Chapter 17 Web Links

Chapter seventeen: Environment

http://www.act.or.ke
The African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya, provides useful studies, resources, and news items on issues such as agriculture and food security, climate change, and biotechnology.

http://www.cseindia.org
The site of the Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi, India, contains reports and details of campaigns on key environmental challenges facing India, but also maintains a global focus.

http://www.iied.org
The site of the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) offers research and publications on a range of environment and development issues.

http://www.iisd.org
Among other useful databanks, the site of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), based on Winnipeg, Canada, gives access to the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, which provides updates on all of the leading international environmental negotiations.

http://practicalaction.org/home
The site of Practical Action, UK, contains details on the organization, its project and research work, and reports and publications on a range of environment and development issues.

http://www.steps-centre.org
This University of Sussex research centre on social, technological, and environmental pathways to sustainability produces research on a range of environmental and development issues. The site also provides access to the Eldis gateway from where searches for information and studies on particular environmental issues in specific developing countries can be undertaken.

http://www.unep.org
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) site is a mine of information about global environmental issues and the negotiations aimed at tackling them.

http://www.worldbank.org
Contains information about the World Bank’s work on a range of environmental issues in the developing world.