General Resources  -  Indigenous Peoples


General Resources  


Davis, Richard C., editor. Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History. Two volumes. New York: Macmillan, 1983.

Hay, Peter. Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Krech, Shepard III, J. R. MCNeaill and Carolyn Merchant. Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. Three volumes. New York: Routledge, 2004

Merchant, Carolyn, editor. Ecology. Key Concepts in Critical Theory Series. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1994.

Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions. Twelfth Edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2002.

Paehlke, Robert, editor. Conservation and Environmentalism: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1995.

Alaska Science Forum.
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/index.html

Best Environmental Directories
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html

Chemical Industry Archives
http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/

Country Studies. Library of Congress. A wealth of information about countries around the world
http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/

Cultural Environmental Studies. Links, bibliography, and resources bridging culture studies and environmental studies.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/ce/bib.html

Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs. United Kingdom
http://www.defra.gov.uk/

Discussion Lists. Access to environment-related e-mail discussions, most related to the humanities & social sciences
http://www.asle.umn.edu/discuss/discuss.html

Earth Clock. Statistical information
http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks3.htm

Ecocosm Dynamics Links Directory. Lots of links
http://www.ecocosmdynamics.org/LinksDB/EDL-Links-Directory.html

Ecological Internet. Portals to resources
http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/

Eco Earth. Links to a variety of environmental and sustainability sites world wide
http://www.ecoearth.info/

EcoIQ.com
http://www.ecoiq.com/

Eco Websites
http://www.colleges.org/~enviro/resources/eco_websites.html
.
The Ecologist searchable database. See bottom of page
http://www.theecologist.org/

Electronic Green Journal, a journal of international environmental topics
http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/index.html

EnviroLink. A portal to a wealth of environment-related resources
http://www.envirolink.org/

Environment Canada
http://www.ec.gc.ca/envhome.html

Environment, Community & Bioregionalism
http://www.ibiblio.org/london/EARTHLinks.html

Environmental Education Directory
http://www.enviroeducation.com/

Environmental Expert. A web-based information center for environmental professionals and businesses.
http://www.environmental-expert.com/

Environmental Protection Agency Victoria, Australia
http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/

Environmental Protection Agency. U.S.A.
http://www.epa.gov/

Environmental Studies. Databases & E-Resources at the Library of Congress. Major resource
http://www.loc.gov/rr/ElectronicResources/subjects.php?subjectID=70

Environmental Studies Links
http://www.academicinfo.net/environst.html

Environmental Working Group
http://www.ewg.org/

European Environmental Information and Observation Network
http://www.eionet.eu.int/

European Federation of Biophysics links
http://www.efbf.org/links.php

Global Development Research Center
http://www.gdrc.org/index.html

GreenGuide. Green living sources for today's conscious consumer
http://www.thegreenguide.com/

Global Change Master Directory
http://gcmd.nasa.gov/

Global Stewards
http://www.globalstewards.org/

Green Pages: Environmental Information Resources on the Net
http://www.epsci.ameslab.gov/etd/library/greenpg.html

Green Facts. Information on health and the environment
http://www.greenfacts.org/

Home Planet
http://globalcircle.net/

Library of Congress on-line environmental science resources
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/subjectguides/environmentalsg.html

LiveGreenOrDie. Links to web sites, classifieds, blogs
http://www.livegreenordie.com/

Minority Environmental Leadership Development Institute
http://www.umich.edu/~meldi/index.html

National Library for the Environment. A wealth of resources; international in scope
A service of the National Council for Science and the Environment
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/

Nature Blog
http://natureblog.blogspot.com/

National Institute for Environmental Studies. Japan
http://www.nies.go.jp/

Orion Online. Environmental writing and art, place-based studies, grassroots action
http://www.oriononline.org/index2.html

PlanetFriendly.net
http://www.planetfriendly.net/

Progressive web sites. Links
http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/Links.html

Resurgence magazine. Articles on-line
http://resurgence.gn.apc.org/ADMIN/article-ecol.htm

Seven Bioscience Challenges. American Institute of Biological Sciences site
http://www.actionbioscience.org/

Societal-environmental Interactions, etc.. Suggested reading.
http://www.vsjf.org/resources/sugg-reading.shtml

