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The Institute of Environmental Studies maintains a list of links to environmental websites for the students.
If you have any suggestions or notice any defunct links
please contact Sarah Terkes
Australian Government Sites
- Australian Government
Home Page
- Department
of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, NSW
- Department of Primary Industries, NSW
- Department of Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Water, ACT
- Department
of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.
- Environment
Protection Authority, Victoria
- Environmental
Protection Agency, Queensland
- Environment
Protection Authority, South Australia
- Environment Protection
and Heritage Council - incorporating National Environment Protection
Council
- Land and Water
Australia
- NSW Department
of Natural Resources
- NSW Department of Water and Energy
australian Environment Groups and Organisations
- Australian Association
for Environmental Education - A professional
association for environmental educators in Australia. They provide networking
and information exchange between the environmental education community
in Australia
- Australian
Conservation Foundation - ACF is a national
non-profit organisation. The site has details of current campaigns,
and offers a forum for discussion, links and publication lists
- Greenpeace
Australia Pacific
- National
Toxics Network - Environment Advocates Homepage -
National Toxics Network is a community-based organisation with the common
aim of decreasing the chemical load on the environment and of promoting
environmentally responsible technologies and management systems
- Nature Conservation
Council of NSW - The Nature Conservation
Council of NSW is the peak umbrella organisation for over 100 conservation
and environment groups in NSW, Australia
- The Natural
Step - The Natural Step works with organisations
to develop sustainability, using a model which focuses on the systemic
causes of environmental problems
- The Wilderness
Society - The Wilderness Society is a national
community-based advocacy organisation. The site has information on past
and present campaigns, links to other activist groups and environment
organisations
- Total Environment
Centre - TEC was founded in 1972 as
Australia's first environment centre. It is committted to genuine public
participation in environmental decision-making and conducts research
into environmental policies at the cutting edge
- World Wide
Fund for Nature Australia - WWF is an independent,
apolitical organisation which focuses on collaboration rather than confrontation
to achieve its ends. It develops solutions by involving local communties,
landholders and decision makers
Australian Teaching and Research Institutions
- Australian Centre for Environmental Law (ACEL) - This Centre is a collaborative venture between the Law Faculties of
the Australian National University, the University of Adelaide and the
University of Sydney. ACEL promotes teaching and research in environmental
law between the three universities and is estabilshing itself as a resource
base in this field for Australia, Asia and the Pacific Region
- Centre
for Biodiversity and Bioresources, Macquarie University, Australia
- This centre is a Commonwealth key centre of
teaching and research. Information at this site includes Biodiversity
and Australia, Using Biodiversity Sustainably, and Conserving and Understanding
Biodiversity. The site also has details of research and education programs
- Centre for
Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) -
The Centre for Energy and Environmental
Markets (CEEM) at the University of New South Wales brings together
researchers in UNSW and partner organisations with the key objective
of providing Australian research leadership in the interdisciplinary
design, analysis and performance monitoring of energy and environmental
markets and their associated policy frameworks. CEEM undertakes research
drawing on expertise from the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of
Commerce and Economics, the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Arts,
the Australian Graduate School of Management, and the Institute of Environmental
Studies
- The Fenner School of Environment and Society
- Australian National University
- Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) -
This site includes research areas of agribusiness, environmental and
natural resources, manufacturing, minerals and energy. Further searches
will lead to more specific information, such as climate change scenarios
for Australia
- Institute for
Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney -
ISF has four major programs: Sustainable Water and Waste Minimisation,
Sustainable Transport and Urban Form, Sustainable Energy, and Sustainable
Development in Local Government. ISF also works with organisations to
facilitate sustainability, conducts applied research, workshops and
short courses and sponsors public lectures and seminars
Australian Legal Sites
- National Environmental
Defender's Offices Network - Through this
site you can access the EDO Network. The EDO Network consists of nine
independently constituted and managed community environmental legal
centres spread across Australia. Each EDO office is dedicated to protecting
the environment in the public interest. The site has details of the
various campaigns in which the EDO is involved around Australia
- Law &
Justice Foundation of NSW - This site contains
a set of relevant Commonwealth and NSW legislation and other internet-based
resources dealing with environment, planning and local government. It
has information on Land and Environment Court (NSW) cases, and links
to environment agencies.
