InfoGuides: MBA 797- Sustainable Management in a Global Society: Research Sustainable Management

Databases, Journals and Videos for Sustainable Management

ENVIROnetBASE This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to more than 130 handbooks in the environmental sciences. Subject areas include: earth science, ecology and ecological economics, environmental modeling and analysis, environmental and ecological risk assessment, environmental health and safety, environmental chemistry and toxicology, environmental engineering, geology, GIS, mapping and remote sensing, landscape ecology, resource management and sustainability, water science - technology and engineering.
Environment Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Search government documents on a wide range of topics from 1960 to present, including: energy, air pollution, toxicology, land use and pollution, water pollution, wildlife biodiversity, population/sustainable development, global warming, waste management, and agriculture.
Tutorial for the Environment Abstracts database.
Environmental Engineering Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Indexes world literature on all technological and engineering aspects of air, water and soil quality, environmental safety, sustainability and energy production from 1960 to present.
Tutorial for the Environmenal Engineering Abstracts database.
Environmental Impact Statements This link opens in a new window
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The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires that U.S. federal agencies or anyone receiving federal funding prepare detailed analyses of any of their actions that significantly affect the quality of the environment. Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) are documents that help the government and the general public understand the effects of developments on the environment and to decide whether developments should go ahead.
Environmental Performance Index This link opens in a new window
Ranks 149 countries on 25 indicators tracked across six established policy categories: Environmental Health, Air Pollution, Water Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, Productive Natural Resources, and Climate Change. The EPI identifies broadly-accepted targets for environmental performance and measures how close each country comes to these goals.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Access (searching and browsing) journals and eBooks published by Elsevier and its partners. Covers most disciplines, including science, medicine, economics and the social sciences.
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TOXLINE This link opens in a new window
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Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants and mutagens and teratogens from 1999 to present. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Tutorial for the TOXLINE database.
TOXNET This link opens in a new window
National Library of Medicine's Toxicology Data Network. Includes databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
Tutorial for the TOXNET database.

Journals:

Journal of Corporate Citizenship "Aims to publish ideas integrating the theory & practice of corporate responsibility in a format that is readable, accessible, engaging & useful for readers in business & academia."

Environmental Science Video Collection Current environmental topics from Films on Demand

Mapping Tools

SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
Enables users to quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. Data includes Census (1980 - Present), American Community Survey, and both Simmons and MRI Consumer Survey Data. Users may create accounts to save their work. For more information, see the SimplyAnalytics InfoGuide. Tutorial for the SimplyAnalytics database.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Access current and historical census data and demographic information. Create maps and reports to illustrate, analyze, and understand demography and social change. Tutorial for the Social Explorer database.

Corporate Social Responsibility Resources

Global Reporting Initiative Has a free searchable database of sustainability and CSR reports Use the ‘Organizations’ tab to create lists of companies by size

http://www.csrwire.com/reports " recently published, non-financial Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability reports"

http://www.csrwire.com/members Information for, and about, CSR members

Securities filings search full-text of filings of companies to find references to CSR reports

Corporate Register: A database of 60K corporate CSR/Sustainability reports