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HUMAN DIMENSIONS of GLOBAL CHANGE and HAZARDS
[ Themes in Global Change
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[ Organizations
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[ Hazards and Global Change ]
[ Sources of Data
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Themes in Global Change:
NOTE: 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)
- Agriculture and food security issues
- Aquatic Ecology/Wetlands issues
- Arctic - Antarctic - Polar World - glacier and sea ice (Cryosphere)
- Biosphere degradation links: agriculture, land cover/use, ecotourism, fire ecology, biodiversity.....
- Climate change - general resources - Global Climate Change - Glossary/UK
- Coastal issues and processes - see separate list
- Desertification - UN basic documents and resources
- Development and environment-related issues
- Earthquake hazards
- Economics - Trade - Comerce resources
- El Nino/ENSO hazards....
- Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Warming - Woodrow Wilson Foundation module and resources
- Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service
- Fisheries - see Fisheries...security, population issues, depletion....
- Floods- see also Mississippi/Missouri Resources
- Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases resources
- Hazards Images -/ Photos from California and the West by Don Bain
- Hazards & Disasters: workshops, training, etc - Univ of Colorado Natural Hazards Center
- Health-Medicine related issues
- Hurricanes - Tornadoes - Storms (severe weather events)
- Lakes/Inland Seas/Limnology resources
- Land / Soil issues
- Marine Ecosystems/Science issues
- Oceans/Oceanography problems and issues
- Population - Environment - Demographic issues - general list
- Settlement / Urbanization issues and problems
- Water Resource /Quality issues/problems
Organizations on Global Change and Hazards
Note: 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
Select Web Resources on Hazards and Global Change
- America's Private Land: A Geography of Hope - article from NRI / Summary of 1992 US Land Inventory - facts, maps, etc.
- Center for Integrated Regional Assessment - Penn State University
- Coastal Storms and Tsunamis - USGS
- Complex Emergencies: Office of Global Health/CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Refugees...and Displaced Persons
- Critical Ecoregions Program - Sierra Club US
- Desertification - UN basic documents and resources
- DIOXIN-L (List) - Archive of postings to DIOXIN-L: Greenpeace (Joe Thornon) testimony to Science Advisory Board
- Disaster Relief from - DisasterRelief.org
- Earth System Science and Global Change Learning Modules - ESSE
- Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Warming - Woodrow Wilson Foundation module and resources
- Emerging infectious diseases - Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs/ US State Department
- EOLSS - Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems - home
- EOSDIS GLOSSARY OF TERMS
- Flood Hazards - Dartmouth College
- Floods - USGS Hazards theme page
- Forecasting the Future / Food - Can the World Support 8 Billion? (People & Planet)
- Gap Analysis Home Page - ecosystem management / endangered species
- Great Lakes Water Quality maps - Terragraphix
- Green Architecture - Land Use Planning - etc - ECONET Links
- HILT - Human-Induced Land Transformation in the San Francisco Bay region
- Human Population and Water - Peter Glick - AAAS - Limits in the 21st Century
- ISPRS - Global Environmental Databases for Monitoring change
- Individual Hazards - USGS page/links to several themes, e.g. floods, earthquakes, etc.
- International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
- Irish Potato Famine - an online course and module
- Landslides - Talkstory from Project ALERT (CSULB)
- Land Use Land Cover Change (LULC) - AAG Modules on HDGC
- Pacific Tsunami Warning System - map/GIF image 665x583 pixels
- Paul Ehrlich and The Population Bomb - KZPG organization
- People & Planet - online journal
- Population-Environment issues - (Marquette and Bilsborrow) - Carolina Population Center
- PRA bibliography: (Participatory Rural Appraisal - Food security overview)
- RACHEL'S HAZARDOUS WASTE NEWS - online database & magazine
- Sea-Level Rise: impacts on agriculture and population - FAO
- Seismic Hazards - Interactive Maps and resources - USGS
- Toxics Release Inventory - EPA - MapObjects Demo from ESRI
- UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook - 1997
- UNEP Global Resource Information Database
- UNESCO - MAB - Man and the Biosphere program - home
- UNICEF - State of the World's Children - 1998
- USAID Famine Early Warning System - Sahel / Africa
- U.S. State Department Travel Warnings - home
- USGS Fact Sheet: Natural Disasters: Forecasting Economic and Life Losses
- USGS-National Seismic Hazards Mapping Project-Damage Photos
- Which World? Scenarios for the 21st Century - WRI
- WR96-97 Table of Contents - World Resources Institute Database
- WR98-99: Health and the Human Environment - World Resources Institute
Sources of Data
Note: see module Human Impacts on LULC (Land Use / Land Cover Change) List of Resources and specific Data resources
- CIESIN - home
- CINDI: Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information - home / Disaster Atlas on Hurricane Mitch in Central America
- DAACeSS - Norfolk State University - Earth System Science
- Disaster Relief from - DisasterRelief.org
- Environmental Information & Data - United Nations Organizations
- Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service
- FAO- and its - Global Watch resources and its SOFA-1997 (State of Food and Agriculture)
- GCDIS - multiple data sets on global change access site
- Geoindicators:Tools for Assessing Rapid Environmental Changes
- Global Environmental Policy Research Tools
- GSFC - Goddard Space Flight Center /DAAC - home
- NGDC - Natural Hazards - Images and Data
- NGDC - Environmental Data and Technology sources
- NRCS - Summary Tables - data other data on Land/Soil (Natural Resources Inventory)
- ISPRS - Global Environmental Databases for Monitoring change
- NOAAServer: Data and Information Details
- POPNET - world Population data sources
- UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook - home
- UNEP Global Resource Information Database
- UNICEF - State of the World's Children - 1998
- USAID Famine Early Warning System - Sahel / Africa
- World Data Center Home Page
- WDC-A for - World Data Center - Human Interactions in the Environment
- World Data Center A, Oceanography
Last Revised: June 16, 2004
