Online Encyclopedias
- Environmental EncyclopediaProvides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. Each article is written in a nontechnical style and provides current status, analysis, and suggested solutions whenever possible.
- Encyclopedia of Environment and SocietyProvides issues, concepts, theories, examples, problems, and policies, with the goal of explicating an emerging way of thinking about people and nature. Written by experts from incredibly diverse fields.
- Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and PhilosophyExamines the philosophical and ethical issues underlying contemporary and historical environmental issues, policies, and debates. Covers concepts, institutions, topics, events and people, including global warming, animal rights, environmental movements, alternative energy, green chemistry, industrial ecology, and eco-sabotage.
- Encyclopedia of environmental changeThe Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change.
- America goes green an encyclopedia of eco-friendly culture in the United StatesThis resource provides a great introduction to a wide variety of eco-friendly topics, including less conventional ones like blogs and social networking sites .
Biographical Information
- Twentieth-Century American Nature PoetsProvides a biographical and bibliographical guide and overview of 20th Century American nature poets, whose work attempted to address prevailing fundamental notions concerning humans and their relationship with nature.
- Twentieth-Century American Nature Writers: ProseEssays on distinctly American nature writers from the earliest to the most recent that have consistently sought to convey both their wonder at the natural world and their individual, personal experiences, within it.
- Rachel CarsonFrom Twayne's United States Authors Series
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Rachel Carson.
Topics of Interest
- Environmental Literacy and Ecocriticismfrom Environmental Encyclopedia(Vol. 1. 3rd ed.)
- Critical Environmental TheoryFrom: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society(Vol. 1. )
- EcocriticismFrom: Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy(Vol. 1. )
- Environmental PhilosophyFrom: Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy(Vol. 1. )
- Nature WritingFrom: American History Through Literature 1870-1920(Vol. 2. )
- Nature WritingFrom: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society(Vol. 3. )
- EcosophyFrom: Environmental Encyclopedia(Vol. 1. 3rd ed.)
- Ecology, SocialFrom: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability(Vol. 1: The Spirit of Sustainability. )
- Environmental Humanitiesfrom International Encyclopedia of Geography
- Cultural EcologyFrom: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society(Vol. 1. )
- Ecology, CulturalFrom: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability(Vol. 1: The Spirit of Sustainability. )
Current Events
- CQ Researcher
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Database that covers the most important and controversial issues of the day. Contains the full text of CQ Researcher, a weekly publication. Each issue provides a comprehensive overview and background essay, data tables and graphs, chronology, pro-con starter, and list of major research and advocacy groups. - Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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Presents informed, differing views on each side of an issue and to help students develop critical thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Exclusive Viewpoint pages bring balance and perspective to every controversy using targeted arguments from recognized subject-matter experts and top journalistic sources. - Congressional Research Service Reports Archive
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Because the Congressional Research Service does not publish its reports online, FAS obtains reports addressing national security, foreign policy and related topics, digitizes them, and archives them. It also links to other sources for CRS reports.
General
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Collection of full-text encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Please note: To limit your search to the contents of a specific title, select within this publication in the Quick Search box or choose Limit the results by publication title in the Advanced Search and type in the name of the resource you wish to search. Searches without limits include all resources in the GVRL. - Oxford Reference
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Quick-reference coverage of a broad range of subjects. Brings together language and subject reference works from Oxford University Press into a single cross-searchable resource. Includes over 130 subject dictionaries covering everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics. Quotations, 500+ full-color maps and flags, 12,000 images. - SAGE Knowledge
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A database of ebooks and reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aged & Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Gender & Sexuality Studies, History, Politics, Psychology, Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, and Sociology.