These Readings are Open or Creative Commons

• Koslov, L. (2016). The Case for Retreat. Public Culture, 28(2), 359–387. Open Access at: https://climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/The%20Case%20for%20Retreat%20-%20Public%20Culture.%20pdf.pdf 
• Mattar, Sennan D., Tahseen Jafry, Patrick Schröder, and Zarina Ahmad. “Climate Justice: Priorities for Equitable Recovery from the Pandemic.”Climate Policy 21, no. 10 (November 26, 2021): 1307–17.
• Monbiot, George. “Capitalism Is Killing the Planet – It’s Time to Stop Buying into Our Own Destruction.” The Guardian, October 30, 2021, sec. Environment.
• “New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report: Conclusions and Recommendations.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1439, no. 1 (2019): 306–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14032.
• Orton, Philip, Ning Lin, Vivien Gornitz, Brian Colle, James Booth, Kairui Feng, Maya Buchanan, Michael Oppenheimer, and Lesley Patrick. “New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 4: Coastal Flooding.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1439, no. 1 (2019): 95–114. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14011.
• Siders, A. R. “Social Justice Implications of US Managed Retreat Buyout Programs.” Climatic Change 152, no. 2 (January 1, 2019): 239–57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2272-5.
• Simmons, Daisy. “What Is ‘Climate Justice’? » Yale Climate Connections.” Yale Climate Connections, July 29, 2020. http://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/what-is-climate-justice/.
• Smithsonian. “Manahatta to Manhattan: Native Americans in Lower Manhattan.” Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 2010. https://ospi.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/2023-10/manahatta_to_manhattan.pdf.
• Solecki, William, and Cynthia Rosenzweig. “New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 9: Perspectives on a City in a Changing Climate 2008–2018.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1439, no. 1 (March 2019): 280–305. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14017.
• Wilson, Bev. 2020. “Urban heat management and the legacy of redlining.” In Journal of the American Planning Association, 86(4), 443-457. Open Access at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341589168_Urban_Heat_Management_and_the_Legacy_of_Redlining7
• Wu, Shuang-Ye. “Looking Back on America’s Summer of Heat, Floods and Climate Change: Welcome to the New Abnormal.” The Conversation, September 21, 2022. http://theconversation.com/looking-back-on-americas-summer-of-heat-floods-and-climate-change-welcome-to-the-new-abnormal-190636.

These Readings and Videos require you to login with your Brooklyn College Library credentials.

• Cohen, Bonni, and Jon Shenk. An Inconvenient Sequel: : Truth to Power. Paramount Pictures, 2017. video-alexanderstreet-com.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu..
• Tarr, Joel A. “Land Use and Environmental Change in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary Region, 1700-1980, with an Addendum to 2018”: in Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City, edited by Carl A. Zimring, and Steven H. Corey, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central..
• Siders, A. R. “Social Justice Implications of US Managed Retreat Buyout Programs.”Climatic Change 152, no. 2 (January 1, 2019): 239–57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2272-5..
• Ren, Chao, and Glenn McGregor, eds. Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities.: Ren, Chao, and Glenn McGregor, eds. Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities. Vol. 5. Biometeorology. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5..
• McNeill, J. R., and Peter Engelke. “Cities and the Economy.” The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945, Harvard University Press, 2014, pp. 103–54. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvjf9wcc.6. Accessed 21 Jan. 2024.
• Ren, Chao, and Glenn McGregor, eds. Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities.: Ren, Chao, and Glenn McGregor, eds. Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities. Vol. 5. Biometeorology. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5..

