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Dictionaries
Oxford Dictionary of Environment & Conservation
· Requires subscription
Sustainability Dictionary @ Presidio Graduate School
Encyclopedias & reference collections
· At one point, this was one of the most comprehensive sources of information on the web; while it
still contains useful materials, a random survey of the site indcates that most articles predate 2015.
Conservation of Natural Resources
· “...a collection of articles on a variety of topics. These articles were developed as a wiki
project, independent of Nature Education editors. The Project is no longer active."
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
ScienceDirect Curated Reference collection in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
General evironmental information resources
· "The ECOLOGY Global Network®, a service of Ecology Communications Group Inc. (ECGI), is
the nexus of the Worldwide Web, international television, international radio and personal data
delivery systems regarding all facets of ecology and the environment."
· "...a gateway to open access resources on the human-environment relationship"
Environment, Health and Safety Online
· "EnvironmentCounts.org (EC) is a not-for-profit organization which is run entirely by volunteers....
Our vision is for EC to be an independent, understandable and trustworthy source of the best
available evidence on environmental matters, allowing people to make their own informed judgments.
Our target audience is people who are not environmental specialists."
Environmental Literacy Council
· Disbanded, but archived content available
· Greenpeace lists ELC as a climate change denying front group
· See other sections with GEP-related themes
· “Gapminder identifies systematic misconceptions about important global trends and proportions
and uses reliable data to develop easy to understand teaching materials to rid people of their .
misconceptions. Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious, or
economic affiliations.
· “GRID-Arendal was established in 1989 to support environmentally sustainable development
by working with UN Environment and other partners."
Reports are in a database that can be filtered according to status, type, SDG, partner, year, or tags.
· “One-stop access to more than 30 million pages of curated, high quality policy reports, briefs,
analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organizations.”
· Searchable by hundreds of topics
· A helpful resource, but no information on authorship.
· New Nature Economy Report Series
· Shaping the future of environment and natural resource security
· Shaping the future of energy
General reference (dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.)
Contents of this page:
· Encyclopedias & reference collections
· General environmental information resources
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