Virtual Library Sustainable Development

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

description: A comprehensive list of internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, databases, directories or metadatabases
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Last update: 12 Nov 1997. Updated monthly..

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Resources Containing Lists of WWW Sites and other Sources Relevant to Sustainable Development

  1. A list of environmental and telecommunications events and issues, events, monthly journal.
  2. Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, communication, agriculture, sustainability, development, rural development, development communication, environmental communication, economic development
  3. Alphabetical Directory of international SD organizations and institutes
  4. Auxilliary lists for environmentalists and SD workers.
  5. Best environmental directories, selection of WWW lists of lists, by subject.
  6. Biodiversity and Biological Collections, taxonomy, genetics, biology gophers
  7. Calendars, lists of environmental industry conferences.
  8. Change works, sustainable development initiatives in Nottinghamshire (UK)
  9. Clearinghouse (environment).
  10. Community Resources Centre - Textbases, references on environment, labour, women, human rights.
  11. Conferences related to ecological economics.
  12. Conferences, environment, labour, women, human rights.
  13. Data accessible on-line.for environmentalists and SD workers.
  14. Definitions and literature, a selection of sites.
  15. Definitions: what is sustainable development?, link to various points of view.
  16. Directory of Non-Governmental Organisations Active in Sustainable Development. Part1: Europe, 3900 European NGO. Book + CD-ROM. Contact: OECD, 2 rue André Pascal, F-75775 Paris. Extract for Belgian NGOs,
  17. Développement, écologie, environnement (fr) , development, environment.
  18. Ecological economics, scientific papers
  19. ECONET on sustainable development
  20. Ecotopie, encyclopédie sur les réalisations écologiques (Belgique-France), sustainable living (fr).
  21. Education Resources for Sustainable Development
  22. Energy and environmental policy links, energy, environment, statistics (selected links)
  23. Environmental events database, metadatabase, events, environment.
  24. Environmental resources, a lot of sites are indexed here.
  25. EnviroDirectory, metadatabase on environmental lists of links.
  26. Environment, ecology and sustainable development , sustainable development resources
  27. ELDIS: Electronic Development and Environment Information System, metadatabase.
  28. Environment Resource Information Network, gopher, WWW, data sets and projects
  29. Forum on Developing Countries, economic development, international development, sustainable development
  30. Friends of the Red Road, environment, Hawaii, sustainable development
  31. The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) "federated" directories, global change
  32. Global Environmental Institute education, environment.
  33. Global Network of Environment & Technology (GNET) Home Page environmental technologies, business and news
  34. Green Globe Yearbook, International Co-operation Environment and Development, agreements on environment and development, IGOs and NGOs, environmental data on OECD countries.
  35. GREENTIE Directory 8,500 international suppliers of technologies, services, research, data, and literature, pertinent to greenhouse gas mitigation
