Engaging Places
Engaging Places is a site that aims to integrate learning with the outdoors and specifically the built environment. It’s focussed on a cross-disciplinary perspective but should offer a starting point for both science and geography (as well as environmental issues).
Environmental Policy in the EU. 3e.
Rating: Andrew Jordan and Camilla Adelle. eds. 2013. Environmental Policy in the EU. Earthscan. ISBN 978 1 84971 469 3 It’s always interesting to see changes between editions. Reading concurrently the first and third edition of this text shows how far changes have been made and not just to the content. The first edition was a much needed look through the burgeoning field of EU environmental policy. This is still the case for the third edition but the text has […]
Earth Policy Institute
Earth Policy Institute was founded in 2001 by leading US environmental campaigner Lester Brown. It covers a wide range of current issues in the environment e.g. energy, food etc. Worth looking at for the arguments it puts forward but most of the work appears to be Brown alone.
World Resources Institute
World Resources Institute. One of the most impressive of all the global institutions largely for the quality of its research and database. It started with the World Resources series which, when it was new in the mid 1980s was one of the best sources for data, gathering material from the best research around the world. This continues today through its online database – Earthtrends.
