Guides: Literature in English: Resources: Environmental Humanities

Environmental Humanities

Individual Journals

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Databases

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Environmental Humanities is highly interdisciplinary. It may make sense to explore other LibGuides related to environmental studies, biology, climate change, and other topics of intersection. While there isn't a single periodical index, it's also recommended to peruse the journals listed above.

Clean Air Act Amendments Of 1990: Reduction Of Acid Rain, Urban Air Pollution, & Environmental Policy
The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments were a landmark effort to reduce air pollution through a variety of instruments including the use of a market-based system of trade-able pollution "permits" under its Title IV and Title V. This Archives Unbound collection consists of essential documents on the promulgation and implementation of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990 and other environmental issues including endangered species and protection of American wetlands.
Development of Environmental Health Policy: Pope A. Lawrence Papers 1924-1983
The collection documents the varied research and policymaking career of Pope A. Lawrence, an environmental health specialist with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Public Health Service. His papers contain a wealth of primary source research materials and scientific data related to: environmental and industrial hygiene; radon activity; use of beryllium as a rocket propellant; uranium mining; and toxicological, biological and chemical weapon systems.
Environment Abstracts
Environment Abstracts is the principal bibliographic abstracting service for the scholarly, professional, and policy literatures on the environment.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 880,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 13,000 records.

Encyclopedias and Reference Works

Special Collections

Environmental humanities and sciences special collections: overview
A guide to special collections covering multiple topics and time periods.
Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness
Over 6,000 works of fiction—novels, short stories, poetry and song donated by Penn alumna Caroline Schimmel, CW’67.

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