SPOL 665
Research and Reference Tools
Information Technology and Decision Science

[ Bibliographies ][ Decision Support Systems and Science ]
[ Disciplinary Specialty Groups and Institutions ]
[ Executive Communications ]
[ General Gateways to Information ]
[ Geoinformatics: Spatial-Visual Data and Tools ]
[ Information Technology, Society and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) ]
[ Knowledge Management (KM), Business Intelligence and Web Services ]
Non-Internet Books and Journal Articles ][People Guide ]
[ Systems Thinking, Dynamic Modeling and Simulation]
[ Transforming and Managing Data ]
[ Universities, Schools, Departments, Institutes, Courses ]
[ Web Searching, Publishing and Internet Use ]

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• Building a Web Page for the Totally Lost
• Columbia Guide to Online Citation - MLA Style Citations online
• Computing and Technology (About.com)
• Creating a Web Page
• Do you WYSIWYG or HTML? - About.com
• Evaluating Internet Sources - excellent
• Evaluation of information sources - WWW Virtual Library
• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial - UC Berkeley
• How to Build a Basic Web page (About.com)
• How to Create a Web page - Make-a-website.com
• InfoPeople's - Best Search Tools
• Information Quality WWW Virtual Library
• Learn HTML (About.com)
• Learn HTML Quickly and Easily and Build Your Web Page
• IPL - Internet Public Library
• Learning to Publish - for students and faculty--Univ of Texas-Austin
• Netiquette (Albion.com) - homepage
• Personal Web Pages (About.com)
• Plagiarism on the web - articles, etc.
• Recommended Search Strategy - UC Berkeley
• Teach Yourself to Use the Web - MELVYL - Library UCLA
• The Great Web Page Building Experience - About.com
• The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette --Index - Florida Atlantic University
• The Right Stuff: Research Strategies for the Internet Age -By Nancy O'Hanlon, Ohio State University Libraries, Version Date: May 23, 2005
• Thinking Critically about WWW Resources - UCLA Library
• Three Basic "Families" or Types of Search Tools - UC Berkeley
• Top 6 Web Site Design Editors (About.com)
• Universal Usability - A universal design approach to web usability.
• Very Basic HTML (About.com)
• WWW Virtual Library
• Web Style Guide - 2nd Edition.  Copyright 2002 Lynch and Horton
• Web Warmup Activities - Virtual Geography Department
• Web Layout - Effective design and layout for the world wide web, by Jerry Glenwright
• XHTML Elements Library

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Decision Support Systems and Decision Science:

See also: Earth System Learning - STELLA - Modeling and Simulation - Cybernetics

• Analytica - Beyond the Spreadsheet
• Arthur A. Few. 1996. System Behavior and System Modeling. University Science Books.
• BitPipe.com - Decision Support Systems
• Center for Biological Informatics - USGS
• Center for the Decision Sciences - Columbia University
• CMU - Carnegie Mellon University , Department of Social and Decision Sciences
• Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education Online
• Decision Sciences Journal - Blackwell Publishing
• Decision Science Center for Optimal Business Decisions
• Decision Sciences Institute - home
• Decision Support Systems - Elsevier
• Decision Support Systems A Knowledge-Based Approach - book by Clyde W. Holsapple and Related Links
• DSS Resources - home
• Department of Decision Sciences & Engineering Systems - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Earth Decision Sciences - home
• EMDS - Ecosystem Management Decision Support System - USFS
• ISDS - Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences - Duke University
• Journal of Applied Mathematics  and Decision Sciences - home
• MIDAS - Medical Informatics and Decision Science Consortium
• Midwest Partnership for Watershed Management Decision Support Systems - EPA
• Multi-Criteria / Dimensions in Decision-Making - SIDS - Caribbean Small Island States applications
• Operations and Decisions Sciences - supersite
• PrevTech - Decision Support System for Substance Abuse
• Science Direct - Decision Sciences
• Spatial Decision Support Systems - Peter Keenan
• Statistics Related Links - Duke University
• Stone Analytics - software
• Success Science - Dr. Hossein Arsham, Wright Distinguished Research Professor in Decision Science, Simulation, and Statistics. University of Baltimore
• University of Oregon - Decision Sciences
• Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI)