  36. A Guide to Internet Resources in Sustainable Development , agricultural sustainability, sustainable development.
  37. Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators, searchable metadatabase.
  38. Guides to sustainable development (general), metadatabase, selected guides, directories, sustainable development
  39. Habitat in developping countries, habitat, developping countries, thirld world
  40. Information sources for sustainable development, comprehensive metadatabase.
  41. International Economic Development Resources
  42. International Institute for Sustainable Development, Information Center Database (IISD), sustainable development, metadatabase. The best!, Weekly Journal review, Search, Journals and Newsletters currently received, International institutes, NGOs, The UN, the Bank and ODA, Contact list for all organizations, Regional work, Sectoral work, Communications for SD, Information resources, ...
  43. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), International Forest Policy
  44. International Research Development Centre - Asia Regional Office
  45. Links to Sustainable Development Information and the Americas , Americas, sustainable agriculture, sustainable development
  46. Microstate Resources
  47. National parks (list of lists), national parks, directories.
  48. Openair-Market Net
  49. Organizations, institutions and business services database environment, animal welfare and human rights
  50. Overcoming consumerism, defeat consumerism, save money, work less and lead a more satisfying and environmentally benign life while helping to restore the economic self-sufficiency of your community.
  51. PANOS, actuality on developping coutries
  52. PRAXIS, or PRAXIS, social and economic development
  53. Renew America's Environmental Success Index, programs, projects, success stories, USA.
  54. Répertoire des Organisations Non Gouvernementales actives dans le domaine du développement durable. Tome 1: Europe., 3900 ONG européennes. Livre, CD-ROM. Contact: OECD, 2 rue André Pascal, F-75775 Paris. Les ONGs belges sont sur internet,
  55. River links, rivers and riverine communities
  56. Small grains, small grains (wheat, ...) production, statistics, producers directory (USA)
  57. Small islands information network, information sources on small islands sustainability
  58. Social sciences/environment (bibliography)(fr),searchable metadatabase (17000 records), sociology, environment
  59. SUNSITE gopher: ecology+evolution ecology, evolutionary biology
  60. Surf your watershed,Communities, watersheds (USA).
  61. Sustainable Architecture, Building and Culture architecture, building, ecology, materials, consultants, events
  62. Sustainable Architecture: Eco Design and Landscaping
  63. Sustainable building
  64. Sustainable Development
  65. Sustainable Development , human ecology, resources, world wide computer network
  66. Sustainable development best starting points, hard selection from this Virtual Library
  67. Sustainable Development Internet Resources,
  68. Sustainable development (USA), metadatabase.
  69. Sustainable Development Resources: Geographic Range
  70. Sustainable forestry.
  71. Web sites on Contribution of Telecommunication on Sustainable Development, communication, telework, telecommunication
  72. United Nations System of organisations, all UN and related organisations classified.
  73. World Development Movement
  74. World Wide Web Ressources in Economics
  75. Yahoo: Sustainable Development