- AustLII: Australian
Legal Information Institute - Database used
to search for cases and legislation.
international Environment centres and programs
- Centre
for Biodiversity and Conservation - This
site is a branch of the American Museum of Natural History's main site
and features details of symposia, a symposium multimedia archive and
resource guides
- Centre for
Environmental Informatics (CEI), University of Sunderland, England-
The members of this Centre conduct applied environmental research. Their
award winning website provides free on-line clearing houses that focus
on the disclosure of public and private sector environmental information
- Renewable Energy Policy
Project and the Centre for Renewable Energy
and Sustainable Technology (CREST) - This site includes information
regarding renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable living
- United Nations Sustainable Development
Networking Programme
- UNESCO
World Heritage Centre - Information on international
heritage
- United Nations Environment
Programme - This site contains information
on UNEP conventions, various joint activities and UNEP programs
- UN-Habitat -
United Nations Human Settlements Programme -
This site contains details on the Best Practices Urban Indicators and
Sustainable Cities Programmes as well as other activities and forums
of Habitat
International Environment Agencies and Organisations
Campus and Curriculum Greening Sites
- International
Institute for Sustainable Development -
IISD's interactive tool kit for greening the campus will help you to
learn more about sustainable development and its relevance to teaching.
The site has learning modules, case studies, action plans, environmental
policies, resources, forums and contacts
- Forum for the Future - In 1997, Forum for
the Future, the UK-based charity, was awarded a 2 year grant from the
UK government to generate and provide best practice for sustainability
across the HE sector. Here is an archive with links to a selection of
the Best Practice Bulletins
- Centre for
Sustainable Systems
- Second Nature:
Education for Sustainability. Starfish Resource Centre -
The Starfish site has interdisciplinary educational resources for
sustainability available through various free databases. Although the professors retain copyright for the syllabi
on the site, the material is a source of ideas for the integration
of environmental concerns into many disciplines
- University
of Edinburgh School of Geosciences - The site
contains details of the University of Edinburgh Environment Policy and
the infrastructure and educational reforms developed in response to
the Policy
- University
of New South Wales Transport Program - This
site is constains up-to-date information on sustainable transport
- University Leaders
for a Sustainable Future (ULSF) - ULSF is
the international association of signatories to the Talloires Declaration.
It promotes the concept of global environmental literacy and offers
service and support to member universities
- UNESCO's
International Directory of Environmental Education Institutions on Internet
- This site offers a large list of environmental
education training and research organisations around the world
Agreements on the Environment
Environment Information Sites & Search Engines
- Environmental
Organisation Webdirectory
- Global System for
Sustainable Development - GSSD is
an adaptive knowledge meta-network for use in conjunction with Internet
resources to explore innovative responses to sustainability challenges
at all levels of development and in all parts of the world
- National
Library for the Environment - The service
includes Congressional Research Service reports, daily news, a population
and environment linkages service, laws and treaties, educational programs,
jobs and careers, meetings, journals and reference materials. It also
includes Briefing Books on Global Climate Change and other issues
- Planet Ark
- This site provides up-to-date environmentally
relevant news and information
- Sustainability
Web Ring - This Internet tool allows users
to navigate easily between Web sites that deal with the principles,
policies and best practices for sustainable development. By following
the links through the web ring, you will find information from around
the world on how to deal with such crucial issues as climate change,
cleaner production, waste, poverty, consumerism, natural resource management
and governance. This site is aimed at decision-makers within civil society,
government, business, research and funding institutions, and communities
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