Open Climate Collection
The MIT Press presents the Open Climate Collection, a curated reading list of open access books and journals that expands our understanding of climate change and environmental studies, in support of the Open Climate Campaign. Climate change is one of the world's most pressing challenges and access to multidisciplinary, trustworthy research is imperative for scientists, policymakers, and citizens alike.
"If we are going to solve these global challenges, the knowledge (research, data, educational resources, software) about them must be open."
— Open Climate Campaign
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Open Climate Collection - Journals
Open Climate Collection - Books
We are presenting a selection of open access books on topics related to climate change, but we have hundreds of additional open access titles. To explore the complete open library, please visit the MIT Press Direct platform.
Women and Climate Change
Examining Discourses from the Global North
Nicole Detraz
pub date: February 14, 2023
Funded by Direct to Open
Insolvent
How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability
Christoph Becker
pub date: June 6, 2023
Funded by Direct to Open
Age of Auto Electric
Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car
Matthew N. Eisler
pub date: December 6, 2022
Funded by Direct to Open
Global Shifts
Business, Politics, and Deforestation in a Changing World Economy
Philip Schleifer
pub date: June 20, 2023
Funded by Direct to Open
Sewer of Progress
Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River
Cindy McCulligh
pub date: July 25, 2023
Funded by Direct to Open
Milk and Honey
Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land
Tamar Novick
pub date: August 8, 2023
Funded by Direct to Open
The Phoenix Complex
A Philosophy of Nature
Michael Marder
pub date: July 4, 2023
Funded by Direct to Open
Seed Activism
Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South
Karine E. Peschard
Pub date: October 4, 2022
Funded by Direct to Open
Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints
How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts
Tobias Ide
pub date: June 6, 2023
Funded by Direct to Open
Global Carbon Pricing
The Path to Climate Cooperation
Edited by Peter Cramton, David JC MacKay, Axel Ockenfels, Steven Stoft
pub date: June 16, 2017
Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution
Charles Weiss and William B. Bonvillian
pub date: March 20, 2009
Funded by author
Discard Studies
Wasting, Systems, and Power
Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky
pub date: May 24, 2022
Funded by Direct to Open
From Big Oil to Big Green
Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis
Marco Grasso
pub date: May 3, 2022
Funded by Direct to Open
Why Are We Waiting?
The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
Nicholas Stern
pub date: April 17, 2015
"Open access must be the future of academic publishing. . . I applaud MIT Press for pioneering in open access, in cooperation with its participating libraries, and am delighted that my book on climate technology policy will be available with open access."
William Bonvillian
Senior Director of Special Projects at MIT's Office of Digital Learning and MIT Press author
Learning in Governance
Climate Policy Integration in the European Union
Katharina Rietig
pub date: August 24, 2021
Funded by MIT Libraries
The Resistance Dilemma
Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis
George Hoberg
pub date: August 17, 2021
Funded by MIT Libraries
The Politics of Rights of Nature
Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future
Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin
pub date: August 17, 2021
Funded by Arcadia
Certifying China
The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability Governance in Emerging Economies
Yixian Sun
pub date: February 22, 2022
Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation
Extracting Accountability
Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility
Jessica M. Smith
pub date: September 28, 2021
Funded by NSF Award #1540298
Effective Advocacy
Lessons from East Asia's Environmentalists
Mary Alice Haddad
pub date: March 23, 2021
Funded by Arcadia
The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution
UNEP at Fifty
Maria Ivanova
pub date: February 23, 2021
Repairing Infastructures
The Maintenance of Materiality and Power
Christopher R. Henke and Benjamin Sims
pub date: October 13, 2020
Funded by Arcadia
Alternatives to Multilateralism
New Forms of Social and Environmental Governance
Lena Partzsch
pub date: August 25, 2022
Funded by German Federal Ministry of Research and Education
"With UNEP based in Nairobi and communicating with developing countries, open access content allows vital information to get to places where people have no credit cards for ordering books and no assured delivery mechanisms. Open access publishing at MIT Press paves the way for more policy discussions, better processes, and greater impact worldwide, from Nairobi to Northeastern."
Maria Ivanova
Director of the Policy School at Northeastern University and MIT Press author
The Immigrant-Food Nexus
Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America
edited by Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone
pub date: March 24, 2020
Funded by Arcadia
The Science of Bureaucracy
Risk Decision-Making and the US Environmental Protection Agency
David Demortain
pub date: January 21, 2020
Funded by the MIT Libraries
The New American Farmer
Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
Winner of the GFASG Book Award
pub date: November 12, 2019
Funded by the MIT Libraries
Global Meat
Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry
edited by Bill Winders and Elizabeth Ransom
pub date: October 29, 2019
Funded by the MIT Libraries
Bridging Silos
Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities
Katrina Smith Korfmacher
pub date: August 27, 2019
Funded by the MIT Libraries
Flint Fights Back
Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis
Benjamin J. Pauli
pub date: May 7, 2019
Funded by the MIT Libraries
Feeding the Other
Whiteness Privilege and Neoliberal Stigma
Rebecca de Souza
pub date: April 16, 2019
Funded by the MIT Libraries
Grounding Urban Natures
Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies
Edited by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin
pub date: September 3, 2019
Funded by the MIT Libraries
Installing Automobility
Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities
Govind Gopakumar
pub date: April 7, 2020
Funded by Arcadia
Mercury Stories
Understanding Sustainability through a Volatile Element
Henrik Selin and Noelle E. Selin
pub date: October 20, 2020
Funded by the MIT Libraries
Just Urban Design
The Struggle for a Public City
Edited by Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Vinit Mukhija
pub date: November 22, 2022
Funded by Direct to Open
Co-Cities
Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities
Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione
pub date: December 13, 2022
Funded by the MIT Libraries
The Power of Partnership in Open Government
Reconsidering Multistakeholder Governance Reform
Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Daniel Berliner and Alex Ingrams
pub date: December 6, 2022
Funded by the authors
Sulphuric Utopias
A History of Maritime Fumigation
Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris
pub date: March 31, 2020
Funded by Arcadia