Search engines results for Sustainable Development

A successfull search is proposed here in different search engines, with some criteria to augment the relevance of hits.
  1. Alta Vista advanced search, 'sustainable development' in title and hyperlinks, reference to Agenda 21, resources listing, last updated in 1996 (aboud 15 hits out of 30000 with sustainable development).
  2. Excite, sustainable development as a concept.
  3. Inktomi, sustainable development (aboud 50 hits out of thousands).
  4. Lokace (fr), développement durable (sites in French).
  5. LinkStar, sustainable development (the e-card of 62 organisations are found here).
  6. Yahoo, sustainable development, last 3 years, (aboud 111 hits, including many duplicates). 
    Starting Point MetaSearch Search for: 

Organisations

  1. Addresses of SD organisations, postal address, phone, fax, e-mail.
  2. Alpha Omega Christian Communities For The Chemically Injury, individuals injured by chemicals, Texas.
  3. Alternative Farming Systems Information Centre, gopher, agriculture
  4. Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
  5. American Institute of Urban and Regional Affairs education, scholar-practitioner doctoral degree and professional certification in sustainable development.
  6. Amnesty International human rights.
  7. Austin Sustainable Building Coalition ecological building, design, and development, Texas
  8. BC Wild wilderness protection and sustainable development in British Columbia
  9. Biofuels America, renewable fuels, non profit
  10. British Columbia Wood Design http://www.wooddesign.bc.ca
  11. Bureau of Resource Sciences scientific analyses and advice.
  12. Centre Entreprise-Environnement, companies, sustainable practices in industry, Belgium, Canada.
  13. Center for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment, Université Libre de Bruxelles, indicators, data sources
  14. The Centre for Environmental Labelling (CEL)
  15. Center for Excellence for Sustainable Development
  16. Center for Field Research at Earthwatch sponsors scholarly field research in biology, sociology, culture, sustainable development.
  17. Centre for international university cooperation, development, research, developing countries, cooperation, education
  18. Center for Sustainable Communities
  19. Centre for Lifelong Learning
  20. ECNC, European Centre for Nature Conservation
  21. Center for the Environment at University of California, Environmental Management, Land Use and Planning, Agriculture, training.
  22. Chainguard-Online
  23. Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) , research, Australia.
  24. Communications for Sustainable Development
  25. Communications for a Sustainable Future ,education, international studies, peace, conflict, progressive sociology, sustainable economics.
  26. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
  27. Context Institute, Sustainable culture, information; from economics to education, from art to architecture, from ceremony to community.
  28. Corporate Conservation Council, trade, sustainable economic development, community based initiatives, assets, debt, human, housing, job creation, environmental protection, America.
  29. Critical Shareholders, environmental and social justice in business.
  30. CSF Colorado Environmental Files Collection education, international studies, peace, conflict, progressive sociology, sustainable economics.
  31. Cultural Survival
  32. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Sustainable Development Web Site (en, fr), Canada, trade.
  33. Department of Plant Science, Oxford University
  34. DLO-NL Agricultural Research Department, agronomy, development, technology, engineering, safety, etc
  35. Earth Council / Consejo de la Tierra / Conseil de la terre, public, sustainable development
  36. Earth First
  37. EcoWeb local recycling, environmental information
  38. Earthwatch sponsors scholarly field research in biology, sociology, culture, sustainable development.
  39. Earthwatch sponsors scholarly field research in anthropology.
  40. Earth Pledge Foundation
  41. Ecoforestry Institute
  42. ECO-HAB International Inc,Building, construction
  43. EcoTopia, sustainable development, USA.
  44. Ecotopia, sustainable development, Europe.
  45. Ecotopie, encyclopédie sur les réalisations écologiques (Belgique-France).
  46. Eden Foundation
  47. ENDA Tiers Monde, sustainable development, Thirld World, Cities, developing countries, waste, urban development, habitat.
  48. European Partners for the Environment, environment, sustainable development, Europe.
  49. Green Cross, environment, culture, trade, economy, conflicts, policy, sustainable development.
  50. GreenLinks environment, animal welfare and human rights
  51. EcoVillage at Ithaca, green market.
  52. Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo education, Grand River water quality monitoring program, Canada, environment.
  53. Environment Resource Information Network, gopher
  54. EPA, Office of Sustainable Ecosystems & Communities, Community Challenge Grants", library, Integrative Approaches.
  55. EUROS (IT), urban ecotecnology, Italy, sustainable cities (it).
  56. FAO, rural development, developing countries, food security.
  57. Foundation for Global Sustainability
  58. Friends Of Celaque Park Cloud Forest, Honduras.
  59. Friends of the Earth
  60. Future Generations, NGO, Asia.
  61. Global Change Education, The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute climate change, education
  62. Global Forest Policy Clearinghouse
  63. Global Futures Foundation
  64. Global Research Network on Sustainable Development, BC (GRNSD) British Columbia, Canada
