
SF 793 .R38 2022   The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers: The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World
SH 167 .H5 T46 2021   Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species
SK 355 .H28 2021   Harvest of Fish and Wildlife: New Paradigms for Sustainable Management
     
TOURISM    
TD 171.75 .G86 2023   Climate Travels: How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action
     
TECHNOLOGY    
TD 196 .P38 V66 2020   The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Change Our Relationship with the Earth
TD 429 .A56 2023     Purified: How Recycled Sewage is Transforming our Water
TJ 163.2 .B4745 2019   There is No Planet B

Search Terms

Library of Congress Subject Headings make good search terms (also referred to as keywords) to use when searching databases. Here are some subject headings to use in searches for environmental science topics. Tip: Place phrases within quotation marks when searching.

Agricultural ecology
Animal ecology
Climatic changes
Conservation of natural resouces
Conservation of natural resources--United States--History
Environmental sciences
Environmental sciences--History
Environmental policy
Environmental engineering
Global environmental change
Global warming
Human ecology
Mass media and the environment
Natural disasters
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable buildings
Sustainable development
Sustainable living
 

 

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Library of Congress Classification Guide for Environmental Science:

   
GE 1-350 Environmental sciences
      GE 70-90       Environmental education
      GE 170-190       Environmental policy
      GE 195-199       Environmentalism.  Green movement
      GE 300-350       Environmental management
   
GF 1-900 Human ecology. Anthropogeography
      GF 51-71       Environmental influences on humans
      GF 75          Human influences on the environment
      GF 101-127       Settlements
           GF 125            Cities. Urban geography
           GF 127            Rural settlements
      GF 500-900       By region or country
   
HD 28-9999 Industries. Land use. Labor
     HD 9502-9502.5      Energy industry. Energy policy
   
QC 1-999 Physics
     QC 851-999      Meteorology. Climatology
   
QH 1-278.5 Natural history (General).
     QH 1-198      General, including nature conservation
   
QH 301-705.5 Biology (General)
     QH 540-549.5      Ecology
   
QK 1-989 Botany
     QK 900-989      Plant ecology
      
QP 1-801 Physiology
     QP 1-345      General, including influence of the environment
   
S 1-946.5 Agriculture (General)
     S 589.7      Agricultural ecology (general)
     S 589.75-589.76      Agriculture and the environment
     S 604.5-604.64      Agricultural conservation
     S 604.8-621.5      Melioration of lands
          S 605.5           Organic farming
          S 606-621.5           Special classes of lands and reclamation methods
     S 622-627      Soil conservation and protection
     S 900-946.5     Conservation of natural resources including land
      
SD 1-669.5 Forestry
     SD 411-428      Forestry conservation and protection
   
TD 1-1066
Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering 
      TD 159-168 
      Municipal engineering      
      TD 169-171.8
      Environmental protection
      TD 172-193.5
      Environmental effects of industries and plants
      TD 201-500
      Water supply -  domestic/industrial purposes
            TD 419-428
            Water pollution
            TD 429.5-480.7
            Water purification. Water treatment
            TD 481-493
            Water distribution systems
      TD 511-780
      Sewage collection and disposal systems
      TD 783-812.5
      Municipal refuse. Solid wastes.
      TD 813-870       Street cleaning. Litter and its removal
      TD 878-894
      Soil, air and noise pollution
      TD 895-899
      Industrial and factory sanitation 
            TD 896-899
            Industrial and factory wastes       
      TD 920-934
      Rural and farm sanitary engineering 
      TD 940-949
      Low temperature sanitary engineering
      TD 1020-1066
      Hazardous substances and their disposal 
 
 
TH 1-9745
Building construction 
      TH 6014-6081
      Environmental engineering of buildings
            
 
TJ 1-1570
 Mechanical engineering and machinery
      TJ 163.26                        
      Energy conservation 
      TJ 870-830
      Renewable energy sources