Solidarity & Sustainability. Newsletter
http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisust.html

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. On-line journal
http://www.terrain.org/

Third World Network
http://www.twnside.org.sg/index.htm

U.S. Census, 1790-1960. Searchable
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

United Nations Environment Programme
http://www.unep.org/

Wild Thoughts. On-line journal of environmental writing.
http://www.wildthoughts.org/

WorldChanging
http://www.worldchanging.com/

World Factbook. CIA site. A wealth of information about countries around the world
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/profileguide.html

Worldwatch Institute Online Features
http://www.worldwatch.org/features/

Geography  

See also "Place"

Country Studies. Library of Congress. A wealth of information about countries around the world
http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/

Geography and Environment Gateway
http://www.gesource.ac.uk/

Geography, Environment & Planning Information Gateway (Africa)
http://library.uniswa.sz/gepighome.htm

Geography Links (Canada)
http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/geography&maps/geography_links.html

Globalization Theories
http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/theories.html

Journal of World-Systems Research. On-line journal
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php

National Geographic Society
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

National Geographic magazine. Searchable archives
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/archives.html

World Factbook. CIA site. A wealth of information about countries around the world
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/profileguide.html

"World Sytems Theory" by Carlos A. Martinez-Vela (PDF file)
http://web.mit.edu/esd.83/www/notebook/WorldSystem.pdf


Geology, Astronomy & Cosmic Perspectives  

See also, "Disasters," "Mining"

Celestia. A graphic tour of the solar system and universe. Take a tour (under "Help"), do educational activities through a NASA site, create your own planetarium
Down load software (free). http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ 
Down load software, alternative site (free, 13,565K file): http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,19600,00.asp# 
Celestia Motherload. Software addons: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ 
NASA Celestia Exploration Activity site: http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/planets/ 

Encyclopedia of Earth (under development)
http://www.earthportal.net/about/eoe/

Earth Science Links
http://www.geocities.com/muppetmasteruk/

Environmental Geology
Environmental Geology Links. http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/sainieid/env/env-links.html 
Environmental Geology online instructional modules. http://wapi.isu.edu/envgeo/index.htm 

Moon (Luna)
Apollo Image Atlas. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/ 
Origin of the Moon. http://www.psi.edu/projects/moon/moon 
Origin of the Moon. http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/outreach/origin/ 

Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm 

Paleontology (fossils)
Palaeos: The Trace of Life on Earth. http://www.palaeos.com/ 
Paleontology Portal. http://www.paleoportal.org/ 

Plate Techtonics (continental drift)
Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics (USGS web site). http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html 
Plates Project. Information about continental drift & plate tectonics, including animated maps. http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates/plates.htm 
Plate Tectonics Animated Maps. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html 

Secret World/Powers of Ten. A mind-blowing perspective, from subatomic to cosmic
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/. See also http://www.powersof10.com/


Global Warming & Climate Change  

See also, "Disasters"

Gelbspan, Ross. The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle over Earth's Threatened Climate. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1997. http://www.heatisonline.org/ 

Gelbspan, Ross. Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--An What we Can Do to Avert Disaster. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Speth, James Gustave. Red Sky at Morning: American and the Crisis of the Global Environment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Weart, Spencer R. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power
Development Dialog no. 48 (Sept. 2006). PDF files
http://www.dhf.uu.se/FMPro?-db=pub1.fp5&-format=/publications/dd/apubdddetail.. . .

Climate Ark. Climate Change Portal
http://www.climateark.org/

Climate Monitoring Reports & Products. National Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/monitoring.html

EPA on Global Warming
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index

Exploratorium’s Global Climate Change site
http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/

Global Change Master Directory (NASA)
http://gcmd.nasa.gov/

Global Climate Change  (NASA)
http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/

Global Warming: Early Warning Signs (w/ Climate Hot Map)
http://www.climatehotmap.org/

The Great Warming
http://www.thegreatwarming.com/

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (UK)
http://www.metoffice.com/research/hadleycentre/index.html

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNEP). Publications
http://www.ipcc.ch/

Library of Congress on-line climatology resources
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/subjectguides/climatologysg.html

Methane Hydrate (See also, "Energy Alternatives")
Ocean Burps and Climate Change? http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/schmidt_02/ 
Global Inventory of Natural Gas Hydrate Occurence. http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/globalhydrate/ 