  65. Green CrossRoads Home Page
  66. Greenpeace
  67. GREENTIE Center greenhouse gas mitigation technologies
  68. G7NewsWeb
  69. Harvard Biodiversity and Biological Collections gopher, taxonomy, genetics, biology gophers
  70. Ho`okipa Network of Hawaiian CBO's, traditional Hawaiian approaches to community-based resources managment, taro roots perspective on the sustainable development movement
  71. ICOMOS
  72. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  73. Institute for Environmental Quality in Architecture
  74. Institute for Local Self-Reliance
  75. Institute for Sustainable Forestry
  76. International Center for the Advancement of Adult Learning (ICAAL), training and workshops for government agencies, organizations and communities.
  77. International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
  78. International Institute for Sustainable Development, information sources.
  79. International Rivers Network protection and conservation of the world's rivers and riverine communities.
  80. International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), experts, researchers, scientific references.
  81. Islands and Small States Institute of the Foundation for International Studies at the University of Malta. University Building, St. Paul Street, Valletta VLT 07, Malta. Tel: 356-248218; Fax:356-230551; e-mail: mailto:lbrig@cis.um.edu.mt, fragility index, islands, small states, global change.
  82. Malaysian Timber Council, tropical rainforestry, Malaysia.
  83. Maryland Sea Grant, marine ecology, biotechnology
  84. Millenium Institute
  85. Multinationals and Development Clearinghouse
  86. Municipal Conservation Association, Business, Industry
  87. National Centre for Sustainability USA, public education, imbalance between human economy and lifestyles and nature's elasticity or resilience.
  88. National Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED), Urban development, USA.
  89. Joint Center for Sustainable Communities, Wash. DC
  90. Natural Resources Canada - Sustainable Development
  91. Natural Resources Development Centre, Dublin, Ireland
  92. Natural Resources Institute
  93. Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, security, environment, economic and social issues in Northeast Asia.
  94. Northern Rim Institute, The publications, cultural, social, economic, political, and technological development in boreal forest.
  95. Ontario Waste Management Association , waste, Ontario.
  96. Overseas Development Network (ODN)
  97. Oxford Forestry Institute
  98. PANOS, actuality
  99. Population Action International
  100. Population Reference Bureau
  101. The President's Council on Sustainable Development USA, integrate economic and environmental policies
  102. ReliefNet
  103. Renew America, programs, projects, success stories, USA, Awards.
  104. Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
  105. Royal Road University, Canada, environmental management systems
  106. Rural Action
  107. The Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies. loss of genetic diversity - especially in agriculture - and impact of intellectual property rights on agriculture and world food security.
  108. SkogForsk
  109. Small islands information network, small islands environment and sustainability
  110. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences nonlinear dynamical systems, complex systems, fractals, chaos, bifurcations, ecology, economics, social development.
  111. Stephen Bedford Clark SBC & Associates, Sustainable Freshwater Ecology & Aquaculture Consultancy Services.
  112. Strategic Decisions Group at Laurentian University decision making, health problems, environmental management, policy debates, social issues.
  113. Sustenance sustainable organic urban agricultural systems
  114. Texas Environmental Center
  115. UNEP-GRID-Arendal, environment, North Europe, Antarctic, Norway, data, GIS, maps.
  116. United Nation's Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, indicators
  117. United Nations (UN)
  118. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  119. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  120. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  121. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the (UNHCR)
  122. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  123. University of Minnesota Soil Science, gopher, soils, agriculture.
  124. USDA, (gopher), agriculture, water, waste, economic transition, pesticides, food safety, etc.
  125. Victoria Transport Policy Institute
  126. Le village des associations, equity, NGOs, telematics, social development.
  127. Volunteers in Technical Assistance WWW or Volunteers in Technical Assistance Gopher technology adaptation, development
  128. Wageningen Agricultural University Library, agriculture Netherlands
  129. World Bank, development
  130. World Business Council for Sustainable Development , eco-efficiency through high standards of environmental and resource management in business.
  131. World Forest Institute forest resources
  132. World Health Organization
  133. World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
  134. World Resources Institute (WRI), sustainable development indicators, biodiversity, climate change, environmental education, forest frontiers initiative, forest resources, health and environment, africa, sustainable agriculture, trends and indicators, world resources.
  135. World Trade Organization (WTO)
  136. World Wildlife Fund, WWF-UK, WWF-US natural habitats and species conservation.
  137. Worldwatch Institute
  138. Yellow Mountain Institute for Sustainable Living

