Resources – Environmental Sustainability and Public History Education
Books
Barthel-Bouchier, Diane. Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2013.
Brophy, Sarah S. ad Elizabeth Wylie. The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Practice. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2008.
Behringer, Wolfgang. A Cultural History of Climate. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2010.
Caradonna, Jeremy. Sustainability: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edwards, Andres R. The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. Garbiola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2005.
Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
Holo, Selma and Mari-Tere Álvarez. Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values. Landham, MA: AltaMira Press, 2009.
Hurley, Andrew. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Ruddiman, William F. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Human Took Control of Climate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Sanders, Jeffrey Craig. Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
Sutton, Sarah. Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites and Museums. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Thomas, Lynn L. Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
Weart, Spencer. The Discovery of Global Warming. rev. ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Government and Organization Reports
National Park Service. Climate Change Response Strategy. Washington D.C.: Department of the Interior/NPS, 2010. https://www.nps.gov/orgs/ccrp/upload/NPS_CCRS.pdf
National Park Service Technical Preservation Services. Illustrated Guidelines on Sustainability for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings. Washington D.C.: Department of the Interior/NPS, 2013.
https://www.nps.gov/tps/standards/rehabilitation/guidelines/index.htm
United Nations Environment Programme, UNESCO, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate. Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists, 2016. http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/05/world-heritage-and-tourism-in-a-changing-climate.pdf
Essays
Cafaro, Philip. “What Should NPS Tell Visitors (and Congress) about Climate Change?” The George Write Forum 29:3 (2012): 287-298.
Evenden, Matthew. “Reflections: Environmental History Pedagogy Beyond History and on the Web.” Environmental History 14:4 (October 2009): 737-743.
Glaser, Leah, guest editor. Public History and Environmental Sustainability special issue of The Public Historian 36:3 (August 2014).
Lewis, Michael. “‘This Class Will Write a Book’: An Experiment in Environmental History Pedagogy.” Environmental History 9:4 (October 2004): 604-619.
Websites
Climate History Network. http://www.climatehistory.net/
Environmental Protection Agency. https://www.epa.gov/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. http://ipcc.ch/
National Council on Public History. History@Work blog. http://ncph.org/history-at-work/
National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/index.htm
National Trust for Historic Preservation. https://savingplaces.org/
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://www.noaa.gov/
Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/