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Research Guides

Climate & the Environment (sustainability)

E-Books

Blakely, Carbonell, Blakely, Edward J., and Carbonell, Armando. Resilient Coastal City Regions : Planning for Climate Change in the United States and Australia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2012.

Calthorpe, Peter. Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change. 1st Ed. 2011. ed. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.

Hawken, Hawken, Paul. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. New York, New York: Penguin Books, 2017.
 
Kuittinen, Matti, Alan Organschi, and Andrew Ruff. Carbon : A Field Manual for Building Designers. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2022.

Meyer, Christopher Michael, Daniel Hemmendinger, Meyer, Shawna Michelle. Buoyant Clarity. Pamphlet Architecture; No. 36. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018.

Scruton, Roger. How to Think Seriously about the Planet the Case for an Environmental Conservatism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Climate Modeling

NOAA Climate.gov

Toolkits & Guidelines

EDIT Ecosystems Dynamic Interpretive Tool
EDIT is an online information system for the development and sharing of ecological site descriptions, ecosystem state and transition models, and land management knowledge.

Papers, Reports, Action Plans

Lessons in Regional Resilience: Southeast Florida Region (PDF)
The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact©2017, Georgetown Climate Center

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Indicators
This platform provides access to data compiled through the UN System in preparation for the Secretary-General's annual report on "Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals"

USGCRP, 2018: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II [Reidmiller, D.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, K.L.M. Lewis, T.K. Maycock, and B.C. Stewart (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, 1515 pp. doi: 10.7930/NCA4.2018.

Video

Series :"Cities Under Threat", Venice (2017); Tokyo (2018);  New York (2018). 

Case Studies

Building Green Case Studies

C40 Knowledge Hub

Detail Inspiration

ULI Case Studies

Open Data

Climate Disclosure Project (CDP) Open Data Portal
Contains data sets on Emissions, Renewable Energy, Mitigation Hazards, Climate, Governance, Water, Adaptations and more.  

Atlas of Urban Expansion Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Open-source online resource with maps, satellite images, and data on spatial changes in cities around the world, created in partnership by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, UN-Habitat, and New York University.

UN-Habitat Open Data
A compilation of urban indicators data of 132 counties, 77 indicaators and 1500 urban areas.

Urban Institute DataViz
Key stats, graphs, and maps on economic and social policy

World Health Data Platform (WHO)