Projects, activities

  1. Arcosanti Project
  2. Australian initiatives for ecologically sustainable development.
  3. Biodiversity Information Network, biodiversity
  4. CGNET , Telnet: user id Gopher; password: GUEST, CGNET, gopher
  5. Citizens Network for Sustainable Development information ecology, information habitat, information for sustainable development, children's summit.
  6. COGEN, biomass energy technologies, Europe, ASEAN.
  7. Ecotopia Box, sustainable development, environment, Europe.
  8. ELDIS: Electronic Development and Environment Information System, metadatabase, environment, development
  9. EcoVillage Network, market
  10. Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Training Project
  11. EPE Partnership Builder, sustainable development, environment, Europe.
  12. The Environmental Education Network environmental education on-line, multi-media format.
  13. Finnish Biodiversity Information Network
  14. The GeoSphere Project Report visualizations Earth processes.
  15. The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) "federated" directories, global change
  16. Global Environmental Change Programme, United Kingdom, research.
  17. Global Labelling Network
  18. GreenNet Home Page environment, peace, human rights, development groups
  19. HungerWeb
  20. Implementing Sustainable Development in High Consumption Societies: A Comparative Assessment of National Strategies and Initiatives, (research project), high consumption societies, government responses, industrialised countries, Framework Convention on Climate Change; Convention on Biological Diversity, national governments of Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA, strategy, policy, law, sustainable development.
  21. Indicators of Environmental Performance and Sustainable Development , research project, companies (sector paper and pulp), environmental performance measurement, Canada, industry.
  22. INFORSE, the International Network for Sustainable Energy
  23. Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Design sustainable building, Italy
  24. InterAction
  25. International registration of forests, sustainable forestry cooperation
  26. Leadership for Environment and Development Program
  27. Mega-Cities Project,
  28. Mountain forum, mountain cultures, environment and sustainable development
  29. New Forests Project
  30. Norwegian Universities' Committee for Development Research and Education, development, cooperation, research, education, developing countries
  31. Population and Sustainable Development Programme, American Association for the Advancement of Science, human population, environment, natural resource consumption, demography, reproductive healthcare, gender, culture.
  32. Rainforest Action Network, activism
  33. Renew America's Environmental Success Index, programs, projects, success stories, USA.
  34. Small islands information network, information sources, small islands sustainability
  35. Sustainable cities programme (UNCHS (Habitat)/UNEP), urban sustainable development, cities, developping countries
  36. Sustainable Development Networking Programme SDNP, United Nations.
  37. Technology, Business and Environment at MIT linking technological change with sound environmental management.
  38. TouNet, sustainable tourism.
  39. Tradeable Assets for Sustainable Communities, turning blight - deteriorated housing, pollution, and unemployment - into assets - jobs and profits, educational oppurtunities, and clean, healthy rural and urban communities, America.
  40. UK Social Investment Forum (UKSIF)
  41. UNDP - Devwatch , sustainable development indicators
  42. Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative, urban environmental technology
  43. Urban Habitat Program (UHP) cultivating multicultural urban environmental leadership to create socially just and ecologically sustainable communities.
  44. Worldlights, humanitarian capitalism, lighthouse, Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, columbarium

Events

  1. Urban, Regional, Environmental Planning and Informatics to Planning in an Era of Transition?, Athens, Greece - October 22-24, 1997, call for papers, en, international conference
  2. Second International Symposium on Catalyst '97, In Canberra, Australia at the University of Canberra. Friday 5th - Monday 8th, December 1997. Phone + 61 6 201 5754. Fax + 61 6 201 2279.
  3. environmental events database, metadatabase, events, environment.

News, discussion groups, Listservs, ...

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List-name and keywords (main source: IISD, 1996):

