Geography and Environmental Engineering

Resources for Human-Environmental Geography

Databases

• CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online - View a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs with scholarship ranging from university research institutes, NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, conferences proceedings, books, journals and policy briefs. This contains a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward.
• Issues & Controversies - Updated weekly, this resource presents key facts, arguments, history, and current context of current events and important issues.
• Opposing Viewpoints in Context - Explore multiple viewpoints on popular controversial topics. Information is presented in a pro and con viewpoint format with additional reference articles that provide context.
• Europa World Plus - Browse the economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Users can also find the contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials, including 1,900 international organizations.
• Environmental Studies and Policy - Find academic articles, videos, case studies, and more on topics in environmental studies.
• Polling the Nations - A database of polls taken on a variety of subjects all over the world from 1986 to the present.
• A to Z Maps Online Explore this database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps.

Websites

• Census.gov - The U.S. Census Bureau is the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people, economy, and health.
• U.S. Department of State - The State Department's official website with the following mission statement: Shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere.
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources - International Affairs Resources is a frequently updated Internet directory of over 2000 annotated links to high-quality English-language sources of information and analysis in a wide range of international affairs, international relations, international studies, global studies, and global education topics.

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