| See also: Mid-continent
- Corn Belt - Prairies - Great Plains -
Agriculture - General
· ACDI-VOCA
- home
·
AgEcon Search - University of
·
AgNIC
- Agricultural Information sources and databases
· Agriculture and the
Environment -
· Agribusiness
& Markets Thematic Group - World Bank
· Agricultural colleges -
worldwide
· Agriculture Online - home
·
Agriculture - Performance
Indicators (agriculture) - World Bank
· Agricultural Links worldwide -
UIUC
· Agroecosystems
- WRI's Pilot analysis of global
ecosystems
·
Agronomy - Wageningen /
· Alternative Farming Systems Information
Center - USDA
· Alternative
Agricultural Research and Commercialization Corporation - USDA
· Alternative agriculture sites:
John Jeavons (Ecology Action), Alan York (Biodynamic Agriculture), Wes Jackson
(The Land Institute) and other resources
· American
Farm Bureau - home
· America's Private Land: A
Geography of Hope - NRCS
· ARS -
Agricultural Research Service - USDA
· Becoming Native to this Place -
review of book by Wes Jackson /Land Institute (see also article-High
Country News about West
· Best
Investments Daily Coffee Newsletter - Binews
·
Biological, Agricultural & Medical INFOMINE
(UC Riverside BioAgMed Library)
· Biological Control - A
Guide to Natural Enemies in
· Botany/Biosciences -
world-wide web virtual library
· CARD - Center for Agriculture and Rural
Development -
· Center
for Rural Affairs - home
· Center for the Support of Native Lands -
see special resources on "Indigenous Peoples and
Natural Ecosystems in Central America"
· Center
for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development - CIKARD
· CGIAR - Consultative Group
on International Agricultural Research
· Challenge Program on
Water and Food (CP Water and Food)
· CIAS
- Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems - Univ
Wisconsin-Madison
· CIAT -
· CIIFAD - Cornell International Institute
for Food, Agricultural and Development - home
· Conservation Districts on the
Web - Soil Conservation
· Cooperative State Research and Extension
Service - USDA
·
ELDIS - Agriculture and PRA -
Participation
· Exploring Sustainability in
Agriculture - article SARE - Sustainable
Agriculture Network
·
FAO - Virtual
Library - Agriculture...
·
FAO -
WAICENT
Information Finder
· FAS/USDA - Foreign Agricultural
Service
·
For
God, Country and Coca-Cola : The Unauthorized History of the Great American
Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It
· Future Harvest - NGO
· Genome - The Secret of How Life works -
Pfizer
· Global
Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture
(GIEWS)
· Grace Factory Farm project - home
· IALC - International Arid Lands
Consortium - home
· ICASA
- International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications
· ICIMOD - International Centre for
Integrated Mountain Development - home
· IIEA - International Institute of Ecological
Agriculture -home
· IATP
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - home
· InterGarden - Agriculture
and Biosciences - list of links
· Land and
Water Development issues - FAO/AGL
· Leopold Center for Sustainable
Agriculture -
· Mountain Forum - mountain
regions/ecosystems
·
National
Agricultural Library (USDA - US Dept of Agriculture)
· National 4-H councils
· National
FFA - Future Farmer's of
· National Grange - home
· National Rural Development
Partnership - home
· NASULGC - National Association of
· New Agriculturist On-Line
- Focus on Coffee
· NRCS
-Natural Resources Conservation Service
· Precision Agriculture -
7th International Conference
· RAISE -
Rural and Agricultural Incomes with a Sustainable Environment -
USAID
· Rodale Institute - sustainable / organic
farming organization
· SARE -
Sustainable Agriculture Network - home
· SCAA -
Specialty Coffee Association of America - home
· SOFI - State of Food
Insecurity in the World - FAO
·
SPAAR - Special Program for
African Agriculture
· Sustainability and
Resource Management - Agriculture - ESRC/UK
· Sustainability
Links - EnviroLink - many
resources
· Sustainable Agriculture -
Resources & Lists & Links - from CIAS
· Sustainable
Agriculture Network - Rainforest Alliance
· Sustainable Development of Rice as a
Primary Food - Sustainability Forum -
·
Sustainable Earth
Electronic Library
· Sustainable Agriculture -
Resources & Lists & Links - from CIAS
· The Unsettling of America-Culture
and Agriculture - book review of book by Wendell Berry - ECOBOOKS
· Uncommon
Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
· USDA
-
·
W.K.
Kellogg Biological Station-Michigan - U.S. LTER
Network- AgroEcosystems modeling & landscape ecology
·
Wageningen
Agricultural University - The
·
WORLD
AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION - FAO
· World
Sustainable Agriculture Association - homepage
· WRI -
World Resources Institute - home
· WWWVL
- Agriculture including soil -
Earth
Science - VLIB
·
WWWVL - Sustainable
development library - home
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· Africa Nutrition Database
Initiative - home
· African Dust may
Influence Hurricane Formation - Dr. Norman MacLeod - from the Third World Foundation
· AFRICAN SAHEL 25 YEARS
AFTER THE GREAT DROUGHT - Simon Batterbury
· Agricultural Adaptation to
Climate Change: Issues of Longrun Sustainability - Economic Research
· Agroecosystems
- WRI's Pilot analysis of global
ecosystems
· Alternatives to Conventional Modern
Agriculture for Meeting World Food Needs in the Next Century:
Report of a Conference on Sustainable Agriculture,
· AVISO - AN INFORMATION BULLETIN ON GLOBAL
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND HUMAN SECURITY
· Biological Control in North
America -
· CIAS - Center for Integrated
Agricultural Systems -
· Center
for Security Studies and Conflict Research - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
· Climate Change and Agriculture in
Europe -
· Colorado Plateau Ecosystems - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of
· Commission on Vulnerable Food
Systems - ECU/Oxford University
·
Conservation Districts on the
Web - Soil Conservation
· Don't Panic Eat Organic -
homepage
· Drylands Program - IIED - International Institute of
Environment and Development -
· EarthScan - home
·
ELDIS - Electronic Development Library - IDS
(Institute for Development Studies) -
· ENES - International Network for
Environment and Security - home
· Environmental News Index -
GAIA Books
·
Ending
Hunger: CONSEQUENCES Vol.2 No. 2 - Current Status and
Future Prospects - article
