Environmental Policy
Home
Portals
- Earth Portal. Supported by the Environmental Information Coalition and the National Council for Science and the Environment
- Wikipedia Environment Portal: including Climate Change | Global Warming
- World Resources Institute. Earth Trends, The Environmental Information Portal
Getting Started
- Get overview of topic by consulting encyclopedias and other reference works (including Wikipedia)
- Identify search terms, e.g., "Environmental Policy", "Environmental Degradation", "Environmental Protection", "Enviromental Quality", "Science and State", "Scientists--Political Activity"
- Then search Google Scholar, article indexes and Socrates (for more books). Display full records from relevant items to find more search terms and develop your search strategy
- Google Scholar and/or library databases? Try both approaches. About Google Scholar
- Review the notes and bibliography of articles and books that you have already discovered
News: Environment & Energy News
environmental and energy policyEtc.
- Elections Quick Start Guide
- GIS @ Branner Library
- Public Opinion Quick Start Guide
Encyclopedia etc
Encyclopedias, Overviews, Compendia
- Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE)
- Congressional Research Service (CRS). Reports on the Environment
- National Library for the Environment. State of the Environment Reports
- Oxford Reference Online
- Wikipedia. Environment Portal
- World Resources Institute. Earth Trends, The Environmental Information Portal
New in the Green Library Information Center
- Africa: atlas of our changing environment. 2008.
- Battleground: environment. 2008.
- Encyclopedia of environmental ethics and philosophy. 2009.
- Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change. 2008.
. . . other reference books
Indexes
Article Indexes/Abstracts/Fulltext
Some library article databases contain full-text. Most, however, contain article abstracts and citation information such as author, journal, publication date; to locate full-text:
- Link to the full-text of the article by clicking on a button that says .
- If you don't see the find it @ SU button, search Socrates, the Stanford Libraries Catalog, by Periodical Title to determine if the journal is available to you through the Stanford Libraries.
- If the journal is not in the Socrates, you can request it from another library via InterLibrary Services.
A few library databases for Environmental policy issues:
- Environmental issues & policy index
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Databases . Search, separately or combined, 13 files offering abstracts for the worldwide literature covering the environmental sciences including air, land, water and noise pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental biotechnology and engineering, waste management, water resources, policies and regulations, and U.S. federal environmental impact statements. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 1500 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. (Updated monthly)
- Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts, 1993 - present
- ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality, 1990 - present
- Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B), 1982 - present
- Ecology Abstracts, 1982 - present
- EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements, 1985 - present
- Environmental Engineering Abstracts, 1990 - present
- Health & Safety Sciences Abstracts, 1981 - present
- Industrial & Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A), 1982 - present
- Pollution Abstracts, 1981 - present
- Risk Abstracts, 1990 - present
- Toxicology Abstracts, 1982 - present
- TOXLINE, 1991 - present
- Water Resources Abstracts, 1967 - present
- News sources | Environment & Energy News
- PAIS (Public Affairs and Information Service) is one starting point for environmental policy literature. The broad search "environmental policy and climate change" retrieves over 2600 journal articles and books. PAIS contains abstracts of journal articles, books, some government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, and publications of international agencies. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries.
- PolicyFile
Gov Docs
National Library for the Environment:
CRS Reports on the Environment
Gov Doc Resources of the Stanford Libraries
Statistics
Statistics
US statistics (Stanford Library Guide), including
- Statistical abstract of the United States
- Historical Statistics of the United States (Green Library Information Center Statistics Shelf) to 1970
- LexisNexis Statistical Access to statistics from federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations.
Comparative International Statistics (Stanford Library Guide), including
- LexisNexis Statistical Access to statistics from federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations.
- OECD Environmental Indicators 2004: Towards Sustainable Development. Biennial. Green Library Information Center Statistics Shelf GE140.O14 2004;
- OECD Key Tables on the Environment.
- National Library for the Environment. State of the Environment Reports
- World Bank. Atlas of global development. 2007- http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/31230 | http://issuu.com/world.bank.publications/docs/atlas2
Other Sources/Compilers
- University of Texas, Austin. Demographics & Statistics look-up site
- World Resources Institute. Earth Trends, The Environmental Information Portal
- World Resources Institute. Vital signs: the trends that are shaping our future. Annual. 2506664 TD193.2 .V5 Info Center. This report tracks 44 trends, including Food, Agricultural Resources, Energy and Climate, Global Economy, Resource Economics, Environment, Conflict and Peace, Communications and Transportation, Population and Society, and Health and Disease.
Demography
Lists
Basic Country Info
- Library of Congress Country Studies
- C.I.A. World Factbook
- Economist: EIU Country Data
- country profiles via ELDIS
- U.S. State Dept. Background Notes, etc.
Portals
- CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
- Internet Resources for Demographers (1997) Office of Population Research, Princeton University
- Internet Resources for Demographers, updated
- Demography -- Populations Research
- PolicyFile
- Population and Population Growth
Migration
- Center for Migration and Development (CMD)
- Center for Migration Studies (CMS)
- Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED)
- European Migration Research Institutes
- Global and U.S. Migration Information & Statistics site
- Immigration index
- International Migration and Colonization (Institute)
- International Organization for Migration
- History of International Migrations
- Migration Policy Group
- Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
- U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR)
Statistics
Environment And Public Policy
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