These readings are password protected files. Please request password from Instructor

• Bell, Shannon. “‘Energy, Society, and the Environment.’”In Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, edited by Kenneth Alan Gould and Tammy L. Lewis, Third edition., 157–96. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Password protected at https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=74918166.
• Gould, K. A., & Lewis, T. L. (2018). Green Gentrification and Disaster Capitalism in Barbuda: Barbuda has long exemplified an alternative to mainstream tourist development in the Caribbean. After Irma and Maria, that could change. In NACLA Report on the Americas: Eye of the Storm: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Climate Change in the Caribbean (Vol. 50, Issue 2, pp. 148–153). Routledge.
• Greenberg, M. (2014). The Disaster inside the Disaster: Hurricane Sandy and Post-crisis Redevelopment. New Labor Forum, 23(1), 44–52. Login with BC Library credentials at https://journals-sagepub-com.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/doi/10.1177/1095796013513239
• Ch. 1 and 2. Leichenko, Robin, and Karen O’Brien. Climate and Society in Climate and Society : Transforming the Future. Polity Press, 2019. Password Protected at https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=75201989
• Leichenko, Robin, and Karen O’Brien. “Ch. 5: The Social Drivers of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Elephant In the Room.” In Climate and Society: Transforming the Future, 77–100. Newark, UNITED KINGDOM: Polity Press, 2019.
• The Sociological Imagination p. 3-13 in Gould, Kenneth Alan, and Tammy L. Lewis, eds. Thirty Readings in Introductory Sociology. Second edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Mann, Michael E. “Chapters 1-3.” In The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, First trade paperback edition., pp 9-62. New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, Hatchette Book Group, 2022.
• Laura McKinney. 2021. “Climate Change.” In Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology (3^rd edition). Edited by K. Gould & T. Lewis. Oxford University Press, pp. 271-292 (Lesson 15). Password Protected at https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=75058970.
• Norgaard, Kari. “‘Normalizing the Unthinkable: Climate Denial and Everyday Life.’”In Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, edited by Kenneth Alan Gould and Tammy L. Lewis, Third edition., 295–309. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021 Password Protected at https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=74918167.
• Ch. 5: “The Gowanus Canal: from open sewer to the Venice of Brooklyn.” In Gould, Kenneth Alan, and Tammy L. Lewis. Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice. Routledge, Equity, Justice, and the Sustainable City Series. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017. http://site.ebrary.com/id/11236880.
• Siders, “Social justice implications of US managed retreat buyout programs“. In Climatic Change 152, no. 2 (January 1, 2019): 239–57. Password Protected. Access also provided by Springerlink, Brooklyn College

These are Magazines, Websites or Blogs

• 350. “350.Org: A Global Campaign to Confront the Climate Crisis.” Accessed January 6, 2024. https://350.org.
• AdaptNYC. “AdaptNYC Is New York City’s Plan to Adapt to Climate Change.” NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://climate.cityofnewyork.us/initiatives/adaptnyc/.
• Citizens’ Climate Lobby. “Citizens’ Climate Lobby | Solutions to Climate Change.” Accessed January 6, 2024. https://citizensclimatelobby.org/.
• Climate Action Network. “Climate Action Network – Home.” Accessed January 6, 2024. https://climatenetwork.org/.
• Climate Justice Alliance. “Home Page – Climate Justice Alliance.” Accessed January 6, 2024. https://climatejusticealliance.org/.
• Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit. “IPCC Explainer: The Science of Climate Change.” Accessed January 6, 2024. https://eciu.net/analysis/infographics/ipcc-science-of-climate-change.
• Extinction Rebellion. “Extinction Rebellion | Join The Fight Against Climate and Ecological Collapse.” Accessed January 6, 2024. https://rebellion.global/.
• MIT. “Explainers | MIT Climate Portal.” MIT Climate Portal. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://climate.mit.edu/explainers.
• ———.“Cities and Climate Change | MIT Climate Portal.” MIT Climate Portal. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/cities-and-climate-change.
• ———. “What We Know About Climate Change | MIT Climate Portal.” MIT Climate Portal. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://climate.mit.edu/what-we-know-about-climate-change.
• Sunrise Movement. “Home,” December 5, 2023. https://www.sunrisemovement.org/.
• United Nations. “Climate Change | UN-Habitat.” UN-Habitat. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://unhabitat.org/topic/climate-change.
• US EPA, OAR. “Climate Change Impacts on the Built Environment.” Overviews and Factsheets. EPA US Environmental Protection Agemcy, October 19, 2022. https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-built-environment.