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Reference Resources

Collective Resources

• EnviroLink Library
• Ecology WWW Page
• WWW Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity
• P2 GEMS, guide to pollution prevention resources on the web
• Canadian Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse, Environment Canada
• Ecological Subregions of the United States, compiled by W. Henry McNab and Peter E. Avers, WO-WSA-5, USDA, July 1994
• Ecological Subregions of California, compiled by Scott R. Miles and Charles B. Goudey, R5-EM-TP-005-NET, USDA, May 1998

Atlases and Maps

• Arctic Environmental Atlas, GRID, UNEP
• Australian Coastal Atlas, Environment Australia
• Berlin Digital Environmental Atlas, Senate Department of Urban Development, Berlin
• A Climate Change Atlas for 80 Forest Tree Species of the Eastern United States [spatial database], Anantha M. Prasad and Louis R. Iverson, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, 1999 ongoing
• Ecological Assessment of the Mid-Atlantic Region: A Landscape Atlas, EPA/600/R-97/130, 1997
• Environmental Atlas, US EPA
• Environmental Atlas, Department of Planning and Environmental Protection, Broward County, Florida
• Environmental Atlas, Medway and Swale Estuary Partnership, UK
• Environmental Atlas of the Beaufort Coastlands, Natural Resources Canada
• The Great Lakes: An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book, Government of Canada and United States Environmental Protection Agency, Third Edition 1995
• Paleoenvironmental Atlas of Beringia, NOAA
• Environmental Atlas of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, USGS Open File Report 02-206
• Prairie Rivers of Iowa Environmental Atlas, Iowa State
• Digital Atlas of the Greater Yellowstone Area, USGS

Bibliographies

• Annotated bibliography on the ecology and reclamation of drastically disturbed areas, Miroslaw M. Czapowskyj, Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-21, USDA Forest Service, 1976
• Bibliography of Chesapeake Bay Grey Literature, Department of Natural Resources, Maryland
• A Bibliography of Texas Coastal Wetlands, Texas General Land Office
• Biology of the Rio Grande Border Region: A Bibliography, Lynne E. Johnson, Linda J. Jacobs, and Diana Papoulias, Information and Technology Report, USGS/BRD/ITR--1997-0001, July 1997
• Ecology of the Southern California Bight Bibliography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography , University of California San Diego, ca 1989
• Fire Ecology: Preliminary Bibliography, Global Fire Monitoring Center / Fire Ecology Research Group
• Northern Global Change Research Program: Bibliography, USDA Forest Service
• Ozone Depletion and Global Environmental Change, CIESIN

Databases, Indexes and Abstracts

• ASTIS, bibliographic database, Arctic Institute of North America
• Eldis, Electronic Development and Environment Information System
• Envirofacts Warehouse, a searchable database providing access for data from seven EPA databases
• HazDat Database, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
• NEPIS, National Environmental Publications System, a searchable database for online publications of the US Environmental Protection Agency
• Treesearch, Forest Service Research and Development, USDA
• Trade Environment Database
• Online Data Search, National Pollutant Release Inventory, Environment Canada. See also: NPRI Access Page, for summary information and individual years
• Nunavut Environmental Database, bibliographic database, a subset of the Arctic Institute of North America's ASTIS database
• Biodiversity and Protected Areas, searchable database, EarthTrends, World Resources Institute

Dictionaries and Glossaries

• Earth Science Acronyms, Glossaries and Gazetteers, Global Change Master Directory, NASA
• Environment Glossary, United Nations Statistics Division
• Glossary of Avian Terms: For Use in Avian Conservation Biology, Rolf R. Koford, et al., Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
• Glossary of Terms Used in DOE NEPA Documents, Office of NEPA Policy and Assistance, US DOE, September 1998
• Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology, National Wildfire Coordinating Group, Incident Operation Standards Working Team, November 1996
• People's Glossary of Ecosystem Management Terms, US Forest Service
• Terminology Reference System, US Environmental Protection Agency
• Terms of Environment, terms, acronyms and abbreviations, via the US Environmental Protection Agency
• Water Words Dictionary, A Compilation of Technical Water, Water Quality, Environmental, and Water-Related Terms, Gary A. Horton, Nevada Division of Water Planning

Directories and Handbooks

• Restoration Project Directory, River Corridor and Wetland Restoration Project, US EPA
• Handbook on Environment Statistics, Development Indicators and Policy Research Division, Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank, April 2002
• Guidance, Guides and Manuals, Environmental Management Systems, US EPA
• Wildlife Exposure Factors Handbook, US EPA
• Environmental Handbooks, Caltrans Standard Environmental Reference, California Department of Transportation
• Environmental Handbook, New Mexico
• Environmental Handbook for Transportation Operations, New York State Department of Transportation, July 2001
• Environmental Handbook: Environmental Regulations for the Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Industry, Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, January 1996
• Environmental Handbook, UK Road Service, 1998

Electronic Books, Reports, Studies

• Environmental Issues, full-text publications of the National Academies Press
• Publications, Reports, etc., Environment Canada
• Publications, USDA Forest Service
• NEPIS, National Environmental Publications System, a searchable database for online publications of the US Environmental Protection Agency
• Publications, Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development
• Energy and Environment: Documents Available Online, Rand
• Research Studies of the Environmental Law Institute, 1992 forward, full-text

Images

• American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936, University of Chicago Library
• Shoreline Aerial Photographs, Department of Ecology, Washington

