Environmental Science
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Encyclopedia of global change : environmental change and human society (2 vols)
Encyclopedia of global environmental change
Earth system physical, biological, causes, responses, socioeconomics (5 vols)
EOLSS - Encyclopedia of life support systems (online)
Encyclopedia of environmental control technology (8 volumes)
Encyclopedia of biodiversity (5 vols)
Encyclopedia of environmental biology (3 vols)
Encyclopedia of the atmospheric environment (online)
Acid rain, air quality, climate change, global warming, ozone depletion, weather.
Encyclopedia of the biosphere (11 vols)
Humans in the world's ecosystems
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Key Databases
AHB - Australian Heritage Bibliography (previously HERA)
Australia's natural and cultural environment - journal articles, unpublished reports, books and conference proceedings from Australian sources.
Biosis indexes the journal literature in experimental, pure and field life sciences and non-clinical literature in the biomedical sciences.
Environmental sciences and pollution management collection
Includes databases on aquatic pollution, engineering, safety, toxicology, risk, pollution and ecology.
Worldwide coverage of applied life sciences including ecology, natural resources and environment. Indexes 10,000 journals plus books.
Indexes physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies. Covers 2,000 international journals in addition to books, monographs, reports, and theses.
Multidisciplinary databases covering experimental and applied science, incorporating Science citation index and Social sciences citation index.
Multidisciplinary database covering experimental and applied science.
APA FT (Australian Public Affairs - Full Text)
Indexes articles from a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books on Australian public affairs - see also APA Full Text.
Australia's natural resources database.
US applied life sciences - including ecology, fisheries, aquaculture, natural resources and environment.
CSI indexes Australian and international journals in consumer health, economics, housing and related matters.
ATI (Australian Tourism Index)
ATI covers Australian material on tourism, hospitality from newsletters, journals, reports, unpublished material and government documents. Until 1988 ATI also indexed material on sport and recreation.
NTIS - US National Technical Information (via EI Engineering Village)
Both U.S. sponsored and non-U.S. research - engineering, biotechnology, the environment, health & safety, business, as well as the physical, biological, and social sciences.
Indexes articles on Australian and NZ architecture and building collected by the Stanton Library, Municipality of North Sydney.
Like Google Scholar but specific to science. As in Google Scholar, you can go to Preferences to enable full text connections to University of Queensland Library subscribed resources. (Note: Not all UQL full text will be available from Scirus results displays. Some will require access via the library network.)
Similar to Google Scholar but, unlike GS and Scirus (above), based on multilateral partnerships to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals, with approaching 100 participants. In Advanced Search you can turn on or off databases. In search results you can choose format tabs (papers, data, multimedia), or topic and other options to refine results. Not all results are open access resources and UQ Library subscriptions are not recognised, as they may be in Google Scholar and Scirus, and as they will be in Web of Knowledge, ASFA and other databases listed above.
Maps
Specialised Resources
EDGAR (JCU and ALA) - mapping bird species and climate change
World database on protected areas
Foundation dataset for conservation decision making, ecological gap analysis, environmental impact analysis, and is increasingly used for private sector decision-making. It contains crucial information from national governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, international biodiversity convention secretariats.
Several databases on persistent chemicals.
Australian Policy Online - Environment
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Solutions that consider the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability.
RMI's strategic focus is mapping and driving the business-led transition from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewable energy, with a focus on the transportation, building, industrial and electricity sectors.
Politics and the environment. Breakthrough Institute was founded in 2003 'on the premise that the complaint-based, interest group liberalism born in the 1960s and 1970s was failing to achieve the broad social and ecological transformations America and the world need.'
Australia's Dynamic Land Cover
The National Dynamic Land Cover Dataset of Australia is the first nationally consistent and thematically comprehensive land cover reference for Australia.
Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) - Queensland
Australian Soil Resource Information System - ASRIS
PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the operating institutions.
Statistics
Web Sites
Key Internet Sites
Australian Natural Resources Atlas
Pre-2003 data.
Pre-2009 data.
Current data.
Australian Natural Resources Data Library
Current and historical data
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
TERN collects and integrates ecosystem data across broad spatial and temporal scales; enables storage, access, sharing and management of research data; enables collaboration; enables multidisciplinary, national-scale contributions to addressing key problems in Australian ecosystem science and environmental management.
Environment Portal - information from Australian governments
Caring for Country absorbs earlier programmes: National Heritage Trust, National Landcare Program, Environmental Stewardship Program, Working on Country.
Collaborative Protected Area Database
See also Parks Australia web site link.
Biodiversity summaries and species lists for NRM regions
GENERIC SITES
Global Change Master Directory
Envirolink Network - environmental news
EarthTrends - The environmental information portal
The Directory of Environmental Web Sites - online abridged edition 2012
Directory of Web Sites of Environmental Agencies of the World
World Environmental Oganization - Top 1000 Web Sites
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
QUEENSLAND
Queensland Dept. of Environment and Heritage Protection
Queensland Dept. of National Parks - Managing Protected Areas
OTHER
Applied Environmental Decision Analysis (AEDA)
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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