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Reference works such as biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, bibliographies, etc. provide useful background information. The Reference Collection is a good place to start your research. Selected samples are:

Dictionary of environmental science and technology

Oxford Dictionary of Biology

Encyclopedia of global warming

Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change

Global Warming

Climate change : an encyclopedia of science and history

Environmental Encyclopedia

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) Searchable full text of reference books in many subjects.

Background information

Books related to environmental science can be found in the following call number ranges:

GE1-350 Environmental sciences GE70-90 Environmental education GE170-190 Environmental policy GE195-199 Environmentalism. Green movement. GE300-350 Environmental management

Finding e-books

Adjudicating Climate Change : State, National, and International Approaches / edited by William C. G. Burns, Hari M. Osofsky. (2009)

Carbon sinks and climate change : forests in the fight against global warming / Colin A.G. Hunt. (2009)

The ethics of global climate change / edited by Denis G. Arnold. (2011)

Climate : causes and effects of climate change / Dana Desonie. (2008)

Climate change, supply chain management, and enterprise adaptation : implications of global warming on the economy / by Costas P. Pappis. (2010)

Human rights and climate change : a review of the international legal dimensions. (2011)

Climate Change Mitigation : What Do We Do? / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2008)

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Climate ethics : essential readings / edited by Stephen M. Gardiner ... [et al.]. (2010)

China's dilemma : economic growth, the environment and climate change / Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo, editors. (2008)

The climate diet : how you can cut carbon, cut costs, and save the planet / Jonathan Harrington. (2008)

Climate change : in context / Brenda Wilmoth Lerner & K. Lee Lerner, editors. (2008)

Climate change : shifting glaciers, deserts, and climate belts / Timothy Kusky. (2009)

Climate change : a reference handbook / David L. Downie, Kate Brash, and Catherine Vaughan. (2009)

Climate change justice / Eric A. Posner, David Weisbach. (2010)

Cities and climate change : responding to an urgent agenda / Daniel Hoornweg ... [et al.], editors. (2011)

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Use the following online catalogs to search for books:

iSearch - search for library books, online journals articles and more …

Catalogue - search for physical items of books and multimedia resources

Finding books from iSearch

Suggested Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to use as search terms for this topic include:

Climatic Changes

Climatic Changes – Effect of human beings on

Global Warming

Global Warming – Political aspects

Global Warming – Economic aspects

Greenhouse gases

Greenhouse gases – Environmental aspects

Green Movement

Useful search terms

CLIMATIC CHANGES

May be subdivided using DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS; FORECASTING; GOVERNMENT POLICY; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH, etc.

May be subdivided geographically, e.g., CLIMATIC CHANGES--ANTARCTICASee also as subdivision CLIMATIC FACTORS, e.g., BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY--CLIMATIC FACTORS

GLOBAL WARMINGSee also as subdivision EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON, e.g., PLANTS--EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON

More search terms …

Academic Search Premier Coverage: Abstracts 1965 + Full Text 1975 +It is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline full text database containing full text and peer-reviewed publications which covers all aspect of academic study.

Cambridge Journals Online Coverage: VariesCovers Cambridge University Press's collection of over 200 e-journals in subject areas of sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Environment Complete Coverage: 1940 +Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable 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.

Searching databases

Environmental Studies and Policy Collection Coverage: 1980-2012Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes magazines and academic journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

Gale Virtual Reference Library Coverage: VariesAn e-book database of encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources for multidisplinary research. It supports full-text search within and across collections, advanced search capabilities, bookmarks and annotations.

GreenFILE Coverage: VariesIt covers 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.

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Greenr Coverage: VariesThe Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources (GREENR) focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.

International Studies Encyclopedia Coverage: VariesA searchable encyclopedia published by Wiley Blackwell in association with the International Studies Association. ISE is a referential kind of work for the fields of international studies and international relations.

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) - Sciences Edition Coverage: 2008 +A resource tool for the evaluation of science journals, containing citation data from roughly 8,000 journals in the areas of science and technology. Users can filter the journals by subject and then sort them by impact factor, immediacy index, total cites, current articles, cited half-life, or journal title.

JSTOR. Arts & Sciences Collection Coverage: VariesIt covers Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, V and VII Collections with over 800 titles across 43 discipline, including art, economics, education, health policies, health sciences, language & literature, law, linguistics, mathematics, music, performing arts, philosophy, psychology, religion and sociology, etc.

MyiLibrary Coverage: VariesProvides access to over 4000 purchased ebooks on various subjects such as Education, Arts, Language and Literature, Music and Science.

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Oxford University Press Coverage: VariesOxford University Press provide access to over 150 journals subscribed by the Library. Subject covers humanities, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, physical sciences and social sciences.

PAIS Coverage: 1972 +PAIS is a bibliographic index to the literature on public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general dated back to 1972. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, etc.

ProQuest Research Library Coverage: Abstracts 1971 + Full Text 1987 +Provides access to information from journals across a wide range of subject areas, including arts, business, children, education, humanities, psychology and sciences etc.

ProQuest Science & Technology Databases Coverage: VariesThis provides simultaneous searching on Dissertations & Theses, Research Library databases in the subject areas of science and technology.

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Science Direct Coverage: VariesProvides electronic access to over 240 Elsevier journals and over 350 e-books subscribed by the Library.

Scopus Coverage: 1966 +An abstracting and indexing database that includes 18,000 peer-reviewed journal titles in the social sciences, health sciences, life sciences and physical sciences. Apart from getting extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles, the database also contains cited references to articles from 1996 onwards.

SpringerLink Coverage: VariesOver 1300 journals and 500 e-books from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.

