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Sustainability Studies: People & Sustainability

This guide provides information on sustainability and locating information on sustainability.

Tips for Locating Information on People & Sustainability

Use precise terminology whenever possible:

  • recycling
  • composting
  • climate change
  • gardening
  • electric vehicles
  • hybrid vehicles
  • green living
  • green careers
  • ecotourism
  • ecocriticism

Other tips:

  • Use a truncation symbol (usually an asterisk) to search for all versions of a word
    • recycl* retrieves recycle, recycles, recycled, recycling, recyclable, recyclables
  • Enclose a phrase in quotation marks
    • "climate change"
    • "electric vehicle*" (you can use a truncation symbol in phrase searching)

A Sample of Print Books on Living Sustainably

Staff LADR