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This guide has been put together by the Geography Subject Librarian and it is relevant to all students in the Department of Geography. You will find here an overview of the library resources and support available to you to help you in your studies or research.
Use the menu to find out what is available, including key information on:
Additionally, take a virtual tour of the Science Library in the DMS Watson building. This is the home library for Geography students.
Please get in touch through the help channels on this page if you have any enquiries!
Key electronic resources in your subject area include:
Border and Migration Studies Online is a collection that explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others. Accessibility statement for Border and Migration Studies Online.
Access for UCL students and staff only. Users must register with their UCL username and password on first use and agree to licence conditions. Online digital mapping and data extraction facilities using Ordnance Survey data of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Login and choose "Ordnance Survey". Includes the Improvement Service, LandClan Collection, OS National Geographic Database, OS Northern Ireland data and the National Tree Map Collection.
This reference collection contains trusted, peer-reviewed, comprehensive content from Elsevier's reference works. It contains "Featured Articles" for quick, clear overviews and subject hierarchies to put information in context. Accessibility statement for ScienceDirect.
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Index of scholarly, government and general-interest publications, covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Scopus. Multi-disciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources. Please use IE 8 or higher, Google Chrome or Firefox browsers.
Water resource management consists of planning, developing, distributing and managing the available water resources. With increasing population growth, urbanization, and climate change, water management becomes more demanding. This book presents innovative solutions for present as well as future challenges we are facing in water conservation and water quality protection. The second edition includes new pictures, percentages, the most recent information, current trends, and updated case studies with new examples. It offers an environmentally friendly view on how water is used and how it can be used in the future.
In this ground-breaking book, environmental journalist, Peter Schwartzstein, takes the reader on the first on-the-ground exploration of climate change's contribution to global conflict. From the ravaged villages of Iraq, where ISIS has used drought as a recruiting tool and weapon of terror, to the pirate-ridden waters of Bangladesh - and drawing on more than a decade of reporting from dozens of countries - Schwartzstein writes about the unexpected ways in which climate change is feeding global unrest and conflict.
The Climate City Provides professionals in finance, technology, and consulting with solutions for improving the quality of urban life under the changing climate. It provides cutting-edge approaches for developing resilient solutions to combat the effects of climate change in cities throughout the world. Linking finance and technology to policy and innovation, this highly practical resource outlines a global framework for mitigating and adapting to climate change and for effectively planning and delivering a low-carbon future.
"Circular Economy: Navigating the Water-Food Nexus for Sustainable Futures explores the interdependence of food and water systems within a circular economy framework aimed at eliminating waste and maximizing resource use. It examines policy and governance needs, offers best practices, and forecasts trends to guide the transition toward a sustainable, circular water-food future."
This book explores InSAR theory and applications for measuring surface deformation. Advances in satellite technology have scaled the method from analyzing tens of SAR images to processing thousands using diverse computing resources. It is designed for students and researchers in geophysics, natural hazards, space geodesy, and remote sensing.
This book introduces remote sensing—monitoring Earth from airborne and satellite platforms—and its rapid evolution. Advances in computing now enable processing massive datasets, making remote sensing essential across disciplines from geophysics to meteorology. Structured chapters cover core principles, recent developments, and extensive references.
Emily Hammer introduces a new framework for studying variability in past pastoral practices, integrating ethnography with innovative archaeological and scientific methods to analyze herding, mobility, and social complexity. Her approach challenges evolutionary classifications and highlights the role of diverse non-agricultural, mobile groups in shaping complex societies and environments.
Soil Pollution: From Monitoring to Remediation, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the causes of soil pollution, distribution, transport, and fate of pollutants and transformation of pollutants in soil and metabolite accumulation.
A timely guide to the growing and fast-changing body of sustainability law in mining and energy, this book navigates the increasingly complex picture as the world struggles with the energy transition and climate change.
Through a case study of Wayisso in Ethiopia’s Rift Valley, this book shows how modernization has reshaped rural livelihoods, aspirations, and mobility. Combining mobility transition theory with insights on changing capabilities, it offers a fresh perspective on migration’s root causes and calls for rethinking rural development and migration policies.
Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction by Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke shows how the discipline helps us understand the modern world. It examines power systems and explores seven defining spaces—the colony, pipeline, border, high rise, workplace, conservation area, and outer space—while critically assessing the field’s history and ongoing relevance.
Rewilding the Sea celebrates what happens when we step aside and let nature repair the damage: whether it is the overfishing of bluefin tuna across the Atlantic, the destruction of coral gardens by dredgers in Lyme Bay or the restoration of oysters on the East Coast of America. Essential and revelatory, the book propels us to rethink our relationship with nature and reveals that saving our oceans is easier than we think.
Prisoners of Geography is the book people need to understand what's happening in the news today, from China's ambitions to the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. Bestselling author and geopolitics expert Tim Marshall looks at the past, present and future to offer crucial insights into one of the major factors that determines world history - because if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.
This collection examines environmental activism across contexts—from Indigenous women’s movements in Brazil and India to energy protests in South Korea and Standing Rock—while exploring digital spaces. It reflects on how intersectional activism and mediated communication challenge systems driving ecological degradation and injustice.
This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary challenges and opportunities in sustainable community-based tourism (CBT). It analyses innovative approaches to planning, managing and developing CBT, outlining current trends and highlighting avenues for future research. Tsung Hung Lee and Fen-Huah Jan bring together leading international scholars to explore diverse aspects of community-based tourism, including cultural heritage preservation, resident well-being, natural resource conservation and ecotourism.
Geoheritage: Assessment, Protection, and Management, the 2nd edition provides a comprehensive exploration of geoheritage, beginning with an introduction to geodiversity and progressing to the characterisation of in situ and ex situ geoheritage, its protection and sustainable use.
Arranged chronologically, and with some 140 newly photographed maps and ephemera from the British Library’s cartographic holdings, A History of Railways in 100 Maps explores both the progress of the railways and railway infrastructure across the globe, and through mountains, deserts, cities and even under oceans. The volume also charts the development of how railways were surveyed and presented in two- and three-dimensional forms for the purposes of engineering and construction, politics, economics and indeed war.
This illustrated volume uncovers Japan’s little-known archive of Buddhist world maps from the 14th–19th centuries, analyzing their creation, reproduction, and reception. D. Max Moerman offers an alternative history of Japanese Buddhism, revealing how cartographic and cosmological visions shaped its geographic imagination.
Narratives like those portraying development workers as heroes and local populations as victims needing to be saved from their own unsustainable practices have led to problematic policies and interventions. Based on fieldwork across four continents, this Element critically analyzes such metanarratives.
