Books Editor & Co-Author

Books (As Editor & Co-Author)

Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo; Ramanathan, Veerabhadran (eds.). 2025. From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience. Proceedings of a Joint Summit. May 15-17, 2024. Scripta Varia 156, LEV, Vatican City, 2025. https://www.pas.va/en/events/2024/climate_resilience.html

Ramanathan, Veerabhadran & von Braun, Joachim (eds.). 2023. Resilience of people and ecosystems under climate stress. Published by Scripta Varia 152; Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Vatican Press).  https://www.pas.va/content/dam/casinapioiv/pas/pdf-volumi/scripta-varia/sv152pas.pdf 

Delaimy, W-K., Ramanathan, V. and Sánchez Sorondo, M., 2020. Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health. Springer Open press. ISBN 978-3-030-31124-7; ISBN 978-3-030-31125-4  (eBook); https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31125-4

Ramanathan, V., Aines, R., Auffhammer, M., Barth, M., Cole, J., Forman, F., et al., 2019. Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions.. Regents of the University of California. Editor: V. Ramanathan. Co-Editors: Adam Millard-Ball; Michelle Niemann; Scott Friese. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kr8p5rq. 815pp

Ramanathan, V., Han, H., Roper, A., Hsu, A., and Friese, S. 2018. Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions Course Overview. University of California.

P.S. Dasgupta, V. Ramanathan, and M. Sanchez Sorondo (eds.). 2015. Sustainable Humanity Sustainable Nature our Responsibility Proceedings of the Joint Workshop 2-6 May 2014. Pontifical Academy of the Sciences, Extra Series 41, Vatican City, 2015

P.J. Crutzen, L. Bengtsson and V. Ramanathan (eds.). 2013. Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene: A Report by the Working Group Commissioned by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Scripta Varia 118, Vatican City, 2013.

Kiehl, J.T. and V. Ramanathan, (Eds.). 2006. Frontiers of Climate Modeling, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 381 pp.

Crutzen P.J. and V. Ramanathan, (eds.). 1995. Clouds, Chemistry and Climate – ASI Series, Proceedings of NATO ARW, March 21-25, 1995, Ringberg Germany (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany), August, 1995.

Book Chapters:

Ramanathan, V., 2025, From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience: There is Still Time to Survive and Thrive. Chapter-11 in the book: Laudato Deum: A Last Call For The Planet, 2025; Editors: Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam and Tobias Thornes. Published by Laudato Si’ Research Institute (LSRI) Campion Hall, Oxford. https://lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/node/1882

Ramanathan, V., 2025: Climate Resilience. A New Way to Navigate Through the Climate Crisis. Chapter under Session I, in the book: From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience.  Editors: Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo; Ramanathan, Veerabhadran.. Scripta Varia 156, LEV, Vatican City, 2025. https://www.pas.va/en/events/2024/climate_resilience.html

Ramanathan, V., 2023: Climate Resilience: Why, When and How? Section-1; First chapter in the book. Resilience of people and ecosystems under climate stress. Published by Scripta Varia 152; Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Vatican Press).  https://www.pas.va/content/dam/casinapioiv/pas/pdf-volumi/scripta-varia/sv152pas.pdf 

Neira, M., and Ramanathan, V., 2020. Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Health. The Health Argument. Part II, Chapter 8 in Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility. Springer International Publishing.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31125-4.

Ramanathan, V., M.L. Molina, D. Zaelke, and Borgford-Parnell, 2020: Well Under 2⁰C: Ten Solutions for Carbon Neutrality and Climate Stability. Part VII; Chapter 25, in: Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility. Springer International Publishing.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31125-4

Ramanathan, V, 2020:  PK-12 Education As A Pillar of the Solution for Bending the Global Warming Curve. California Journal of Science Education; Special Edition on Climate Change. https://journal.cascience.org/application/files/6116/3545/9203/PK-12_Education.pdf.

V. Ramanathan Climate Change and Protection of the Habitat: Empirical Evidence for the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming” in Complexity and Analogy in Science: Theoretical, Methodological, and Epistemological Aspects, Pontifical Academy of the Sciences, Vatican City, 2015.

Martin II, W. J., J. J. Hollingsworth and V. Ramanathan, (2014) Household Air Pollution from Cookstoves: Impacts on Health and Climate. in Global Climate Change and Public Health, Respiratory Medicine Series, vol. 7, edited by K. E. Pinkerton and W.N. Rom, pp. 237–255, Springer Science+Business Media, New York. DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-8417-2_13.

