Research Resources on Environmental Policy, Compiled by D. Kauneckis

This is a collection of reliable online resources on environmental policy issues designed to help students begin research papers.  Obviously, it is a limited list and under constant revision.  It is divided into three sections, the first concentrates on Domestic Environmental Policy, the second on U.S. Environmental Law and Regulation, and finally International Environmental Policy.   

Domestic (U.S.) Environmental Policy Resources

EPA  - United States Environmental Protection Agency.

EnviroLink - Environmental information clearinghouses.

ENN - Environmental News Network.

Natural Resources Defense Council - Membership-based environmental interest group.

Resources for the Future - Think tank located in Washington, DC that conducts independent research in economics and other social sciences on environmental and natural resource issues.

Sierra Club - Membership-based environmental interest group.

National Wildlife Federation - Washington based environmental interest group.

 

 

U.S. Environmental Laws and Regulations

 

Clean Air Act

Clean Water Act

Coastal Zone Management Act

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

Counsel on Environmental Quality's (CEQ's) "40 Questions"

Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)

Endangered Species Act

Marine Mammal Protection Act

Marine Sanctuaries

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

RCRA

International Environmental Policy Resources

A 'Crash Course' in Climate Change Policy

Academic Info: Environmental Studies

American University Environment Page

Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server

Biodiversity WORLDMAP

Center for Demography and Ecology

Center for Environmental Information and Statistics

CIESIN; Center for International Earth Information Network

Committee for the National Institute for the Environment

Convention on Biological Diversity

Conventions on Environment (UN Environment Program)

Earth Summit

EcoNet

Energy and Environment

Energy Information Administration - Environmental Issues and World Energy

EnviroDirectory Online

EnviroLink Network

Environmental History Timeline

Environmental Law Links

Environmental Organization WebDirectory!

Environmental Profiles: USA

Environmental Sites on WWW

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI) Treaty Texts - Complete texts of more than 169 environmental treaties and agreements arranged by title and subject)

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service

ETC group - Action Group on Erosion, Technology, and Concentration

European Centre for Nature Conservation

European University for the Environment

FAO - Forestry - State of the World's Forests

Fundamentals of Treaty Research (University of Chicago Library)

Global Environmental Policy Research Tools Nongovernmental O

Global Forest Convention: Resource Page, G. Hoberg

Global Governance Project (PIK)

Global Warming

Globelaw : International and Transnational Law

Great Lakes

Greenhouse Gases & the Kyoto Protocol

Greenpeace - Internationally active environmental interest group.

GRID-Arendal Maps & Graphics Database

Harvard Environmental Resources Online

Human Development Reports

IMAP - International Environmental Maps

Institute for Global Communications (EcoNet/PeaceNet)

International Conventions and Programmes - via World Conservation Monitoring Centre

International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

International Environmental Law and Policy

International Organizations

International Water Law Project website

Kyoto Protocol  

Land Policy Network Internet Home Page

Multilateral Conventions (Complete texts)

National Center for Atmospheric Research

National Institute for the Environment

National Library for the Environment

Non-Western Sources on Environment

Pace University, Center for Environmental Legal Studies

Social Indicators of Development

Social Indicators of Development: World Bank: Database Query Interface

Sustainable Development; The World Wide Web Virtual Library

Sustainable Ecosystems and Communities

The 3rd World Water Forum

The Rainforest Action Network

The Water Page

Timeline of Environmental History

Trade and Environment Database

U.S. Global Change Research Information Office

UNEP - Grid Environmental Information

United for Peace Protests Around the World

United Nations Development Programme; Sustainable Human Development

United Nations Environment Programme

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Welcome to the Official Web Site Locator for the UN System of Organizations

World Bank

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Biodiversity Map Libr

World Environmental Outlook

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Environment

World Wildlife Fund Global Network

Worldwide Rainforest-Forest Conservation Archives

WR96 Global Biodiversity Assessment

 

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