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Air and Radiation:
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Ozone Pollution:
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Australian Academy of ScienceAntibiotic Resistance:
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American Wind Energy Association
Guided tour on Wind Energy
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Solar Energy:
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Geothermal Energy:
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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
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Union of Concerned Scientists
Global Warming
Information Page
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and Atmospheric Administration
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Climate Change
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Change Solutions
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Environment Programme
Loss of Biodiversity
Air Pollution
Asian air pollution can reach U.S., Seattle Post, Lisa Stiffler, 14 February 2004Seattle University
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Natural Resources Defence Council
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Genetic Engineering
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Radioactive and hazardous waste
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Solution:
Management
Disposal
Farm Waste for Cars
Farm Waste in your Tank
FOOD PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
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Agribusiness Accountability Initiative
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Oxfam International Rigged rules and double standards: trade, globalization and the fight against poverty, 2002
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The world’s problems on a plate, Jeremy Rifkin
Fears rise over aid to Asia, West Australian, P.T. Singam, 31 July 2000
Rising market control of transnational agribusiness, Amit Thorat Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
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Amazon Forest
Working Forests in the Tropics
Deforestation:
Deforestation: Brazil, Andrew Pease, Colby College 1997Amazon deforestation and Brazil land problems
TVE's Earth Report - If Tree's Could Talk
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Canadian Forestry Association
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
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Forest Action Network
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Forest Stewardship Council
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Sierra Club of Canada
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Congo Basin Forests Under Threat. BBC News 3 September 2002
Jones, Lucy Logging Threatens Pygmies’ Forest Life, BBC News 4 June 2002
Jungle: episode two: Congo, BBC Television Natural History Unit, 2003
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Saving the Congo Basin Forests. Testimony of Tony Mokombo, Senior Program Officer, West and Central Africa and Madagascar Endangered Species Program, World Wildlife Fund – US before the Sub-committee on African Affairs of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 24 July 2003
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SBS - DeforestationThe Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources
Biomass Energy Reports detail continued deforestation, Juliet Fox
Managing WA Forests
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Forests, Woodlands & GrasslandsGreenPeace - Genetic Engineering
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GM crops linked to rise in pesticide use, Guardian 8 January 2004
Another gene genie out of the bottle, Economist 19 May 2004
Down in the forest, something stirs, Economist 6 January 2005
Seeds of dispute, Guardian 22 February 2006
US wins WTO backing in war with Europe over GM food, Guardian 8 February 2006
EU Commission admitted GM food uncertainty, Guardian 18 April 2006
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Up from the dead, Economist 4 May 2006
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Weighing Up Benefits And Risks of Genetic Engineering
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Questions About Genetically Modified Organisms, The Daily Mail, 1st June, 1999Economic Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops on the Agri-Food Sector
Genetically Modified Organisms - Bacillus thuringiensis History of Genetic Engineering - American RadioWorks
The Impact of Genetically Modified Organisms on Human Health
GMO, safety and labelling
Opposing Genetic Engineering in New Zealand (and around the world), Bill Christison
Genetics and Patenting
Patenting laws
Benefits of Genetic Engineering:
Potential Benefits of Genetic EngineeringGenetic engineering: who benefits?
Genetic Engineering: Who Benefits?, Alan Durant, March 2000
Globalisation Guide: The key questions on globalisation
Globalisation Management Strategies
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Free Trade
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Globalization: History and Problems,Professor Gérard de BernisGlobalization: History of the International Economy in the 20th Century, Prof. Brian A’Hearn
A Quick Guide to the World History of Globalisation
General Agreement on Trades in Services (GATS):
World Trade LawProblem:
Globalisation is not the problem – the problem is what’s driving itSolution:
Global Warming - Greenhouse EffectsGreenhouse - Green Planet
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Sudden Climate Change Through Human History, Jonathan Adams and Randy FooteGlobal Climate Change: Exploring the Interface Between History, Science, and Development, Robert Page, February 7, 2002
Exploring Weather & Climate Change Through the Powers of 10
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Dateline, SBS 21 June 2006
FAQ Nuclear Energy
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Ocean Planet - Oil Pollution
Hinterland Who's Who
Oil Pollution of the Sea
BBC article
Does ozone damage always cause symptoms?
Ozone damage and climate change – are they related?
