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Gale Portal Database
A new online learning experience
So much information, but most of it is just “noise”
Gale’s objective is to cancel the noise . . .
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.
Meet eco-researchers’ growing needs with GREENR - a new online resource.
Delivers global news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents, statistics and more
Interactive and updated daily.
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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)
http://blog.gale.com/gettingtogreenr/
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