Sustainable Development: Home
Books
The library holds a wide range of books relevant to Sustainable Development. Here are a few to get you started.
Welcome
Welcome to your Subject Guide for Sustainable Development. Use this guide to find out the best resources for your subject area. You may also find some of our other subject guides useful.
Databases for Sustainable Development
Search on the Library Homepage allows you to search multiple Library databases at once. Results will include books, journal articles, newspapers, theses, etc. as well as materials held in Special Collections and Museum Collections.
In the search results use the filters on the left to narrow down the results.
Use the "Library Catalogue" filter to restrict to books etc. held in the Library, or use the "Format" filter to select e.g. journal articles, and then select the "Full-text" filter to restrict the search to items you have full-text access to.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowa large multidisciplinary abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. Covers over 19,000 journal titles.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science Core Collection includes the Science, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes, Conference Proceedings Citation Index for Science, Social Sciences & Humanities, Current Chemical Reactions and Index Chemicus.
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowindex of articles on all aspects of human impact on the environment - global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc. Includes some Open Access full text. Part of EBSCOhost
- Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) ReportsA collection of over 250 reports from the SDC. The SDC was the UK Government's independent adviser on sustainable development until 2011. The SDC held Government to account to ensure the needs of society, the economy and the environment were properly balanced in the decisions it made and the way it ran itself.
Subject Guide
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Find theses
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses with Full Text (PQDT) This link opens in a new windowthe world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day