Research Resources for Environmental Policy and Economics
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Wellesley College Library catalog - Use the Library catalog to find books and other materials (journal titles, NOT journal articles) we have here at Wellesley. Remember to start with "keyword" if you are beginning to research a topic. When you find a relevant title, see what the subject headings are for that title and use those to find more similar items. Try the following subject headings:
WorldCat WC - Use WorldCat to find books and other materials (journal titles, NOT journal articles) not at Wellesley. Again, start with a keyword search and use the suggestions listed above. CQ Researcher on Saving the Environment. Clapp Ref TD171 .C69 2001 Critical Trends: Global Change and Sustainable Development. Clapp Docs U.N. Sales IIB 1997 1 Global Environment Outlook (issued by the United Nations Environment Programme). Clapp Ref GE 170 .G5625 1997, 2000, 2002 and online. International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics. Clapp Ref GE170 .I55 2002 and online WC(ebrary) Towards Sustainable Development: Environmental Indicators. Clapp Ref HC 79 E5 T68 1998 For articles on more general aspects of the environment, see the main environment page. The following databases are specific to environmental policy and economics. The following databases provide either full-text articles or citations
(information about when and where the article was published). Once you
have a citation for an article, use the Find
It! @ Wellesley AGRICOLA WC - articles on all aspects of agriculture, including agricultural policy from 1970. Selected full text. Alt-Press Watch WC - 100% full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. Use this for alternative viewpoints. 1995 onward. Catalog of U.S. Government Publications - Index to United States government publications from 1976+. CIAO WC [Columbia INternational Affairs Online] - For best results, use the advanced search. EconLit WC - articles, books, working papers on all aspects of economics from 1969+. Selected full text. NBER Working Papers WC - full text of working papers in all aspects of economics from Nov. 1994. PAIS WC - index articles about political, social & economic issues, and public affairs from 1937+. Social Sciences Full Text WC - articles on anthropology, economics, political science, psychology & sociology. Indexing from 1983, full text from 1994. Put a check in the box beside "Social Sciences Full Text" to search the full text and the complete index back to 1983. For articles prior to 1983, use Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective. WC (1907-1983). Other databases may be useful for you, depending on your specific topic and approach. See our A-Z list for a complete list of databases or AskUs and get some customized suggestions. Environmental News Network - news, press releases, and in-depth reports. News archives is limited to 1 week. LexisNexis Congressional WC - United States congressional bills, laws, and some recent hearings. LexisNexis Environmental WC - Abstracts of environmental journal articles and conference papers. Also environmental news and commentary, codes and regulations, and environmental case law and law reviews.You can search the code from multiple states at once. Look for environmental law reviews under "environmental news". Note: LexisNexis Environmental contains law reviews only from environmental law journals; the most effective searching may be from searching law reviews in LexisNexis AcademicLegal Research WC ECOLEX - A gateway to national and international environmental law. PlanetArk from Reuters - Search the news archive by keyword or issue. Association of Environmental and Resource Economists - established in 1979 as a "means of exchanging ideas, stimulating research, and promoting graduate training in resource and environmental economics". Links to the web pages of environmental resource economists as well as programs in environmental resource economics. Biodiversity Economics Library from the World Conservation Union. Collection is divided into business, finance, incentives, trade, assessment, and valuation. Center for a Sustainable Economy - a non-profit, non-partisan research and policy institution. Merged with Redefining Progress in 2003; the merged organization is under the name of Redefining Progress. Economics, the Environment, and Sustainability - from Professor Steven Hackett of Humboldt State University. Links emphasize environmental, natural resources, and ecological economics. Environmental Economics Working Papers - from the Social Sciences Research Network. Mostly abstracts, some links to full text in pdf. Environmental Economics and Indicators - from the World Bank. Topics include environmental valuation, environmental policy, green accounting, and poverty and environment. Also includes The Little Green Data Book which contains "key indicators of the environment and its relationship to people for more than 200 countries". Tables download in excel format. Also see the World Bank's environment page for projects in specific regions. Environmental Economics from the Environmental Literacy Council. A basic introduction to the concepts in environmental economics. Environmental Performance & Environmental Quality Information Base - developed by 2 professors at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. This site includes a comprehensive data base showing indicators of aggregate economic activity matched with data on a wide variety of environmental quality indicators. The data is in easy to download excel tables for Ontario, Canada, the Great Lakes, the OECD, China, and the world. Also links to examples of all the major types of environmental policy from around the world. Europa's Environmental Economics - Includes published studies (in pdf), European environmental priorities, a database on environmental taxes in the European Union, an eco-industries database, and links to ministries, agencies, etc. invloved in environmental economics. International Institute for Sustainable Development - non-profit organization dedicated to promoting research and advancing policy recommendations in sustainable development. Living Planet Report - from the World Wildlife Federation. The report is a "qualitative picture