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Recent Links

• Sustainable Society Index
  http://www.ssfindex.com/

• Platform for practitioners working on ecosystem management and poverty alleviation
  http://www.natureandpoverty.net/

• Online Earth Day Ideas For Schools
  http://www.onlineschools.org/resources/earth-day-ideas/

General

• Scientific Organisations - IA and Sustainable Development

  • CSERGE: Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment

  • Network for Transdisciplinarity in Sciences and Humanities

  • Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation

  • ICIS: International Centre for Integrative Studies

  • Institute of Environmental Systems Research

  • IIASA: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

  • IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development

  • SDRI: Sustainable Development Research Initiative

  • SEI: Stockholm Environment Institute

  • SENSE: Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment

  • Institute for Environmental Studies, Free University Amsterdam

  • EFIEA European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment

  • Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

• Academic Institutes / Organizations with ties to Integrated Assessment

  • CSTM-Twente Centre for Studies of Technology and Sustainable Development (University of Twente)

  • International Institute for Geo-Sciences and Earth Observation (University of Twente)

  • Department of Water Engineering and Management (University of Twente)

  • Institute of Environmental Systems Research (University of Osnabrueck)

  • Warnell School of Forest Resources (University of Georgia)

  • Institute of System Science, Innovation and Sustainability Research (University of Graz)

  • Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute (University of Michigan)

  • Centre for Water Resource Systems (Vienna University of Technology)

  • SA Centre for Water Management and Reuse (University of South Australia)

  • Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (University of British Columbia)

  • Department of Anthropology (University of North Carolina)

  • Environmental Science and Policy Program (Michigan State University)

  • Department of Geography (Pennsylvania State University)

  • Department of Social and Decision Sciences (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Research Group for Industrial Ecology, Life Cycle Assessment and Systems Sustainability (University of Maine)

  • The Earth Institute (Columbia University)

  • Department of Civil and Structural Engineering (University of Sheffield)

  • Department of Geography (University of Maryland)

  • Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre (The Australian National University)

  • Centre for Water Science (Cranfield University)

  • Department of Civil and Environmental Protection (Helsinki University of Technology)

  • Environmental Systems Analysis Group (Wageningen University)

  • International Centre for Integrative Assessment & Sustainable Development (Maastricht University)

  • Department of Environmental Engineering (Technical University of Denmark)

  • Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science (University of Hamburg)

  • Institute for Environmental & Sustainability Communication (Leuphana University)

  • Department of Agricultural Economics (University of Pretoria)

  • Department of Economics (Wesleyan University)

  • MultiScale Energy - Environmental Systems Group (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

  • Zuckermann Institute for Connective Environmental Research (University of East Anglia)

  • Department of Science, Technology and Society (Utrecht University)

  • School of Geography, Archeology & Environmental Studies (University of the Witwatersraud)

  • Copernicus Institute (Utrecht University)

  • Pardee Center for International Futures (University of Denver)

  • Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (University of Leipzig)

  • Environmental and Earth Systems Science (Stanford University)

  • Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

  • Sauder School of Business (University of British Columbia)

  • Laboratorio de Modelacion Ecologica (Universidad de Chile)

  • Department of Physical Geography (Albert Ludwig University)

  • Faculty of Art and Social Sciences (Maastricht University)

  • Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (University of East Anglia)

  • Institute for Social Development Studies (IGP), Munich

  • Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (University of Twente)

• Governmental and Intergovernmental Agencies

  • Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)

  • Institute for Environment and Sustainability (Joint Research Centre)

  • Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature.
    http://www.oaresciences.org/en/

  • A Virtual Resource Centre on Green Accounting. UNEP-Economics and Trade Branch. The Centre provides a searchable database for a wide range of materials and internet links related to integrated environmental and economic accounting. The database includes a compilation of key documents from governments, academic institutions, international organizations, non-governmental organisations and individuals on selected topics relating to green accounting, environmental statistics and indicators. For more information: http://www.unep.ch/etb/areas/VRC_index.php

  • European Environment Agency (EEA)

  • European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET)

  • United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

  • United Nations Division for Sustainable Development

  • The Millennium Project (commissioned by the UN)

  • Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)

  • EEA multilingual environmental glossary

• Non-governmental Organisations

  • Tool for collecting, managing and citing research sources. Zotoro is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension.
    http://www.zotero.org/

  • The World Future Council is a new voice in the global political arena that draws on shared human values to champion the rights of future generations, and works to ensure that humanity acts now for a sustainable future.
    http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/

  • Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

  • European Platform of Women Scientists

  • CIEL - The Center for International Environmental Law

  • ENDA - Environmental Development Action in the Third World

  • EU Center

  • FoEI - Friends of the Earth International

  • Greenpeace International

  • ICLEI - International Council for Local Environment Initiatives

  • IIED - International Institute for Environment and Development

  • Rocky Mountain Institute

  • Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future

  • Third World Network

  • WEDO - Women's Environment and Development Organization

  • Worldwatch Institute

  • WRI - World Resources Institute

  • WWF - World Wildlife Fund

  • International Association of Impact Assessment

  • Ecologic gGmbH

• Consulting

  • Seeconsult GmbH

  • SERI - Nachhaltigkeitsforschungs- und kommunikations GmbH

Participatory Processes

• Resources

  • The new web portal, Learning for Sustainability, highlights the wide range of networks, forums, processes and social skills needed to support constructive collaboration. The Site includes guides, tools and checklists addressing issues involved in managing multi-stakeholder participation and engagement initiatives.
    http://learningforsustainability.net

