Contents:

1. Franklin, the Penn Library Catalog
2. Internet Resources
3. Indexes, Abstracts, and Catalogs
4. Guides and Bibliographies
5. Directories
6. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
7. Statistics Sources
8. Atlases

Franklin, the Penn Library Catalog

• A Franklin Subject Search must use Library of Congress Subject Headings. Find the correct Headings in the large ref Library of Congress Subject Headings books at the Reference Desk, look up a book you know of and see what subject have been assigned, or ask a librarian. Some suggested Headings are listed below. Note that "Environment" is not itself a subject heading; the suggested headings are: Ecology, Human Ecology, and Man Influence of environment.

  Selected Library of Congress Subject Headings:

  ecology environmental engineering environmental law environmental policy environmental protection environmental sciences environmentalism environmentalists

  green movement hazardous waste human ecology influence of environment man influence of environment man influence on environment polution

  urbanization water pollution

• A Franklin Subject Keyword search, such as: skey environmental, or skey "human ecology" will find a subject heading or a word or phrase within a Subject Heading and will display records in a single list, with the most recent first. Note that a keyword search for environment will find over 5000 titles, although "environment" is not a Library of Congress subject heading.

Internet Resources

• Committee for the National Institute for the Environment - Includes Congressional Research Service Reports on the environment.
• Environmental Protection Agency - large, well organized site from EPA with quick data access (see Envirofacts Warehouse for Toxic Release Inventory, Hazardous Waste, Water Quality and other data). Also provides policy statements, news, laws, etc.
• Environment - Earth Systems, Inc.
• Best environmental directories - extensive subject list of directories and sites, from Centre for Economic and Social Studies for the Environment, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
• Yahoo! Environment and Nature - all areas: animal rights, business, countries, databases, eco-tourism, energy,..., waste management, weather, wildflowers. etc.

  And see:

• Other Environment and Ecology Web Sites

Indexes, Abstracts, and Catalogs

• Agricola The topics covered in this database include: pollution and water quality, as well as: agriculture, agronomy, animal science, biology, biotechnology, botany, breeding, chemistry, conservation, crop management, dairy science, ecology, entomology, farm management, feed science, fertilizers, food and nutrition, forestry, horticulture, hydrology, hydroponics, microbiology, nutrition, pesticides, physiology, plant science, soil science, and zoology. Resources in all languages are represented. AGRICOLA indexes more than 2,000 serial titles as well as books, pamphlets, conference proceedings, research reports, government documents, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual content, and microforms. Covers 1979 to the present. Updated monthly.

• CAB Abstracts , 1973- . CAB ABSTRACTS is a database service with international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, forestry and related bio-science fields, including: urban planning, urban development, environment, urban environment, ecology, human ecology, resource management and conservation, as well as: human health; human nutrition; and animal health. The database includes over 3 million records with 30% of the coverage relating to crop production, 24% in veterinary and human health, 13% in animal sciences, 13% in crop protection, and 19-20% of the content covering a wide array of other, related topics. The database includes abstracts for over 95% of the records that are culled each year from over 14,000 serial titles, books, monographs, technical reports, proceedings, patents, bibliographies, translated journals and published theses. Covers 1973 to the present. Updated monthly.

• EI Compendex Covers all aspects of engineering, including: environmental, chemical, mechanical, civil, energy, geological, biological, electrical, automotive, nuclear, and aerospace engineering; as well as computers, robotics and industrial robots. Journal articles, conference proceedings, transactions, reports, monographs, standards, government reports and other special publications. 1970 to the present.

• Environment Abstracts, 1975- (On CD-ROM in the Van Pelt Reference Moelis Center GE 1 E585; bound vols. to 1996 at Van Pelt Library GE 1 E5873) Index to papers and articles in over 800 English language journals, conference proceedings and other publications from international and nongovernmental organizations, universities, associations, etc. Includes 1975-1993 Energyline Abstracts. Updated quarterly

• The Environment index. Environment information access. New York: Environment Information Center, 1971-1987. 17 v. (Van Pelt Library GE 1 E587) Library has: v.1 (1971)-v.17 (1987)

• United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Printing Management. EPA publications; a quarterly guide. Washington, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency; U.S. G.P.O., 1970. (Van Pelt Library Reference TD 170 U555; Microfiche U.S.Doc. EP 1.21/7: )

• United States. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA national publications catalog. Washington, DC : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Administration and Resources Management : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1994- Listing by sponsoring office, title, EPA number, and subject. 6000 titles in 1996. Titles only; no abstracts. Documents can be obtained from Source office or NTIS (fee). (Latest issue only retained in Van Pelt Reference Stacks TD 171 E633)

