LibGuides: Geography, Environment and Planning: Books

Finding books

Shelf of books, sorted by colour

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Most books relevant to Geography, Environment, Planning and Housing can be found in the Adsetts Library.

To find details of the exact location and availability of books in your subject area, please use Library Search.

Some useful subject numbers

Use the shelfmark you find on Library Search to locate the book in the library. Here are some relevant shelfmarks:

307.76	Cities
551.6	Climate change
333.72	Conservation
574.5	Ecology
333.714	Environmental impact assessment
344.046	Environmental law
304.2	Environmental protection
363.5	Housing
304.2	Human geography
712	Landscape design
333.76	Rural land use
333.783	National parks
914.2	National parks
711	Planning
333.79	Renewable energy
338.9	Sustainable development

Maps

Print Ordnance Survey and geological maps can be found at the level 2 of the Adsetts Library, in between the book collection and the journal collection. These can be borrowed in the same way as ordinary books.

Online mapping services are also available:

Digimap Ordnance Survey Data Collection This link opens in a new window
An Edina service offering Ordnance Survey maps and map data to UK Higher Education users. Allows users to view and print maps of locations within the UK: these maps can be overlaid with datasets such as aerial photos, lidar scans, and geological, environmental or demographic information. Maps can also be downloaded for use with GIS software. Registration info

Oxford Very Short Introductions

Oxford Very Short Introductions
A collection of very short books on huge range of different topics, each intended to provide a simple, approachable starting place for the subject

SAGE Research Methods

SAGE Research Methods Books and Reference This link opens in a new window
A collection of hundreds of books, handbooks, reference titles, videos and more about research methods, to support your assignments, projects, and dissertations.

What to do if a book is not available in the Library

If there's a book which you need but which we don't have in stock, we can ask another library to loan you a copy, or to email you a copy of an individual chapter or section. This can be done through our document supply service.

Document Supply Services

If you think a book may be useful for other students or staff as well as yourself, you can also request that the Library buys a copy. We can't promise to buy everything, but will do what we can for feasible requests which are relevant to courses at Sheffield Hallam.

Suggest a Purchase request form