· Environmental
and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) - from NCAR
· Environmental
Change and Security Project - Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars
· Environmental Change Institute -
· FAOSTAT - food, agriculture,
nutrition and land data
· FAO - GIEWS - Global
Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) - FAO - Global Watch
Archive
· FAO - Special Programme for Food Security -
home
·
FAO FOCUS: Plant Genetic
Resources and Food Security
· FAO SYMPOSIUM - Agriculture,
Trade and Security : Sept 1999
· FAO - SOFI - State of
· FAO - SOFA - State of
· FAO - World Food Day resources
·
FEWS - Famine Early Warning System -
USAID
· FIVIMS - Food Insecurity and
Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems - Map Resources
· FOOD FOR THE FUTURE? GMO's,
biotechnology and agricultural biodiversity - world development
perspective
· Food Security and Climate
Change - from the - Environmental Change
Institute -
·
Food security and the coming
millenium - Intro to World Food Summit by the FAO
· Food
security and the state: responsibility and partnership - FAO
· Food Security
Bureau -
· Food Security Guide - ELDIS -
·
Geographic Information Systems
in Sustainable Development - FAO/SD
· Geography of Vulnerable
Food Systems Introduction ... PDF/Adobe Acrobat -
View
as HTML ... interdisciplinary work has also been stimulated
by the Commission of the International Geographical Union on ‘
Vulnerable Food Systems ' (1988- 1996)
· GINIE
Project - Global Information Networks in Education -
· Global
Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) -
FAO
· Global Network
on Food Security - Canadian Pacific Charitable Foundation/UN Association of
· Global Security and
Sustainability - The John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
· HIN - Humanitarian Information
Network
·
Hunger
Project - THP
·
Hungerweb -
· IALC - International Arid Lands
Consortium - home
· IIED - International Institute of
Environment and Development -
· Impact of Global
Change on Agriculture -
·
IISDnet - International Institute for Sustainable
Development
· ITDG
- Intermediate Technology Development Group
· Land, Water
and Nutrition - Development issues - FAO/AGL
· Living Wages North and South
Initiative - TLWNSI - NPA - National
Policy Association
· LUCC Project - international land
use/land cover change research project
· Mountain Forum - mountain
regions/ecosystems
·
Natural Hazards Center -
Information on Human Adaptation to Disasters (Univ of
· NCPA
-
· NPA - National
Policy Association
·
OALS - Office of Arid Lands
Studies -
· Political
Ecology, Mountain Agriculture, and Knowledge in
· Poverty and access to
environmental resources - ESRC Global Environmental Change
Programme
·
Poverty & Sustainable
Livelihoods - ELDIS
·
ReliefWeb - Disaster
Assistance -UN Dept of Humanitarian Affairs
·
SPAAR - Special Program for
African Agriculture
· Sustainability and
Resource Management - Agriculture - ESRC/UK
·
Sustainable Agriculture -
Resources & Lists & Links - CIAS - Center for Integrated
Agricultural Systems -
· Sustainable Development and Small
Farms - USDA - homepage
· Sustainable
Food Security - FAO
· Sustaining the
Soil - Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa - from EarthScan
· Toward
sustainable food security - fourteen papers from SD/FAO
· USAID - Biodiversity
Programs homepage
· USAID - EGAT - Economic
Growth, Agriculture and Trade Bureau - home
· USAID - ENV - Environment -
home
· USAID - Food for
Peace
· USAID - Global Health -
home
· US Action Plan on
Food Security - USDA
·
VAM -
Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (PDF)-
FAO/World Food Programme)
·
Virtual Library on
International Development -
· Vulnerability Risk Analysis publications -
FEWS
·
World Food Programme - United Nations
· World
Sustainable Agriculture Association - homepage
· WRI -
World Resources Institute - home
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· Australia
- Biodiversity/Species Occurrence, Maps and Models - ERIN
-
· Backyard Wildlife Habitat
Program - National Wildlife Federation
·
Base de
Dados Tropical - Tropical Data Base -
· BCIS - Biodiversity.ORG -
A consortium of ten international conservation organisations and programs of
IUCN—The World Conservation Union, BCIS Members collectively represent the
single greatest global source of biodiversity conservation information in the
world. BCIS is a framework within which the Members' networks work together
toward a common goal: to support environmentally sound decision-making and
action by facilitating access to biodiversity data and information
· Biodiversity and Livelihoods Group
- IIED - International
·
Biodiversity - World
Resources Institute
· Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web
Server
· Biodiversity
in Agroecosystems - CEVL - Computational
Ecology and Visualization Lab - MSU - home
· Biodiversity and Human Health -
homepage - Glossary of
Ecology Terms
· Biodiversity, Ecology, and the
Environment (Biosciences) - World-Wide Web Virtual
Library
· Biodiversity hotspots
- Conservation
International - home
·
Biodiversity-Rich Ecoregions in Africa Need
Protection - article/UNEP/GRID/USGS
· Biological Control in North
America -
· Biology
Browser - resources
· Botany/Biosciences -
world-wide web virtual library
·
· CBNRM
Net - Community-based Natural Resource Management
Network
·
CBNS -
Center for the Biology of Natural Systems
· Center for Biodiversity and
Conservation -
·
Center for
Conservation Biology:
· Center
for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development - CIKARD
· Center for Plant Conservation - Missouri
Botanical Gardens
· Center for the Support of Native Lands -
see special resources on "Indigenous Peoples and
Natural Ecosystems in Central America"
· CEVL
- Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab - MSU - home
· Champions of
Conservation - over last 100 years - Audubon
· Colorado Plateau Ecosystems - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of
· Conservation Breeding Specialist Group
(CBSG)
· Conservation
and Science - Smithsonian Institution
· Conservation Ecology - from the
Resilience
· Conservation International
- Biodiversity
Hotspots - homepage
· Conservation Management Institute -
Virginia Tech
·
CONSEQUENCES Vol.2 No. 2 Impacts of Introduced
Species in the
·
CTSP - The
Conservation Technology Support Program - tax-exempt conservation
organizations to build Geographic Information Systems (GIS) capacity.
