Climate Change Books at UBC Library
UBC Library has books on climate change across every discipline! Search the catalogue for books on a particular topic or browse our Climate Change Booklists for ideas.
- Climate Change BooklistsBrowse curated book lists from a range of subject areas and genres all related to climate change. New booklists will be periodically created and added by librarians from across UBC.
Show Your Stripes Project
To highlight the range of books we have, we've recreated the warming stripes data visualization with select titles from our collections.
We were inspired by the Show Your Stripes data visualization created by Prof. Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading, showing the change in temperature across the globe from 1850 - present.
UBC Reads Sustainability
- UBC Reads SustainabilityPart book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. UBC Reads Sustainability is a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.
Each year they select leading sustainability books, work with instructors across campus to integrate the books into courses, and bring the authors to UBC for a public lecture series.
Select Local Authors
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Call Number: Woodward & Okanagan Libraries: SD411.52.S56 A3 2021Publication Date: 2021Simard brilliantly describes her life and career, and the fact that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate and share communal lives not that different from our own.
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the climate emergency by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2020A bold blueprint to retool our economy and transform our politics for a zero-carbon future. In A Good War, author and activist Seth Klein looks at the Second World War strategies and shows how they can be repurposed today for a rapid transition. He demonstrates that this change can create jobs and reduce inequality while tackling our climate obligations.
SOS: What you can do to reduce climate change by Call Number: Woodward, Great Reads: TD171.75.W96 2019Publication Date: 2019Climate change researcher, Seth Wynes, sets out in the simplest terms how you can make a real and positive impact. Make changes at home, at work, to how you shop, eat, live What you do matters - and the science proves it.
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Call Number: Okanagan Library: GE220 .K54 2020Publication Date: 2020An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.
Adrift by Call Number: Education Library: PS8603.R5 A37 2023Publication Date: 2023A page-turning thriller about hidden identities and the terrifying realities of climate change. Ess wakes up alone on a sailboat in the remote Pacific Northwest with no memory of who she is or how she got there. In Ess's world, the earth is precariously balanced at a climate tipping point, and she is perched at the edge of a choice: which life does she want? The one taken from her--and the dangerous secret that was buried--or the new one she can make for herself?
