This page brings together free online books, topic searches, and Open Access resources related to environmental science and environmental issues. Topics include climate change, conservation, pollution, natural resources, ecology, energy, forests, water, and environmental policy. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
The Section below Topics provides links to related modern Open Access books. See the section for more information.
Topics – Environment Books and Issues PDF
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to environmental science and, policy, and engineering. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
Books on Environmentalism, Environmental Sciences, Protection and Policy
- Agricultural conservation
- Agriculture – Environmental aspects
- Air quality management
- Bioregionalism
- Border security – Environmental aspects
- Climate change mitigation
- Conservation of natural resources
- Debt-for-nature swaps
- Deep ecology
- Democracy and environmentalism
- Deposit-refund systems
- Earth sciences
- Ecology
- Ecoterrorism
- Emissions trading
- Environmental geology
- Environmental health – Planning
- Environmental impact analysis
- Environmental impact consultants
- Environmental impact statements
- Environmental justice
- Environmental justice
- Environmental law
- Environmental management
- Environmental permits
- Environmental protection
- Environmental specimen banking
- Green movement
- Green New Deal
- Internet and environmentalism
- Landscape protection
- Libraries – Special collections – Environmental
- Local government and environmental policy
- Marine spatial planning
- Material accountability
- Modular integrated utility systems
- Nutrient trading
- Offenses against the environment
- Payments for ecosystem services
- Pollution prevention
- Soil protection
- Strip mining – Environmental aspects
- Volunteer workers in environmental protection
- Water quality trading
- Water resources development – Environmental aspects
Environmental Engineering Books
- Animal housing – Environmental engineering
- Apartment houses – Environmental engineering
- Buildings – Environmental engineering
- Classification – Books – Environmental
- engineering
- Dwellings – Environmental engineering
- Electric power-plants – Environmental aspects
- Environmental auditing
- Environmental geotechnology
- Environmental impact consultants
- Environmental impact statements
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental testing
- Greenhouses – Environmental engineering
- Growth cabinets and rooms – Environmental
- engineering
- Hospital buildings – Environmental engineering
- Human engineering
- Life support systems (Space environment)
Open Access Environmental Science Books PDF Free Download
The Open Access books and other materials below are modern works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other organizations. Many reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can also be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
Environmental Book List
This Wikipedia page has two lists of environmental books; nonfiction and fiction. You can use this Open Library search box to search for free online versions on the Internet Archive.
Climate Change Book List
This is a Wikipedia list of books on climate change, that describe, as a major theme, the effects of human activity on climate change. Nearly all are nonfiction. You can use this Open Library search box to search for free online versions on the Internet Archive.
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