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General Background Sources:
- Credo Reference Academic Core (This link opens in a new window)
A comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium (This link opens in a new window)
A comprehensive collection of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. A useful background information source for starting your research. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
- Britannica Academic (This link opens in a new window)
Provides access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, a world data analyst tool, images, timelines, videos, and primary sources.
Discipline-Specific Background Sources:
Global Environmental PoliticsCall Number: Reference Stacks Main Level GE170 .C46 2017ISBN: 9780813349794Publication Date: 2017
Oxford Dictionary of Environment & ConservationCall Number: OnlineISBN: 0191826324Publication Date: 2017
Use Additional Online Resources
- Center for Climate and Energy SolutionsC2ES is the successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which was founded in 1998, and is widely recognized as an influential and pragmatic voice on climate issues.
- Environmental Protection AgencyThe homepage of the US EPA.
- Environmental Working GroupEnvironmental Working Group is the nation’s most effective environmental health research and advocacy organization. Their mission is to conduct original, game-changing research that inspires people, businesses and governments to take action to protect human health and the environment.
- National Center for Environmental HealthCDC’s National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) plans, directs, and coordinates a program to protect the American people from environmental hazards.
- National Centers for Environmental InformationNOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is responsible for preserving, monitoring, assessing, and providing public access to the Nation's treasure of climate and historical weather data and information.
- Nature Conservancy Carbon Footprint CalculatorInteractive calculator to find out your carbon footprint.
- U.S. Geological SurveyOfficial site of the United States Geological Survey. he USGS mission is to monitor, analyze, and predict current and evolving dynamics of complex human and natural Earth-system interactions and to deliver actionable information at scales and timeframes relevant to decision makers.
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- The Office of Accessibility
- The Fredrickson Family Innovation Lab
- Global Fairfield
- The ITS Help Desk
- The Math Center
- The Science Center
- The Writing Center
Environmental Studies Course Guides
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