· DIVERSITAS - International
Programme of Biodiversity Science
· Ecologists
and Environmentalists - ErraticImpact.com
· Environmentalists - ThinkQuest People
Bibliography
· Ecoregions Program - US
· EMAN - Ecological Monitoring and Assessment
Network - Environment
· Endangered and extinct species
lists by region (IUCN) - see also Open
Directory Project - lists by region
· Environmental Sites on the
Internet - from Sweden
and the Environment
·
FAO FOCUS: Plant Genetic
Resources
· Flow of Life in the
Atmosphere - CEVL - MSU
· FOS
- Founmdations of Success - Improving the Practice of Conservation, e.g. Adaptive
management
· French Creek Project - aquatic
biodiversity
·
Frogwatch - all about
frogs, educational links, etc
·
Gap Analysis - Geographic
Approach to Planning for Biodiversity - home
· Genome - The Secret of How Life works -
Pfizer
· GEO-2000/UNEP - Global Environmental
Outlook - home
· GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY DATA
AND INFORMATION - UNEP-NC [PDF]
· Global Zoo directory by the CBSG
(Conservation Breeding Specialist
Group)
·
Greenpeace International - Homepage
· IABIN - Inter-American Biodiversity
Information Network
· ICIMOD - International Centre for
Integrated Mountain Development - home
· IGBP - International
Geosphere/Biosphere Program -
International Human Dimensions Programme
·
INBIO - National Institute
of Biodiversity -
· International
Workshop on Promoting Cooperation for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable
Rural Development in Mountain Ecosystems: The Case of
· Invasive Species research - NBII
·
IUCN -
International
· Land Use Land Cover Change (LULC) - AAG Modules on HDGC
· Living
in the Biosphere - AAG module on biogeography and biodiversity
· Long Range Movement of Organisms, The
Gypsy Moth in Michigan - CEVL -
Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab - MSU - home
· Mesoamerican
Society for Conservation and Biology - home - see also SMBC
· Missouri Botanical Garden home page
and Education
resources
· Mountain Forum - mountain
regions/ecosystems
· Multilateral Treaties
and Conventions -
· National
Geographic OnlineMapping of Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World - Wild
World
· Native Use of Fire on
the Colorado Plateau - LUHNA
Project
· NatureServe - formerly National Heritage
Network- home
· National
Parks and Conservation Association
· NBII -
national Biological Information Infrastructure - USGS - NBII - Publications
·
Northern Prairie -
wildlife, plant biodiversity and other resources - USGS
· NRCS
-Natural Resources Conservation Service
· Political
Ecology, Mountain Agriculture, and Knowledge in
· Rainforest Alliance -
home
·
Refugia
for Biological Diversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Australia: Table of
Contents
· Save
Our Canyons - Wasatch Mts.-Utah
· Society for
Conservation Biology
· SCGIS - Society for Conservation
GIS
·
SIDS - Small Island Developing
States Network - Biodiversity cases
· Society for Human
Ecology
·
Southwestern Association of Naturalists- home
· SOSIG
- Social Science Information Gateway
· SOSE
; Studies of Society and Environment
· Tree of Life -
phylogeny and biodiversity site
· UN
Convention on Biodiversity - home
· UNESCO - MAB - Man and the Biosphere
program - home
· USAID -
Biodiversity Programs and homepages
· USAID - EGAT -
Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade Bureau - home
· USAID - ENV - Environment
- home
· USAID - Global Health -
home
· US Dept of
the Interior - home
· Virtual
Library of Ecology and Biodiversity The Virtual Library of Ecology and
Biodiversity division of The Virtual Library Project specializes in reviewing
internet information sources pertaining to ecology and biodiversity based on
their educational value. If there are any further inquiries about the Virtual
Library please contact us.
· W3 TROPICOS - Missouri
Botanical Links to tropical databases - VAST (VAScular Tropicos)
nomenclatural database and associated authority files.
·
WATERSHED BIODIVERSITY
CONSERVATION -
·
Watershed Aquatic Biodiversity
and Conservation: The French Creek Project
· WOCAT-FAO
- World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
· World Conservation Monitoring program -
WCMC/UNEP
· WRI -
World Resources Institute - home
· Virtual
Library of Ecology and Biodiversity
· Yahoo: ecology sites
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See also: Prairies - Great Plains - North America ; Aquatic Ecology ; biogeochemical cycles ; Biomes, Soils and Ecosystems and Land Use / Cover Change (LUCC) AAG module. Se also:Agriculture - Human Dimensions of Global Change - Biogeography - BIOL 549 Resources-by-theme: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability Science
·
Africa -
Environment/Ecology - links to several sites / topics
· Agroecosystems
- WRI's Pilot analysis of global
ecosystems
· Aquatic
Ecology resource list
· ASSOD - Assessment
of the status of human-induced soil degradation in South and Southeast Asia
(ASSOD)
·
Baileys'
Eco-Regions (July 1995) - Description of the Ecoregions of the
·
BELIZE
Programme - Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA)
located in the Orange Walk District of Belize
· Biogeography GLOSSARY
·
Biogeography course materials -
·
Biomes
·
Life
Zones
·
Zoogeographic
Provinces
· Biogeograph Laboratory - UCSB
(
· Biogeography of the Global
Garden /GEOG 1403 - University of Minnesota / Dwight Brown - see also BioLinks to
Models and other resources
·
Biogeography of Madagascar
(
· Biogeographical Virtual Field
Trips:
-Indian
Peaks
-Rainforest Virtual
Tour - Tropical Rainforest
Information Center - Rainforest
Report Card - MSU
-Tropical forests -
-Human-Environment Interaction in
the Virunga Mts.