  1. ACDGIS-L , GIS (de)
  2. AE , energy.
  3. AFRICA-L , Africa, Internet
  4. bitl.africa , Africa, Internet
  5. AFRICA-N , Africa news
  6. AFRICANA-L , information technology
  7. AG-ECON , agricultural economy
  8. AG-FORST , agro-forestry
  9. Ag-Sieve , tropical agriculture
  10. BIODIV-L , biodiversity network
  11. BIOREGIONAL , bioregion, global to meet local
  12. BIOSPH-L , biosphere
  13. CED-NET , community economic development
  14. CERRO-L development Central Europe
  15. CIAMAA-L , atmosphere (es, en)
  16. CITES-L , trade in wildlife, endangered species.
  17. citnet-list , information ecology, information habitat, information for sustainable development.
  18. Climate/Ecosystem Dynamics - Mailing List, climate, weather, ecosystems
  19. CLIM-ECON, Economics of Climate Variability and Global Change
  20. CLIMLIST , climate change
  21. COASTGIS , coast, GIS
  22. COMDEV , communication and international development.
  23. Communications for a Sustainable Future
  24. CONSBIO , protection of life, conservation
  25. CONSGIS , biological conservation and GIS
  26. CONSLINK , dates of conferences
  27. DEBT, debt, International, Private, Government
  28. DEVEL-L , technology transfer, development
  29. DevMedia , media for development and democracy
  30. EAF-L , EcoAgroForestry
  31. ecocity , urban sustainability
  32. ECOFEM, Studies in Women and Environment
  33. ecol-econ , ecological economics
  34. ECOLOG-L , ecological society of America.
  35. ECOLOGY , politics and environment
  36. ecolview , ecology
  37. ECONET , environment
  38. ECONOMY, economy and politics of less developped countries.
  39. ECOPSYCHOLOGY, Ecological Psychology
  40. ECOSYS-L , ecosystem modelling.
  41. EECONET-L, ecological networks
  42. EENETS-LIST, electronic environmental education.
  43. EGT, Environment and Game Theory
  44. EHS-L , environmental health system
  45. ELAN, Environment in Latin America Network
  46. ENERGY-L , energy in Israel.
  47. ENV-BIOTECH , biotechnology
  48. ENVBEH-L, environmental behaviour
  49. enviroethics , ethics and philosophy
  50. ENVSEC_F , environmental dimensions of security, population growth, natural ressources.
  51. ENVST-L , environmental studies programs.
  52. ENVTECSOC, Environment Technology and Society
  53. eon, Environment on the net
  54. eon-digest, Environment on the net, digest
  55. ETP-L , environmental training
  56. FEMISA, Feminist Studies
  57. FMDSS-L , forest management planning information and decision systems
  58. FUTUREWORK, Designing for Post-Industrial Realities
  59. GIS-L , geographical information systems
  60. GLIPF-L , great lakes
  61. GLOMOD-L , global modelling
  62. GLOSAS-L , global systems analysis and simulation
  63. GREEN , green movments
  64. GRNSCH-L reducing environmental impact of colleges and institutes activities
  65. GRNSD-XX , research on sustainable development
  66. Habitat2 , Habitat II conference.
  67. HimNet Hymalaya, geology.
  68. HOMELESS, Homelessness
  69. IAPWILD , International Arctic Project Wildlife
  70. IDS , Indonesian Development Studies
  71. INTDEV-L , International development and global education
  72. IPE, International Political Economy
  73. isdrn-list, International Sustainable Development Research Network
  74. iwc-l , Small islands sustainability
  75. LIST GLOBAL, all available lists.
  76. MARINE-L, seas, oceans
  77. MARMAM, marine mammals
  78. mideastenviro, Middle East, environment
  79. Mountain forum, mountain cultures, environment and sustainable development
  80. NATIVE-L, Aboriginal Peoples
  81. NATLIT-Lpublications on nature, environmental science and outdoor activities
  82. NATURA-L, Chile
  83. PDBLIST, Paradigms for boosting development
  84. PEACE, Peace Studies
  85. RECYCLE
  86. RESPON-$, responsible investment
  87. RIMAFNET marine policy
  88. RURALDEV, Community and rural economic development internationally
  89. RUSAG-L, American and Russian.
  90. Sanet-mg, sustainable agriculture
  91. SARDTABLE-L indicators of sustainability
  92. SEAC-L, student action
  93. SEASIA-L, South-east Asia
  94. SIIN-L, small islands.
  95. specieslistspecies lists inventory.
  96. SUSAG-LIBRARY, Sustainable agriculture related documents.
  97. SUSDEV, sustainable development publications.
  98. SUSTAG-L, sustainable agriculture.
  99. sustain, sustainability
  100. sustainable-development, sustainable development
  101. thrdwrld, Third World
  102. TRADE-LIBRARY, trade.
  103. Trade-News, trade.
  104. UIGIS-L, user interface for GIS
  105. UN, United Nations
  106. UNDP SDN Mail server, To receive documentation on the Sustainable Development Networking Project, type "HELP" in body of text to obtain instructions.
  107. urban-forestry, urban-forestry
  108. URBANITES, self-sufficiency
  109. WATER-L, water quality
  110. wsn, world-systems, transnational, transdisciplinary
  111. WILDNET, conservation