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SwetsWise (Click on "Login via IP authentication") Coverage: VariesProvides full text access to over 250 journals with table of contents. Subjects covers: arts, language, philosophy, religion, science, medicine, geography, history, social sciences and technology.

Web of Science Science Citation Index is a "multidisciplinary index to international science literature."

Wiley Online Library Coverage: VariesEducation, social sciences, psychology, business and science electronic journals from Wiley. Full text access is limited to about 700 journals and 9 e-books which the Library has a subscription.

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中文電子期刊服務 CEPS: Chinese Electronic Periodicals Service

Coverage: Varies收錄範圍包括台灣、中國大陸及其他各地以中文為主的資料。涵蓋的科目有人文學、社會科學、自然科學、應用科學、醫學與生命科學等。每種期刊收錄年代不一，但主要為 2000 年之後。

中國知網 China Knowledge Resource integrated Database (CNKI)

Coverage: Varies 包含《中國期刊全文數據庫》、《中國優秀博碩士學位論文全文數據庫》、《世紀期刊人文社科精品數據庫》及《中國年鑒全文資料庫》。

中國 期刊全文數據庫 -〈基礎科學〉及〈信息科學〉 China Academic Journal Full-text Database - (Mathematics/Physics/Mechanics/Astronomy) & (Electronic Technology & Information Science)

Coverage: 2002 - 2003收錄中國出版的理工科期刊之全文文獻，範圍包括數學、物理、、生物、地理、地質、電子情報、科學研究等。

More databases (vii) …

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

British Journal of Environment & Climate Change

Climatic Change

Climate Dynamics

Climate of the Past Discussions

Climate Policy

Dealing with climate change

Environmental Education Research

E-journals list

Global Warming Focus

Green Futures

Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology

The Business of Global Warming

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

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地球暖化

命送天氣

全球暖化如何影響香港

Are we doing enough to fight global warming?

Climate Central

Climate change in Hong Kong

Climate conscious

Counting carbon

Global climate change and greenhouse emissions

Videos online

Global warming

Global Warming and Hong Kong

Global Warming and the Copenhagen conference

Gore goes global ; Heating up

International climate change Conference

Mercury rising

Selling green ; Hidden identity

Should we be scared of climate change?

The butterfly storm

The Signs of Warming : Tai Mo Shan

What can Hongkongers do about the worsening pollution problem?

Wind win situation?

More videos …

Center for Health and the Global

Earth Observatory NASA

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Change Site

Geological Survey Climate Change

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Resources for the Future

The Library of Congress Science Reference Services

The U.N. Environment Programme

US Global Change Research Program

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Links to international organizations

世界自然（香港）基金會

Environmental Protection Department (EPD)

Friends of the Earth Hong Kong

Hong Kong Observatory

Links to local organizations

PowerPoint:

The latest on climate change in Hong Kong / by TC Lee ; HKCCF Programme on climate change 21 September 2010, Hong Kong Observatory.

http://www.hkccf.org/download/cpd2010/Climate%20Change%20in%20HK%20(TC%20Lee).ppt

Dissertations:

“The impact of climate change on residential transactions in Hong Kong” by Li, Rita Yi Man 2009 (HKU)

http://www.tbher.org/index.php/tbher/article/viewFile/17/18

“Temperature projection in Hong Kong using remote sensing and dynamic modelling” by To Pui Hang 2012 (PolyU)

http://repository.lib.polyu.edu.hk/jspui/handle/10397/5545

Classroom resources

Images:

Britannica Image Quest

Interactives:

Global Climate Change

Photos:

Global warming stock photos and images

http://www.inmagine.com/searchterms/global_warming.html

Greener action:

http://www.wwf.org.hk/en/whatwedo/footprint/climate/examples_of_individual_actions/climateers/beaclimateer/whos_climateering/michelle_law/

More classroom resources …

HK Public Libraries factsheets:

http://www.hkpl.gov.hk/textonly/english/kids_teens/ele_res/ele_tee/ele_tee.html

http://www.hkpl.gov.hk/textonly/english/kids_teens/ele_res/ele_tee/files/Global_Warming_2010.pdf

 

HK Public Museums:

http://www.museums.gov.hk/web/portal/students.html

More classroom resources …

Legislative Council Panel on Environmental Affairs Meeting on 28 January 2008 “Background brief on greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on global warming”.

http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr07-08/english/panels/ea/papers/ea0128cb1-647-19-e.pdf

 

Legislative Council Panel Meeting

Information paper provided by the Administration for the Environmental Affairs Panel

meetings on 28 May 2007

http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr06-07/english/panels/ea/papers/ea0528cb1-1666-15-e.pdf

 

Information note entitled "Policies and measures for mitigation of climate change"

prepared by the Research and Library Services Division

http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr06-07/english/sec/library/0607in14-e.pdf

 

Minutes of the Environmental Affairs Panel meeting on 28 May 2007

http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr06-07/english/panels/ea/minutes/ea070528.pdf

 

Administration's response to deputations' views

http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr06-07/english/panels/ea/papers/ea0528cb1-2202-1-e.pdf

More relevant papers …

E-learning for kids: ”Environmental skills – Global warming”

http://e-learningforkids.org/Courses/EN/global_warming/course/shell.html

Projects by Students for Students

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0110881/greenhouse_en.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00442/wuglobalwarming.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/J003411/causes.htm

A Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change

http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

More classroom resources …

Global Warming

Global Warming Causes

Android applications

The “GWon air” (dummy) is a social platform for all HKIEd students to share their view points, phenomenon, findings and resources on how global warming and climate change will affect the living environment of Hong Kong.

-Organize discussions, talks and outdoor activities virtually

-Construct knowledge transfer both inside and outside classrooms

-Analyze survey results data and draw solutions

-Smart tips from our daily life actions to save our planet

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