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ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY
- useful web sites -

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• 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

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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

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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/

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CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

• Incorporation of Environmental Information into

Corporate Decision-Making Processes
http://www.rti.org/publications/cea/5774-3.html

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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 than Appendix D)

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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/

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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

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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

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