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Environmental Science

A guide for supporting research in environmental science

Finding Books

Search the CLIO Catalog, the online catalog of the Columbia University Libraries. 

Books titles (as well as many other types of material) can be found in the CLIO Catalog.  CLIO includes Barnard Library, but not Teachers College Library or the Law Library.

  • If the book isn't available in CLIO, use Borrow Direct or the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service to request it.
  • WorldCat is useful for finding books located in other libraries.
  • Search Google Books and use "Get this book in print - Find in a library" to find libraries that have the book you're interested in.

Library of Congress Call Numbers for Environmental Science

In the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning, the library and our collection of 150,000 books are housed on on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors.

Browsing the stacks to find books can be a good way of finding sources.  Most of the libraries in the Columbia system use Library of Congress (LC) call numbers.  A book's call number is based on the first subject heading listed in the book record in the CLIO Catalog.

Each library has a call number guide to tell you where each call number is located, which is shown in the CLIO Catalog and displayed in the library.

These are the LC call numbers for environmental science:

  • GE1-350 – Environmental sciences
  • GE70-90 – Environmental education
  • GE170-190 – Environmental policy
  • GE195-199 – Environmentalism. Green movement
  • GE300-350 – Environmental management
  • QH – Biology
  • QK – Botany
  • QL – Zoology
  • QR – Microbiology
  • S – Agriculture
  • SB – Horticulture, plant propagation, plant breeding

New Books & Ebooks

Not Too Late cover image: a green background with "Not Too Late" in white print

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility [electronic resource]

"Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it's an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, Not Too Late features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown. Shaped by the clear-eyed wisdom of editors Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and enhanced by illustrations by David Solnit, Not Too Late is a guide to take us from climate crisis to climate hope. Contributors include Julian Aguon, Jade Begay, adrienne maree brown, Edward Carr, Renato Redantor Constantino, Joelle Gergis, Jacquelyn Gill, Mary Annaise Heglar, Mary Ann Hitt, Roshi Joan Halifax, Nikayla Jefferson, Antonia Juhasz, Kathy Jetnil Kijiner, Fenton Lutunatabua & Joseph Sikulu, Yotam Marom, Denali Nalamalapu, Leah Stokes, Farhana Sultana, and Gloria Walton."--Publisher marketing.

Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet

Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities--among the most vulnerable to but also least responsible for the climate crisis--have long been at the forefront of the fight to protect imperiled worlds. Today, as the world's forests burn and our oceans acidify, grassroots movements are tenaciously defending the environmental commons and forging just and sustainable ways of living on Earth. Scholar and activist Ashley Dawson constructs a gripping narrative of these movements of climate insurgents, from international solidarity organizations like La Via Campesina and Shack Dwellers International to local struggles in South Africa, Colombia, India, Nigeria, and beyond.