In conjunction with World Environment Day, ISEAS Library presents a selection of books on environment and climate change, covering its governance, technology, and economic and social aspects.
World Environment Day is observed on 5 June every year to encourage worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment. The theme for 2024 focused on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience under the slogan “Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration.”
“Accounting for Carbon provides the first authoritative overview of the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions from the industrial site, project and company level to the regional and national level.”
- Accounting for carbon: monitoring, reporting and verifying emissions in the climate economy / edited by Valentin Bellassen, Nicolas Stephan. Call no.: TD885.5 G73A17
- Assessing the economic impacts of environmental policies: evidence from a decade of OECD research / OECD. Call no.: HC79 E5A84
- Carbon markets around the globe: sustainability and political feasibility / Sven Rudolph, Elena Aydos. Call no.: HC79 P55R91
- China’s next act: how sustainability and technology are reshaping China’s rise and the world’s future / Scott M. Moore. Call no.: HC427.95 M82
- Climate change adaptation: an Earth Institute sustainability primer / Lisa Dale. Call no.: QC903 D13
- Climate change, disasters, and internal displacement in Asia and the Pacific: a human rights-based approach / edited by Matthew Scott and Albert Salamanca. Call no.: HV640 C63
- Decarbonising economies / Harriet Bulkeley, Johannes Stripple, Lars J. Nilsson, Bregje van Veelen, Agni Kalfagianni, Fredric Bauer, Mariësse van Sluisveld. Call no.: HC79 E5B94
- Economics for a fragile planet / Edward B. Barbier. Call no.: HD75.6 B23
“In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future.”
- Electrify: an optimist’s playbook for our clean energy future / Saul Griffith. Call no.: TK1001 G85
- Ending fossil fuel subsidies: the politics of saving the planet / Neil McCulloch. Call no.: HD9502 A2M47
- Environment, media, and popular culture in Southeast Asia / Jason Paolo Telles, John Charles Ryan, Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach, editors. Call no.: P96 E57E61
- Environmental governance in Indonesia / Annisa Triyanti, Mochamad Indrawan, Laely Nurhidayah, Muh Aris Marfai, editors. Call no.: HC450 E5E611
- Food security and land use change under conditions of climatic variability: a multidimensional perspective / Victor R. Squires, Mahesh K. Gaur, editors.
“In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive “human flourishing framework” to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at “climate mastery,” and establishing “energy freedom” policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential.”
- Fossil future: why global human flourishing requires more oil, coal, and natural gas–not less / Alex Epstein. Call no.: TP355 E64
- From big oil to big green: holding the oil industry to account for the climate crisis / Marco Grasso. Call no.: HD9560.5 G76
- Global environmental politics: the transformative role of emerging economies / Johannes Urpelainen. Call no.: GE170 U78
- Global plastics outlook: economic drivers, environmental impacts and policy options / OECD. Call no.: TP1122 G56
- Green digital finance and sustainable development goals / Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Suk Hyun, editors. Call no.: HG101 G79
- Handbook on trade policy and climate change / edited by Michael Jakob. Call no.: HF1411 H23
- Implementing a green recovery in Southeast Asia / Asian Development Bank. Call no.: HC79 E5I34
- In the shadow of the palms: more-than-human becomings in West Papua / Sophie Chao. Call no.: HD9490.5 P343C46
- Investing in the era of climate change / Bruce Usher. Call no.: HG4521 U85
- Land grabbing and migration in a changing climate: comparative perspectives from Senegal and Cambodia / Sara Vigil. Call no.: HD1251 V67
- Mekong dreaming: life and death along a changing river / Andrew Alan Johnson. Call no.: HC441 Z9E441
- Planet palm: how palm oil ended up in everything – and endangered the world / Jocelyn C. Zuckerman. Call no.: SB317 P3Z94
“In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of Indonesia’s contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of the world’s palm oil. They attend to the exploitative nature of plantation life, wherein villagers’ well-being is sacrificed in the name of economic development.”
- Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone / Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi. Call no.: HD9490.5 P343I54
- Risk and resilience in the era of climate change / Vinod Thomas. Call no.: QC903 T45
- States and nature: the effects of climate change on security / Joshua Busby. Call no.: UA10.5 B97
- Sustainable consumption, production and supply chain management: advancing sustainable economic systems / Paul Nieuwenhuis, Daniel Newman, Anne Touboulic. Call no.: TS155.7 N68
- The climate-energy-land nexus in Indonesia: biofuel, REDD+ and biochar / edited by Akihisa Mori and Alin Halimatussadiah. Call no.: HD9502 I52C63
- The decarbonization imperative: transforming the global economy by 2050 / Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff. Call no.: HC79 A4L57
- The nature of data: infrastructures, environments, politics / edited by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost. Call no.: GE45 D37N28
- The Routledge handbook of the political economy of the environment / edited by Éloi Laurent and Klara Zwickl. Call no.: HC79 E5R86
- World’s transition toward a green economy: achieving the United Nations’ sustainable development goals and promoting the role of green finance / Xugang Yu, Mario Tettamanti, Cristiano Rizzi. Call no.: HG101 Y94
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