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Library and Learning Resources, Kapiʻolani Community College

Hawaiʻi Today: Current Events & Issues - Climate Change: Climate Change

Climate Change Reports

National Climate Assessment - Hawaiʻi & U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands, 2018
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Climate Change Impacts in Hawaiʻi, 2014 [PDF]
University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program
Climate Change Law & Policy in Hawaiʻi, 2012 [PDF]
Water Resources and Climate Change Adaptation in Hawaiʻi, 2012 [PDF]
Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA), 2016 [PDF]
Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Additional Websites

Films

Sun Come Up
Call Number: KDVD 261

Sun Come Up is an Academy Award Nominated film that shows the human face of climate change. The film follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders, a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean, and now, some of the world's first environmental refugees.
There Once Was an Island = Te Henua e Nnoho
Call Number: KDVD 267 (AV/Media Collection)

This film is also streaming online [1:20:28] via the library's license with Kanopy.

Government Websites

Community Organizations

LAMA: Loli Aniau, Makaʻala Aniau (Climate Change, Climate Alert)
"It is our goal to engage and empower climate justice communities in Hawaiʻi and globally" (from About Us).
IPCCA: Indigenous Peoples' Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative
Islands First
NRDC: Natural Resources Defense Council

Books & eBooks

Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts by Victoria W. Keener; John J. Marra; Melissa L. Finucane; Deanna Spooner; Margaret H. Smith (Editors)
Call Number: QC903.2.O3 C551 2012 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection - 1st floor)

Available online as an eBook from Ebook Central.
Or, available online from CAKE [PDF].
Living on the Shores of Hawaiʻi: Natural Hazards, the Environment, and Our Communities by Charles H. Fletcher
Call Number: HT393.H3 L58 2010 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)

Also available online via Ebook Central.
Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change by National Research Council
eBook
Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren by Joseph F. C. DiMento & Pamela Doughman (editors)
ebook
Tradition-Based Natural Resource Management: Practice and Application in the Hawaiian Islands by Edward W. Glazier

Available online via eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) .
Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis by Erica Cirino
Available online via Ebook Central.