Whole Health - Ozone Damage
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Pollution Prevention and Best Management Practices
AGRIFOR - Pollution Control
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
Eldis - Aid and Debt
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Population Growth and Balance
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What you always wanted to know about salt
Dryland Salinity
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Murray-Darling Basin Commission
Irrigation Salinity
Land Degradation, NSWDepartment of Primary Industries - Agriculture
Water and Salinity Management, Australian Potato Research, Robert Stevens, Mark Skewes and Denis Sparrow, 2000
Natural/Irrigation Salinity Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Seagrasses
AIMS Research - Seagrasses
Seagrassess.org - Monitoring & Managing of European Seagrass Ecosystems
The significance of seagrass ecosystems (Western Australia)
University of Western Cape, Botany Department - Soil Erosion
The Soil Erosion Website
Soil Erosion in Agricultural Systems
Soil Erosion, Landcare Field Guide
History of Soil Erosion and Soil Conservation
Coastal Erosion and Catastrophic Storms
Coastal Erosion
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD
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Blueprint for a Green Economy, Earthscan Environmental Books, Edward Barbier, David Pearce and Anil Markandaya, 1989Sustainable Development - Economics and Environment in the Third World, Earthscan Environmental Books, Edward Barbier, David Pearce and Anil Markandaya, 1991
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Small is Beautiful; a Study of Economics as if People Mattered, Abacus, E.F. Schumacher, 1974.
CIA World Factbook
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UNCTAD Biotrade Initiative
UNDP and Energy for Sustainable Development
World Bank Global Development Finance Statistics Friends of the Earth - Transport
Breathing free: fighting transport pollution in urban areas
Urban Transport and Environment GeoTopics - Urbanisation
Pachamama - Urbanisation
Internation Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change - Urbanisation
Benefits and cost:
Urbanisation and Migration in the Third World, Jackie WahbaUrbanisation - Facts
COST-C9 - Processes to Reach Urban Quality ‘Weapons bill undercuts battle for environment’, The West Australian, Jean-Michel Cousteau, 08/06/92.
‘Bioweapons, bioterrorism and biodiversity: potential impacts of biological weapons attacks on agricultural and biological diversity’, JP Dudley & MH Woodford.
Impact of War and Landmines on Environment, Abdhesh Gangwar.
‘The US Is Thinking Itself Into A New Global Conflict’, The Independent, Andrew Marshall, Oct. 2000.
Environmental Aspects of Landmines, Claudio Torres Nachon.
‘The New Arms Race’, The Weekend Australian, Greg Sheridan, 13-14/06/98.
Question of Survival: War and Ecological Disruption International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Tilman Ruff
Paul Rogers The Environmental Costs of War. Public lecture at Lancaster University for the Westmorland General Meeting’s ‘Preparing for Peace’ initiative 13 July 2002
Preparing for Peace, Rogers, Paul.
The Russian Northern Fleet (based on the Bellona report The Arctic Nuclear Challenge of 2001) 6 February 2003
BBC News at a Glance The International Arms Trade
Anup Shah The Arms Trade is Big Business.
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
Federation of American Scientists.
Mine Fields.
Social and Environmental Aspects of Abandoned Chemical Weapons in China Nonproliferation Review, Hongmei Deng and Peter O’Meara Evans, Spring-Summer 1997.
Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators
Finding out about water pollution
Water Pollution and Society, David Krantz and Brad Kifferstein
Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution)
Freshwater Website - Water Pollution
Sources of Water Pollution
How does stormwater pollution affect us?
Friends of the Earth: Links
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Bromley Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth Europe
Friends of the Earth Netherlands
Friends of the Earth Finland
Friends of the Earth US
Friends of the Earth Hong Kong
EcoWorld
Growing up Green, David Hutchinson
Hunter Water Corporation
Savewater.com.au
Solutions for a Water-Short World Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2000
The Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Global Water Partnership
Coastal and marine pollution
The World's Water
World resources institute
International Water Management Institute
Environmental policy and the UN System
Clean Drinking Water: An increasingly rare commodity, Global Water Resources, November 1999
Water Policy and Law Group - Web links for water
Alho, C. J . R. 2005. The World’s Largest Wetlands: Ecology and Conservation. pp203 - 271. Ed: Lauchlan H. Fraser and Paul A. Keddy. Cambridge University Press, UK.
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Beam, S. 2004.They drained paradise. Environment 46(3): 7 Childers, D. L., Oehm, N. J. Parker, F. and Madden, C. 1999. How Freshwater Everglades Wetlands Mediate Changes in Water Flow and Nutrient Loadings to the Florida Bay. Gulf Research Reports 10: 72
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Human Rights Watch. 2003. The Iraqi Governments Assault on the Marsh Arabs. A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper.
Mitsch, W. J., and J. G. Gosselink. 2000. Wetlands. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. USA.
Pantanal Ogransation.
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