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- Date: 30 Jul 92 13:29 PDT
- Subject: Re: Environmental Database
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- Barry,
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- Environmental information of the type you are seeking is indeed
- spread far and wide, and compiling the ultimate environmental
- database would be a Herculean task. Even the EPA does not have a
- single database of environmental statistics for the U.S. They do,
- however, have some subject-specific databases that you may have
- access to, the most obvious being the Toxic Release Inventory.
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- The United Nations Environment Programme releases subject-specific
- studies containing lots of quantitative data, as does the OECD.
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- The best compilation of tabular data on the environment that I know
- of is World Resources Institute's biannual _World Resources_ report.
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- I recently saw a brochure for an educational package of health,
- economic, environmental, and demographic data on CD for
- Macintosh. It is based on HyperCard, and allows students to select
- sets of data and constructs tables, graphs, and charts all within one
- software environment. It is called PEMD Discovery and is sold by PEMD
- Education Group, 707-894-3668 (US).
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- For periodicals, there is a hard-copy index at most libraries called
- something like "Environmental Abstracts." The University of
- California Santa Barbara has an Environmental Periodicals Bibliography
- project; searches can be requested by e-mail and for a fee they will
- search their extensive CD-rom library.
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- Good luck,
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- Steve Coffee
- Carrying Capacity Network
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- BY THE WAYthex"~1 addre~rss for the sanata barabara people would be
- iasb@igc.org
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- sorry for the static.
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