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1. Statistical Resources on the Web
   Covers agriculture, business, consumers, cost of Living, demographics, economics, energy, environment, finance and currency, foreign economics, foreign governments, foreign trade, government finances, health, housing, labor, military, politics, science, s
   03-03-2008 : agriculture, business, consumers, cost of living, currency, demographics, economics, energy, environment, finance, foreign economics, foreign governments, foreign trade, government finances, health, housing, industry, labor, military, politics, science, sociology, statistics, transportation, weather
2. Poverty, Aid and World Debt
   A database covering a wide range of subjects related to poverty and the environment.
   03-03-2008 : environment, foreign aid, poverty, world debt
3. Equator Knowledge Zone: The Equator Initiative's Online Best Practice Database
   "This online tool provides users with information and resources on innovative community projects working at the interface of biodiversity and poverty reduction around the world."
   03-03-2008 : best practices, biodiversity, community development, environment, poverty reduction
4. Poverty and Conservation.info
   A bibliographic database provides details of the literature on conservation-poverty linkages. It can be searched for publications by specific organisations.
   03-03-2008 : conservation, environment, poverty
5. Globalis - an interactive world map
   "Globalis is an interactive world atlas where you decide what is to be displayed on the map. Globalis aims to create an understanding for similarities and differences in human societies, as well as how we influence life on the planet. This is primarily do
   03-03-2008 : agriculture, climate, economy, education, environment, gender equality, health, human development, land use, maps, population, poverty gap ratio, statistics, technology, water
6. Intute: Statistics and Data
   “Intute: Statistics provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet.”
   03-03-2008 : area statistics, educational institutions, educational outcomes, elections, environment, finance, health, housing, international indicators, land, markets, migration, national indicators, nutrition, population, public opinion, social attitudes and behaviour, socio-economic studies, statistical theory, statistics
7. OARE - Online Access to Research in the Environment
   “... an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest
   03-03-2008 : ecology, environment
8. United Nations Environment Network
   Thematic portals cover climate change, fresh water, GEO data, mountains, socioeconomics, and urban environment.
   03-03-2008 : climate change, ecology, environment, fresh water, geo data, mountains, socioeconomics, urban environment
9. East African Development Library
   A virtual library in which you can browse by subject or organization or also search by particular words, title, subject or organization.
   03-03-2008 : africa, agriculture, breeding, communication, community development, culture, economic development, education, energy, environment, financing, fishing, food, health, history, human development, indigenous knowledge, marketing, natural resources, ngos, science, social development, state and civil service, technology, water
10. Intergovernmental Organizations Search
    “... a search engine for those doing research into topics of interest to Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs). The IGO Search searches across hundreds of IGO websites,...”
    02-21-2008 : education, environment, european union, health united nations, hiv/aids, human rights, international development, organization for economic cooperation and development (oecd), organization of american states, the asian development bank, un development program (undp), world bank
11. Eurostat by the Statistical Office of the European Communities
    Covers a wide range of statistics, including strutural indicators, sustainable development, and much more. “Our data cover the European Union, its Member States and its partners, and are published under a variety of Themes and Collections.”
    02-21-2008 : agriculture, economy, energy, environment, european union, external trade, finance, fisheries, industry, population, regional statistics, science, services, social conditions, statistics, technology, trade, transport
12. EL@ND: Research for Development
    “EL@ND provides a single search to 11 catalogues of development information. It has multilingual support to retrieve articles in resources catalogued throughout Europe.”
    02-21-2008 : administration, africa, agriculture, america, asia, central america, culture, education, environment, europe, finance, health, industry/technology, information, international development, intl. cooperation, labour, north america, pacific islands, population, society, south, trade, transport
13. Intute: Advanced Search
    “... a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research.... Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database cont
    02-21-2008 : african, agricultural, american, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, archives, arts, asia, astronomy, australasian, australia, beauty, biomedical ethics, bioresearch, business, catering, celtic, chemistry, chinese, classics, communications, comparative literature, computing, conservation, culture, design, earth sciences, eastern european, ecology, economics, engineering, english studies, environment, european, fashion, food, forestry, french, geography, german, government, health, hispanic, history, history and philosophy of science, history of medicine, hospitality, humanities, italia, japanese, latin american, law, leisure, libraries, life sciences, linguistics, management, manuscript studies, mathematics, media, medicine, middle eastern, midwifery, modern languages, museums, music, natural history, nursing, performing arts, philosophy, physics, politics, portuguese, psychology, religions, research methods, research tools, russian, scandinavian, science, science engineering, slavonic, social sciences, social welfare, sociology, south asian, sports, statistics, technology, theology, tourism, travel, vetinerary, visual arts, women
14. Care of Creation
    “... a Christian environmental organization, seeking to awaken and mobilize the Church to care for God's creation in the face of an environmental crisis that is already devastating vast areas of the world.”
    02-21-2008 : africa, brackenhurst environmental programme, christianity, ecology, environment, kenya, missions
15. Personal Emissions Calculator by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    "Use this online calculator to obtain an estimate of your personal greenhouse gas emissions.... Then ... explore actions you and/or your family can take to lower your emissions while reducing your energy and waste disposal costs." Covers transportation, h
    02-15-2008 : environment, environmental responsibility, global warming
16. Reduce.org: Reduce Waste: If Not You, Who? by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
    "When you avoid making garbage in the first place, you don't have to worry about disposing of waste or recycling it later. Changing your habits is the key." Topics include office paper, composting, purchasing decisions, junk mail, transportation, holiday
    02-15-2008 : consumer education, environment, environmental responsibility, recycling, reuse
17. Collection on Critical Global Issues, by The New Zealand Digital Library, developed by the United Nations University Press
    Search 210 publications on agriculture and land management, development, environment and sustainability, food and nutrition, natural resource development, and science and technology.
    02-14-2008 : agriculture, agriculture and land management, critical global issues, developed by the united nations university press, environment, environment and sustainability, food and nutrition, natural resource development, science and technology, sustainable development, technology, the new zealand digital library and 1 other
18. Collection on Critical Global Issues
    “It contains 210 publications (32,000 pages) in the fields of Agriculture and Land Management, Development, Environment and Sustainability, Food and Nutrition, Natural Resource Development, Science and Technology.”
    05-01-2007 : agriculture, critical global issues, development, environment, food, global issues, land management, natural resource development, nutrition, science, sustainable development, technology and 1 other
19. Human Info NGO's Education and Development Library by UNESCO
    “The collection consists of a wide range of pedagogical material as well as educational content for basic needs, designed to be of use in both teacher training and school learning environments.” Contains 1263 documents.
    05-01-2007 : appropriate technology, community development, development, education, environment, teacher training
20. A Rocha: An International Conservation Organisation Working Together to Care for God’s World
    “... a family of projects working in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America, and Asia. A Rocha projects are frequently cross-cultural in character, and share a community emphasis, with a focus on science and research, practical conservat
    05-01-2007 : conservation, ecology, environment

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