LibGuides: ESS 400: Capstone Seminar: Find Background

Background Resources

Consult background sources like the ones listed below at two points in your research:

When you're just starting out, to identify some key scholars in the field.
When you're in the midst of research, and come across an unfamiliar term, theory, or person.

A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
Publication Date: 2017
Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology, 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Brief definitions of terms.
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society Print copy in the Library of this 5 volume reference source.
Call Number: Ref HM856 .E53 2007 vol.1 - 5
Publication Date: 2007
Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature, 2013.
Call Number: Reference PS 169.E25 E53 2013
Entries on authors and topics within nature writing, with solid bibliographies of additional sources.
Environmental Literature, 1999.
Call Number: Reference GE35.E58 1999
Publication Date: 1999
Identifies earlier authors, works and themes.
International encyclopedia of environmental politics, 2012.
Publication Date: 2012
Fairly brief articles, with recommended sources.
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability (10-Vol. Set)
Call Number: Ref GE140 .B47 2010
ISBN: 1933782013
Publication Date: 2010