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| Flora:
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Prairies and Steppes |
| Land
Use / Land Cover Change | | Soils
- Pedology |
| Sustainable
Rural Development and ( PRA) Participatory Rural Appraisal |
| 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
Agriculture: Food Insecurity, Resource Conflict and Hazards
· 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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Biodiversity: Conservation, CBNRM, Gap Analysis, Indigenous Knowledge
· 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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Biogeography - Landscape Ecology - Ecosystems Dynamics - Conservation Science
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