NOAA Climate Change page
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climateextremes.html

Real Climate. A commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists
http://www.realclimate.org/

Too Hot to Handle. Climate change resources
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/toohot/resources.html

U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
http://www.gcrio.org/

Worldwatch Institute climate change resources
http://www.worldwatch.org/features/climate/


Grant & Fellowship Opportunities  


Barbato, Joseph and Danielle S. Furlich. Writing for a Good Cause: The Complete Guide to Crafting Proposals and Other Persuasive Pieces for Nonprofits. New York: Simon & Schuster/Fireside, 2000.

Brown, Larissa Golden and Martin John Brown. Demystifying Grant Seeking: What You Really Need to do to Get Grants. San Francisto: Jossey-Bass, 2001.

Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network. for grantseekers
http://www.cegn.org/grantseekers/generalInfo.html

Environmental Fellowship Opportunities
http://www.umich.edu/~meldi/5_env_fellowopp.html

Environmental Grantmakers Association. Links for grantseekers
http://www.ega.org/resources/index.php?op=links&issues=8

Environmental Grantmaking. Links to funders
http://www.umich.edu/~meldi/5_env_grantmaking.html

Foundation Center
http://fdncenter.org/

FundsNet Environmental Funders
http://www.fundsnetservices.com/environ.htm


Health & Medicine  


Forget, Gilles and Jean Lebel "An Ecosystem Approach to Human Health." International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health (Supplement)  7, no. 2 (April/June 2001): S1-S38.
http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/archive/corpdocs/118224/Ecosystem.pdf

Whorton, James C. Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/archive/corpdocs/118224/Ecosystem.pdf

Biodiversity and Human Health
http://www.ecology.org/biod/

Collaborative on Health and the Environment
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/

ehp: Environmental Health Perspectives. Past issues on-line
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source. On-line peer reviewed journal
http://www.ehjournal.net/

Environmental Health Links (Environmental Health Coalition)
http://www.environmentalhealth.org/links.html

Environmental Health Links (National Environmenal Health Association)
http://www.neha.org/links.html

Herbal Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/herbalmedicine.html

Herb Resources (Herb Research Foundation)
http://www.herbs.org/resources.htm

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
http://nccam.nih.gov/

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/

Protection of the Human Environment Health Topics (World Health Organization)
http://www.who.int/phe/health_topics/en/

Toxicant and Disease Database (CHE)
http://database.healthandenvironment.org/

Wiser Earth. A directory of organizations and individuals addressing central issues of our day.
http://www.wiserearth.org/


History  


Albers, Jan. Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Cronon, William, editor. Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. New York: Norton, 1995.

Dunlap, Thomas R. Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and Histroy in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Glave, Dianne D. and Mark Stoll. To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

Grove, Richad H. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. New York: Campridge University PRess, 1995.

Grove, Richard H., Vinita Damodaran, Stpal Sangwan, editors. Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Klyza, Christopher McGrory and Stephen C. Trombulak. The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History. Hanover: Middlebury College Press/University Press of New England, 1999.

Krech, Shepard, III, J. R.. McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant, editors. Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. Three volumes. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Merchant, Carolyn. The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History. New York: Columbia Unviersity Press, 2002.

Merchant, Carolyn, editor. Major Problems in American Environmental History. Lexington, Massachusetts: Heath, 1993.

Merchant, Carolyn. "Shades of  Darkness: Race and Environmental History." Environmental History 8, no. 3 (July 2003): 380-394.

Opie, John. Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998.

Richards, John F. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Smith, Kimberly K. African American Environmental Thought: Foundations. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.

