InfoGuides: EVPP 337: Environmental Policy Making in Developing Countries: Find Background Information

Library Resources recommended by Instructors

Blue gold : world water wars ; World water wars
Call Number: Media - DVDs HD1691 .B58 2009
ISBN: 9780793670208
Publication Date: 2009
Video based on the book Blue gold : the fight to stop the corporate theft of the world's water, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke.
Taliban : the power of militant Islam in Afghanistan and beyond by Rashid, Ahmed
Call Number: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1848854463
Publication Date: 2010
The American bombing of terrorist bases in Afghanistan under the protection of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement has brought the Taliban into sharp focus as the most radical and extreme Islamic movement in the world today. Little is known about the Taliban because of the deep secrecy that surrounds their political movement, their leaders and their aims.

Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology 2012. 578 alphabetically listed entries with an introductory article describing a general topic
The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy 2013. Addresses global policy challenges in environment and global institutions making policy.
Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility 2013. Features entries on environment, energy and sustainability.
Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries 2013. Examines Environmental Impact statements used in developing countries.
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 2013. Includes a subject classification list as well as alphabetical entries covering issues in biodiversity
Encyclopedia of lakes and reservoirs geography, geology, hydrology and paleolimnology 2012. Includes aspects of water quality for individual lakes and the basics of physical, chemical, and biological processes in lakes as separate entries.

Environmental Performance Index (EPI) - 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.
FAO Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations Document Repository - Searchable and browsable collection of documents relating to countries - use AquaStat and FAOStat Country Profiles
OECD iLibrary The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) allows access to many of its publication though GMU's subscription.

The World Bank - Environment Country information on economics and the environment.
IUCN Publications Books and reports published by the IUCN and available, in most cases, as a downloadable PDF.