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Executive Communications:

See also: Web Publishing & Image Editing 

• Berkana Institute - Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of Practice
• Computer Teaching Lesson Plans - resources
• Drucker, Peter F. 2001. Management Challenges for the 21st Century . Harper Business. Chapters 6. "Managing oneself" - Book review. - Concept book Summary
• Facilitate.com - home
• PowerPoint Lessons for EDNET Teachers
• Presentation Skills For Managers by Jennifer Rotondo, Mike Rotondo Jr.
• Presentation Style Guide - from Projection.net (excellent Powerpoint guide)
• Presenting to Win by Jerry Weissman
• ROI's Secret Ingredient - Real Value - CIO Magazine Jun 15,2003 - book
• Say It with Presentations: How to Design and Deliver Successful Business Presentations , by Gene Zelazny
• Say It With Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication, by Gene Zelazny
• Storytelling in business,storytelling in organizations,organizational storytelling - resources
• Using Powerpoint in Church
• Using Powerpoint in Online courses - WebCIT Design Classes - University of California, San Francisco
• Using Powerpoint for Presentations - an Integrated Technology Lesson
• World of Maps (downloads) - home

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Information Technology, Society, the Law, and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR):

• Adult Learning and ICT: How to Respond to the Diversity of Needs? - National Center on Adult Literacy.
• American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) - home
• Center for Computational Intelligence - home
• Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science ( CSISS ) - see Learning Resources , e.g. criminology, demography, public health, sociology, environment and resources, urban studies.
• CITS - Center for Information Technology and Society - Join Email List - Past Online Events = Video-Streamed LECTURES
  • A History of Computing (January 24, 2003)
  • Information Technologies, Global Social Movements, and Civil Society (April 11, 2003)
  • Coherent Policy-making Beyond the Information Barrier (Online article) - PDFComputers and Social Change: Information, Property, and Power (Web Edition) by Judith A. Perrolle chapter 1 - Basic Concepts
• Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
• ELSI Project - Ethical, legal, and Social Issues in Science e.g. Personal Privacy and Access to Medical Databases
• eWeek: Enterprise News & Reviews - journal
• Fairuse Guidelines for Educational Multimedia - Penn State University and UCSB Future of Technology and Learning in the University - PDF - CITS Whitepaper
• GKP - Thematic Knowledge Hub - UN HP-e-inclusion initiative - home
• IMFUNDO - partnership for IT Education
• INISTE - International Network for Information in Science and Technology Education
• International Roundtable on ICT in Non-Formal and Adult Education: Supporting Out-of-School Youth and Adults International OpenSource Network - home
• Internet Law Library LawGuru
• Interoperability and Standards “White Paper” – ESRI, Inc.
• ICT for Development Platform - UN
• IT & Society - Webjournal - Digital Divides: Past, Present and Future (Summer 2003)
• Introduction to The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web services, and Knowledge Management (Amazon.com)
• IP Issues for Spatial Data (R. Longhorn) - PDF - Other Legal issues for Spatial Data (R. Longhorn) - PDF
• IPR rules and human rights: is there a conflict? Graham Dutfield - October 2001 (revised December 2002)
• Ivan Hoffman, B.A., J.D. Attorney at Law (articles on "Web law"....)
• Making Technology Investments Profitable - book - Jack Keen and Bonnie Digrius, co-founders of The Deciding Factor, Inc.
• Personal media and the human community - Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology, Summer, 2002.
• Plagiarism on the web - articles, etc.
• Primer on Legal Issues in GIS & Agriculture and Natural Resource Management CSI-CGIAR (PDF)
• ROI's Secret Ingredient - Real Value - CIO Magazine Jun 15,2003 - book
• SAS Institute - Training Resources
• Science and Technology
• Seeley, John Brown, Paul Duguid, 2000. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press. Chapter 5-8
• Sociology of Knowledge - Sociological Tour through Cyberspace
• Sociological Tour through Cyberspace
• Social Construction of Reality - Sociological Tour through Cyberspace
• Syndromic Surveillance: Can New Technologies Stop Bioterrorism? (RAND)
• Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity : A Platform for Designing Business Architecture ,>by Jamshid Gharajedaghi (Author). Butterworth-Heinemann; (May 10, 1999)
• The Semantic Web: An Introduction
• World Bank – Infrastructure and Environment - research group
• World Summit on the Information Society - Documents by Theme
• Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders

