Outdoor
Book Reviews: A Guide to the Literature
A guide to new and past works of outdoor
literature, it's a compendium of reviews, lists, and recommendations.
Non-governmental Organizations Research
Guide
Prepared by Duke University, this guide has lists of
NGO's involved in environmental issues by geography, by issues,
and by affliations.
Statistical Sources
PEARL-the source for environmental information in Maine
Provides access to data on Maine's lakes, streams, rivers,
wetlands, and terrestrial ecosystems.
DataPlace: Explore Data
about Places
You can get a quick statistical snapshot of any geographic
area by clicking on the Area Overview link on the home page.
The Area Overview is a good place to start to get a sense
of demographic and housing conditions in your selected location.
It's also a good jumping- off point for accessing other types
of data analysis tools and content on DataPlace.
Smart
Growth Online : Environment Websites
A listing of sites devoted to planning for sustainable community
development. Includes many sites with data, online publications
for green campus, farmland, urban sprawl issues.
EarthTrends
Offers a large breadth of statistical, graphic, and analytical
data regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends
in easily accessible formats. Provided by the World
Resources Institute.
U.S.
Historical Climatology Network.
A modern historical climate record for climate change research.
1,221 reporting stations in the U.S. with data going back
at least 80 years.
Carbon
Dioxide Information Analysis Center
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center which includes
the World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases, is the
primary global-change data and information analysis center
of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Full text NGO and government sources
National
Library for the Environment
Includes environmental news resources, professional resources
for careers in environmental studies, and a directory of
institutions, agencies, and organizations in the field of
the environment. Also full text of Congressional Research
Service Reports.
Environmental
Protection Agency Publications
EPA's largest electronic documents site allows you
to search view and print, including full images of all
original pages and full-text, from a collection of over
10,000 archival and current documents. This collection
may include documents that are no longer available in
print form.
Sustainable
Campuses community website
The Sustainable Campuses project aims to empower students
to lead initiatives on their campuses toward greater social,
ecological and economic sustainability through campus operations,
curricula and community member attitudes.
IUCN World Conservation
Union
Includes the IUCN Red
List of Endangered Species.
Association
for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Links to bibliographies, essays and syllabi on ecocriticism
Watersheds of the World
Provides maps of land cover, population density and biodiversity
for 154 basins and sub-basins around the world. It lists
indicators and variables for each of these basins and, where
appropriate, provides links and references to relevant information.
It further contains 20 global maps portraying relevant water
resources issues.
The
Biodiversity Economics Library
This online library from the World Conservation Union has
full text papers, case studies, reports etc on the economics
of preserving biodiversity.
Treesearch
Treesearch is an online system for locating and delivering
publications by Research and Development scientists in the
USDA Forest Service.
Dorothy
Freeman Collection
A part of Bates Special Collections, the Dorothy Freeman Collection
contains several series of material related to the biologist,
conservationist, and writer Rachel Carson. Included are two
series of correspondence: Dorothy Freeman's Letters to Rachel
Carson (1954-1964) and Rachel Carson's Letters to Dorothy Freeman
(1952-1964).
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