InfoGuides: EVPP 337: Environmental Policy Making in Developing Countries: Find Articles

Key Databases

Environmental Science Databases

Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
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Offers coverage in the areas of ecosystem ecology, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning. Contains full-text for more than 600 journals and 100 books and indexes over 1,500 journals from 1888 to present. Tutorial for the Environment Complete database.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database This link opens in a new window
Contains environmental science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, environmental impact statements. Provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, and government publications from 1960 to present. Tutorial for the Agricultural & Environmental Science Database.
Web of Science: Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and searchable author abstracts, covering scholarly literature in journals, books and conference proceedings. Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Emerging Sources Citation Index. Additional resources available by selecting from the dropdown list next to the Core Collection heading. Tutorial for the Web of Science: Core Collection database.
Zoological Record Plus This link opens in a new window
Provides extensive coverage of the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. Backfiles available to 1864.
Tutorial for the Zoological Record Plus database.

Policy & Economic Databases

FAOLEX
A multilingual team summarizes and in many cases translates laws and regulations on topics falling within FAO's mandate - agriculture, cultivated plants, environment, fisheries, food, forestry, land and soil, livestock, water and wild species and ecosystems. Legal information is received by FAO from Member Nations pursuant to Article XI of the FAO Constitution.
National Environmental Policy Act
NEPA of 1969 was created to ensure federal agencies consider the environmental impacts of their actions and decisions. Federal agencies are required to systematically assess the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and consider alternative ways of accomplishing their missions, which are less damaging to and protective of the environment.
ECOLEX
A database providing a global source of information on environmental law. It is operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP.
EPA Policy & Guidance
Policy documents represent EPA's official interpretation or view of specific issues. Guidance documents are published to further clarify regulations and to assist in implementation of environmental regulations.

Multidiscplinary Databases

Global Health This link opens in a new window
Provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and more. Contains more than 1.4 million records dating back to 1973.
Tutorial for the Global Health database.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 3,000 journals across 55 social science disciplines, as well as selected items from 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Covers from 1900 to the present. Part of Web of Science.
Tutorial for the Social Science Citation Index Expanded database.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Features content going back as far as 1887. Tutorial for the Academic Search Complete database.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Integrates more than 80,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 22,500 international sources. Includes statistics and studies gathered from market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, government sources and international organizations. Create graphs, reports and infographics. Data is easily exportable for analysis. Statista reports now allow you to create your own interactive industry comparisons with Tableau Workbook. Find the free tool here or via https://www.tableau.com/trial/statista-benchmark-report-uk. Tutorial for the Statista database.

News sources for this course

Environment & Energy (E&E) News
Highly regarded source of daily news on energy/environment policy (including GreenWire.)
Daily Climate
A publication of Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to driving science into public discussion and policy on environmental health issues, including climate change.
The Guardian - Environment
British news outlet with strong coverage of environmental issues.

Economist Special Report

The World's Lungs
"The progress made in recent years shows that mankind is not doomed to strip the planet of its forest cover. But the transition from tree-chopper to tree-hugger is not happening fast enough... If the world is to keep the protective covering that helps it breathe, waters its crops, keeps it cool and nurtures its biodiversity, it is going to have to move fast."
Seeing the Wood
Purveyors of water, consumers of carbon, treasure-houses of species, the world’s forests are ecological miracles. They must not be allowed to vanish, says James Ast.
The Choice Between a Poorer Today and a Hotter Tomorrow
Without trillions of extra dollars, policymakers face a terrible decision
The Challenge of the Age
Adapting to climate change is urgent, feasible and woefully underfunded, argues Edward McBride