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Geoinformatics, GIS, Visualization, Spatial Data Infrastructure:

 

KEY ONLINE RESOURCES - Remote Sensing and GIS

Place Matters.com - many resources

What is GIS? online tutorial - ESRI

Vents Project - wat is a GIS? - PMEL/ESRI

History of Remote Sensing - NASA

GIS an Integrating Technology - University of Colorado (Ken Foote)

See also GEOGRAPHY - GIS/RS

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Agenda 21 Study: Down To Earth - Geographic Information for Sustainable Development in Africa. National Research Council.
• Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) - see Learning Resources>, e.g. criminology, demography, public health, sociology, environment and resources, urban studies, etc
• CIESIN - Center for International Earth Science Information Network.
• Clark labs IDRISI - source for IDRISI Kilimanjaro and CartaLinx software resources
• 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.
• Earth Observing System Data Gateway - USGS
• Egondu Rosemary Onyejekwe, 2004. HIV/AIDS And The Digital Promise. Publisher: Pearson Education (The parent company of both Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall). ISBN: 0536-81219-5
• EIS-Africa Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Declaration for WSSD (World Summit on Sustainable Development) – August 2002
• Expanding the Role of Location Technology in Business Intelligence - Wharton School
• FAO - Geonetwork search and webmap site and AFRICOVER
• 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.
• Geography Network - ESRI, Inc.
• GeoPlace.com - online resources and community
• Geospatial One-Stop Initiative
• GIS Development Journal - home
• GIS as modelling and decision support tool for air quality management: a conceptual framework - GIS Development Journal - home
• GISD (Geographic Information for Sustainable Development) – Selected Cases Highlighted at WSSD
• GPS Basics (English)--Powerpoint - by Paul Burgess, Redlands Institute.
• Basics of GPS (Spanish)--Powerpoint - translated by Rafael Corrales, UNAH
• GPS Overview - tutorial (Virtual Geography Department - The Geographer's Craft) - see also: Geodetic Datums - Coordinate Systems - Map Projections and other resources>
• Interoperability and Standards “White Paper” – ESRI, Inc.
• John Spencer et al, 2003. Global Positioning System: A Field Guide for the Social Sciences. Blackwell Publishing.
• Mapping the Risks:Assessing the Homeland Security Implications of Publicly Available Geospatial Information- RAND - John C. Baker, Beth E. Lachman, David R. Frelinger, Kevin M. O’Connell, Alex Hou, Michael S. Tseng, David Orletsky, Charles Yost (PDF version)
• MyCOE (My Community Our Earth)--AAG and ESRI, Inc.
• National Academy of Sciences, 2002. Down to Earth: Geographic Information for Sustainable Development in Africa, Committee on the Geographic Foundation for Agenda 21, Committee on Geography, Mapping Science Committee, National Research Council.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1998. People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science. Washington DC .
• National GIS/GPS Integration Team - USDA
• Policy development and capacity building for geo-information provision (Global Public Goods and GIS): Yola Georgiadou, Associate Professor and Head of the Geoinformatics and Spatial Data Acquisition Division, ITC, The Netherlands georgiadou@itc.nl
• PACES (Pan American Center for Earth and Environmental Studies) - Geoinformatics Portal - home
• Place Matters.com - many resources
• Poverty Mapping - World Bank
• PovertyMap-Net - GRID-Arendal, Norway
• Primer on Legal Issues in GIS & Agriculture and Natural Resource Management CSI-CGIAR (PDF)
• SDI Africa - An Implementation Guide - UNECA
• SEDAC - Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center CIESIN - Center for International Earth Science Information Network.
• SKE - Spatial Knowledge Engineering - home
• Social Science Applications of Remote Sensing - SEDAC - home
• Spatial Data Infrastructure Cookbook., FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee) - from GSDI - homepage
• Spatial Data Infrastructure Funding Models: A necessity for the success of SDIs in Emerging Countries - Garfield GIFF and Dr. David COLEMAN, Canada
• Spatial Decision Support Systems - Peter Keenan
• UNGIWG - United Nations Geospatial Information Working Group (PDF) - Seventh Plenary Meeting of the United Nations Geographical Working Group (UNGIWG) took place at the Instituto Geografico Militar (IGM) in Santiago, Chile, from 2 to 4 November 2006, convened by WFP and FAO.
• Wharton GIS Lab - home
• World of Maps (downloads) - home
• World Summit on the Information Society - BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Knowledge Management (KM), Business Intelligence Resources, and Web Services:

• American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) - home
• Berkana Intitute - Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of Practice
• Brint.com - The BizTech Network
• CBNRM Net
• Collison, Chris & Geoff Parcell, 2001. Learning to Fly: Practical lessons from one of the World's Leading Knowledge Companies. Capstone Publishing Limited. Chapters 1-13.
• Definitions of Business Intelligence on the Web
• Definitions of web services on the Web
• Eight Things that Training and Performance Improvement Professionals Must Know About Knowledge Management
• eWeek: Enterprise News & Reviews - journal
• eGOV -- The Official Web Site of the President's E-Government Initiatives - home
• Evaluation and Learning from IDRC (Canada)
• eWeek: Enterprise News & Reviews - journal
• Expanding the Role of Location Technology in Business Intelligence - Wharton School
• FirstGov – The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal - home
• GKP - Global Knowledge Partnership (UN) -Thematic Knowledge Hub
• Government Semantic XML Web Services Community of Practice - home
• Harvard Business Review Online - home
• Hurwitz Report on Using Web Services to Drive the Next Generation of Applications - WhitePaper
• ICASIT's KM-Central - home ICAIT's KM Glossary - Intro to KM
• In Good Company How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work - book from Amazon.com
• KM.GOV - home
• KMCI.ORG - Knowledge Mangement Consortium International - Nonprofit Worldwide Association>
• KMPro - Knowledge Management Association Certified Knowledge Manager Training, KM Workshops and KM Jobs>
• Knowledge Bank - KM at the World Bank
• KnowledgeBase - Software
• Knowledge Management: making sense of an oxymoron - David Skyrme
• Knowledge Management - Macintosh, Ann - Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute , Edinburgh,
• Knowledge Management for the New World of Business - Brint.com - The BizTech Network
• Knowledge Management Forum includes extracts from other sources but no links.
• Knowledgpoint and Business Intelligence Resources
• - many resources
• Lincos - "Little Intelligent Communities" - is a project from the Costa Rica Foundation for Sustainable Development focused on community development through the use of technology
• Knowledge Partnerships for a Sustainable, Equitable, and Stable Society. Malone, Thomas F., and Gary W. Yohe. 2002. Journal of Knowledge Management
• Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) - statistical tools and data of all types
• Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity : A Platform for Designing Business Architecture , by Jamshid Gharajedaghi (Author). Butterworth-Heinemann; (May 10, 1999)
• Ten Steps to a Learning Organization by Peter Kline , Bernard Saunders . Great Ocean Pub; 2nd edition (April 1998)
• Tomoye/SIMPLIFY - Knowledge Management and Communities of Practice support software and systems
  UNIGIS International - Worldwide network for online training
• USAID - Knowledge for Development - and Community of Practice Success Stories and Tools and Links
• USAID - Knowledge Management Knowledge Fair - home
  USAID - Knowledge Management (KM) Portal - many resources
• W3C Web Services Activity Statement page
• Web Services Architecture - W3C Working Group Note 11 February 2004
• Web Services Business Strategies and Architectures - Webservices Architect
• Web Services Portal - home
• World Bank – Infrastructure and Environment - research group
• World Bank - Knowledge Management for Organizational Capacity.
• Knowledge is Currency at the World Bank--Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration
  