  Other databases which could be useful for environmental studies:

  • AccessUN
  • Academic Index
  • America: History and Life
  • GeoRef
  • Inside Information *Plus*
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
  • ISI Citation Indexes
  • LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe
  • Monthly Catalog of US Government Docs
  • PAIS International
  • Population Index
  • Statistical Universe
  • STAT-USA/Internet

Guides and Bibliographies

• World Guide to Environmental Issues and Organizations . Ed. Peter Brackley. London, Longman, 1990. 386p. Bibliographic essays and an annotated list of organizations. Covers: environmental protection, environmental policy, environmental protection, nature conservation, pollution, and human ecology. (Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks TD 170 W68 1990)

• Encyclopedia of environmental information sources. edited by Sarojini Balachandran. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993. xxxi, 1813 p. Subject guide to 34,000 print and other sources on all aspects of the environment. Most entries include contents notes. (Van Pelt Library Reference TD 170 E53 1993)

• Literature of Nature; an international sourcebook . Ed. Patrick Murphy. Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 490p. Index. Bibliographic essays on nature writing and literature of and for all regions of the world. (Van Pelt Reference Stacks PN 48 L58 1998)

• Country Environmental Studies; an annotated bibliography of environmental and natural resource profiles and assessments. World Resources Inst., 1992. 230 p. Long annotations of mostly book-length reports. Arranged by region. Country and region index. Availability information. (Van Pelt Reference TD 191 D57 1992)

• 1993 Information Please Environmental Almanac. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1993. 655p Index. Articles, tables, charts, country profiles. (Van Pelt Reference TD 176.4)

• Nordquist, Joan. Environmental issues in the Third World : a bibliography compiled by Joan Nordquist. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1991. 72 p. (Van Pelt Library Reference Z 5863 P6 N67 1991)

• Global economic co-operation : a guide to agreements and organizations Bernard Colas, editor ; preface by Javier Pirez de Cuillar. Didcot, [England]: Management Books 200 ; Deventer, the Netherlands : Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers ; Tokyo, [Japan] : United Nations University Press, c1994. 557 p. ( Van Pelt Library K3823 .G66 1994 )

• Natural areas inventory, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 1992 prepared by Pennsylvania Science Office, The Nature Conservancy ; recommended uses of the inventory prepared by Delaware County Planning Department. Media, Pa.: The Dept., 1992. 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ( Fine Arts Library QH105.P4 N38 1992 )--

• 1993 Directory of country environmental studies : an annotated bibliography of environmental and natural resource profiles and assessments [editors, Daniel B. Tunstall, Mieke van der Wansem]. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, c1992. vi, 230 p. ( Van Pelt Library Reference TD191 .D57 1992 )--

• Sardinsky, Robert. Resource-efficient housing guide : a select annotated bibliography and directory of helpful organizations [by Robert Sardinsky]. Snowmass, Colo.: Rocky Mountain Institute, [1989], c1987. 127 p. ( Fine Arts Library TJ163.5.D86 S27 1989 Note: This item does not circulate. )

• Newton, David E. Environmental justice : a reference handbook David E. Newton. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1996. xiv, 271 p. (Van Pelt Library JC 578 N485 1996; Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks JC 578 N485 1996)

• Companion encyclopedia of geography: the environment and humankind edited by Ian Douglas, Richard Huggett, and Mike Robinson. London ; New York: Routledge, 1996. xxviii, 1021 p. : ill., maps, index. Essays on major aspects of the human environment. (Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks G 116 C645 1996)

• Berkovitch, Israel. Energy sources and policy : an overview and guide to the literature by Israel Berkovitch. London: British Library, Science Reference and Information Service (SRIS), Marketing and Public Relations Section, c1996. ii, 180 p. : ill. ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks TD195.E49 B47 1996 )

• Palmer, Clare, 1967- Environmental ethics Clare Palmer. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1997. xiv, 192 p. ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GE42 .P35 1997 )

Directories

• Gale Environmental Sourcebook; a guide to organizations, agencies, and publications. Detroit, Gale, 1994. 2d ed. 933p Index. Over 11,900 entries. Address, phone numbers, contact name, and description. (Van Pelt Reference TD 169.6 G3)

• Environment Encyclopedia and Directory. London : Europa Publications Ltd., 1994- . Van Pelt Library GE 10 E555; latest in Reference)

• World Guide to Environmental Issues and Organizations . Ed. Peter Brackley. Lndon, Longman, 1990. 386p. Bibliographic essays and annotated list of organizations.

