AccessScience
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Publication Date: Current
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
AccessScience is the online version of the comprehensive McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. It includes the articles you'd expect in an academic encyclopedia, plus images and video, current news, definitions of scientific terms, and a study center for scientific topics.
Alternative Energy
Author/Editor: K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Kathleen J. Edgar
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Gale
Introduces students to issues surrounding current energy sources and alternative energy options.
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability - All Volumes
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Publication Date: 2010-2012
Publisher: Gale
All 10 volumes of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability - covers business, various geographic regions, research methods, natural resources, law, and politics.
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 5: Ecosystems Management and Sustainability
Author/Editor: Robin Kundis Craig, John Copeland Nagle, Bruce Pardy, Oswald J. Schmitz, and William K. Smith
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Gale
Analyzes myriad human-initiated processes and tools developed to foster sustainable natural resource use, preservation, and restoration. It also examines how humans interact with plant, marine, and animal life in both natural and human-altered environments.
Berkshire Encylcopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 1: The Spirit of Sustainability
Author/Editor: Willis Jenkins and Whitney Bauman
Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: Gale
Examines the ways in which religious ideas, beliefs, and practices have
both promoted sustainability and served as roadblocks. Covers topics
such as religious vegetarianism, understandings of the Earth as Gaia,
the Lynn White Thesis, and the field of "science and religion."
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 2: The Business of Sustainability
Author/Editor: Chris Laszlo, Karen Christensen, Daniel Fogel, Gernot Wagner, and Peter Whitehouse
Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: Gale
Explores how sustainability is being factored into industries across the globe.
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 3: The Law and Politics of Sustainability
Author/Editor: Klaus Bosselmann, Daniel S. Fogel, and J. B. Ruhl
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Gale
Explores efforts made to address pressing environmental concerns through
legislation, conventions, directives, treaties, and protocols.
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 6: Measurements, Indicators, and Research Methods for Sustainability
Author/Editor: Ian Spellerberg, Daniel S. Fogel, Sarah E. Fredericks, and Lisa M. Butler Harrington
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Gale
Presents an overview of the ways in which sustainability is charted
worldwide including basic concepts, such as quantitative versus
qualitative data, citizen science, or the weak versus strong
sustainability debate. Examines how indicators in specific areas (air
pollution, fisheries, agriculture and mining, for instance) have been
applied (or not) to different regions.
Climate Change in Context
Author/Editor: Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: Gale
Offers coverage of the history, politics, and ethical debates related to
climate change, including the impact of climate change on daily life,
trade and commerce, travel, and the future of both industrialized and
impoverished nations. Provides insights on leading social issues and
spurs critical thinking about the impact of environmental issues on
daily life and globalization.
Earth Science: Earth Materials and Resources
Author/Editor: Steven I. Dutch
Publication Date: 2013
Publisher: Gale
Provides an encyclopedic review of the material world in which we live and the uses to which those materials can be put. Describes in depth everything from gold to hazardous waste, in the context of humans' life on earth.
Earth Science: Earth's Weather, Water, and Atmosphere
Author/Editor: Margaret Boorstein and Richard Renneboog
Publication Date: 2013
Publisher: Gale
This book covers the exploration of the fluids on the surface of the earth and the gases that surround us. It explores the evolution of these interactions during the earth's history, theories regarding the future of the atmosphere and oceans and specific causes and effects that are at work.
Earth Science: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth
Author/Editor: Joseph L. Spradley
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Gale
This book goes beyond the basics to explore many underlying factors surrounding geothermometry and geobarometry, glacial events, and mass extinction theories. It also explores earthquakes, their engineering, hazards, predictability, and the role of fault and mantle dynamics.
Earth’s Surface and History
Author/Editor: David K. Elliot
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Gale
Describes mountain ranges, the oceans, continental movement, and a wide variety of features that have influenced life on earth. Includes detailed explorations of the evolution of dinosaurs, fish, birds, plant life and humans, as they were influenced by the earth's surface.
Encyclopedia Britannica - Academic Edition
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Publisher: Britannica
A combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica plus
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and
periodicals, and many other research tools. Britannica’s contributors include an
extensive network of renowned scholars (including former U.S. presidents
and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners), advisers, content specialists,
and writers—whose job it is to ensure that Britannica is current,
accurate, unbiased, comprehensive, relevant, international in scope, and
engaging to college-level learners, researchers, and faculty.
Encyclopedia of Adaptations in the Natural World
Author/Editor: Adam Simmons
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
The seven chapters in the Encyclopedia cover the key survival
challenges all organisms face. Entries within those chapters cover
specific adaptations from all forms of life, including animals, plants,
bacteria, algae, fungi, and viruses. For each adaptation, the book also
describes a related technological breakthrough in the human world,
showing how engineers today study natural processes to help them develop
new inventions.
Encyclopedia of American Environmental History
Author/Editor: Kathleen A. Brosnan
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Gale
Covers every significant issue, event, law, and figure in U.S. environmental history.
Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather
Author/Editor: Stephen H. Schneider, Terry L. Root, and Michael D. Mastrandrea
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Oxford
Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, Second Edition summarizes this knowledge and presents it in a compendium of over 330 entries that cover the processes that produce our weather; the circulation of the atmosphere that produces the world's climates; classification of climates; important scientific concepts used by climatologists and meteorologists; the history of ideas underlying the atmospheric sciences; over 60 new articles on topics such as “Global Warming,” the “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” “Tradable Permits,” “Extreme Weather,” “Kyoto Protocol” and more; biographical accounts of those who have made significant contributions to climatology and meteorology; and particular weather events, from extreme tropical cyclones and tornadoes to local winds.
Each entry features numerous cross references and definitions of weather- and climate-related terms as well as additional sources for further study. Over 250 photographs, maps, and charts offer highly evocative depictions of various weather and climate conditions.
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage
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Publisher: Credo Reference
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data compiled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing.
Encyclopedia of Energy
Author/Editor: Morris A. Pierce
Publication Date: 2013
Publisher: Gale
This reference work provides a resource for students to understand the importance of energy, to appreciate the influence of energy on societies around the world, and to learn the history of energy.
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
Author/Editor: J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: Gale
Examines the philosophical and ethical issues underlying contemporary
and historical environmental issues, policies, and debates. Covers
concepts, institutions, topics, events and people, including global
warming, animal rights, environmental movements, alternative energy,
green chemistry, industrial ecology, and eco-sabotage.
Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues
Author/Editor: Craig W. Allin
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Ebsco
This four-volume set assembles information from numerous fields of knowledge relevant to the study of environmental issues, including biology, geology, anthropology, demographics, genetics, and engineering, and explains the interrelationships of these issues in easily understood terms.
Encyclopedia of Geography
Author/Editor: Barney Warf
Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
With more than 1,200 entries, the Encyclopedia of Geography reflects how the growth of geography has propelled a demand for intermediaries between the abstract language of academia and the ordinary language of everyday life. The six volumes of this encyclopedia encapsulate a diverse array of topics to offer a comprehensive and useful summary of the state of the discipline in the early 21st century.
Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change
Author/Editor: S. George Philander
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Explores major topics related to global warming and climate change ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole, and thematically from social effects to scientific causes.
Environmental Encyclopedia
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Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Gale
Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. Each
article is written in a nontechnical style and provides current status,
analysis, and suggested solutions whenever possible.
Environmental Science in Context
Author/Editor: Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: Gale
Provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Cross-curricular in nature, the title supports both basic and advanced curricula in earth and environmental science, physics, chemistry, and biology, as well as general science, history, government, and the social sciences.
Extinct Animals: An Encyclopedia of Species That Have Disappeared during Human History
Author/Editor: Ross Piper
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
An accessible resource to the animals that have become extinct during human history.
From Green Industries to Green Jobs
Author/Editor: Miranda H. Ferrara and Michele P. LaMeau
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Gale
Presents occupational profiles, alongside overviews of the green job
that cover such details as, what job it is most similar to, what skills
are required to perform the job, and what a typical day in the life of
that job is like.
Global Warming 101
Author/Editor: Bruce E. Johansen
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: Gale
Examines basic issues and important controversies in the field.
Describes scientific issues related to melting ice, rising seas, and
effects on plants and animals, as well as human health. Includes
consideration of possible solutions.
