Key Readings and
Sources:
KEY Textbooks and Online sources:
See also BIOSPHERE- Key Readings and Sources and Sustainable Development and PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) SPOL 624 Nature/Society Thought and SPOL 554 Environment, Resources and Development Policy - see also: Peter J. Bryant, BIODIVERSITY and CONSERVATION, A Hypertext Book. School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine.
- Active
Learning Modules - HDGC (Human Dimensions of Global
Change) - AAG (Association of
American Geographers)
- BIOL
65 Biodiversity & Conservation (Peter Bryant) UC Irvine
- Hypertext Book in Biodiversity Conservation
- Biodiversity
for Development - UNDP
- Center for Biodiversity Conservation ( American
Museum of Natural History): Biodiversity,
Science, and the Human Prospect . 1999.
PDF
- CBNRM
Net : From Managing Natural Resources to Managing Ecosystems,
Knowledge and People (PDF)
- Characterizing
and Measuring Sustainable Development. Parris, Thomas M., and
Robert
W. Kates. 2003. Annual Review of Environment and
Resources 28: 559-586.http://www.ciesin.org/
- Conservation
and Science - Smithsonian Institution
- Conservation
Ecology : A Publication of the Resilience Alliance
- Conservation
International - Biodiversity
Hotspots
- Delivering
the Goods: Scaling out Results of Natural Resource Management
Research - Article: Harrington, L., J. White, P. Grace, D.
Hodson, A. D. Hartkamp, C. Vaughan, and C. Meisner. 2001. Conservation
Ecology 5(2): 19.
- Ecological
Economics - ISEE (International
Society for Ecological Economics) - Elsevier.com
- Ecological
Regions of North America - Commission on Environmental
Cooperation (CEC)
- ECOMAP Team
, US Forest Service and Bailey's
Ecoregions (1995)
- Ecozones of
Canada - Environment Canada
- Environmental
resources - ELDIS - Institute
of Development Studies:
- ESI
(Environmental Sustainability Index) - CIESIN -
Center for International Earth Science Information Network
- FAO - Plant Genetic
Resources and Food Security and Agricultural
Heritage Systems - article
- FAUNA
- Module of the USFS Natural Resources Information System for
Terrestrial Wildlife Management Online accessible
Powerpoint presentation.
- Ford, Robert E. and James Hipple.
1999. GeoSystems Today :
an Interactive Casebook. John
Wiley & Sons . This publication combines both a printed volume
and WWW digital publication.
- Framework for Sustainability Science: A
Renovated IPAT Identity.
Waggoner, P. E., and J.
H. Ausubel. 2002. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 99(12): 7860-7865
- Global
Environmental Outlook - Geo2007 - UNEP
- Goudie, Andrew. 2000.
The Human Impact on the Natural
Environment (5th ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Goudie, Andrew (Ed.). 1997.
The Human Impact Reader: Readings and
Case Studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
- Hart, Maureen. 1999. Guide
to Sustainable Community Indicators via web
- Impact
of Global Change on Agriculture - Iowa State University
Global Change
course
- International
Council for Science. Science and Technology for
Sustainable Development International Council for Science, Paris
(PDF)
- International
Workshop on Promoting Cooperation for Biodiversity Conservation and
Sustainable Rural Development in Mountain Ecosystems: The
Case of Andes and the Himalayas - Mountain Forum Library
- International Year of Mountains
2002 - home
- Introduction to the
Human Dimensions of Global Change (AAG)
- Kasperson, Turner, et al:
Regions
at risk: comparisons of threatened environments and
Case studies. UNU, Tokyo.
- Living
in the Biosphere: Production, Pattern, Population and Diversity (by
Dwight Brown) - Online module from the "Hand's On"
project of the Human Dimensions of Global Change program of NSF/AAG
- Long-Term Trends and a
Sustainability Transition; and
Characterizing a Sustainability Transition: Goals, Targets, Trends,
and Driving Forces.
Kates, Robert W., and Thomas M. Parris. 2003. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America 100(14) (8 July):
8062-8067, 8068-8073. Two articles included in the PNAS Special
Feature on "Science and
Technology for Sustainable Development." No. 1 - No. 2
- Mountain
Tourism, and the Conservation of Biological and Cultural
Diversity - Practices for Linking Conservation with
Enterprise - electronic forum materials from the Mountain Forum - mountain
regions/ecosystems
- MSU-CEVL
(Computational Ecology Visualization Lab) ESSE
Program Powerpoint
-
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project - see REPORTS:
- Living Beyond Our Means: Natural Assets and Human Well-being (Statement of the MA Board)
- Synthesis Reports
- Global & Multiscale Assessment Reports
- Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: A Framework for Assessment
-
- National
Geographic OnlineMapping of Terrestrial Ecoregions
of the World - Wild
World
- Natural
Capitalism and related topics and see also Motherjones
site
- Natural
Step.org - home
- Nature,
Wealth and Power - document from USAID (PDF)
- NBII -
National Biological Information Infrastructure
What is
the NBII?
- NBII -
Publications
See particularly: Teaming With
Life: Investing in Science to Understand and Use America's Living
Capital [PDF]
- O'Riordan, Timoty and Susanne Stoll-Kleemann. 2002. Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities: Protectiong beyond the Protected. Cambridge University Press.
- Overview of Life Zones, Biomes, Zoogeographic
Provinces ( Radford University Biogeography
course)
- Parris, T. M. and Kates, R. W. 2003.
Characterizing a sustainability transition: Goals, targets,
trends, and driving forces, PNAS, 100, 1-6.
- Peter J. Bryant, BIODIVERSITY and CONSERVATION, A Hypertext Book.
School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine.
- Research and Assessment Systems for
Sustainability Program.
2003. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States of America. Special Feature. 100(14) (8 July):
8059-8091.
- Road
from Johannesburg: What was achieved and the way forward
- Role
of business in sustainable development - http://www.wbcsd.org
- Social
Ecology of Conservation and Development: Assessing Social and
Environmental Change, Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies
- Sustainable
Measures - Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators
- Turner, B. L. et al. 2003. A
framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science, PNAS, 100
- UN Convention on
Biodiversity - home
- UNDP - Human Development Reports - Human
Development Index - reports/statistics
- United Nations General Assembly.
2000. United
Nations Millennium Declaration (United Nations, New
York), A/RES/55/2.
- United Nations World Summit on
Sustainable Development. 2002. DOCUMENTS. Johannesburg
Summit 2002.
- United Nations World Summit on
Sustainable Development. 2002. WEHAB Framework Papers
- What
is Gap? Online powerpoint on the GAP Analysis program
of the NBII.
- World Atlas
of Biodiversity – UNEP-WCMC (see IMAPS)
- World Resources Institute:
