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South African
National Biodiversity Institute
The vision of the SANBI is to be the
leading institution in biodiversity science in Africa, facilitating
conservation, sustainable use of living resources, and human wellbeing.
Biodiversity and protected areas in South Africa
International biodiversity hotspots
The richest and most
threatened reservoirs of the plant and animal life on earth.
South African state of the environment reports
Following the release
of the first comprehensive national state of the environment report in
1999, the department has initiated several environmental reporting and
environmental information initiatives.
Biodiversity Conservation Information System
A consortium of ten international conservation organisations and programs
of IUCN—The World Conservation Union, BCIS Members collectively represent
the single greatest global source of biodiversity conservation information
in the world
The Water Page
Incorporating the African
Water Page and the South African Water Scene
Pollution
The
Environment Directory
Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
Global
Warming
This web site is a project
of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a sub-group of the National Consumer
Coalition. The Cooler Heads Coalition formed May 6, 1997 to dispel the
myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk
analysis. Coalition members will also follow the progress of the
international Global Climate Change Treaty negotiations.
Global
Warming International Center
The Global Warming
International Center (GWIC) is the international body disseminating
information on global warming science and policy, serving both
governmental, non-governmental organizations, and industries in more than
145 countries. It sponsors unbiased research supporting the understanding
of global warming and its mitigation.
Stop Global Warming
The results are in and the reality of
global warming is beyond dispute or debate. It’s not just an environmental
issue. It affects ours public health and national security. It’s an urgent
matter of survival for everyone on the planet — the most urgent threat
facing humanity today. It’s going to take action from you and all of us
working together.
Environmental Ethics
Institute for European Environmental Policy
The Institute for European
Environmental Policy (IEEP) is a leading centre for the analysis and
development of environmental and related policies in Europe.
How to write an Environmental Policy
Environmental Economics
Environmental Economics
The Environmental Economics blog is dedicated to the dissemination of
economists’ views on current environmental and natural resource issues. We
hope this blog will help bring economists’ views on environmental issues
further into the mainstream. The intended audience includes the general
public and students. Posts are non-technical.
AERE - Association of
Environmental and Resource Economists
Founded in
1979,
the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) was
established as a means of exchanging ideas, stimulating research, and
promoting graduate training in resource and environmental economics. AERE
currently has over 800 members from more than thirty nations, coming from
academic institutions, the public sector, and private industry. It draws
from traditional economics, agricultural economics, forestry, and natural
resource schools.
World Bank Environmental
Economics & Indicators
Environmental economics
supports the World Bank's environment strategy while assisting clients and
partners to address environmental problems as an integral part of
sustainable development. Indicators can help us measure progress and track
changes in our environment and the economic consequences over time, as
well as inform us about the need for appropriate and timely responses to
environmental problems.
Centre for Environmental Economics
and Policy in Africa
The Environmental Economics
programme of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural
Development was in 2001 converted to a centre in 2001 and is now known as
the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA)
located within the Department of Agricultural economics, Extension and
Rural Development at the University of Pretoria.
Forum for Economic and Environment
The Economics for
Environment Forum is a non-aligned, informal group of individuals with an
interest in Economics and Environment in southern Africa mandated during a
meeting held on 4 June 1999 to discuss the future of Economics and
Environment.
Glossary of Environmental Economics
Terms
Environmental
Law and Legislation
White Paper on Environmental Management
Policy for SA
National Environmental Management Act [No.
107 of 1998]
National Environmental Management Amendment
Act [No. 8 of 2004]
National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act
[No. 10 of 2004]
EnviroLaw
Information from the World
Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
IUCN: The
world conservation unit
The World Conservation Union is the world’s largest and most important
conservation network. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government
agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some
10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide
partnership. The Union’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist
societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of
nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and
ecologically sustainable.
The
Environmental Law Institute
An independent , non
partisan environmental education and policy research center.
The Center for International
Environmental Law
The Center for International
Environmental Law (CIEL) is a nonprofit organization working to use
international law and institutions to protect the environment, promote
human health, and ensure a just and sustainable society. We provide a wide
range of services including legal counsel, policy research, analysis,
advocacy, education, training, and capacity building.
Environmental Law Net
Environmental Law Net was
created in 1998 as a tool for harnessing the Internet to better serve our
clients, who include general counsel, in-house attorneys, and
environmental managers for companies operating in a broad range of
industries.
Environmental Law Alliance
Worldwide (E-LAW)
The Environmental Law
Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW) gives public interest lawyers and scientists
around the world the skills and resources they need to protect the
environment through law. Grassroots lawyers from 10 countries founded
E-LAW in 1989. Now, more than 300 grassroots lawyers and scientists in 60
countries call on the E-LAW network for critical legal and scientific
tools.
ECOLEX
ECOLEX is an
information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN
and UNEP. Its purpose is to build capacity worldwide by providing the most
comprehensive possible global source of information on environmental law.
This unique resource, which combines the environmental law information
holdings of FAO, IUCN and UNEP , seeks to put this information at the
disposal of users world-wide, in an easily accessible service, employing
modern technology. The ECOLEX database includes information on treaties,
international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance
documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy
literature. Users have direct access to the abstracts
Environmental Management
Global Environmental
Management Initiative
(GEMI)
The mission of GEMI is be
globally recognized as a leader in providing strategies for businesses to
achieve environmental, health and safety (EHS) excellence, economic
success and corporate citizenship.
City of Cape Town - Environmental Management
The Environmental Management
Department assists with planning and implementing sustainable development
which improves local environments, protects and enhances the unique
natural and cultural resources of the City for the benefit of current and
future generations.
CEN Integrated Environmental
Management Unit CC
To contribute to the
socio-economic advancement and the sound management of the natural
resource base of Southern Africa, but in particular, the Eastern Cape
Province.
CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment
Conducting world-class, directed interdisciplinary research and
technological innovation, with partners and stakeholders, in the fields of
natural resources and the environment to contribute to the social,
economic and environmental improvement of South Africa and Africa
Geographical
Information Systems
GIS.com
The guide to Geographic
Information Systems
HSRC GIS homepage
As one of the most advanced spatial information data centers in Africa,
the GIS Centre specializes in placing socio-economic and developmental
information in a spatial context. The Centre's sophisticated hardware and
software enable it to undertake most types of database development.
AfriGIS Profile
AfriGIS is one of the leading providers of Geographical Information System
(GIS) solutions and location based services (LBS) in Southern Africa. Since its establishment in 1997, AfriGIS has grown
to one of the largest GIS firms in South Africa with offices in
Pretoria (HQ) and
Cape Town and points of presence in the UK, The
Netherlands and Bangladesh.
Maps and Geographical Information Systems Sources on the World Wide Web
and in Print
Free e-books
IDRC books
IDRC
Books is the publishing arm of Canada's International Development Research
Centre. We publish, both online and in print, the results of
IDRC-supported
research on global and regional issues related to sustainable and
equitable development. As a specialist in development literature,
IDRC
Books contributes to the body of knowledge on these issues to further the
causes of global understanding, equity, and well-being.
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