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Systems Thinking and Dynamic Modeling and Simulation:<

See also: Earth System Learning - STELLA Resources - Modeling and Simulation - Cybernetics

• An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, by Gerald M. Weinberg . Dorset House; (April 15, 2001)
• Andrew Ford, Modeling the Environment - Chapter 1. Overview
• Arthur A. Few. 1996. System Behavior and System Modeling. University Science Books.
• Center for Integrated Regional Assessment - home
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
• CSISS - Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science - see Learning Resources , e.g. criminology, demography, public health, sociology, environment and resources, urban studies.
• Conceptual Models - SERC-Teach the Earth
• EMDS - Ecosystem Management Decision Support System - USFS & Redlands Institute
• Evolution of Complexity Symposium - Principia Cybernetica
• Isee Systems Inc. - Introduction to Systems Thinking with STELLA Guide.
• NetWeaver: A New Tool for Developing Results Frameworks, Integrating Performance Data, and Testing Development Hypotheses (PDF) by Max W. McFadden, J. Kathy Parker, Michael C. Saunders, Ph.D.
  The Heron Group, LLC P.O. Box 741 Georgetown, DE 19947 U.S.A. 302-856-3324
• Rules-of-thumb, Inc. - NetWeaver for Windows - USFS and Netweaver Explained
• SERC-Teach the Earth - Carleton University
• Sustainable Measures - Sustainability WebRing
• Sustainability International, LLC - The Heron Group - Penn State University
• State of Computational Ecology - John Helley
• Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity : A Platform for Designing Business Architecture by Jamshid Gharajedaghi (Author). Butterworth-Heinemann; (May 10, 1999)
• Teaching with Models - SERC-Teach the Earth
• The Heron Group - LLC P.O. Box 741 Georgetown, DE 19947 U.S.A. 302-856-3324
• The Macroscope - A New Word Scientific System - Joel de Rosnay
• What is a Model and Types - SERC
• Whole Systems - many resources - Whole Systems mailing list for the exploration of whole systems principles

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Transforming and Managing Data:

See also:

• CARE-USA - Facts on Poverty - resources
• Center for Computational Intelligence - home
• Compendium - Global Directory to Indicator Initatives - IISD
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
• CSISS - Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science - see Learning Resources , e.g. criminology, demography, public health, sociology, environment and resources, urban studies.
• Development Gateway - facts, figures, resources on poverty and development
• FAO - WAICENT - Information Finder
• General Statistics - Social Sciences pages of Intute
• Human Development Report - Key Terms
• Population-Demography
• R-Project for Statistical Computing - home
• SAS Institute - home - Training Resources>
• SEDAC - Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center - CIESIN
• Statistics - general list
• State of the World's Children - 1998 - 1999 - 2001 -  2003 - 2007 - UNICEF
• Sustainable Measures - Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators
• Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) - statistical tools and data of all types
• Statistics and Data - Social Sciences pages of Intute

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Non-Internet Books and Articles:

• Collison, Chris and Geoff Parcell, 2001. Learning to Fly: Practical lessons from one of the World's Leading Knowledge Companies. Capstone Publishing Limited.>
• Daconta, Michael C. and Leo J. Obrst, and Kevin T. Smith, 2003. The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management. Wiley Publishers.
• Drucker, Peter F. 2001. Management Challenges for the 21st Century. Harper Business. Chapters 1-5.
• Ford, Andrew. 1999. Modeling the Environment. Island Press.
• Gharajedaghi, Jamshid. Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity : A Platform for Designing Business Architecture , by (Author). Butterworth-Heinemann; (May 10, 1999)
• Isee Systems, Introduction to Systems Thinking with STELLA Guide (Win).
• Kline, Peter and Bernard Saunders. Ten Steps to a Learning Organization. Great Ocean Pub; 2nd edition (April 1998)
• National Academy of Sciences, 2002. Down to Earth: Geographic Information for Sustainable Development in Africa, Committee on the Geographic Foundation for Agenda 21, Committee on Geography, Mapping Science Committee, National Research Council.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1998. People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science. Washington DC . URL: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309064082/html/
• Rotondo, Jennifer and Mike Rotondo Jr.>Presentation Skills For Managers.
• Schuurman, Nadine. 2003. GIS and Human Geography. Blackwell Publishing.
• Seeley, John Brown, Paul Duguid, 2000. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press.
• Servon, Lisa J. 2002. Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy. Blackwell Publishers.
• Spencer, John, Brian G. Frizzelle, Philip H. Page and John B. Vogler. 2003. Global Positioning System: A Field Guide for the Social Sciences. Blackwell Publishers.
• Tomlinson. Roger F. 2003. - Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers. ESRI Press.
• Von Bertalanffy, L. 1968. General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. New York: George Braziller.
• Weinberg, Gerald M. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking .>Dorset House; ( April 15, 2001)
• Weissman, Jerry. Presenting to Win.
• Waldrop, M. Mitchell. 1993. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. Simon and Schuster.
• Zelazny, Gene. Say It with Presentations: How to Design and Deliver Successful Business Presentations.
• Zelazny, Gene.>Say It With Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication.

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Bibliographies:

• Deep Ecology Bibliography by Jonannes Dingler - Johannes Dingler (abstract) Nature and the nature of power (PDF)
• Ecofeminism Bibliography - SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway)
• Eco-Theology Booklist - CEP
• Selected Bibliography on roots of scientific Social Ecology from UC Irvine (Stokols)
• UNCRD Bibliography. Subject: POVERTY - Regional Development Planning and Administration for Reaching the Poor
• World Summit on the Information Society - BIBLIOGRAPHY

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People Guide:

• AAG - Association of American Geographers - Recipients/honorees of the Robert McC. Netting Award.
• AAG - Association of American Geographers - Recipients/honorees of the Robert McC. Netting Award.
• Bebbington, Tony - Professor of Nature, Society and Development. ESRC Professorial Research Fellow, 2007-2009. BA Hons Cambridge, MA PhD Clark University USA. Room Number: 6.35 (HHB).
• Biographical Notes of HGSG listserv Members (click on Biographical Sketches)
• Brookfield, Harold C. (AAG-CAPE honoree 1997).
• Bryant, Raymond - King's College, London, UK
• Butzer, Karl- Univ of Texas-Austin (AAG-CAPE honoree 1999).
• Carney, Judith - UCLA
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
• Denevan, William M. - Emeritus - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Diane Rocheleau - Clark University, School of Geography - Ecofemminist geographer
• Doolittle, William E. University of Texas
• Ecologists and Environmentalists - Ecological Philosophy
• Famous environmental thinkers, writers, movements (see also Philosophers Index  A - Z)
• Figures in Environmental History and Ethics - home
• Ford, Robert E. - Wiley site - homepage - Natural Resources Advisor/USAID
• George Perkins Marsh: Renaissance Vermonter (Wikipedia)
• Grossman, Lawrence S. - Virginia Tech
• Roy Ellen, UK
• KLUCKHOHN, Clyde - papers
• Kuhlken, Robert - Central Washington University
• Liverman, Diana - Director of ECI, Oxford University, Professor of Environmental Science, School of Geography
• Malthusian topics (Thomas Malthus Society) --Conservation, Population, and Limits
• Merchant, Carol 1992 Radical Ecology - reviews of her books and thought
• Moran, Emilio F. University of Indiana
• Murray Bookchin - from Wikipedia
• Netting, Robert McCorkle -  Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona - Award, etc.
• Nietschmann, Barney - necrology and testimonial
• Orlove, Ben - UC Davis
• Padoch, Christine - Columbia University
• Peet, Richard - Clark University
• Phillip W. Porter - University of Minnesota (AAG-CAPE Honoree - 1996).
• Post-Modern Thought - review of key writers/thinkers - University of Colorado, Denver (Martin Ryder), School of Education - course: Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
• Robert Netting Award Recipients - several
• Simon Batterbury, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
• Turner, B.L. II - Clark University - recipient of Robert Netting Award - 2001
• WhoWhere - finding people on the Internet
• Woods, William I. University of Kansas.
• Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists (WEDA)
• Zimmerer, Karl.  Professor of Geography, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison

