Gale Portal Database

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So much information, but most of it is just “noise”

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GREENRGlobal Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural

Resources

The world is changing…

Online glacier photograph database. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

“Green” Inititatives and Courses

Online glacier photograph database. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

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Delivers global news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents, statistics and more

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Region Portals

• 190+ region portal pages

• Geography and cultural information

• Maps, flags, population data and government

• Global perspectives

• Reference articles and primary sources

• Extensive statistics

• Related issues and searches

• Multimedia, video, and podcast

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Issue Portals 190+ issue portal pages Topic overviews Global perspectives Reference and primary sources Case Studies Conference Presentations and

Reports Statistics Full-text periodicals Magazines and Newspapers Podcasts and Web sites Audio and video

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New, proprietary essaysNew, proprietary essays

Academic JournalsAcademic Journals

Unique new video content and licensed photos

Unique new video content and licensed photos

PodcastsPodcasts

Links to related Websites and Blogs

Links to related Websites and Blogs

Links to related issue portalsLinks to related issue portals

Case StudiesCase Studies

StatisticsStatistics

Conference Presentations & Reports

Conference Presentations & Reports

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Articles from selected Gale reference titles

Articles from selected Gale reference titles

Primary SourcesPrimary Sources

Special Libraries and Research CentersSpecial Libraries and Research Centers

Global newspaper & magazine articlesGlobal newspaper & magazine articles

Examples of Issue Portals

Environment and EcologyArctic Circle, Biocentrism, Biodiversity, Carrying Capacity, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Deep Ecology, Deserts and Desertification, Drought, Ecological Modernization, Ecological Restoration, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environmental Philosophy, Evolution, Extinction, Habitat Loss, Industrial Ecology, IPCC, Invasive Species, Remediation, The Land Ethic, Wildlife, WWF

Science and TechnologyBiotechnology, E-Waste, Genetic Engineering, Green Architecture, Green Chemistry, Green Engineering, Green Revolution, Sanitation, Seed Banks, Solid Waste, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, World Health Organization

Examples of Issue Portals (cont’d)

Agriculture and Food SystemsAgrarianism, Animal Welfare, Aquaculture, Biofuel Energy, Fisheries, Food Security, Hunting and Gathering, Industrial Agriculture, Nutrition/Diets, Organic Agriculture and Organic Foods, Pest Management, Soil Fertility, Subsistence Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, Urban Farming, Vegetarianism

Law and PoliticsCenter for International Environmental Law, Copenhagen Accord, Environmental Justice, Environmental Law, Environmental Politics, Governance, International Agreements, Kyoto Protocol, Land Management, Policy and Planning, Precautionary Principle, Property Law, Protected Areas, Risk, Superfund, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, UN Climate Change Conference

Examples of Issue Portals (cont’d)

Economics and TradeAgenda 21, Carbon Trading, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Discounting, Economic Development, Economic Growth, Environmental Economics, Externalities, Globalization, Green Economy, Intergenerational Equity, Limits to Growth, Market Mechanisms, Natural Capital, Non-Market Valuation, Poverty, Risk, Trade and Environment, UNDP, Urban Poor, World Bank Group, WTO

PollutionAcid Rain, Air Pollution, Carbon Trading, E-Waste, Environmental Kuznets Curve, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010, Industrial Disasters, Land and Soil Pollution, Light and Noise Pollution, Medical Waste, Mobile Emissions, Nuclear Waste, Ozone Depletion, Solid Waste, Water Pollution

Examples of Issue Portals (cont’d)

EnergyBiofuel Energy, Coal Energy, Dams, Energy Efficiency, Geothermal Energy, Hydroelectric Energy, Mining, Mobile Emissions, Mountains, Natural Gas Energy, Nuclear Energy, Petroleum Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Water, Wind Energy

Resource ManagementAdaptive Management, Aquifers, Brundtland Report, Common Pool Resources, Consumption, Desalination, ICDPs, Indicators and Monitoring, Land Management, Land Use, Landscape Architecture, Policy and Planning, Protected Areas, Recycling, Resource Management, Sanitation, Soil Erosion, Soil Fertility

Examples of Issue Portals (cont’d)

Humans in the Natural WorldBiosecurity, Disease, Ecofeminism, Ecological Footprint, Ecoterrorism, Family Planning, Green Architecture, Human Health, Impact of Tourism and Recreation, Indigenous Peoples, Natural Disasters, Rural Development, Sustainable Cities, Transportation, Urban Environment, Urban Farming, Urbanization

Social FactorsIndustrial Disasters, Industrialization, Intergenerational Equity, Migration of People, NGOs, Organic Agriculture and Organic Foods, Overpopulation, Poverty, Regionalism, Religion, Social Justice, Urban Poor, Vegetarianism, War and Conflict

What will you find in the

Ecoterrorism portal?

Overview

An overview article from the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, that explains the term and how its meaning changed over the years

News

An news article on an Animal Planet program, “WHALE WARS,” about the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Academic Journal

A scholarly study

published in The American

Journal of Economics and

Sociology examining the

ethical and social aspects

of ecoterrorism and its

justifications

Images/Video

Various images and news

videos on ecoterrorism

Statistics

An interactive pie-chart

Illegal Incidents of

Ecoterrorism , by Type,

1981-2005, from the

Foundation for Biomedical

Research

Primary Sources

A Testimony by U.S.

Congress Subcommittee on

Crime, with commentary,

from Terrorism: Essential

Primary Sources

Case Studies

A case study on a “raid”

by the Sea Shepherd

Conservation Society

on Icelandic whalers,

with discussion topics

and study questions

Associations

Basic and contact

information of the Sea

Shepherd Conservation

Society, from

Encyclopedia of

Associations

Conferences

Link to a conference site

by the Competitive

Enterprise Institute (CEI),

on “Stopping Eco-

Extremism”

Get Involved!

Link to an FBI site on Eco-

terrorists at large

Book Review

A book review of an

autobiographical

memoir of a radical

environmental

activist

Case Studies, State Climate Action Plans, Local News, Environmental Organizations in the state, and much, much, more….

New Feature: U.S. State Portals (5 states)

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