of the state of the world's natural environment and the human pressures upon it". Includes audio, video, and animations. National Center for Environmental Economics - from the Environmental Protection Agency. OECD Environment - links to full text publications in pdf format. SANDEE online [South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics] - Contains monthly news stories from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and SriLanka. State of the Nation's Ecosystems from the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. Selected measurements for coasts and oceans, farmlands, forests, fresh waters, grasslands and shrublands, and urban and suburban areas, as well as core national indicators. Trade and the Environment - from the World Trade Organization. Links to working documents from the Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE), discussions of the relationship between trade and the environment. Includes a special study on trade and environment released by the WTO Secretariat in October 1999. United Nations Sustainable Development - economic aspects of sustainable development in various countries. How sustainable development is fostered and its progress. World Bank Environment - Note links to Environmental Themes and Environment in the Regions. World
Bank Group Climate Change - provides resources and expertise for
the World Bank's participation in Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - an independent research center founded by the Norwegian government in 1990 and associated with the University of Oslo. Its mandate is to conduct research and provide information about issues of climate change. Center for International Environmental Law - "a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 to strengthen international and comparative environmental law and policy around the world". Earth Charter Initiative - launched in 1994 by the Earth Council and Green Cross International, it sets forth ethical principles for a sustainable way of life. Environmental Defense Fund - "a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 300,000 members. Since 1967, we have linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems". Global Development and Environment Institute - "a research institute at Tufts University dedicated to promoting a new understanding of how societies can pursue their economic goals in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner. Links to full text of working papers and other publications and organizations. Global Environment and Trade Study - a collaborative effort between the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. It "seeks to formulate concrete, practical, and politically feasible proposals for reconciling trade liberalization and environmental protection". Green Cross International - a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded by Michail Gorbachev in 1993 to "help create a sustainable future by cultivating harmonious relationships between humans and the environment". Institute for European Environmental Policy - an independent, not for profit organisation dedicated to the analysis and development of European environmeental policy. Institute of Global Environment and Society - a non-profit, tax exempt research institute established to improve understanding and prediction of the variations of the Earth's climate through scientific research on climate variability and climate predictability. International Atomic Energy Agency - "serves as the world's central inter-governmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field". International Energy Agency - an autonomous agency linked with the OECD. Links to statistics, country studies, and the world energy outlook. Some reports are summaries rather than full text. International Institute for Environment and Development - an independent non-profit organization founded in 1971 to promote sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. John P. McGovern M.D. Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs - a conservative view of environmental policy issues. Office of Policy and International Affairs - U.S. Department of Energy. Contains energy activity and industry by regions of the world, country analysis briefs, and international science and technology agreements. PopPlanet sponsored by the National Council for Science and the Environment and the Population Reference Bureau. Contains in-depth country profiles. Right now the number of countries is limited, but information includes environmental laws and treaties, and issues such as Agriculture and Food, Biodiversity, Desertification, Energy, Water, Forestry and Deforestation, Health, Marine Issues/Fisheries, Parks/Protected Areas, Population, Tourism Resources for the Future - nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that conducts independent research -- rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences -- on environmental, energy, and natural resource issues. Science and Environment Policy Project - a non-profit educational group founded in 1990 by atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer. It "seeks to clarify the diverse problems facing the planet and, where necessary, arrive at effective , cost-conscious solutions. State Environmental Resource Center (SERC) researches state environmental policies and assembles information and tools to help legislators and activists make important decisions on key environmental issues. Summaries of Environmental Laws administered by the EPA. World Conservation Union - Founded in 1948 and brings together states, NGOs, government agencies, and scientists "to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable". World Water Council - an international water policy think tank; sponsors the newly developed Water Poverty Index Important Conferences, Declarations, and Treaties Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI) 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment - first global environmental conference held by the United Nations. 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro
1997 Rio + 5 2002 Earth Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio + 10) in Johannesburg, South Africa
United Nations Commissions/Committees
State of the Environment Reports
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