Libraries

  1. Sustainable Earth Electronic Library

Documents, references

  1. IISD directory of resources, by region, by subject, on the Internet, Audio Video resources.
  2. 1995 Report of Canada to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
  3. The "1996 Baseline Environmental Management Report" (BEMR), life-cycle cost and schedule estimate for the cleanup of the former nuclear weapons complex
  4. Agenda 21 (en), (de), UNCED, Rio 1992.
  5. Alternative treaty on trade and sustainable development, trade, alternative, sustainable development, Rio 1992.
  6. Articles on Sustainable Forestry
  7. Articles on Sustainablity
  8. Combustion in the RainForest: Ecology, Energy and Economy for a Sustainable Environment, combustion, rainforest, ecology, energy, economy.
  9. Community Resources Centre - Textbases, references on environment, labour, women, human rights.
  10. Global crisis (Ted Trainer), economic hegemony, alternative, sustainable lifestyle, Conserver society.
  11. Daughters of the Pacific, de Ishtar, Zohl. 1994. . Spinifex Press. Melbourne, Australia. Contains oral testaments from Indigenous Pacific and Australian women of the impact of colonisation on their people. Social, economic, political, cultural aspects, development issues.
  12. Ecologically Sustainable Development in Australia, Australia, sustainable development
  13. Electronic Global Networking and the NGO movement... (Shelley Preston)
  14. Environmental Ethics: Sustainability, Competition, and Forestry
  15. Executive Summary , sustainable development indicators
  16. FAO, SD-Dimensions, rural development, developing countries, internet, communication
  17. FAO/ITTO Expert Meeting on the Harmonization of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management
  18. FoEI Position paper for the 1995 Session of the CSD
  19. Global Governance (references,1996)
  20. Greenpeace Principles and Guidelines for Ecologically Responsible Forest Use
  21. Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators
  22. Hot topic of the month, many selected references on various topics.
  23. Indicators of sustainable development for the United Kingdom, download selected indicators (The economy, Transport use, Leisure and tourism, Overseas trade, Energy, Land use, Water resources, Forestry, Fish resources, Climate change, Ozone layer depletion, Acid deposition, Air, Fresh water quality, Marine, Wildlife and habitats, Land cover and landscape, Soil, Minerals extraction, Waste, Radioactivity) on PDF or Works files.
  24. The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide, home recycling, junk mail & email.
  25. Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management, solid waste, (only abstracts and index are available on the Web).
  26. Measure Sustainable Forest Management in the US
  27. A Modest Proposal to Save the World by Jay Hanson.
  28. Partnership for Change. Practical examples of Agenda 21 follow-up (Norway's Special Report to EARTH SUMMIT+5, the Special Session of the UN General Assembly to Review and Appraise the Implementation of Agenda 21)
  29. Papua New Guinea Forests Directory; Worldwide Biodiversity/Forest Campaign News, archive
  30. Population Index
  31. Presidio Conference
  32. Real Wealth of Nations (references,1996)
  33. Rights & Responsibilities (references,1996)
  34. Security and Environment (references,1995)
  35. Smoke and Illusion, tobacco, biomass energy, pesticides, victimes, literature.
  36. Social Indicators of Development (1994), data
  37. Sustainable Resources Use And Development
  38. SD-Dimensions (FAO) news and analytical articles on people, institutions, knowledge and environment.
  39. Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (references,1995)
  40. Sustainable Agriculture FAQ, hyper-FAQ
  41. Sustainable Building Sourcebook
  42. Sustainable Development in Canada , sustainable development, Canada
  43. Sustainable Development, forests.
  44. Sustainable Development-English , minerals, metals, Canada.
  45. Sustainable Development Indicators (references,1995)
  46. Sustainable Development: A Chance for Harvesting and Protection of Forest Ecosystem, sustainable development indicators
  47. Sustainable Development And The Delaware Estuary Program , sustainable development indicators
  48. Sustainable Development- General , Bibliography, sustainable development (references, 1995)
  49. The Sustainable Development Networking Programme... (UN: Q. I. Daudpota, R. Zambrano, UNDP
  50. Sustainable Fisheries (references,1995)
  51. Sustainable Livelihoods (references,1995)
  52. Sustainability Consciousness
  53. Syllabi and Readings in Ecological Economics, ecological economics
  54. Towards Sustainable Development
  55. TouNet, sustainable tourism definition and case studies.
  56. Trends in Developing Economies (1994)
  57. Tropical Forestry and The Environment
  58. UNCED documents, Rio declaration, Agenda 21, Rio 1992.
  59. UNESCO World Science Report 1996 research, education, regional
  60. The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
  61. United Nations Conference on Population (Cairo), demography
  62. United Nations Task Force on Environmental Labelling
  63. A Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities (draft discussion paper), responsibility, human rights.
  64. U.S. Development Assistance: A Visual Briefing , sustainable development indicators
  65. Vegetarian facts for saving our health and planet
  66. Why sustainability is wrong anti-sustainablility, against.
  67. Women, Environment and Development (references,1995)
  68. Working papers on international environmental law development
  69. World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development
  70. World Resources 1996-97: A Guide to the Global Environment
  71. The World Wide Computer Network and Human Ecology, promoting sustainable development on the WWW.
  72. Yellow Mountain Institute for Sustainable Living

