Climate change resources
Discover our latest information on the Australian Museum’s action on climate change and how you can contribute.
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As part of the Australian Museum’s commitment to offering channels for public engagement and interaction, a collection of resources has been assembled to provide the latest information on the Australian Museum’s action on climate change and how you can contribute.
Climate change blogs and podcasts
Citizen science projects
- FrogID project and app
- Australasian Fishes project
Publications relating to climate change
- Australian Academy of Science The science of climate change: questions and answers
- Curating Tomorrow Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals
Publications relating to Climate Change in the Australian Museum Library
- Allison, Ian et. al. The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers. Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, 2010. Find in the Library
- Banks, Peter, Daniel Lunney and Chris Dickman (editors). Science Under Siege: Zoology Under Threat. Mosman, N.S.W.: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2012. Find in the Library
- Beatley, Timothy. Planning for Coastal Resilience: Best Practices for Calamitous Times. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2009. Find in the Library
- Beaugrand, Gregory. Marine Biodiversity, Climatic Variability and Global Change. London; New York: Routledge, 2015. Find in the Library
- Cleugh, Helen et. al. (editors). Climate Change: Science and Solutions for Australia. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 2011. Find in the Library
- Crate, Susan A. and Mark Nuttall (editors). Anthropology and Climate Change: From Actions to Transformations. New York: Routledge, 2016. Find in the Library
- Flannery, Tim. An Explorer’s Notebook: Essays on Life, History and Climate. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2008. Find in the Library
- Flannery, Tim. Here on Earth: An Argument for Hope. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2010. Find in the Library
- Fletcher, Charles et. al. Living on the Shores of Hawaii: Natural Hazards, the Environment, and our Communities. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2010. Find in the Library
- Garnaut, Ross. The Garnaut Review 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Find in the Library
- Gergis, Joëlle. Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2018. Find in the Library
- Giosan, Liviu et. al. (editors). Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 2012. Find in the Library
- Holper, Paul and Simon Torok. Climate Change: What You can do about it: at work, at home, at school. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 2008. Find in the Library
- Johnson, Scott N. and T. Hefin Jones (editors). Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2017. Find in the Library
- Kenchington, Richard, Laura Stocker and David Wood. Sustainable Coastal Management and Climate Adaptation: Global Lessons from Regional Approaches in Australia. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 2012. Find in the Library
- Lunney, Daniel and Pat Hutchings (editors). Wildlife & Climate Change: Towards Robust Conservation Strategies for Australian Fauna. Mosman, N.S.W.: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2012. Find in the Library
- Lunney, Daniel, Pat Hutchings and Harry F. Recher (editors). Grumpy Scientists: The Ecological Conscience of a Nation. Mosman, N.S.W.: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2013. Find in the Library
- Marshall, George. Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Find in the Library
- Maslen, Geoffrey. An Uncertain Future: Australian Birdlife in Danger. Richmond, Victoria: Hardie Grant Books, 2017. Find in the Library
- Møller, Anders Pape, Wolfgang Fiedler and Peter Berthold (editors). Effects of Climate Change on Birds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Find in the Library
- Newell, Jennifer, Libby Robin and Kirsten Wehner (editors). Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon and New York, N.Y.: Routledge Environmental Humanities, 2016. Find in the Library
- Crook, Tony and Peter Rudiak-Gould (editors). Pacific Climate Cultures: Living Climate Change in Oceania. Warsaw/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. Find in the Library
- Parry, Martin L. (editor), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Geneva: IPCC Secretariat, 2008. Find in the Library
- Pittock, A. Barrie. Climate Change: The Science, Impacts and Solutions. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Find in the Library
- Romm, Joseph. Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Schipper, E. Lisa F., and Ian Burton (editors). The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change. London: Earthscan, 2009. Find in the Library
- Steffen, William L. Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Find in the Library
- Veron, J.E.N. A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Find in the Library
- Tony Crook, Peter Rudiak-Gould (Eds.) Pacific Climate Cultures: Living Climate Change in Oceania. Warsaw/Berlin : De Gruyter, 2018 Find it in the library
- Wallace-Wells, David. The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future. [London]: Penguin Books, 2019. Find in the Library
Staff publications relating to Climate Change
- Flannery, Tim. An Explorer’s Notebook: Essays on Life, History and Climate. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2008. Find in the Library
- Flannery, Tim. Here on Earth: An Argument for Hope. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2010. Find in the Library
- Newell, Jennifer, Libby Robin and Kirsten Wehner (editors). Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon and New York, N.Y.: Routledge Environmental Humanities, 2016. Find in the Library
- Newell, Jennifer. ‘Creative Collaborations: Museums Engaging with Communities and Climate Change’, in Walter Leal Filho, Bettina Lackner, Henry McGhie (eds.), Addressing the Challenges in Communicating Climate Change Across Various Audiences. Springer, 2019.
- Newell, Jennifer. ‘Weathering Climate Change in Samoa: cultural resources for change’, chapter in Tony Crook and Peter Rudiak-Gould (eds.), Appropriating Climate Change: Pacific Reception of a Global Prophecy, De Gruyter Open, 2018.
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