· BIOL 65 Biodiversity
& Conservation (Peter Bryant) UC Irvine
·
Bureau of Land Management
- home and its Environmental
Education resources
· Botany/Biosciences -
world-wide web virtual library
· California GAP
Analysis Project Home Page
·
California's Natural
Resources - CERES
· CAMESA -
Consortium for Advancing the Monitoring of Ecosystem Sustainability in
the
· CEC (North American
Commission for Environmental Cooperation)
·
Center for
Conservation Biology:
·
Center for
Ecological Health Research
(
· Center for Global Change and
Earth Observations -
· Center for Plant Conservation - Missouri
Botanical Gardens
· Center for Sustainability and the Global
Environment (SAGE) of the
·
CERES:
· CEVL
- Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab -
· Colorado Plateau Ecosystems - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of
· Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem
Studies Unit (CPCESU)
·
Critical Ecoregions Program
- Sierra Club US
· Earth Observing System Data
Gateway - USGS
· Earthscape -
· EarthWatch
International
· Eco-Portal - home
· Ecology
Center - Bay
Area
· Ecological Design Institute
- home
· Ecological Regions of North America - CEC - North American Commission
for Environmental Cooperation
· Ecological Society of
America -
homepage
· Ecoregions
Program - US Forest Service -
IMI (Inventory and Monitoring
Institute)
· Ecoregions - The Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and
Continents - Bailey 1997 -
Baileys'
Eco-Regions July 1995 (see below)
-
· Ecoregions of the US - North america- hierarchical
classification by the US Forest Service
· Ecosystem Domains - Continental US
· Ecosystem Divisions - USForest Service and
Canada
· Ecosystem Provinces - Continental US
· Terrestrial Ecozones of Canada - homepage (EMAN - Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network) see alsoEcological Regions of North America - CEC (North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation)
· EDRA - Environmental Design
Research Association
· Endangered Ecosystems
Program - from EarthWatch
International
· Environmental Grantmaking
Foundations - Great Lakes
Directory
· Environmental News
Index - GAIA
Books
· EOS (Earth Observing
System)
· EPA - Geospatial Data
Clearinghouse - National Environmental GIS homepage
· FED - Forest Ecosystem Dynamics
Project
· Fish and Wildlife
Service - US
· Fire Ecology - Landscape Dynamics of
Yellowstone National Park: The Role of Fire 1690 to 1990 -
NCSA
· Fire
Ecology - Simulating Fire Patterns in
Heterogeneous Landscapes
· FireNet
- International Fire Information Network
· FEIS - Fire Effects Information
System - USDA plant lists, Kuchler
potential vegetation
· Gap Analysis Home
Page - Geographic Approach to
Planning for Biodiversity
· Gender Concerns in Mountain Areas with Special Reference
to the Hindu Kush-Himalayas
-
· Geographical Analysis of Environmental Systems and Global
Change - Geography 5565 - Dwight
Brown, University of Minnesota
· Geographic Information Systems in Sustainable
Development -
FAO/SD
· Global Assessment of the Status of Human-induced Soil
Degradation (GLASOD) -
ISRIC - International Soil Reference
Information Center
· Global Information and Early Warning
System on Food and Agriculture
(GIEWS)
· Global Zoo
directory by the CBSG -
Conservation Breeding Specialist
Group
· Goddard Space Flight
Center - home -
Earth Science
Enterprise
· Hydroecology and Fish
Biology - New York Fish & Wildlife
Unit
· IAL - International Association of
Limnogeology
· IALE - International Association for Landscape
Ecology - home
· IASC - International Association
for the Study of Common Property
· ICASA - International Consortium for
Agricultural Systems Applications
· ICIMOD - International Centre for
Integrated Mountain Development - home
· IDGEC
- Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental
Change
· Industrial
Ecology - Rockefeller
University
· International Geosphere-Biosphere
Programme - home
· International Human Dimensions Programme
on Global Environmental
Change
· IMI (Inventory and Monitoring
Institute)
· ISRIC - International Soil Reference
Information Center
· JERS-1 Global Rainforest
Mapping (GRFM) Project -
Amazon
· Journey North Home
Page - Journey North Engaging
Students in a Global Study of Wildlife Migration
· KIMS - Key Indicator Mapping
System -
FAO/FIVIMS
· Kuchler potential natural vegetation,
etc
· Land and Water Development
issues -
FAO/AGL
· Land Use / Cover Change
(LUCC) - AAG
module
· Landscape Ecology and Modeling Laboratory
- Arizona State
University
· Landscape Ecology
Laboratory -Duke
University
· Landscape Ecology Lab -
Carleton University
· LRC
(Limnological Research
Center)- University of
Minnesota
· LTER Network - Long Term Ecological
Research Network
· LUHNA Project - Land Use
History of North America
· Living in the Biosphere:
Production, Pattern, Population and Diversity - AAG
· MESC - Midcontinent Ecology Science
Center
· Millenium Project and Development
Goals - United
Nations
· Missouri Botanical Garden's -
VAST (VAScular
Tropicos) nomenclatural
database
- W3 TROPICOS - Missouri Botanical
Garden - links to
tropical
databases
· Monica Turner's Landscape Ecology
Lab - University of Wisconsin
· Mountain
Forum - mountain
regions/ecosystems
· MyCOE (My Communty, Our Earth,
Global Learning for Sustainable Development)
· National Geographic
OnlineMapping of Terrestrial Ecoregions of
the World - Wild
World
· Native Use of Fire on the Colorado Plateau
- LUHNA Project
· NBII - national Biological Information
Infrastructure - USGS -
NBII -
Publications
· NRCS -Natural Resources Conservation
Service - NRI -Natural Resources
Inventory
· NPSC -- Northern Prairie Science
Center - Biological
Resources
· National Gap Analysis
Program - home
· Natural Resource Ecology
Laboratory - Colorado State
University
· PCEI - Palouse Clearwater Environmental
Institute - Palouse Country, Moscow,
Idaho
· PLEC - People, Land Management, and Ecosystem
Conservation - UNU Project on People Land
Management and Ecosystem Conservation (PLEC)
· Political Ecology, Mountain Agriculture, and Knowledge in
Honduras - book
· Rainforest
Alliance - home
· Register of Ecological
Models (REM) - home
· RIOD
- Réseau International d'ONG sur la Désertification / The International NGO
Network on Desertification and Drought
· Shortgrass Steppe LTER -
Kansas
· SIDS - Small Island Developing
States Network - Biodiversity cases
· Simulating Fire Patterns in
Heterogeneous Landscapes - Yellowstone 1988
· SISEI - Information and Monitoring
