Political Science — Environment and Ecology

AGRICOLA (Community of Science) Provides access to the literature of agriculture in the broadest sense, including environmental issues and water resource information.
Animal Info Includes very detailed information about rare and endangered animals' biology and history. Search for species, organizations, publications, pictures, lists by country, and more.
Catalogue of Life "... is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth by the year 2011."
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online Citations, abstracts and selected full-text articles covering topics in international affairs, collected largely from university- and foundation-funded research institutes, non-governmental organizations and academic conferences.
Climate Change Policies & Measures Database Covers measures taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by members of the International Energy Agency as well as information on policies of others such as Brazil, China, India, the EU, etc. Updated regularly.
Compendex Covers engineering and related issues, including environmental science, air and water pollution, and hazardous waste.
Current Research Information System U.S. Department of Agriculture's documentation system for ongoing and recently completed research in food, forestry, biofuels, and related subjects.
EarthTrends Remarkable collection of data and databases covering ten environmental topic areas in five formats: a searchable database with time series data for over 600 variables; charts and vital statistics on topics from over 220 countries; maps providing visual representations of environmental information; feature stories; and data tables that are global snapshots of each topic area, synthesized by country and region-level information. See, especially, "Research Topics/Site Map" to start search.
Encyclopedia of Earth Emphasis on the interaction between natural environments and society. Fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work.
Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management (Blackwell)
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society ".... issues, concepts, theories, examples, problems, and policies.... more than 1,200 entries."
Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change ".... major topics related to global warming and climate change-ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole, and thematically from social effects to scientific causes. Covers the science and history of climate change, the controversies over climate-change theories, the role of societies, the industrial and economic factors, and the sociological aspects of climate change." 2008.
Encyclopedia of Life Goal is to document all species of life. "Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized.... is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone."
Energy Citations Database U.S. Department of Energy's database of over 2.3 million science research citations from 1948 through the present, including 179,000 electronic documents, primarily from 1994 forward, on topics including environmental sciences, climatology, and oceanography.
Environmental Impact Statements "... have been produced, since 1969, on virtually every type of activity, from oil and gas development to scientific research in Antarctica, and from protection of wildlife habitat to construction of light rail lines....One of the world's largest collections of environmental impact statements is available for your use in the Transportation Library (University Library, 5th Floor, North Tower)."
Environmental Protection Agency U.S. government agency's documents and databases on topics such as acid rain, climate change, drinking water, hazardous waste, pesticides, and more.
Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920 Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve the natural environment in the U.S. Includes books, pamphlets, government documents, photographs, motion picture footage and more from the Library of Congress.
General Science Abstracts Indexes over 160 American and British journals in environmental and related fields. Links to some full text articles, reports of meetings, review articles, and book reviews.
GeoRef Over 2 million citations, and links to some full text, covering the geology of North America from 1785 and that of the rest of the world from 1933. Topics include minerals and petroleum, environmental geology, and other related subjects.
Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department in the NU Library Includes U.S. government, State of Illinois, and international documents, maps and geographical information as well as data services and more.
Handbook of Environmental Economics
Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics
Index to Current Urban Documents A "regularly published guide to the reports and research that are generated by local government agencies, civic organizations . . . metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada."
Integrated Risk Information System U.S. Evironmental Protection Agency's database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.
International Data Base: World Statistics Quick access to demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on endangered species and ecosystems that have been evaluated using criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Provides searchable documentation.
JSTOR Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives, click here. Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
National Archive of Ocean Data Searchable global oceanographic data designed to provide an historical record of the Earth's changing environment, especially ocean climates.
PAIS International Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
PANGAEA Publishing network for geoscientific and environmental data. A public digital library for science containing referenced data with special emphasis on environmental, marine and geological basic research.
Pollution Abstracts Citations and abstracts from journal articles, conference proceedings, and hard-to-find documents. Topics cover pollution and environmental issues, including atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action.
Population Database Calculate and display past (back to 1950) and future (up to 2050) population statistics for all major regions of the world, the entire planet, and many specific countries. United Nations database. See, too, the homepage of the Population Division of the UN.
Population Index An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. Note the two links: one to a searchable database, the other to digitized images (which will include tables and charts).
Population Reference Bureau DataFinder Contains data on hundreds of demographic variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, the world as a whole, the United States as a whole, and the US states. Display data as rankings, maps, or bar graphs.
Sociological Abstracts Citations, abstracts and links to full-text articles related to society and politics, society and the environment, and other topics treated in sociological terms.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Audio-visual, photos, press releases, speeches, media contacts and more resources related to the environment and climate change, biodiversity, fresh water, energy, and many other topics.
Web of Science This database contains cited references in the Social Sciences from 1956 to the present; in the Humanities, from 1975 to the present; and in the Sciences, from 1955 to the present. It is best to simultaneously search all three (which is the default), because of the interdisciplinary nature of much political science work. Use the "Cited Reference Search" to search for articles that cite an author or work and obtain a comprehensive bibliography of the author's works: articles, books, communications, proceedings papers, etc. Searches may also lead to related records and articles with citations in common. For instructions, click on "Information for New Users." Results may be printed, saved to a text file, exported in a delimited format for import into personal bibliographic programs such as EndNote or ProCite, or may be sent via email.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.
World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences Collects and disseminates data related to gobal change in the fields of environmental oceanography, marine geosciences, and marine biology.

For further information, contact:

Lucy E. Lyons
Collection Analysis, Journalism, and Political Science
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-2229, fax 467-7899
l-lyons@northwestern.edu
Office Location: Room 2623, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library

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Last updated: 07/15/08