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
Melbourne School of Land and Environment
Environmental Science Group, Botany
Environment Department, Student Union
Environmental Health and Saftey
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)
Google Earth (geo-referenced data, satellite images)
Green-Left Weekly (Australia)
NRM Jobs (Australasia)
Planetark (global environmental news)
UNEP.Net Environment Network (United Nations Environment Programme)
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
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
Merri Creek Management Committee (2-3 km from campus – lots of volunteer activities)
Oxfam Australia (Fitzroy, Melbourne)
Victoria State Government
Department of Environment and Sustainability
Sustainability Victoria (formed 2005)
Environmental Protection Agency (VIC)
Land and Property (and maps)
Federal Government
Australian Natural Resources Atlas
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems - Long-term Sustainability
Department of Environment and Heritage
State of the Environment Australia Annual Report
Land and Water Australia (has funding)
Online journals and sources of articles
Ethics in Science Envt. Policy
Ethnobotany Research and Applications
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
Research
Cooperative research centres, Australia
Catchment Hydrology CRC (archived 2005)
EWater CRC (new SSEE water related research here)
Rainforest CRC
CRC for Australian Weed Management
CRC for Biological Control of Pest Animals
CRC for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management
CRC for The Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
CRC for Tropical Savannas Management
Environmental Biotechnology CRC
CRC for Water Quality and Treatment
CRC for The Antarctic Climate Ecosystems
CRC for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration
CRC for Greenhouse Gas Technologies
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
Stockholm Environmental Institute Sweden
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK
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)