Web Resources
www.gesis.org/en/data_service/eurobarometer/
Eurobarometers are public opinion surveys conducted on behalf of the
European Commission at least two times a year in all member states of
the European Union. Since the early seventies they have provided regular
monitoring of social and political attitudes in Europe.
people-press.org
The
Pew Center for the People & the Press is an independent opinion
research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics, and
public policy issues. They are best known for US national surveys that
measure public attentiveness to major news stories, and for polling
that charts trends in values and fundamental political and social attitudes.
www.arkive.org
ARKive
is a not-for-profit initiative of The Wildscreen Trust. It is the Noah's
Ark for the Internet era: a centralised digital library of films, photographs
and associated recordings of species, accessible to all via the world
wide web.
sdgateway.net
The
Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN) is a group of
leading civil society organizations seeking to accelerate the implementation
of sustainable development through broader, integrated information and
communications about what we know.
www.interdok.com
InterDok Corporation provides a service that bridges the gap between
supply and demand for available published literature produced from specialized
conferences and symposia in the science and technology communities.
It contains a Directory of Published Proceedings, an Acquisitions Service,
and a Meetings Index.
www.educationcentral.org/stormy/StormSampler.htm
The Storm Sampler lets you sample important aspects of storms: hurricanes,
tornadoes, winter storms, super storms, and weather events.
ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/hurtrack/htrack2.html
This viewer is an interactive track of every Atlantic Tropical Cyclone
and Hurricane since 1990. You can view specific hurricanes and once
the track is displayed, you can control the track and view data concerning
the storm for each time interval.
chiex.net/in_the_news.htm
CHIEX is an online climate and health forum for information exchange.
It provides news, updates and announcement and stimulates discussion
on topics related to climate and health.
www.geographynetwork.com/home.html
The
Geography Network is a global network of geographic information users
and providers. It provides the infrastructure needed to support the
sharing of geographic information among data providers, service providers,
and users around the world.
www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/gcc/contents.html
This
website contains the Global Climate Change Student Guide, written by
Joe Buchdahl, a comprehensive work for geology, geography and environmental
science students studying climate change. It includes chapters on: the
climate system; causes of climate change; empirical observation and
climatic reconstruction; climate modeling; and palaeo- and contemporary
climate change.
www.newscentralasia.com
A
news agency (News Central Asia) has been launched from Central Asia,
focused on unbiased reporting on currents events in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan, and
Pakistan as part of Greater Central Asia. Political and economic development
in Russia will also be covered.