Research Guides: Sustainability Policy Studies: Find Other Resources

Reference Materials

Reference materials provide a good, working knowledge of key issues and sub-topics and provide ideas for other sources to explore. Beyond this list, you should know that all of the following types of materials can be helpful reference material for your research: almanacs, atlases, bibliographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, handbooks, and indexes.

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Sustainability and Environmental resources

Atlas of the Biosphere: Includes maps of environmental variables and schematics of interconnected environmental systems. A project of the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Environmental Studies' Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE).
EPA - Envirofacts Data Warehouse: Provides information on air, water, and land across the United States.
ENVIROnetBASE : Provides access to environmental handbooks published by CRC Press.
Environmental Sustainability Index: Provides a measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability, developed for 142 countries. The ESI permits cross-national comparisons of environmental progress in a systematic and quantitative fashion.
Global Warming: Early Signs: Via a clickable map of the world, this site provides information on "fingerprints" and "Harbingers" of global warming in specific areas, ranging from sea level rise to to fires to coral reef bleaching.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
WATERnetBASE: Water References online: Comprehensive multidiscipline resource providing access to reference works on drinking water, ground water, hydrogeology, hydrology, storm water, surface water, waste water, water pollution and wetlands.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering: Spans the entire spectrum of environmental science and engineering. Articles on topics ranging from acid rain, air pollution, and community health, to environmental law, instrumentation, modeling, alternative energy, toxicology, radioactive waste, and water treatment.
Environmental Encyclopedia: Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. 2011.
International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics.

Data

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Writing Resources

Writing Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Communicating in the Policy Making Process
Available in hard copy in Lehman Reference, JF1525.C59 S64 2010
Effective Writing in the Public Sector
Available in hard copy in Lehman Reference, JF1525.R46 S83 2014

General Reference

Gale virtual reference library: Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Oxford Reference online: Contains the texts of more than 100 reference titles published by Oxford University Press.