Sustainable & Green Healthcare Library

A curated library of 30 titles

Sustainable & Green Healthcare

Textbooks, reference works and official frameworks for teaching and researching low-carbon, climate-resilient and environmentally responsible health care. Every entry carries its table of contents, the reason it was selected and ready-to-paste citations.

30titles
7themes
520chapters indexed
2003–2026publication span
8open-access reports
≈ 5%of global greenhouse gas emissions come from health care (WHO, 2023)
79%of OECD health-sector emissions sit in supply chains; hospitals account for about 30% (OECD, 2025)
2040 / 2045NHS England net zero targets for direct and supply-chain emissions, statutory since 2022

How titles were selected

Priority went to works that appear on university syllabi and library guides (George Mason, UW–Madison, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, NYU, the Royal College of Nursing), to award-winning or widely reviewed books, and to the official frameworks that health systems actually implement (WHO, OECD, NHS England, the National Academies). Recent editions were preferred where one exists.

A note on ratings

Amazon star counts could not be retrieved reliably for these titles, so no ratings are shown rather than estimated ones. Tables of contents were checked against publisher and library catalog records; three entries flag where the listing is partial or compiled from a catalog preview.

Start here: a five-title core shelf

  1. Planetary Health (2020)
  2. Sustainable Healthcare (2013)
  3. Greening Health Care (2014)
  4. Operational Framework for Building Climate Resilient and Low Carbon Health Systems (2023)
  5. Delivering a ‘Net Zero’ National Health Service (2022)
Curated by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Nurullah Kurutkan · Düzce University, Faculty of Business, Department of Health Management healthtopic.org · Reading status and notes are stored only in this browser. Compiled November 2026.

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