Development and the Environment

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