  • Collaborative solutions in sustainability:
    http://www.appropedia.org/

  • Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development: Collection of community mapping and participatory GIS multimedia.
    http://www.iapad.org/multimedia.htm

  • Encyclopedia of Transnational Governance Innovation: ETGI is a collaborative, online, dynamic, expert-written "wiki" to document new forms of governance beyond the state, in order to provide a tool for research. The editorial board invites contributors:
    www.etgi.co.uk

  • Eldis Participation Resource Guide

  • FAO Participation

  • Framework for Multi-stakeholder Processes (UNED Forum)

  • Impact Alliance Facilitation Techniques

  • IAPAD - Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development

  • International Association for Public Participation

  • Participatory Evaluation

  • Participatory Learning and Action

  • Toolkit Citizen Participation

  • World Bank Participation and Civic Action

Global Change

• Organisations

  • GWSP - Global Water Systems Project

  • IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

  • IHDP - International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change

  • START - Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training

• Scientific Resources

  • Global Change Master Directory

  • Global Environment Outlook (GEO)

Climate Change

• International Organisations and Secretariats - Climate Change

  • UNFCCC Secretariat

  • Global Environment Facility

  • IEA - International Energy Agency

  • OECD and Climate Change

  • WMO - World Meteorological Organization

  • WCRP - World Climate Research Programme

• International NGOs - Climate Change

  • CICERO - Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo

  • CAN - Climate Action Network

  • Climate Action Network Europe

  • EcoEquity

  • Helio International

  • INFORSE - International Network for Sustainable Energy

  • Pew Center on Global Climate Change

  • Rocky Mountain Institute

  • Trialogue on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Desertification

  • IISD Linkages: Climate and Atmosphere Meetings

• Scientific organizations - Climate Change

  • The Forum for Sustainable Development of German Business has published a web-based tool that allows users to generate climate maps according to individual preferences:
    http://www.climate-policy-map.econsense.de/

  • Columbia University's Earth Institute

  • CIESIN - Center for International Earth Science Information Network

  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

  • International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)

  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

  • Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

  • World Climate Research Programme

Water Resources (Rivers, Wetlands, Coasts, Oceans)

• UN Agencies and Intergovernmental Organisations - Water

  • GWSP's online Digital Water Atlas.
    http://atlas.gwsp.org

  • UN Campus UNW-DPC (United Nations University)

  • Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

  • UN Division for Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea (DOALOS)

  • UNEP Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (UNEP-GPA)

  • FAO Fisheries

  • Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)

  • International Maritime Organization (IMO)

  • International Network of Basin Organisations

  • International Conference on the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive

  • IWRM.net: a European-wide exchange Network for improving dissemination of Integrated Water Resources management Research outcomes: http://www.oieau.fr/eranet/

• NGOs - Water

  • Friends of the Earth International - Water/Wetlands Campaign

  • International Rivers Network

  • Oceana

  • Seaweb

  • Wetlands International

• International and Scientific Organisations, Partnerships and Projects

  • Fraser Basin Council, British Columbia, Canada: Experiences in Sustainable River Basin Management.
    http://www.fraserbasin.bc.ca/

  • The first prototype of the Integrated Solution Support System (i3S) for analyzing and mitigating water stress from an integrated multi-sectoral perspective of the AquaStress Project is available for public testing on http://test.wisl.nl/aquastress and eventually via the project's web site:
    http://www.aquastress.net/

  • From conflict to collective action: Institutional change and management options to govern trans-boundary water courses German-Israeli-Palestinian research initiative.
    http://collectivewater.umweltoekonomie.tu-berlin.de/collectivewater/

  • Modelkey Project: Models for Assessing and Forecasting the Impact of Environmental Key Pollutants on Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems and Biodiversity. http://www.modelkey.org/

  • http://www.waterfootprint.org/

  • Building Partners for Development (BPD) in Water and Sanitation

  • Global Water Partnership

  • ICRI - International Coral Reef Initiative

  • International Water Association

  • IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

  • WSSCC - Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

  • World Water Council

  • IWMI - International Water Management Institute

  • UNESCO-Institute for Water Education (IHE)

  • HarmoniCA - Harmonised Modelling Tools in Integrated Basin Management

  • HarmoniCOP - Harmonising Collaborative Planning

  • NeWater - New Approaches to Adaptive Water Management under Uncertainty

  • Helsinki University of Technology: Global Change and Water Resources Programme

• Municipal

  • MetroVancouver

Ecological Economics

• Organisations

  • International Society for Ecological Economics

  • U.S. Society for Ecological Economics

  • European Society for Ecological Economics

  • IIIEE: The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

  • Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa

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