Environmental Studies is an inherently multidisciplinary field, where solutions to real-world issues lie at the intersections of the social sciences, the biological and earth sciences, the humanities, legal studies, and policy. This database uses text, archival primary sources, and video to address major past and ongoing environmental issues—water challenges, air pollution, biodiversity, climate change, energy issues, consumption and waste issues, and land issues—in comparative, historical, global, and interdisciplinary ways.
Environmental Issues Online brings together multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more.
The database focuses on specific environmental case studies that enable students, teachers, and researchers to dive into particular, local problems and to investigate how solutions have been created (or not created) in globally scale-able ways. Each case study includes published text, films, documentaries, government reports, NGO publications, monographs, regulations debates, contextualizing resources, and archival primary sources, with an eye toward situating each case in its historical context and supporting continued interdisciplinary dialogue to invent multi-faceted and creative solutions for the future.
Content Type: books, brochures and advertisements, case studies, conference materials, documentaries, ephemera, field notes, financial documents, government/institutional documents, graphs, laws and legislation, letters, maps, meeting minutes, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, press releases, research reports, testimonies, and more.
Environmental Events and Areas: air pollution in London, climate change, DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), Deepwater Horizon, deforestation in the Amazon, global indigenous perspectives, the Great Lakes, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Hinkley C Nuclear Plant, mining in the Pacific, Navajo Reservation uranium mines, sea level rise in the Pacific, Three Gorges Dam, U.S. Clean Water Act, Xeriscape Design, and more.
Topics and Key Words Searches: agriculture, air pollution, aquatic ecology, climate change, coal, conservation of natural resources, dams, environmental policy, fog, fuel, hydraulic engineering, international relations, landscaping, land use, laws and legislation, nuclear energy, pesticides, pollutants, power plants, public health, renewable energy sources, smog, smoke prevention, social activism, water conservation, water disposal, water pollution, water supply, wildlife conservation, and more.
