References on sustainable development

The WWW virtual library

• Sustainable development - maintained by Center for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment – USA

A comprehensive list of Internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, databases, directories or meta databases.

MOST
Sustainability as a concept of the social sciences

Funds-in-trust project sponsored by Germany - The main concern of this project is to initiate and then intensify, on an international scale, a problem­oriented debate on the concept of sustainable development within the various forms of social science.

• additional e.g.: Extensive project description

• see also: UNESCO Chairs on Sustainable Development

SD gateway
(Canada)

The SD gateway summarises information from the network of sustainable development institutes (English, Francais, Espanol). Currently, collaborating organisations from eight countries worldwide link their information into this gateway. This web project was initiated in August 1996 as a joint effort between the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the International Institute for Sutainable Development (IISD), both from Canada.

EEA
(European Environment Agency – Denmark)

The European Environment Agency (EEA) was launched by the European Union (EU) in 1993 with a mandate to orchestrate cross-check and put to strategic use information of relevance to the protection and improvement of Europe’s environment. The agency, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has a mandate to ensure the supply of objective, reliable and comprehensive information at European level, enabling its member states to take the requisite measures to protect their environment, to assess the result of such measures and to insure that the public is properly informed about the state of the environment.

CIESIN
(Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network – USA)

The CIESIN gateway is a metadata search system which enables users to identify databases, information systems and other resources pertinent to the study of global environmental change, human interactions in the environment and sustainable development. Entries of socio-economic and natural science resources are available by two ways of access at the search page:

• SEDAC catalogue search session is a specialised retrieval for SEDAC catalogued socio-economic and earth science datasets

• the multiple catalogue search session provides the access to wide variety of catalogues simultaneously

See also the list of data resources and the dataset guides (overview of the dataset and details on its source and history; access to variable lists and dictionaries, if available).