Course Number: GESC291
Subject: Geography and Environmental Studies
Finding scholarly sources:
- Scholarly articles - go to the Geography Subject page and start at the Geography and Environmental Sciences @ ProQuest database bundle
- search on your city with other terms such as "mitigation" or "adaptation" and "policy" or "policies"
- supplement your results by searching in Geobase or Web of Science
- Video: Finding articles on a topic
- Scholarly books - go to Omni and use a similar search as you did in the database examples above
- always put the connection (boolean) operators in CAPS in Omni, e.g. AND or OR
- Video: Finding books in Omni
Websites tracking climate change policies:
- Climate Policy Database - New Climate Institute
- Columbia Law School - Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law: Climate changes laws of the world
- European Environment Agency (EEA) database on climate change mitigation policies and measures in Europe
- Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Global Climate Legislation Study
- International Energy Agency Policies and Measures database
- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)
Manage your citations
- Learn more about citation management software - Mendeley and Zotero
Creating an annotated bibliography
- Click here for a quick video tutorial