Environmental History

Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
Open Access.

Interface in English. Content in English or other languages.
Digitized collections from the Library of Congress, includes manuscripts, books, photos, maps, audio recordings, and more. Strongest between the 17th and 21st centuries. Content dating back to B.C.E.
Open Access.

Is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. Includes data.

Includes factsheets, reports, and more.

Monitoring internal displacement worldwide is at the very heart of what we do and it is the foundation for all our analysis and policy influencing work. The database enables you generate your own custom charts using our published displacement estimates, UNHCR’s refugee data and all of the indicators from the World Bank’s open data catalogue.

Books with the subject "environmental refugees" in Boston College Libraries. Consider changing search to "climate refugees."

Keyword search for "Environmental refugees" for articles and book chapters in BC Libraries collections published in 2000 and after. Not comprehensive. Consider changing search to "climate refugees."

"This article is concerned with one subcategory of the broader climate debate: the climate refugee. It uses the IPCC's (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) three climate change-related categories of human migration or population displacement — drought incidence, increased cyclone (hurricanes and typhoons) intensity and sea-level rise — to initially describe how this phenomenon is usually presented and categorized."

Over 400 reports from different countries on refugees either directly or with some reference to environmental concerns.

Discussion of ; stories ; news releases on global refugee movements related to environmental considerations.

Is a rapid and simple project-level environmental screening tool developed by the UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit, USAID, UNHCR, NRC, IUCN, WWF and other partners that allows humanitarian actors to quickly identify issues of environmental concern before designing longer term emergency or recovery interventions.

CAIT Climate Data Explorer has begun migrating features to Climate Watch, a new online climate data platform designed to empower policymakers, researchers, media and other stakeholders with the climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change.

A free and interactive tool that helps you to understand the link between our lifestyles, the energy we use, and the consequences for our climate. It is aimed at anyone interested in exploring what a low-carbon world could look like in 2050. The Calculator shows that it is possible to prevent dangerous climate change and ensure people's living standards continue to improve if we act now.

With climate change already impacting communities worldwide, the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions has never been more urgent. It’s a daunting challenge, but the technologies and strategies to meet it exist today. Government officials and other policymakers need a clear resource outlining which energy policies can put us on the path to a low-carbon future, and how to best design those policies.