Ramanathan, V. (2014), The Two Worlds Approach for Mitigating Air Pollution and Climate Change. Proceedings of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences work shop on: Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature, Our Responsibility. Pontifical Academy of the Sciences, Extra Series 41, Vatican City, 2014.

Ramanathan, V. (2013), The Two Worlds in the Anthropocene: A New Approach for Managing and Coping with Climate Change. Proceedings of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) workshop on The Emergency of the Socially Excluded. Pontifical Academy of the Sciences, Scipta Varia 123, Vatican City, 2013.

Ramanathan, V. (2013), Himalayan-Tibetan Glaciers and Snowpack System: Multiple Destabilizing Influences. Pontifical Academy of the Sciences, Scripta Varia 118, Vatican City, 2013.

Ajai, L. Bengtsson, D. Breashears, P.J. Crutzen, S. Fuzzi, W. Haeberli, W.W. Immerzeel, G. Kaser, C. Kennel, A. Kulkarni, R. Pachauri, T. H. Painter, J. Rabassa, V. Ramanathan, A. Robock, C. Rubbia, L. Russell, M. Sánchez Sorondo, H.J. Schellnhuber, S. Sorooshian, T. F. Stocker, L.G. Thompson, O.B. Toon, D. Zaelke (2011) Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 2-4 April 2011 15pp.

Ramanathan, V. and A. Inamdar (2006), The radiative forcing due to clouds and water vapor Frontiers of Climate Modeling, pp. 119-151

Ramanathan, V. (2006), Atmospheric Brown Clouds: Health, Climate and Agriculture Impacts, Pontifical Academy of Sciences Scripta Varia 106: Interactions Between Global Change and Human Health, pp. 47-60.

Jacob, D., R. Avissar, G. C. Bond, S. Gaffin, J. Kiehl, J. Lean, U. Lohmann, M. Mann, R. Pielke, Jr., V. Ramanathan, and L. Russell (2005), Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 224 pp.

Crutzen, P. J. and V. Ramanathan (2003) Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene: Where Are We Heading? Earth System Analysis for Sustainability, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pp. 265-292

Crutzen, P. J. and V. Ramanathan (2002), The Ascent of Atmospheric Sciences, Science, Pathways of Discovery, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 175-188

Weaver, C.P. and V. Ramanathan (1998), Extratropical Cloud Systems and Cloud Radiative Forcing, Clear and Cloud Boundary Layers, North Holland Publishers, pp. 241-263

Ramanathan, V. and A. M. Vogelmann (1997) Greenhouse Effect, Atmospheric Solar Absorption and the Earth’s Radiation Budget: From the Arrhenius-Langley Era to the 1990s, The Legacy of Svante Arrhenius Understanding the Greenhouse Effect. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm University, pp. 85-103

Collins, W.D., W.C. Conant and V. Ramanathan (1994), Earth Radiation Budget, Clouds and Climate Sensitivity, 1994, The Chemistry of the Atmosphere: Its Impact on Global Change, Jack G. Calvert, Ed. Backwell Scientific Publishers, pp. 207-215

Ramanathan, V. (1989) The Radiative and Climatic Consequences of the Changing Atmospheric Composition of Trace Gases, The Changing Atmosphere, F.S. Rowland and I.S.A. Isaksen, Eds. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., pp. 159-186

Ramanathan, V. (1989), Trace Gas Effects on Climate: A Review, Carbon Dioxide and Other Greenhouse Gases: Climatic and Associated Impacts, R. Fantechi and A. Ghazi, Eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 152-158.

Ramanathan, V. (1983), Coupling Through Radiative and Chemical Processes, Solar Variability, Weather and Climate. Studies in Geophysics, Geophysics Research Board, National Academy Press, pp. 83-91.

Ramanathan, V. (1980), Climatic Effects of Anthropogenic Trace Gases, Interactions of Energy and Climate, W. Bach, T. Pankrath and J. Williams, Eds., D. Reidel Publishing Co., pp. 269-280

Ramanathan, V. (1980), Climatic Effects of Ozone Change: A review, Low Latitude Aeronomic Processes, Advances in Space Exploration, COSPAR Symposium Series B, pp. 223-236