The School of Social and Environmental Enquiry Environmental Studies

Websites relevant to students in Environmental Studies

 

Resources: University of Melbourne

  • Library resources in Environmental Studies (University of Melbourne)
  • Office of Environmental Programs
  • Find an Expert on campus
  • Fac of Land and Food Resources
  • Environmental Science Group, Botany
  • Environment Department, Student Union
  • Risk Management office

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    Other

    Other Universities in Victoria, environmental research/teaching in all of them

    The Ecoversity (now defunct, but once based in Melbourne)

    Eco Media (Australia)

    Eco-Shout (Melbourne activists)

    Envirolink (US based)

    Envirotalk (Australian Environmental discussion forum)

    Environmental jobs network (Melbourne)

    ENN (News, US based, also radio and tv station online)

    Earth Times: Online News

    Google Earth (geo-referenced data, satellite images)

    Green-Left Weekly (Australia)

    Indymedia, Melbourne

    NRM Jobs (Australasia)

    Oztoxics

    Planetark (global environmental news)

    Sustainable Cities Campaign

    UNEP.Net Environment Network (United Nations Environment Programme)

    Worldwatch Institute

    Wikipedia user-edited online encyclopedia (University of Melbourne entry)

     

    Happenings

    Greenhouse 2005 Melbourne (November 2005)

    Melbourne Social Forum each November

     

    Environmental centres

    CERES Community Environmental Park (Brunswick, Melbourne, 4km from campus)

    Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales, UK

     

    NGOs

    Australian Conservation Foundation (Melbourne)

    Australian Network of Environmental Defenders Offices

    Blue Wedges Coalition (against deepening in Port Philip Bay) and Channel Project (Port of Melbourne)

    Conservation Volunteers Australia

    Cultural Survival

    Earthshare Australia (coordinates across 11 NGOs)

    Environment Victoria (Melbourne)

    Friends of the Earth Australia (Smith St, Melbourne)

    Greenpeace Australia Pacific (Sydney/Suva)

    Indigenous flora and fauna association

    Keep Australia Beautiful – (Victoria), volunteer network

    Landcare Australia

    Landcare Victoria

    Merri Creek Management Committee (2-3 km from campus – lots of volunteer activities)

    Oxfam Australia (Fitzroy, Melbourne)

    Permaculture Melbourne

    Rainforest Action Network

    Sustainable Living Foundation

    Urban Ecology Australia

    Watermark Australia

    The Wilderness Society

    World Conservation Union

    WWF

     

    Victoria State Government

    Department of Environment and Sustainability

    Sustainability Victoria (formed 2005)

    Environmental Protection Agency (VIC)

    Land and Property (and maps)

    Melbourne Water

    Parks Victoria

     

    Federal Government

    Australian Natural Resources Atlas

    Bureau ofMeterology

     

    CSIRO Scientific Research

  • CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
  • CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems - Long-term Sustainability
  • Sustainability network

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    Department of Environment and Heritage

  • Greenhouse Office
  • Natural Resource Management
  • State of the Environment Australia Annual Report
  • ESD

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    Environmental Portal

    Environment Resources

    Great Barrier Reef MP

    Land and Water Australia (has funding)

     

    Online journals and sources of articles

    Arena

    Australian Humanities Review

    The Ecologist

    Ecology and Society

    Electronic Green Journal

    Ethics in Science Envt. Policy

    Ethnobotany Research and Applications

    Human Ecology Review

    The Journal of Political Ecology

    The Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies

    Redreaming the Plain (Melbourne)

    Resource Management in Asia-Pacific working papers, ANU

    Seminar India

    Urban Habitats

     

    Research

    Cooperative research centres, Australia

  • Catchment Hydrology CRC (archived 2005)
  • EWater CRC (new SSEE water related research here)
  • Greenhouse Accounting CRC
  • Desert Knowledge CRC
  • Bush Fire CRC
  • Rainforest CRC
  • CRC for Australian Weed Management
  • CRC for Biological Control of Pest Animals
  • CRC for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management
  • CRC for Freshwater Ecology
  • CRC for The Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
  • CRC for Sustainable Tourism
  • CRC for Tropical Savannas Management
  • Environmental Biotechnology CRC
  • CRC for Water Quality and Treatment
  • CRC for Irrigation Futures
  • CRC for The Antarctic Climate Ecosystems
  • CRC for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration
  • CRC for Greenhouse Gas Technologies

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    CIFOR Forestry research (Indonesia)

    Envt Change Institute, Oxford University

    Ecopolitics Association, Australia

    IIED - International Institute for Environment Development, UK

    IPCC – Climate Change, the international scientific consensus

    IDS Environment Group, Sussex Univ,

    ID21 UK-based development research summaries

    International Institute for Sustainable Development

    George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, USA

    Policy Studies Institute, UK

    Stockholm Environmental Institute Sweden

    Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK

    World Resources Institute USA

    Wuppertal Institute, Germany

     

    People

    John Adams UCL - risk, transport

    Robert E Ford Loma Linda Univ. Resource management

    Richie Howitt – environment and indigenous rights in Australia

    Mark Lynas Global warming

    George Monbiot environmental journalism, articles

    Eric Neumayer LSE – environmental economics, sustainability

    Jenny Pickerill Leicester University – environmental activism

    Steve Schneider, Stanford University (climate change and policy, exhaustive site)

     

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