Electronic journals

  1. A list of environmental and telecommunications events and issues, events, monthly journal.
  2. FAO, SD-Dimensions, articles and news focused on developing countries, rural development, communication.
  3. e-design online, sustainable building
  4. Earth Negotiations Bulletin
  5. EcoNews Africa
  6. Environmental Building News, sustainable design and construction (news, events, highlights from past issues, product reviews).
  7. Environmental Defense Fund Online--The Web of Life
  8. Global Change Education, The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute climate change, education
  9. OneWorld Online
  10. PANOS, news, Thirld World
  11. Review of environmental and agricultural resources on the net
  12. Sustainable Development and Energy
  13. Sustainable Energy Newsletter
  14. Water Online Newsletter by Ian Lisk, water/wastewater industry.
  15. VirtualPresidio Journal, critical commentary on sustainability.
  16. Vivre Autrement (fr), sustainable cities, villes durables, Sud.

Databases

  1. Best Practices for human settlements, cities, sustainable urban development
  2. Community Resources Centre - Textbases, references on environment, labour, women, human rights.
  3. Database of Sustainable Development Resources in USA
  4. ELDIS: Electronic Development and Environment Information System, comprehensive metadatabase on all types of sources.
  5. Information sources for sustainable development, comprehensive metadatabase on all types of sources.
  6. Threshold 21 National Sustainable Development Model , sustainable development indicators, model, software, tool.
  7. Statistical Resources on the Web, agriculture; business and industry; cost of living; demographics; economics; education; energy; finance and currency; foreign economics; foreign governments; foreign trade; government finances; government resources; health (natality, morbidity, mortality); housing; labor; military; politics; science (computers, environment, personnel, R&D); sociology (children, crime, elderly, immigration); transportation; weather.

Tools

  1. building energy and sustainable design, software and demos, energy efficient buildings
  2. Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD), Internet, SIN, information system
  3. Small Site Waste-Energy Recovery Plant
  4. Solarwall, building component used to solar heat large buildings in North America, and for crop drying in theThird World
  5. Threshold 21 National Sustainable Development Model , sustainable development indicators, model, software, tool.
  6. Tools, ideas and technologies to save or recycle energy, waste, energy, sustainable behaviours.

Communication for Sustainable Development

  1. Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, (14000 citations indexed), communication, agriculture, sustainability, development, rural development, development communication, environmental communication, economic development
  2. Citizens Network for Sustainable Development information ecology, information habitat, information for sustainable development, children's summit.
  3. IISD metadatabase, Computer Networking, The Press, Publishers, Radio, Satellite, TV/Film/Video.

Fun, humor

  1. Affluenza, the desease of modern life
  2. New dream, reduce consumption

Other WWW Virtual Library Sites that could be Relevant to Sustainable Development

  1. Agricultural Economics
  2. Anthropology
  3. Biodiversity and ecology
  4. Culture
  5. Demography & Population Studies
  6. Earth Science
  7. Education
  8. Energy
  9. Environment
  10. Environmental law
  11. Epidemiology
  12. Forestry
  13. Geography Hazards and Risk
  14. Habitat in developping countries
  15. History
  16. International Development Co-operation
  17. International environmental law
  18. International Security
  19. Law
  20. Migration and Ethnic Relations
  21. Pacific Studies
  22. Philosophy
  23. Political Science
  24. Politics and Economics
  25. Population Ecology
  26. Social Sciences
  27. Sociology
  28. Statistics
  29. Technology Transfer
  30. United Nations and other international organisations

Author: Bruno Kestemont (bkest@ulb.ac.be) of CESSE, under financing of the Belgian Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs

Creation: 18/04/1996, last update: see above.

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