• Your resource Guide to Environmental Organizations . ed. John Seredich. Irvine, Smiling Dolphins, 1991. 514p. Index. Non-governmental, state and federal organizations in the U.S. 2-3 pages of information on each organization. (Van Pelt Reference TD 171 Y68 1991)

• Levine, Michael. The environmental address book; how to reach the environment's greatest champions and worst offenders. N.Y., Perigee, 1991. (Van pelt Reference TD 169.6 L48 1991)

• Doyle, Kevin. The complete guide to environmental careers in the 21st century the Environmental Careers Organization ; John R. Cook, Jr., president ; Kevin Doyle, editor and project director ; Kevin Doyle, Sam Heizmann, Tanya Stubbs, writers ; Meryl Brott, Dylan Murray, research assistants. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, c1999. xvi, 447 p. : ill. (Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GE 60 D 69 1999)

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Conservation and Environmentalism; an encyclopedia . Ed. Robert Paehlke. NY, Garland, 1995. 771p. Index. Long, signed articles, with "Further Readings". (Van Pelt Reference Stacks GE 10 C68 1995)

• Donahue, Debra. Conservation and the Law; a dictionary . Santa Barbara, ABC Clio, 1998. 380p. Index. "Contemporary Legal Issues" series. (Van Pelt Reference KF 5505 A68 D66 1998)

• Environmental encyclopedia William P. Cunningham ... [et al.], editors. Detroit: Gale Research, c1998. xxiv, 1196 p. : ill. ( Van Pelt Library Reference )

• Environment Encyclopedia and Directory. London : Europa Publications Ltd., 1994- . Van Pelt Library GE 10 E555; latest in Reference)

• Macmillan encyclopedia of the environment general editor, Stephen R. Kellert ; associate editors, Matthew Black, Richard Haley. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA ; London : Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, c1997. 6 v. : ill. (some col.), col. maps (Van Pelt Library Reference On Order 6/98 )

• Collin, P. H. (Peter Hodgson). Dictionary of ecology and the environment P. H. Collin. Teddington, Middlesex: Peter Collin Publishing, 1995. 253, [15] p. (Van Pelt Library Reference QH 540.4 C65 1995)

• King, James J. The environmental dictionary : and regulatory cross reference compiled by James J. King. New York: Wiley, c1995. xviii, 1295 p. (Lippincott Library Reference KF 3775 A68 K57 1995)

• Levinson, David, 1947- Human environments : a cross-cultural encyclopedia David Levinson. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1995. xiv, 284 p. : ill. (Van Pelt Library Reference GF 4 L49 1995)

• The Concise Oxford dictionary of ecology edited by Michael Allaby. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. vii, 415 p. (Van Pelt Library Reference QH 540.4 C66 1994)

• Environmental encyclopedia William P. Cunningham ... [et al.], editors. Detroit: Gale Research, c1994. xxi, 981 p. : ill. (Van Pelt Library Reference GE 10 E57 1993)

• The Dictionary of ecology and environmental science Henry W. Art, general editor ; foreword by F. Herbert Bormann ; contributing editors, Daniel Botkin ... [et al.]. New York: H. Holt, 1993. viii, 632 p. : ill. (Van Pelt Library Reference GE 10 D53 1993)

• Collin, P. H. (Peter Hodgson) Dictionary of ecology and the environment P.H. Collin. London: P. Collin Pub., c1992. 236, [13] p. (Van Pelt Library QH 540.4 C65 1992)

• The HarperCollins dictionary of environmental science Gareth Jones ... [et al.] New York, N.Y.: HarperPerennial, c1992. vi, 453 p. : ill. (Van Pelt Library Reference GF 11 H37 1992)

• A Dictionary of environmental quotations compiled by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1992. viii, 335 p. ( Van Pelt Library Reference PN6084.N2 D53 1992 )

• Ashworth, William, 1942- The encyclopedia of environmental studies William Ashworth. New York: Facts on File, c1991. viii, 470 p. : ill., maps ( Van Pelt Library Reference TD9 .A84 1991 )

• Crump, Andy. Dictionary of environment and development : people, places, ideas and organizations Andy Crump. London: Earthscan, 1991. 272 p. (Van Pelt Library Reference GF 50 C95 1991)

• Environmental regulatory glossary edited by G. William Frick and Thomas F.P. Sullivan. [Environmental glossary. Rockville, MD, USA: Government Institutes, c1990. vi, 449 p. ( Van Pelt Library TD169.3 .E58 1990 )

• Collins reference dictionary, environmental science Gareth Jones ... [et al.] ; adviser: Joy Tivy. London: Collins, 1990. vi, 473 p. : ill. (Van Pelt Library Reference QH 540.4 E58 1990)