Systems for the Environment on the Internet or Systemes d'Information et de
Suivi de l"Environnement sur l"Internet
· Spatial Analysis and Landscape Ecology Lab Center for
Environmental Science , Huxley College of Environmental
Studies, Western Washington University, Bellingham
· Stockholm Environment
Institute -
Sweden
· Studies in Landscape
Architecture - from Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection
· Sustainability Systems
Program - Harvard
University
· Terrain
- A Journal of the Built &
Natural Environments
· Terrain
Magazine - from the Ecology
Center
· Terrestrial Ecozones of
Canada -
homepage EMAN
- Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network)
- see alsoEcological Regions of North
America - CEC (North American Commission for Environmental
Cooperation)
· UCMP - University of CaliforniaMuseum of Paleontology -
GLOSSARIES for natural
sciences
· UCSB Biogeography
Lab - University California Santa
Barbara
· UMESC - Upper Midwest Ecological Research
Center
· UNEP-DEWA - Division of Early Warning
and Assessment, United Nations Environment Program
· US Forest Service - VegTools site - Social ecology applications
in forestry
· UNESCO - MAB - Man and the Biosphere
program - home
· USEPA,GREEN
ACRES: Green Landscaping with Native
Plants
· U. S. Long-Term
Ecological Research
Network
· USGS - National Mapping
Program
· Virtual Library of Ecology and
Biodiversity The Virtual Library of Ecology
and Biodiversity division of The Virtual Library Project specializes in
reviewing internet information sources pertaining to ecology and biodiversity
based on their educational value. If there are any further inquiries about the
Virtual Library please contact us
· Winrock
International - Ecosystem
Services
· World Bank - Infrastructure and
Environment
· World Conservation Monitoring
Centre -
WCMC/UNEP
·
WWW-Server for Ecological
Modelling
· WWWVL
- Agriculture including soil -
Earth Science -
VLIB
·
WWWVL - Sustainable
development library - home
· Yahoo: ecology sites
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· Audubon - home
· Biological Control in North
America - Cornell
University
· Birding on the
Web page
· Bodega Marine
Laboratory -
shorebirds
· CBSG - Conservation Breeding Specialist
Group
· CONSEQUENCES Vol.2 No. 2 -
"Impacts of Introduced Species
in the United States"
· Dian Fossey Gorilla
Fund - home
· Earth Satellite Tracking
of Endangered Birds
project
· EarthWatch
International
· Endangered and extinct
species - US Fish and Wildlife Service
- Region 3
· Fish and Wildlife
Service - US
· FrogWatch - all about frogs, educational
links, etc
· Gap Analysis Home Page - Geographic
Approach to Planning for Biodiversity
· Global Zoo
directory by the CBSG
(Conservation Breeding Specialist
Group)
· Great Salt Lake Ecoregion - Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford)
· Gypsy Moth Server at Virginia
Tech - home
· Hawaii's Extinct
Species page
· Journey North - International Wildlife
Migration of Whooping Crane
· International Crane
Federation -
Wisconsin
· International Shorebird
Gallery - index
· International Species
Information System
· LBL ITG - Whole Frog
Project
· Long Range Movement
of Organisms - CEVL - Computational
Ecology and Visualization Lab - MSU -
home
· Minnesota Ornithologists'
Union -
home
· Mountain
Gorilla Project - Rutgers University / Center for Remote
Sensing and Spatial Analysis / Cook College, Env Sciences
Dept
· National Wildlife
Federation - home
· National Wildlife Health
Center - USGS
· National Wildlife Refuge
System - article by National
Geographic online
· National Wildlife Refuge System -
home
· NatureServe -
home
· NBII - National Biological Information
Infrastructure - USGS - NBII - Publications
· Northern Prairie -
wildlife, plant biodiversity and other resources - USGS
· Office of Migratory Bird
Management - USFWS
· Rainforest
Alliance - home
· Ranges
of North American Breeding
Birds
· Satellite
tracking of endangered species - NASA
· Slow-the-Spread of the Gypsy Moth Pilot
Project - CEVL - Computational
Ecology and Visualization Lab - MSU -
home
· Stripped Bass
Migration - Rutgers University
· Western Atlantic Shorebird
Association - home
· World Conservation Monitoring
Centre -
Europe
· WORLD WILDLIFE
FUND - PANDA - NATURE
· Yahoo:
ecology sites
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· Alternative agriculture
sites: John Jeavons (Ecology
Action), Alan York (Biodynamic Agriculture), Wes Jackson (The Land Institute)
and other resources
· American Association of Botanical Gardens &
Arboreta - home
· Arizona Native Plant
Society - home
· ATLAS OF
PALAEOVEGETATION (Global atlas) - Since the
Last Glacial Maxima
· Australian
Biodiversity - ERIN
page
· Biology
Browser -
resources
· BIOME-AgriFOR - UK major
resources!
· Boreal Forest
Watch - home - environmental
monitoring educational outreach program for Canadian high school teachers and
their students
· Botany/Biosciences - world-wide web virtual
library
· Botany - Internet
Directory -
Canada
· Center for Aquatic and Invasive
Plants - University of
Florida
· Center for Plant
Conservation - Missouri Botanical
Gardens
· Coastal Marsh
Project - Univ of
Maryland
· CSIRO - Tropical Forest Research
Centre - home
· EarthSource Forest
Products - home
· Economic Botany resources -
Ethnobotany - Royal Botanic
Gardens
· Ecosystems - Costa
Rica - Holdridge
System
· EarthWatch
International
· ETFRN - European Tropical Forestry
Network
· Ethnobotanical
Leaflets - home
· Explore the Fantastic
Forest - National Geographic
Society
· FED - Forest Ecosystem Dynamics
Project - FED-diagram - Climate / Forest Ecosystem
Diagram
· Fish and Wildlife
Service - US
· Flora Mesoamericana
database - MOBOT
· FEIS - Fire Effects Information
System - USDA plant lists,
Kuchler potential natural
vegetation, etc.
· Flora By
Park - Midwestern National Park
Plant Checklists
· Forest Certification Resource
Center - home
· ForestView - Minnesota Department of
Natural Resources
· Forest History Society -
bibliography - Duke
University
· Forestry Advisers Network
(CFAN) of the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA)
· Forests For
Life - World Wildlife
Fund
· Global Forest Watch
- WRI
· Global Leaf
Collection - Online Botany
Project
· Gramene - grasses
database
· Great Salt Lake Ecoregion - Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford)
· Hawaii's Extinct
Species page
· Impacts of Introduced
Species in the United States - Daniel
Simberloff
· IUCN Red List of Threatened
Plants - home
· Kew Royal Botanic
Gardens - UK
· Kuchler potential natural
vegetation, etc.
