Environment & Business RG

Sunday, December 20, 2009
THE ENVIRONMENT & BUSINESS
Overviews, Surveys

GREENBIZ “Resource Center on Business, the Environment & the Bottom Line.”
News, links, company reports and directories. http://www.greenbiz.com/

SourceOECD. Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development. IEA . Use Advanced Search. Search on Title.
---World Energy Outlook.
---Environmental Performance Reviews. (for 23 individual countries)
---Environmental Indicators
---Environmental Outlook
(To locate print editions of the above titles in the library, search on the title in Franklin, the online card catalog.).

STANDARD & POOR’S INDUSTRY SURVEYS. Environmental Services.


UNITED NATIONS. UN Environment Program. UNEP
---Global Outlook. Country profiles. www.unep.org/GEO /
UNEP FI is a global partnership between UNEP and the financial sector http://www.unepfi.org/
---North America's Environment: A Thirty–Year State of the Environment and Policy Retrospective. Socio-economic dynamics and the Environment UNEP. (from “State of the Environment”) http://www.rona.unep.org/


Directories
ENVIRONMENTAL YELLOW PAGES. US. http://www.enviroyellowpages.com/

News
LEXIS-NEXIS ACADEMIC. Environmental -> News, Journals & Commentary.

Journals
Environmental Quality Management. Quarterly, from 1991. TD194 .T68 (PER)
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. Bimonthly, from 1996
Also print version, from 1995. HD69.P6 B877 (PER).
ENVIRONMENT TODAY. Monthly, from 1995.
(Business Periodicals On Disc – in Lippincott Library Class of 1956 Computer Area)

Statistics
EARTH TRENDS. World Resources Institute.
Sponsored by US Dept of Energy, World Bank & UN. Environmental, economic & social trends. Includes “Driving Business Accountability” and “Economics, Business & the Environment.” a database of 60 countries with about 70 variables, including foreign direct investment http://earthtrends.wri.org/

ENERGY, TRANSPORT & ENVIRONMENT INDICATORS. Eurostat.

US Energy Information Administration Environment. http://www.eia.doe.gov/environment.html

For other materials on this topic, search in FRANKLIN, the online card catalog on these subjects:
industries environmental aspects; green marketing. http://www.library.upenn.edu/lippincott/