Steinberg, Ted. Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

American Society for Environmental History (publisher of the journal Environmental History. Resources pages
http://www.aseh.net/about-aseh/resources

Australian and New Zealand Environmental History
http://cres.anu.edu.au/environhist/

Canadian Environmental History Bibliography
http://www.cieq.uqtr.ca/fci_hec/index_en.php

Conservation, Preservation, and Environmental Activism: A Survey of the Historical Literature
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/hisnps/NPSThinking/nps-oah.htm

Caste From the Past: Environmentalism's elistist tinge has roots in the movement's history
http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2006/03/08/klingle/index.html

Documenting Environmental Change
Home: http://www.envdoc.org/ 
Links: http://www-histecon.kings.cam.ac.uk/envdoc/links.htm 

Enviro-Tech Newsletter. An on-line publication of a special interest group of the Society for the History of Technology
http://www.udel.edu/History/gpetrick/envirotech/

Environment and Conservation. Library of Congress American Memory resorces
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Environment,+Conservation

Environment and History. Back issues online
http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/EH.html

Environmental History. Recent issues from January 2003 online
http://www.historycooperative.org/ehindex.html

Environmental History Resources (works best with Internet Explorer)
http://www.eh-resources.org/

European Society for Environmental History. International resurces
http://adm-websrv3b.sdu.dk/resources/

Evolution of the Conservation Movement. Library of Congress American Memory site
Home: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html 
Bibliography: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/consbib7.html 

Flordia Everglades.  Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/fmuhtml/everhome.html

Forest History Society
Environmental History Bibliography. http://www.foresthistory.org/research/biblio.html 
Guide to the Oral History Interview Collection. http://www.foresthistory.org/research/ohiguide.html 

History of Sustainability
http://www.historyandsustainability.org/

Land Use History of the North America
http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/

Lewis & Clark as Naturalists
http://web4.si.edu/lewisandclark/index.html?loc=/lewisandclark/

“Nature Transformed." Environmental history pages of the National Humanities Center. 
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nattrans/nattrans.htm

Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE)
http://www.history.uwo.ca/niche/directory.html

Society for the History of Technology. http://www.historyoftechnology.org/# 

U.S. Environmental History. Web links site at McMaster University
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/ushistory/environment/


Humanities  


Center for Environmental Arts & Humanities. University of Nevada, Reno
http://www.unr.edu/artsci/ceah/

Center for Humans and Nature. http://www.humansandnature.org/ 

Environmental Arts and Humanities (links)
http://www.asle.umn.edu/resources/arts.html

Environmental Humanities. References & links
http://www.unity.edu/Library/Library_Paths/env_humanities.htm


Indigenous Peoples & Cultures  

See also, "Religion," "Plants & People"

Harkin, Michael E. and David Rich Lewis, editors. Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

Hughes, J. Donald. American Indian Ecology. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1983.

Inglis, Julian T., editor. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and Cases. International Development Research Center, 1993. (Download book)
http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/683-6/

Johannes, Robert Earle. Traditional Knowledge: A Collection of Essays. IUCN, 1989.

Krech, Shepherd, III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: Norton, 1999.

Menzies, Charles R. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Alaska Native Knowledge Network (includes world wide info)
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/

American Indian Heritage Foundation
http://www.indians.org/

American Indian Tribes, Federally Recognized
http://www.indians.org/Resource/FedTribes99/fedtribes99.html

Center for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment
http://www.mcgill.ca/cine/

Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
http://www.esf.edu/nativepeoples/

Center for World Indigenous Studies World Wide Web Virtual Library
http://www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html

Conflict and Human Rights in the Amazon: The Yanomami
http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/yanomami.htm

Humanities/Policy
http://www.humanitiespolicy.unt.edu/

Indigenous Knowledge. Special issue of Northern Perspectives. Download articles
http://www.carc.org/pubs/v20no1/index.html

Indigenous Environmental Network
http://www.ienearth.org/

"Indigenous Peoples" (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_people

Indigenous Peoples and the Law
http://www.kennett.co.nz/law/indigenous/

Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialsim
http://www.ipcb.org/

Indigenous Peoples Literature
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/ipl_final.html

Indigenous Peoples of Latin America
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/indigenous/

Indigenous Peoples' Restoration Network
http://www.ser.org/iprn/default.asp

NativeWeb
http://www.nativeweb.org/

Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
http://www.galdu.org/web/

Traditional Ecological Knowledge
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/IKS/tek.html

Traditional Knowledge (IUCN resources). Go to this site and do search for "traditional knowledge"
http://www.iucn.org/

TWN: Third World Network
http://www.twnside.org.sg/



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Edited by Sarah Bobrow-Williams with the assistance of the students and faculty of Goddard College
and members of the wider environmental and sustainability studies community