· Latin American Plant
Gallery - MOBOT (Missouri Botanical
Garden)
· Limnological Research
Center - University of
Minnesota
· Midwestern Wetlands
Flora -guide
· Missouri Botanical
Garden -
home
· NASA
- Pathfinder
Projects - Humid
Tropical Forest Project - Rainforest Report
card
· NativeTech - home
· NativeWeb - Indigenous Plants and Native
Uses (Northeast US)
· National Wilflower Research
Center - Lady Bird Johnson
Center
· Native Plant Conservation
Initiative - University Northern
Arizona/NPS - National Park Service
· NATIVE PLANT CONSERVATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND
COOPERATORS - home
· NatureServe - home
· NeoFlora - The World's Largest Plant
Database!- home
· Northern Prairie -
wildlife, plant biodiversity and other resources -
USGS
· NPLICHEN: A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
LICHEN DATABASE
· Patuca -
Homepage - Friends of the Cultures and
Environment of the Rainforest/Honduras
· Phenology
weblinks - home
· Plant
Amnesty - home
· Plant Map -
clickable - Costa
Rica
· Plantsgalore.com - home
· Plant Identification
guide -
online
· Prairie Species
Table - Kenneth Robertson - Native
Prairie Plants for Use Along Roadsides in Illinois
· Rainforest Action
Network Home
Page
· Rainforest
Alliance - home
· Rainforest Virtual
Tour - Tropical Rainforest Information Center
- Rainforest Report Card -
MSU
· Save Florida's Native
Bromeliads - home
· Scott's Botanical
Links--many
resources!!
· Shortgrass Steppe
LTER - Colorado State
University
· Forests the
Future - Toward a CarbonNetural World
(Carbon
Calculator) - home
· USEPA,GREEN
ACRES: Green Landscaping with Native
Plants
· US Forest Service
- home
· USGS Spectroscopy
Lab: Vegetation Species
Mapping
· W3 TROPICOS - Missouri Botanical
Garden - links to tropical
databases
· WICPSU Search
Tool - WAIS Flora and Lichen
Databases containing flora and lichen information
· World-Wide Web Virtual
Library:
Forestry
· Yahoo: forestry sites
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See
also VGD - Virtual Field Trips
· Adventure online - teacher
resources
· Antarctica
Live - NASA
· Adventure Travel Business, Inc.
- home
· Adventure
Travel.com - home
· APROECOH - Honduras Ecotourism Association
- home -
Planeta.com - home
· BETA - Belize Eco-Tourism
Association - home
· Big Bend National
Park , Texas
· Big Volcano Ecotourism Resource
Centre - home
· Bosnian Virtual
Fieldtrip - virtual
trip
· Boulder Creek,
Colorado - University of
Colorado
· Canada's Virtual
North - home
· Certification for Sustainable
Tourism - Costa
Rica
· Colorado Plateau
Ecosystems - LUHNA
Project - Land Use History of North
America
· Communications for a Sustainable
Future - Colorado State Univ
(electronic discussions, etc.)
· Deep Lock
Quarry , Ohio
· Discovery
Channel - many sites and particularly
Travel Channel
· EarthScan - home
· Eco-Portal - home
· Ecotourism - Conservation International
- home
· Eco Travels in Central
America - PLANETA website - many
resources
· Ecotourism: an Overview - Can
Ecotourism save the Rainforests?- RAN - Rainforest Action
Network
· Ecotourism
Society - home
· Ecotourism Success
Stories - SIDS - Small Island Developing
States Network
· Evolution of the Conservation Movement - 1850 -
1920- Library of
Congress
· Environmental History of Latin
America - home
· Environmental Sites on the
Internet - Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm,
Sweden.
· Fodors's Travel online -
home
· Geography of Sustainable
Tourism - Study Group - International
Geographical Union
· Geologists Lifetime
List of Field
sites
· Geology Field
Trips site - Virtual Geosciences
Professor - University of Houston
· Glacier National
Park - Lempke - University of
Wisconsin, Stevens Point
· Global Online Adventure
Learning Home
Page
· GORP- Great Outdoor
Recreation Pages -
Books &
Media
· Great Salt Lake Ecoregion - Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford)
· Hawaii Ecotourism
Association - home
· Honduras- article
- Planeta.com
· Human-Environment Interaction in the Virunga
Mts. Rwanda - Wiley
Cases
· ICIMOD - International Centre for
Integrated Mountain Development - home
· International Ecotourism
Society - home
· INFOHUB - Virtual
Traveller
· IITS - International Institute of Tourism
Studies - George Washington
University, School of Business & Public Management, Department of Tourism
& Hospitality Management - home
· Journey
North Home
Page
· Jurassic Reef
Park,
english
· Key Figures in Environmental History and
Ethics
· Kashong
Glen - virtual
tour
· Landscape and Life along the East African
Rift: the Virunga Mountains,
Rwanda
· Leisure
Planet.com - home
· Lonely Planet
Destinations - home
· Maltese Islands - Environmental
Themes
· Muskegon River
Watershed - CEVL - Michigan
State University
· Mountain Forum
- mountain
regions/ecosystems
· 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
(search in virtual library)
· Moon - Travel
Handbooks -
publisher
· Mt. St. Helens Blast Zone
Recovery - case
study
· Planeta.com - home
· Rainforest Action
Network - homepage
· Rainforest Virtual Tour
- Tropical Rainforest Information
Center - Rainforest Report Card
- MSU
· RAISE - Rural and Agricultural Incomes with a Sustainable
Environment - USAID
· Red Mexicana de Ecoturismo (Mexico Ecotourism
Network) - home
· REI
Adventures - Recreational Equipment Inc.
- Travel resources
· Robert Ford's Virtual
Trips - Virunga Mts, Great
Salt Lake, etc...
· Rural Tourism Fair - Planeta.com
· Save Our
Canyons - Wasatch
Mts.-Utah
· Savvy Traveler Web
Site - home
· SIDS - Small Island Developing
States Network
· South Carolina's Coast: A Remote Sensing
Perspective - NOAA
· StartingPoints for
Exploration - Galileo Project is a "memory
palace" of Galileo's life and work
· Study/Work
Abroad
Resources
· Sustainable Sources -
Greenbuilder.com - Sustainable
Sources:
Articles
· Sustainable
Tourism - Costa
Rica
· SUSTAINING RURAL
ENVIRONMENTS -
NAU/Arizona
· Tourism and Coastal Degradation in the Wider
Caribbean - Island Resources
Foundation
· Tourism
Geographies Homepage and
Journal
· Tourism, Growth and Development: Which Training? For What
Purpose? - World Bank
Forum
· Tourism Raised Problems in Masai Mara National Park Narok,
Kenya - Mountain
Forum
· Travel Clothing by Half
Moon - home
· Travel Guides for
Photographers - home
· Travelocity.com - home
· Virtually
Hawaii: Virtual Field
Trips
· VIRTUAL TOUR OF
IRELAND - home
· Virtual tour of the South
Pole - virtual
tour
· Walkabout Travel Gear
(tm) -- AAA Source of Travel
Gear
· Whitewater Rafting Adventure Travel from
O.A.R.S. - Outdoor Adventure River
Specialists.
