It’s Climate Week NYC, and we’re thrilled to share some recently-published works from our Journal Publishing Partners and our Academic Commons Featured Partners.
UCCRN Case Study Docking Station Series
The CSDS is a searchable database designed to allow cross comparisons of city case studies for a broad range of social, biophysical, cultural, economic, and political contexts. It includes over 250 city case studies covering topics such as climate change vulnerability, hazards and impacts, mitigation and adaptation actions, and sector-specific themes such as green finance and flood management. Case studies are solicited via UCCRN members and then distributed to relevant institutions and researchers. Case studies are then benchmarked by their corresponding Assessment Report (ARC3.2 or ARC3.3) and are peer reviewed by researchers, academics, and practitioners in the field. In addition to the series in Academic Commons (linked above), the database can be searched here.
Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
The Columbia Journal of Environmental Law was founded in 1972 with a grant from the Ford Foundation. The Journal is one of the oldest environmental law journals in the nation and is regarded as one of the preeminent environmental journals in the country. Subscribers include law libraries, law firms, individuals, and federal, local, and state courts, as well as a significant international readership.
Each year the journal hosts a Climate Symposium. Details for last spring’s symposium can be found here, and the resulting publication may be read in Vol. 50 No. S (2025).
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
Consilience is an online journal dedicated to promoting dialogue on sustainable development by bringing students, researchers, professors, and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions in direct conversation with each other through an online, academically rigorous medium. As a multidisciplinary academic journal, the journal’s name is inspired by American biologist E.O. Wilson’s eponymous text, which proposes ways in which to unite the sciences with the humanities.
A few recent blog posts:
- Liv Levin’s Trump Won’t Solve the Energy Crisis
- Wesley Graybeal’s A Sustainable Development Look into NYC’s Congestion Pricing
- Thomas Zraick’s Defanging NEPA