Environmental Change and Biodiversity
Useful Websites
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Corporate Environmental Policy
- Environmental Security
- International Environmental Policy and Cooperation
- Sustainable Development
- Searchable Environmental Web Sites and Environmental Databases on the Internet
BIODIVERSITY
- Real-time data on demographics, ecosystem, oil production, main health indicators (HIV, cancer) and waste http://www.wheii.com/world.php
- The Convention on Biological Diversity has as objectives the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources. http://www.biodiv.org
- Biodiversity WWW Sites http://www.biologie.uni-freiburg.de/data/zoology/riede/taxalinks.html
- Biological Diversity: CIESIN thematic guides; also discusses significance of the loss of biodiversity and the global magnitude. http://www.ciesin.org/TG/LU/biodiver.html
- Defenders of Wildlife http://www.defenders.org/index.html
- Environmental Defense Fund http://www.edf.org
CLIMATE CHANGE
- IPCC Second Assessment Synthesis Report (August 1995 Draft) http://www.mindfood.com/sustainable/environment/assessmentsynthesis.html
- Ozone Bibliography http://ciesin.org/TG/OZ/oz-bib.html
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) http://www.ipcc.ch/
CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
- Incorporation of Environmental Information into Corporate Decision-Making Processes http://www.rti.org/publications/cea/5774-3.html
ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
- US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management: To protect human health and the environment http://www.em.doe.gov/
- National Council for Science and the Environment http://www.cnie.org/
- U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute http://www.aepi.army.mil
- Environmental Change and Security Project (ECSP) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC http://ecsp.si.edu/
- Web sites that have useful information related to Environmental Security and International Treaties, Conventions, and Protocols (on http://millennium-project.org, under "Special Studies", select "Environmental Security: United Nations Doctrine for Managing Environmental Issues in Military Actions" and then Appendix D)
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND COOPERATION
- CIESIN-Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network: CIESIN is a non-profit NGO, bringing together the research of scientists and policy makers. Includes multiple interactive applications for searching environmental and demographic issues, i.e. Demographic Data Viewer and Environmental Treaties anf Resource Indicators Service. http://www.ciesin.org/
- Political Institutions Bibliography http://www.ciesin.org/TG/PI/PI-bib.html
- The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): General information about UNEP, searchable database of UNEP documents http://www.unep.org
- UNEP: Explanations of Environmental Conventions http://www.unep.ch/
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development): "An international agenda for the 21st century" - http://iisd1.iisd.ca/
- World Resources Institute http://www.wri.org
SEARCHABLE ENVIRONMENTAL WEB SITES AND DATABASES
- CGRER NetSurfing: Environmental Information/Topics; Topics include: Environmental law, publications http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_environment.html
- National Library for the Environment http://www.cnie.org/
- CIESIN-Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network: CIESIN is a non-profit NGO, bringing together the research of scientists and policy makers. Includes multiple interactive applications for searching environmental and demographic issues, i.e. Demographic Data Viewer and Environmental Treaties anf Resource Indicators Service. http://www.ciesin.org/
- CNN: Enviromental News http://cnn.com/EARTH/index.html
- Environmental News Network http://www.enn.com
- Environmental Resources Information Network http://www.ea.gov.au
- Global Change Master Directory http://gcmd.nasa.gov/mainquery.html
- The Amazing Environmental Web Directory: Offers a key word search http://www.webdirectory.com/
- The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): General information about UNEP, searchable database of UNEP documents http://www.unep.org
- World Resources Institute: Interactive environmental query http://data.wri.org:1996
- Worldwatch Institute: http://www.worldwatch.org
- World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+10): http://www.johannesburgsummit.org