· Wild Things
Photography - Salt
Lake
· WebDogs - Virtual Field
Trips - University of
Kentucky
· WILD - electronic
magazine from South
Africa
· WTO - World Tourism
Organization -
home
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Grasslands: Prairies and Steppes
Note: see also Great Plains - North America - Regional Ecosystem Dynamics
· At Home in the Heartland Online Home -
Illinois Science Museum
· ATTWATER'S PRAIRIE CHICKENS
- endangered because the tallgrass prairie has been
plowed for farmland and covered by cities.
· Big Eastern: The
Edge of the Prairie ; Links ...
restorationists may be interested in their Savanna
Restoration Bibliography which is an organization
dedicated to prairie preservation in east central
Illinois
· Bureau of Land
Management - home and its
Environmental
Education
resources
· Center for Grassland
Studies, University of
Nebraska
· Center for Great Plains
Studies, University of Nebraska -
websites list relevant to
prairies
· Center for Rural
Affairs site
· Colorado Plateau
Ecosystems - LUHNA
Project - Land Use History of North
America
· Drylands Program - IIED - International Institute of
Environment and Development -
· Edge of the
Prairie - sand prairies and oak
savanas of the Chicago region
· Event-based Science Module –
Fire
– Maryland Public Schools
· Fermilab - Restoration of
prairie and buffalo
· Grand Prairie
Friends - organization
(Illinois)
·
Great
Plains.org -
home
· Great North American
Prairie Ecoregion - Critical Ecoregions Program -
Sierra Club
USA
· Great Salt Lake Ecoregion - Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford)
· Homestead Nat'l
Monument - National Park
Service
· Homestead Nat'l Monument -
Gage County,
Nebraska
resources
·
Impacts of Livestock Grazing in Himalayan and Tibetan
Plateau Rangelands - Mountain Forum
· Iowa Prairie - resources and
network
·
Konza Prairie
LTER
– Kansas State University
· Kuchler Potential Natural
Vegetation Classification
System
· Land and Life on the North American
Prairie- Robert Ford
(Wiley)
· Land Institute - Wes
Jackson - sustainable agriculture on
the grasslands
· Leopold Center for Sustainable
Agriculture - Iowa State
University
· LUHNA Project
- Land Use History of North
America
· Marion Campus Prairie
Reconstruction - Ohio State
University
· Midwin National Tallgrass
Prairie -
homepage
· Mountain Grasslands of the Colorado Plateau
- LUHNA
Project
· Native Plants
resources - Grand Prairie
Friends - extensive
lists
· Nearctica - Ecology
- Biogeograpy - Biomes, Ecoregions, and ... The Tallgrass Prairie
of Illinois - a prairie
wildflower reference guide, an extensive bibliography
, a newsletter on problems and solutions ...
· Nebraska wildlife
species on
prairies
·
National Resource
Inventory –
Great
Plains.org
- home
· Nematodes of the Northern Great
Plains
· Northern Prairie & Plains
Region - Sierra Club
· Northern Prairie -
wildlife, plant biodiversity and other resources -
USGS
· Northern Prairie Wildlife Research
Center - NBS - Jamestown,
ND
· NRCS -Natural Resources Conservation
Service
· Palouse Region
grasslands - LUHNA
Project - Land Use History of North
America
· PCEI - Palouse Clearwater Environmental
Institute - Palouse Country, Moscow,
Idaho
· Plains
Folk -
homepage
· Plains
Links - Great Plains Studies,
University of Nebraska
·
Plant
Communities of Missouri’s prairies - DNR
· Planting a
Prairie - Restoration
process
· Prairie
Enthusiasts -
West Central Wisconsin
· Prairie Plants in
Illinois - Kenneth
Robertson
· Prairie
Mailing List and electronic discussion
groups
· Prairienet - homepage - many
links
· Prairie
Pen - book
reviews
· Prairie Restoration - Ledermann Science Education
Center - Teacher outreach - Fermi
Lab
· Prairie Species Table and Images
- Kenneth
Robertson
· Prairie
Studies -- WWW sites of relevance - The Tallgrass
Prairie in Illinois Savanna Restoration
Bibliography ....
· Restoration & Reclamation Review (online
journal) - University of Minnesota
College of Natural Resources
· Shortgrass Steppe
LTER - Colorado State
University
· Smith Cemetery State
Preserve - Darby Plains,
Ohio
· Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois
- excellent module by Kent Robertson,
Illinois Natural Survey
· Tallgrass
Prairie - National Park
Service
· Tallgrass Prairie National
Preserve - ZBar/Spring Hill Ranch,
Flint Hills, Kansas (National Trust)
· Tallgrass Prairie National
Preserve - Flint Hills, Kansas
(National Park Service site)
· Tallgrass Prairie
Preserve – The Nature Conservancy -
Osage County, Oklahoma
· Tatanka Project (Buffalo Nation) Sierra
Club - Reintroduction of Buffalo -
Northern Plains
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· AFRICAN SAHEL 25 YEARS
AFTER THE GREAT DROUGHT - Simon
Batterbury
· America's Private Land: A Geography of
Hope - article from NRI / Summary
of 1992 Land Inventory
· Conservation Districts on the
Web - Soil
Conservation
· EarthShots: satellite images of environmental
change
- USGS (see Garden City, Kansas)
·
Ecological Monitoring and Assessment
Network
- Environment Canada
·Global Assessment of the Status of Human-induced Soil
Degradation (GLASOD) -
ISRIC - International Soil Reference
Information Center
· GLOBAL SOILS INTERPRETATION
- CERL Global Research
Interpretation - includes
·
Global Soils
Map
·ISRIC - International Soil Reference
Information Center
· Keys to the US Soil
Taxonomy - NRCS
· Land and Water Development
- FAO/AGL
· Mapping Regional Crop
Production, Soils and Climate - MSU
· Mountain
Forum - mountain
regions/ecosystems
· NASIS – National Soil Information
system – USDA -
NRCS
· NRCS -Natural Resources
Conservation Service
· National Resource
Inventory – Great
Plains.org
· NSCSS - Soil
Links - National Society of
Consulting Soil Scientists, Inc.
