Sustainability week resources

Explore a comprehensive selection of resources that focus on the impacts of modern slavery, climate change, ethical investment, sustainable travel and more, compiled by ACU Library.

Key books:

• The truth about modern slavery by Emily Kenway
• Addressing modern slavery by Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma
• Blood and earth; modern slavery, ecocide, and the secret to saving the world by Kevin Bales
• Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Sex trafficking: inside the business of modern slavery by Siddarth Dara
• Disposable people: New slavery in the global economy by Kevin Bales
• The Cambridge World History of Slavery (vol. 4 – AD 1804-AD 2016) by Seymour Drescher et al.
• Confronting prejudice and discrimination: the science of changing minds and behaviors by Robyn Mallett and Margo Monteith (eds.)
• The psychology of prejudice: from attitudes to social action by Lynne Jackson
• Transforming prejudice: identity, fear, and transgender rights by Melissa Michaelson and Brian Harrison
• Pain and prejudice: a call to arms for women and their bodies by Gabrielle Jackson
• Globalization and labour in the twenty-first century by Verity Burgmann
• Consuming choices: ethics in a global consumer age by David Schwartz
• Consumer ethics in a global economy: how buying here causes injustice there by Daniel Finn
• Encyclopedia of food and agricultural ethics by David Kaplan
• Ethical consumerism by Justin Healey
• Sociocultural perspectives on youth ethical consumerism by Giuliano Reis et al.
• Integral ecology and sustainable business by Ove Jakobsen, Laszlo Zsolnai and Manas Chatterji
• SoleRebels – Targeting the ethical consumer by Breda McCarthy
• Sustainability in fashion and textiles: Values, design, production and consumption by Miguel Angel Gardetti and Ana Laura Torres (eds.)
• Looking behind the label: global industries and the conscientious consumer by Tim Bartley
• The vice of luxury: economic excess in a consumer age by David Cloutier
• Mass moralizing: marketing and moral storytelling by Phil Hopkins
• Consumer behaviour by Zubin Sethna and Jim Blythe
• The virtues of sustainability by Jason Kawall (ed.)
• Strongly sustainable societies: Organising human activities on a hot and full earth by Karl Johan Bonnedahl and Pasi Heikkurinen

Kanopy resources:

• Buoyancy
• Slavery by another name
• Fighting modern slavery
• El Cacao: The challenge of fair trade
• Riverblue: Can fashion save the planet?
• Black hole: The battle to save an endangered forest in Australia
• Invisible hands: Investigating modern slavery of children by corporations
• Sex slaves: the global sex trade and its victims
• Life off grid: A film about disconnecting
• War on waste
• Right to harm: The public health impact caused by factory farming

Resources on BorrowBox:

• The school of restoration 
• Plastic free 
• A zero waste family 
• The climate cure 
• We are the weather makers 
• Fathoms 
• The lost boy 
• No-one is too small to make a difference 
• How to give up plastic 
• Dr Karl's little book of climate change science 
• With the falling of the dusk 
• After Australia 
• Growing up Aboriginal in Australia 
• Truganini
• Songspirals 

Resources on Story Box:

• The rabbits 
• Feathers 
• The house on the mountain 
• Last tree in the city 

Documentaries

• Behind closed doors - Four Corners
• Federal parliament moves to eradicate modern slavery - 7.30 with Leigh Sales
• 88 days a slave

Key databases

Go to the A-Z list of databases

• Journal of modern slavery
• Women’s studies international
• ProQuest Australia & New Zealand newsstream
• PressReader
• ProQuest political science database
• SocINDEX with full text
• Philosophers index with full text
• Academic search complete