News and Events

• Environmental News Network
• Society of Environmental Journalists

Serial Publications

• BMC Ecology, full-text, 2001 forward
• Caribbean Currents, 1995-2000, full-text
• Conservationist, 1998 forward, some full-text
• Earthlink, 1995-2000, full-text
• Ecology and Society, 1997 forward, some full-text
• Electronic Green Journal, 1994 forward, full-text
• Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 2001 forward, full-text
• Green Horizon Magazine, 1994 forward, full-text
• Issues in Ecology, 1997 forward, full-text
• Japan Environment Quarterly, 1996 forward, full-text
• Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law, 1994 forward, full-text
• Journal of Political Ecology, 1994 forward, full-text
• New York University Environmental Law Journal, 1992 forward, full-text
• San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 2003 forward, full-text

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Government Agencies

Asia-Pacific

• Environment Australia
• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Australia
• Ministry of the Environment, Japan
• Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand

Canada

• Environment Canada
• Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
• Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
• Canadian Forest Service
• National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
• Alberta Environment
• Department of the Environment and Local Government, New Brunswick
• Department of Environment, Newfoundland
• Department of Environment and Labour, Nova Scotia
• Ministry of the Environment, Ontario
• Environment and Land, Prince Edward Island

Europe

• Environment, Nuclear Safety, and Civil Protection, DG 11, European Union
• European Environment Agency
• European Environment Information and Observation Network
• Danish Ministry of the Environment and Energy
• Environmental Agency of England and Wales

International

• Environment, OECD
• United Nations Environmental Programme
• World Bank Environment

United States

• Environmental Protection Agency
• USAID and the Environment
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• California Environmental Protection Agency
• Department of Environmental Protection, Connecticut
• Council on Environmental Quality, Connecticut
• Department of Environmental Protection, Maine
• Department of Environmental Protection, Massachusetts
• Montana Department of Environmental Quality
• Department of Environmental Services, New Hampshire
• Department of Environmental Conservation, New York
• Department of Environmental Management, Rhode Island
• Vermont Environmental Board
• Department of Ecology, Washington

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Organizations, Associations, and Institutes

• AASHTO Center for Environmental Excellence
• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• British Ecological Society
• Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention
• Ecological Society of America
• Environmental Council of the States
• European Centre for Nature Conservation
• International Society for Environmental Protection
• National Academies
• Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
• Society of Wetland Scientists
• Wetlands International
• World Resources Institute

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State of the Environment ... Reports

Collective Resources

• Cities Environment Reports on the Internet
• SoE Gateway, UNEP/GRID-Arendal

Americas

• State of the Environment Infobase, Environment Canada
• Reports, Environment Canada
• National Environmental Indicator Series, Environment Canada
• OECD Environmental Performance Review, Environment Canada / OECD
• Environmental Index 2004, Steven F. Hayward with Ryan Stowers, 9th edition, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 2004
• Endangered Ecosystems of the United States: A Preliminary Assessment of Loss and Degradation, by Reed F. Noss, Edward T. LaRoe III and J. Michael Scott, USGS
• State Agency Environmental Indicator Links, FSU
• State of the New England Environment, 996 forward, US EPA
• The Southern Appalachian Assessment Online Reports, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
• Indiana: State of the Environment, 1998 forward
• State of the Environment: 2001, New Mexico
• Oregon State of the Environment Report 2000

Asia-Pacific

• State of the Environment, Australia
• Environmental Indicators for National State of the Environment Reporting, Australia
• State of the Environment, Queensland, Australia, 1999, 2003
• Japan's Environment at a Glance, Japan
• State of the Environment, New Zealand
• State of the Environment Publications, New Zealand
• State of the Environment: Tajikistan, 1998

Europe

• A checklist for state of the environment reporting: Technical Report No. 15, European Environment Agency
• EEA Signals 2004, European Environment Agency
• Environmental signals 2002: Benchmarking the millennium, Environmental assessment report no. 9, European Environment Agency
• Environmental Signals 2001, Environmental assessment report no. 8, European Environment Agency
• Environmental Signals 2000, Environmental assessment report no. 6, European Environment Agency
• State of the Environment Reporting in Europe, Technical report no. 26, European Environment Agency
• State of the Environment, 1998, Norway
• State of the Environment in Moscow, 1998, Russia
• Environmental Indicators, Environment Agency, UK

International

• Environment at the OECD
• State of the Environment Reports, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
• Global Environment Outlook, UNEP
• World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, voice, and power, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, World Resources Institute, 2003
• World Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems: the Fraying Web of Life, prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), The World Bank, and the World Resources Institute
• World Resources: A Guide to the Global Environment, 1998-99, A Report by World Resources Institute, UNEP, UNDP, and The World Bank

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Statistical Data

• Environmental Statistics, Statistics Canada
• Reports and Statistics, Environmental Law Enforcement Program, Environment Canada
• Summary of Spill Events in Canada, Environmental Emergencies Program, Environment Canada
• The Importance of Nature to Canadians: The Economic Significance of Nature-related Activities, Environment Canada
• Inventories, Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks, Environment Canada
• A Guide To Selected National Environmental Statistics In the U.S. Government, US EPA
• Envrionmental Profiles, US statistical data to the county level, US EPA
• Statistics, Environment at the OECD
• Eldis Statistics
• Environment Statistics in Central Asia, Robert Ballance and Bishnu D. Pant, Asian Development Bank, ERD Working Paper Series No. 36, March 2003
• Handbook on Environment Statistics, Development Indicators and Policy Research Division, Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank, April 2002
• Development of Environmental Statistics in Developing Asian and Pacific Countries, Asian Development Bank, 1999

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