· On Becoming Lovers of the
Soil -
Article
· PATHFINDER GLOBAL SOILS
RESEARCH - CECER
· PRODUCTIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL
SOILS - EMAN - Ecological Monitoring and
Assessment Program - Canada
·
Restoration & Reclamation Review (online
journal) - University of Minnesota
College of Natural Resources
·
RIOD - Réseau International d'ONG sur la
Désertification / The International NGO Network on Desertification
and Drought
·
SERG - Soil Ecology Restoration
Group
· Soil Science Society of America
(SSSA). The SSSA is the professional home for over 6,000
professionals throughout the world dedicated to the advancement of soil
science.
· Soil
Facts - North Carolina State
University, Dept of Soil
Science
· Soil and Water Conservation
Society of
America
· Soil water conservation and the Farm
Bill- CRA (Congressional Research
Service)
· Soils 101 - Introduction to Soils
–
Penn State University
·
Soil Glossary - Forest Soils
page
· Soil-Water
Relationships: Basics of Soil-Water
Relationships – University of
Florida
· State of the
Land - NCRS - info on US
Land situation, maps, data
· Sustaining the Soil - Indigenous Soil and Water
Conservation in Africa - from EarthScan
· World Soils
Resources - NRCS
· World Reference Base for Soil
Resources - FAO and World Soil Resources Map
· World-Wide Web Virtual
Library: Forestry: Soils and
Substrates
· WWWVL - Agriculture including soil -
Earth
Science - VLIB
·
WWWVL - Sustainable
development library - home
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See also: the EES (Earth's Environment and Society) working group of the VGD (Virtual Geography Department) and Introduction to the Human Dimensions of Global Change (Turner et al) Human Impacts on LULC (Land Use / Land Cover Change) List of Resources and specific Data resources and Agriculture also Corn Belt/Prairies/Mid-Continent - Biogeography - BIOL 549 Resources-by-theme: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability Science
·
Agroecosystems
- WRI's Pilot analysis of global
ecosystems
· American Land
Conservancy - home
· Becoming Native to this Place -
review of book by Wes Jackson /Land Institute (see also article-High
Country News about West
· Bureau of Land
Management - home and its
Environmental
Education
resources
· Conservation Districts on the
Web - Soil
Conservation
· EarthShots: satellite images of environmental
change
- USGS (see Garden City, Kansas)
· EOS (Earth Observing
System)
·
FAO - Virtual
Library - Agriculture...
·
FAO -
WAICENT
Information Finder
· GEO-2000/UNEP - Global Environmental Outlook
- home
· Geographic Information Systems in Sustainable
Development -
FAO/SD
· Global Soil Assessments
- ISRIC - International Soil Reference
Information Center
· Global
Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture
(GIEWS)
· Global Land Biosphere Data And
Resources - Goddard
DAAC
· Global Land Cover
Characterization - USGS
· Global Land Cover
Facility - University of Maryland -
free LANDSAT data
· Global Land data
resources - EDC-USGS
· Great Salt Lake Ecoregion - Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford)
· IALC - International Arid Lands
Consortium - home
· Land Use and
Environmental Change in Thompson-Okanagan
- Canada
· Land and Water Development
issues -
FAO/AGL
· Land Institute - Wes
Jackson - sustainable agriculture on
the grasslands
· Leopold Center for Sustainable
Agriculture - Iowa State
University
· LUHNA Project
- Land Use History of North
America
· LUCC Project - international land
use/land cover change research project
· Land Use Land Cover Change (LULC) - AAG Modules on HDGC
· Mapping Regional Crop
Production, Soils and Climate - MSU
·
Michigan Landstrusts - many examples
· National Resources
Inventory - NRCS-USDA
· National Wetlands
Inventory - home
· NRI - National Resource
Inventory - Land Trends in the
US
· NRCS -Natural Resources Conservation
Service
·
Pathfinder
Program WWW sites USGCRP
·
Prototype
Land Transformation and Ecological Succession Model to Examine ... submitted
to CIESIN as part of Task 4.7-1 mid-term project report. ...
PDF
· State
of the Land - NCRS "America's Private Land: a Geography
of Hope?
· The Unsettling of America-Culture
and Agriculture - book review of book by Wendell Berry - ECOBOOKS
· ULI - The Urban Land Institute - real estate /
redevelopment
· UNEP/GRIDA - United
Nations Environment Programme, Global Resource Information
Database - Arendal, Norway
· UNEP/GRID - Global Data Sets / Maps etc and
links
to related GRID sites
· WRI - World Resources
Institute - home
· WWWVL - Agriculture including soil -
Earth
Science - VLIB
·
WWWVL - Sustainable
development library - home
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Sustainable
Rural Development and (PRA) Participatory Rural Appraisal
· Alliance for Global
Sustainability - University of Tokyo - Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology
· Big Volcano Ecotourism Resource
Centre -
home
· Calvert
Group - socially-responsible
investing
· CASL (Community Adaptation and
Sustainable Livelihoods)
· CBNRM
Net - Community-based Natural Resource Management
Network
· Center for a New
American Dream - home
· Center for Civil Society - Rural and
Farm-Related organizations
· Center for Civil
Society Studies- Johns
Hopkins University
· Center
for Rural Affairs - home
· Center for the Support of Native Lands -
see special resources on "Indigenous Peoples and
Natural Ecosystems in Central America"
· Center for Indigenous
Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development - CIKARD
· Civil Society International - home
· Clark University -
Environment and Society
Concentration and International Development, Community Planning, and
Environment
(IDCE)
·
Communications for a Sustainable
Future - Colorado State Univ
(electronic discussions, etc.)
· Community-Based Environmental Protection
(CBEP) - EPA
· CoopAmerica
- home
·
Development
Gateway - facts, figures, resources on poverty and
development
· EDRA