READING RESOURCES FOR THE IEMA FULL MEMBERSHIP GRADE

Purpose

The following resources are suggestions that members may wish to use to help prepare for the IEMA Full membership grade. The list is not intended to be seen as a prescribed reading list. Part 1 contains predominantly IEMA-related resources, from the IEMA Reading Room. Part 2 lists books that have been recommended by Full EMA Members.

Reading List

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A day in the Life of a full member working in Corporate Sustainability	How to: Tell stories that stir hearts, move minds and make a lasting impact
#BuildBackBetter - The Role of Blockchain in supporting business resilience and the transformation to sustainability	How to: Understand the language of finance
Carbon Offsetting - Net-Zero developments and the Oxford Principles	How To: Write a Marketing Plan
Circular Economy in Road Infrastructure Projects	IEMA Book Club: Seeds of Science by Mark Lynas
Climate Change Series: Communicating Climate Change	IEMA Futures - How to Connect
Corporate Sustainability – Deepening our understanding of organisations and purpose	Impact of Social Value: British Standard 8950
Corporate Sustainability: Making the choice for Ethical Resilience	Scotland's EIA Conference 2021: Digital Transformation & EIA
Diversity in Marine Development	Scotland West: Career Development and CPD
EIA as a Design Tool: Creating Better Alternatives	Screening and Scoping in EIA
Electrification to Net Zero	SEEBEYOND Project
Environment Act - Government Proposals	Stakeholder Engagement and Public Participation in EIA
Environment Bill Series: Green Watchdog	Smart Living in Decarbonisation
How To: Be an effective mentor	World Environment Day: Economy of Trees
How To: Create a Green Champions Network	Yorkshire & Humberside: 2 Years On
How To: Emotional Fitness	Guide 2 - Sustainability
How to: Host a good meeting (virtually)	Climate Change Adaptation Guidance
How to: Presentation Skills	Biodiversity and Natural Capital Guide
How to: Project Management	A day in the Life of a Full member working in Environmental Auditing
How To: Promote positive change	A day in the Life of a Full member working on Environmental Impact Assessment
How to: Tell stories that stir hearts, move minds	Biodiversity Net Gain: One year on
How to: Understand the language of finance	Calculating homeworking emissions
How To: Write a Marketing Plan	Circular Economy plan for major infrastructure projects
IEMA Book Club: Seeds of Science by Mark Lynas	COP27 – Key outcomes and impact on climate policy
IEMA Futures - How to Connect	Digital Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Impact of Social Value	EIA Back to Basics
Scotland's EIA Conference 2021: Digital Transformation & EIA	EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
Scotland West: Career Development and CPD	ERO Model for Construction
Screening and Scoping in EIA	Focus on Sustainable Finance
SEEBEYOND Project	IEMA and Deloitte: A blueprint for green workforce transformation
Stakeholder Engagement and Public Participation in EIA	Brundtland Report
Smart Living in Decarbonisation	ISO Standards and Sustainability Goals
World Environment Day: Economy of Trees	IEMA Connect 2022: IEMA CPD Process
Yorkshire & Humberside: 2 Years On	Disruptive Technologies & Sustainability
Guide 2 - Sustainability	Interactions and Cumulative Effects in EIA
Climate Change Adaptation Guidance	NatureTech: Supporting transition to Nature Positive
Biodiversity and Natural Capital Guide	North West: Carbon Management and ISO50001
A day in the Life of a Full member working in Environmental Auditing	Practical carbon saving ideas from Pledge To Net Zero members
A day in the Life of a Full member working on Environmental Impact Assessment	Race to Zero
Biodiversity Net Gain: One year on	Reducing emissions and air quality impacts in construction
Calculating homeworking emissions	Risk of Greenwashing
Circular Economy plan for major infrastructure projects	The local socio-economic impacts of offshore wind farms
COP27 – Key outcomes and impact on climate policy	The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment
Digital Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)	The Value of Environmental Auditing Launch 2021
EIA Back to Basics	TNFD Nature-Related Management and Disclosure Framework
EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive	ESG Data Challenges
ERO Model for Construction	Yorkshire & Humberside: Embedding Doughnut Economics
Focus on Sustainable Finance	Yorkshire & Humberside: Extended Producer Responsibility
IEMA and Deloitte: A blueprint for green workforce transformation	Yorkshire & Humberside The Environment Bill
Brundtland Report	Threshold Breach - Planetary Boundaries
ISO Standards and Sustainability Goals	Social Capital and Social Value
IEMA Connect 2022: IEMA CPD Process	Environmental Megatrends 2017
Disruptive Technologies & Sustainability	Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Interactions and Cumulative Effects in EIA	Global Purpose Part 1
NatureTech: Supporting transition to Nature Positive	Global Purpose Part 2 - People
North West: Carbon Management and ISO50001	SDG 3 - Resources and Consumption
Practical carbon saving ideas	SDG 4 - Protecting Earth's Life-Support Systems

External Pages

Cradle to Cradle TEDx Talk	Doughnut Economics
Five Capitals Overview	A Safe and Just Space for Humanity
Yes You Can Innovate	6-I Innovation Overview
Planetary Boundaries Overview	Business Leaders on Sustainability
UN Sustainable Development Goals

Books

Title	Author
Affluenza: How Overconsumption is Killing Us and How to Fight Back	De Graaf, Wann and Naylor
Around the World in 80 Trees	Jonathan Drori
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development	Herman E Daly
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature	Janine M Benyus
Change by Design	Tim Brown
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive	Jared Diamond
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things	Michael Braungart
Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos	Jem Bendell, Rupert Read
Doughnut Economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st Century Economist	Kate Raworth
Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth	Lester R. Brown
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life	George Monbiot
Happy City	Charles Montgomery
How Change Happens	Duncan Green
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness	Richard H. Thaler
Prosperity Without Growth	Tim Jackson
Requiem for a Species	Clive Hamilton
Sharing Nature’s Interest: Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability	Nicky Chambers
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered	E. F. Schumacher
Soil Soul Society: A New Trinity for Our Time	Satish Kumar
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air (Volume 2)	David J C MacKay
Tackling Wicked Problems: Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination	John Harris, Valerie A Brown
The Blue Economy: 10 Years, 100 Innovations, 100 Million Jobs	Gunter Pauli
The Circular Economy: A Users Guide	Walter R Stahel
The Climate Book	Greta Thunberg
The Hidden Life of Trees	Peter Wohlleben
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century	James Howard Kunstler
The Lost Rainforests of Britain	Guy Shrubsole
The Ministry for the Future	Kim Stanley Robinson
The Re-Use Atlas: A Designer’s Guide Towards the Circular Economy	Duncan Baker-Brown
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World	Njorn Lomborg
The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal	Jared Diamond
The World We Made	Jonathon Porritt
The World Without Us	Alan Weisman
This Changes Everything: Capitalism v The Climate	Naomi Klein
Transformative Innovation: A Guide to Practice and Policy for a System Transition	Graham Leicester, Jennifer Williams
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?	Tony Juniper
Wilding	Isabella Tree
Yellow Dirt	Judy Pastemak
Yes You Can Innovate	Natalie Turner

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