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Gateways to Information:

• AGIRN Portal - African Geo Information Researcher Network (AGIRN) portal
• Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators - CGIAR
• American Museum of Natural History - Center for Biodiversity and Conservation -
  • R emote Sensing Resources - Locating and Downloading Data - Before we can get very far we need to find images that cover our area of interest. These guides provide information on how to locate, order, and download imagery (in some cases for free).
• Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
• CDC - Coordinating Office of Global Health
• CEHN - Children's Environmental Health Network
• CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research - The CGIAR is a strategic alliance of members, partners and international agricultural centers that mobilizes science to benefit the poor.
• Child Trends Databank
• Conservation International - Biodiveristy Hot Spots
• CSI-CGIAR - Consortium for Spatial Information
• CIESIN - Center for International Earth Science Information Network
• DHS - Demographic and Health Surveys
• DLESE - Digital Library for Earth System Education
• Demographic Data Viewer - SEDAC - Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
• Earth Observing System Data Gateway - USGS
• Earth Trends - portal to environmental information - WRI - World Resources Institute
• Environment and Security - Water Conflict Chronology - Peter Gleick
• ECPS - Environmental Change and Security Project - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - home
• ENTRI - Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators and Full Texts of +169 Treaties - SEDAC/CIESIN
• ELDIS - gateway to development information References on the Environment and Development - home
• EPA tools
• FAO - WAICENT - Information Finder
• FAO - Geonetwork search and webmap site and AFRICOVER
• FAOSTAT - many resources
• Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
• FEWS.net - Famine Early Warning Systems
• FIVIMS - Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems - Map Resources
• GCDIS - Gateway to global change data - access site
• Geobrain - LAITS data download site
• GeoCommunity's GIS Data Depot
• Geodata.GOV Initiative
• GEF - Global Environment Facility (GEF) - UNDP and World Bank
• Geograpgic Data Portals - How to Get Earth Observation Data (see also GIS/RS Sources ):
• Geography Network - ESRI, Inc.
• GEON - Geoinformatics Portal - home
• GLCN - Global Land Cover Networke
• GeoPlace.com - online resources and community
• Global Environmental Change - Electronic Journal and resources - Pacific Institute
• GCLF (Global Land Cover Facility) - Data Guide and FAQ:
• Global Information and Early Warning System - Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) - FAO
• Global Forest Watch - WRI
• GSDI - Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association - homepage
• Human Geography Research: Critical Environmental Policy and Politics
• Human Geography Research: Knowledges, Economy and Exclusion
• ICASIT's KM-Central - home
• IISD - Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives
• ISIN - International Sustainability Indicators Network
• IFAD - Poverty Knowledgbase - NGO Network
• International Planning Resources - Environmental Design Library, International Planning  - UC Berkeley
• Learning for Sustainability - home
• MDGs ( Millennium Development Goals ) - World Bank MDG s
• Millenium Project and Development Goals - United Nations
• NASA - Earth Observatory - home
• NASA - EOS - Earth Observing System - data service
• NOAA-NESDIS - data
• OCHA Online - resources
• OECD - DAC - OECD Glossary - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ) -
• PERN - Population-Environment Research Network
• Place Matters.com - many resources
• PlannersWeb - Topical material on zoning ordinances, land use, comprehensive plans, master plans, subdivision regulation, transportation, housing, urban design, takings-property rights, and the impacts on cities and towns.
• Policy Instruments Database - CIESIN/SEDAC
• POPLINE - Johns Hopkins University
• Population Action International ) -
• Population Index - Princeton University
• Population Reference Bureau - Data Sheets -
• ReliefWeb - Map Centre
• Research Resources for the Social Sciences - home
• Research and Resources in Knowledge Management - Los Alamos
• SERVIR-Cathalac Portal - Mesoamerica
• Social Policy.net - resource site
• SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway
• UN-wide Earthwatch Indicators
• UN System Network on Rural Development and Food Security
• UNDP - Human Development Report 2006 - home of Human Development Index - report/statistics and Indicators - 2006
• UNDP/ Millennium Development Goal Indicators Database
• United Nations Division for Sustainable Development - UN/ESA
• UNEP/GRID data sets - UNEP-NET - global portal to authoritative environmental information based on themes and regions
• UNEP.NET - portal to environmental information
• UNESCO statistics
• UNICEF - SOWC 2005
• UN Social Indicators
• United Nations and Sustainable Development - resources, etc.
• Urban Environment Information Gateway - home
• U.S. Census Bureau - International Programs Center
• USGS - National Mapping and GIS data - GLOVIS
• WDC-A - World Data Center - for human interactions with the environment - SEDAC/CIESIN
• WHO - World Health Organization - Public Health Mapping
• World Bank - Data and Research
• World Bank - PovertyNet
• World Bank - Prospects of the Global Economy
• World Factbook - CIA
• World Resources Institute - People & Ecosystems
  • World Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life
  • World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, Voice, and Power
  • World Resources 2005 -- The Wealth of the Poor: Managing ecosystems to fight poverty
  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Ecosystems and Human Well-being -- Synthesis
• Worldwatch Institute - home
• WWF - Living Planet Index
• WWW Web Library - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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Disciplinary Specialty Groups:

• AAG Specialty Group for Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography and its Newsletters
• American Planning Association - Professional association organized to advance the art and science of planning and to foster the activity of planning.
• ArchNet - An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world
• CPN - Civic Practices Network
• Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group (CAPE)
• DLESE - Digital Library for Earth System Education
• EDRA - Environmental Design Research Association
• Forum for Science and Technology for Sustainability - AAAS
• IALE - International Association for Landscape Ecology - home - see also  wetlands.org site
• IHDP - International Human Dimensions Programme
• Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science - home
• PlannersWeb - Topical material on zoning ordinances, land use, comprehensive plans, master plans, subdivision regulation, transportation, housing, urban design, takings-property rights, and the impacts on cities and towns.
• UCGIS - Global Urban Quality: An Analysis of Urban Indicators Using Geographic Information Science
• UIUC Department of Urban & Regional Planning
• Urban and Regional Planning- UC Irvine
• Urban Morphology Research Group (The) - and GEES (University of Birmingham)

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University Departments, Schools, Research Institutes, Courses:

• Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Business Processes Resource Centre, University of Warwick (UK),  Defining Knowledge Management.
• CEVL - Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab - Michigan State University (Stuart Gage)
• CIESIN and the Earth Institute - Columbia University
• Environmental analysis and design - University of California, Irvine
• Environmental Design Resources online - Andrews University
• Forum for Science and Technology for Sustainability - Harvard University
• Harvard Business Online - home
• IMI - Inventory and Monitoring Institute - US Forest Service
• Landscape Ecology and Modeling Laboratory - Arizona State University
• Landscape Ecology Laboratory, Duke University  About research, facilities, and teaching
• Landscape Ecology Lab - Simon Fraser University
• Monica Turner's Landscape Ecology Lab - Introduction to landscape ecology and information on several research projects - University of Wisconsin.
• Stockholm Environment Institute - Sweden
• Sustainability Systems Program - Harvard University
• UIUC Department of Urban & Regional Planning - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Urban and Regional Planning- UC Irvine
• Wharton GIS Lab - home

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Bob Ford Home	Earth System Science Core Courses - LLU-SST - EBS
	SPOL 665 Info-Tech.	BIOL 549 Biodiv. & Conser.	SPOL 624 Nature-Soc. Thought	SPOL 554 Env. Eq. Eco. Dev. Policy	ESSC 401-2 ES-Sci.	ESSC 541-2 Remote Sensing	ESSC 575  Field Practicum

Last Revised: February 22, 2007