• Allaby, Michael. Dictionary of the environment Michael Allaby. New York: New York University Press, 1989. 423 p. (Van Pelt Library Reference QH 540.4 A44 1989)

• Tver, David F. Dictionary of dangerous pollutants, ecology, and environment David F. Tver. New York, N.Y.: Industrial Press, c1981. ix, 347 p. : ill. (Biomedical Library Reference TD 173 T83 1981)

• McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of environmental science Sybil P. Parker, editor in chief. [McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. New York: McGraw-Hill Books Co., c1980. 858 p. : ill. (Van Pelt Library Reference QH 540.4 M3 1980)

• The Planet [computer file] [Planet (San Francisco, Calif. : Online) San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, ( Penn Library World Wide Web - Note: Accessible on Library World Wide Web home page )--

• Axelrod, Alan, 1952- The environmentalists : a biographical dictionary from the 17th century to the present Alan Axelrod and Charles Phillips. New York: Facts on File, c1993. xiv, 258 p. : ill. (Van Pelt Library Reference S 926 A2 A94 1993)

• Davis, Lee A. Environmental disasters : a chronicle of individual, industrial, and governmental carelessness Lee Davis. New York: Facts on File, c1998. viii, 246 p. : ill. ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GE140 .D383 1998 )--

• Biographical dictionary of American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists edited by Keir B. Sterling ... [et al.]. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. xix, 937 p. ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks QH26 .B535 1997 )--

• Palmer, Clare, 1967- Environmental ethics Clare Palmer. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1997. xiv, 192 p. ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GE42 .P35 1997 )--

• Wells, Edward R. (Edward Robert), 1964- Historical dictionary of North American environmentalism Edward R. Wells and Alan M. Schwartz. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997. xxix, 226 p. : ill. ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GE10 .W45 1997 )--

• Gilpin, Alan. Dictionary of environment and sustainable development Alan Gilpin. Chichester ; New York: Wiley, c1996. xiii, 247 p. : ill., maps ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HC79.E5 G518 1996 )--

• Conservation and environmentalism : an encyclopedia editor, Robert Paehlke. New York: Garland Pub., 1995. xxxiii, 771 p. : maps ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GE10 .C68 1995 )--

• Levinson, David, 1947- Human environments : a cross-cultural encyclopedia David Levinson. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1995. xiv, 284 p. : ill. ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GF4 .L49 1995 )--

• van der Leeden, F. Water encyclopedia. Chelsea, Mich., Lewis, 1990. 2d. ed. 808p. Index. Largely data. 600 tables on: climates, hydrology, surface and ground water, water use, water quality, and legislation. (Van Pelt Reference Stacks TD 351 V36 1990)

Statistics Sources

• Statistical Universe

• STAT-USA/Internet

• Darney, Arsen. Statistical Record of the Environment . Detroit, Gale, 1992. 855p. Index. 851 tables of world data from over 200 named sources. Arranged by topic and sub-topic. Subject Index. Largely a statistical record of the effects, costs, and control of wastes and pollutants in the U.S. (Van Pelt Reference TD 180 D37 1992)

• A Statistical portrait of the United States : social conditions and trends edited by Mark S. Littman ; [contributors: Mark S. Littman ... [et. al.]]. Lanham, Md.: Bernan Press, c1998. xxi, 404 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HA214 .S84 1998 )

• European Environmental Statistics Handbook. Comp. Oksana Newman. Detroit, Gale, 1993. 436p. Subj. and Geog. Index. 767 tables. (Van Pelt Reference Stacks GE E85 E86 1993)

Atlases

• The atlas of global change edited by Lothar Beckel ; [translation, Howard Fine]. [Global change. English. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA ; London : Prentice Hall International, 1998. vii, 164 p. : col. ill., col. maps ( Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GE149 .G4813 1998 )--

• The Conservation atlas of tropical forests : Asia and the Pacific The World Conservation Union ; edited by N. Mark Collins, Jeffrey A. Sayer, Timothy C. Whitmore. New York ; London: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 256 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ( Van Pelt Library Reference G 2201 K3 C6 1991 )

• The conservation atlas of tropical forests : the Americas editors, Caroline S. Harcourt, Jeffrey A. Sayer ; map editor and editorial assistant, Clare Billington. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1 atlas (335 p.) : col. ill., col. maps ( Van Pelt Library Reference )

• Mason, Robert J., 1955- Atlas of United States environmental issues Robert J. Mason and Mark T. Mattson. New York: Macmillan ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1990. xi, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 26 x ( Van Pelt Library Reference Oversize G 1201 G3 M3 1990 )

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