Green Cities: An A to Z Guide
Author/Editor: Nevin Cohen
Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Via 150 signed articles, Green Cities: An A-to-Z Guide provides
an overview of the key concepts that urban planners, policy makers,
architects, engineers, and developers use to understand the
sustainability dimensions of the urban environment. It identifies cities
that have taken steps to become greener and discusses the strategies
they have used; it also reviews broad concepts associated with green
cities.
Green Energy: An A to Z Guide
Author/Editor: Dustin Mulvaney
Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Provides an overview of the social and environmental dimensions of our
energy system, and the key organizations, policy tools, and technologies
that can help shape a green-energy economy. Each entry draws on
scholarship from across numerous social sciences, natural and physical
sciences, and engineering. The urgency of climate change underscores the
importance of getting the right technologies, policies and incentives,
and social checks-and-balances in place.
Green Food: An A to Z Guide
Author/Editor: Dustin Mulvaney
Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Lays out the contours of the field of agri-food studies. It draws on
scholars working in the fields of political ecology, rural sociology,
geography, and environmental studies to paint a picture of the past,
present, and future of agriculture and food. It provides readers with a
basic understanding of the institutions, practices, and concepts to
identify what is and is not a "green" food. Because food is so
intimately connected to our daily lives, the food system offers perhaps
the most promise to make change in a sustainable direction.
Green Issues and Debates: An A to Z Guide
Author/Editor: Howard S. Schiffman
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Green Issues and Debates explores the multitude of threats to sustainable life on earth and the myriad of controversies surrounding potential solutions. Well-respected scholars present more than 150 articles presented in
A-to-Z format focusing on issues brought to the forefront by the green
movement with carefully balanced pro and con viewpoints.
Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide
Author/Editor: Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins
Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide covers the availability and distribution of such resources as energy and how they impact economic development, domestic politics, and international cooperation and conflict.
Green Technology: An A to Z Guide
Author/Editor: Dustin Mulvaney
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Green Technology: An A-to-Z Guide explores the essential role of
technology and its most recent developments toward a sustainable
environment. Twofold in its definition, green technology includes the
changing of existing technology toward energy conservation as well as
the creation of new, clean technology aimed at utilizing renewable
resources. The volume presents more than 150 articles in A-to-Z format featuring
such disciplines as nanoscience, biochemistry, information technology,
and environmental engineering. Scholars and experts in their fields
present a full range of topics from applications of green technology to
The Green Grid global consortium to membrane technology and water
purification systems to waste-to-energy technology.
Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia: Evolution
Author/Editor: Michael Hutchins
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Gale
Covers evolution in detail and explores it from a scientific viewpoint.
Includes comprehensive coverage of recent ideas and discoveries in the
field of evolution.
Issues That Concern You: Climate Change
Author/Editor: Arthur Gillard
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Gale
Explores the issues surrounding climate change. Presents diversity of
opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of
view in an even balance.
Issues That Concern You: Endangered Species
Author/Editor: Cynthia A. Bily
Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: Gale
Explores the issues surrounding endangered species. Presents diversity
of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points
of view in an even balance.
Issues That Concern You: Going Green
Author/Editor: Peggy Daniels Becker
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Gale
Explores the issues surrounding going green. Presents diversity of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance.
Issues That Concern You: Water
Author/Editor: Brian Kennedy
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Gale
Explores the issues surrounding water resources. Presents diversity of
opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of
view in an even balance.
U.S. Land and National Resources Policy: History, Debates, State Data, Maps, Primary Documents
Author/Editor: Mark Grossman and Gary C. Bryner
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Grey House Publishing
Provides a comprehensive overview of the policy debates surrounding U.S. public lands and the natural resources they contain. Traces the origin and evolution of policy, the current debate and future direction of land and natural resources policy.
UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes
Author/Editor: Marlene Weigel
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: Gale
Offers detailed comparative essays on major biomes and their component
ecosystems. Includes entries on land biomes and water biomes and covers
climate, elevation, soil, water bodies, vegetation, animal life, food
web, plant and animal adaptations, endangered species, human effects on
the biome and the effects of the environment on humans' culture and
economy.