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Contents

Search Databases for Journal Articles
Ebooks
Online Journals
Carbon Cycle
Climate Change
Government Sites
Legislation
Carbon Management
Behaviour Change and Evaluation
Sustainability and Business
Life Cycle Assessment
More Internet Resources and Websites

Search Databases for Journal Articles

• Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
  Multi-disciplinary database, includes full text articles on environment and ecology
• GreenFILE (EBSCOhost)
  GreenFILE is a database of articles and web pages covering all aspects of human impact and the environment. It indexes nearly 300,000 journal articles as well as linking to more than 4,600 web pages
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre (EBSCOhost)
  Contains leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers & magazines and some international ones too, as well as some reference books in full text
• ScienceDirect - Search over 1800 Elsevier journals, with full text generally available from 1997. Subjects covered include sustainability and renewables
• SAGE - part of the INFORMIT set of databases, SAGE indexes and abstracts Australian articles on science, geography and the environment

Ebooks

• Climate change past, present and future Volz, G 2011
• Environmental taxation and climate change Kreiser, L, Sirisom, J, Ashiabor, H 2011
• Global food insecurity Behnassi, M, Draggan, S, Yaya, S 2011
• Guidance on sustainability impact assessment OECD 2010
• Mediating climate change Doyle, J 2011
• Now or never : a sustainable future for Australia? Flannery, TF 2009
• Practical sustainability from grounded theory to emerging strategies Khalili, NR 2011
• Search Swinburne Library for more ebooks

Online Journals

• Carbon Balance and Management
• Climate Change News
• International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology
• Sustainability
• Sustainability science
• Sustainable Development Law and Policy
• Search Swinburne Library for more online journals

The Carbon Cycle

• The Carbon Cycle From Visionlearning from National Science Foundation (USA)
• The Carbon Cycle From NASA Earth Observatory

Climate Change

• Australian Bureau of Meteorology – Climate Change
• Climate Change Glossary - from EPA Victoria
• Climate Change in Australia Report Developed from the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth assessment report. This Report by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology provides climate change projections for Australia
• CSIRO – Climate Change

Government Sites

• Australia Government. Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
• Department of Sustainability and Environment. Victoria
• EPA Victoria - Climate Change
• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting From The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
• Sustainability Education From The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
• Sustainability Victoria
• Triple Bottom Line Measurement and Reporting in Australia From The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

Legislation

• Carbon Credits ( Carbon Farming Initiative Bill ) 2011 From AustLII database
• Clean Energy Bill 2011 From AustLII database
• NGER Act National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 From AustLII database

Carbon Management

• Australia's emissions Includes the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre
• Carbon Disclosure Project Database of corporate climate action
• Carbon Offset Guide Australia
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
• Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative Includes link to Corporate and Accounting Reporting Standards
• Kyoto Protocol
• National Greenhouse Account (NGA) Factors
• Reducing Australia's emissions From The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
• Voluntary Carbon Markets Association

Behaviour Change and Evaluation

• 2010 Green Light Report From The Victorian Government
• Basic Guide to Program Evaluation
• Climate Change - What you can do? From The Australian Psychological Society
• Co create A facilitator's guide to collaborative planning
• Does your project make a difference? From the NSW Govt., Dept. of Environment, Climate Change and Water
• Enabling change
• Evaluation Step-by-Step guide From The Victorian government, DPDC
• Fostering Sustainable Behavior Change. Community-Based Social Marketing
• Selling Sustainability From NESTA National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (UK)

Sustainability and Business

• EPA Victoria's Sustainable Business & Industry
• Investor Group on Climate Change Australia / New Zealand
• Sustainability-Reports.com Portal for sustainability reports of multinational companies
• The World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Life Cycle Assessment

• GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Standard
• Life Cycle Assessment
• Life-Cycle Assessment Research From The United States Environmental Protection Agency

More Internet Resources and Websites

• Australian Greenhouse Calculator
• Biochar.org An organisation which promotes the utilization of waste biomass
• The Center for International Environmental Law
• Climate Action Network Australia Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) is an alliance of over 30 regional, state and national environmental, health, community development, and research groups from throughout Australia
• Climate Change Policy and Practice A knowledge management project for international negotiations and related activities on climate change run by the International Institute for Sustainable Development
• Greenfinder Australian green business directory
• Green Vehicle Guide Australia
• Guide to using research in Sustainability Programs From the NSW Government, Office of Environment & Heritage
• Port Phillip Ecocentre - The EcoCentre initiates educational projects, and provides meeting space, office facilities, an environmental reference library, and an example of environmental action in practice
• National Centre for Sustainability
• Sustainability - EPA (U.S.) - Directory of information about sustainability
• UKCIP UK Climate Impacts Program
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change