Printed Data Sources

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 1948-present. World crop and livestock statistics. Rome: FAO.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 1983. State of food and agriculture 1982. Rome: FAO.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). 1985. The forest resources of the ECE region. Rome: FAO/ECE.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).1984. Land, food and people. Rome: FAO.

United Nations. Statistical yearbook. Annual publication. New York: United Nations.

United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). 1987-1989. Environmental data report. Oxford.

World Bank, 1984. China -- agriculture to the year 2000 -- prospects and options. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.

World Resources Institute and International Institute for Environment and Development. 1986, 87, 88, 90. World resources 1986, 1987, 1988-89, 1990-91. New York: Basic Books. (And similar later publications.)

See also the following articles and book chapters as information, assessment, and critical comment on the above data sources:

Skole, David L. 1994. Data on global land-cover change: Acquisition, assessment and analysis. In: Changes in land use and land cover: A global perspective, eds. W.B. Meyer and B.L. Turner II, 437-471, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kelmelis, John and Fran Rowland. 1994. Appendix 1: Data collections useful for analysis of land use/land cover change. In: Changes in land use and land cover: A global perspective, eds. W.B. Meyer and B.L. Turner II, 473-507, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Thomas, Michael R. 1993. CIESIN: Providing access to global environmental change data and information. Impact Assessment 11, 3: 307-320.

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Computer-Based Literature / Data Search

Internet Data Sources

GO TO WWW Data Sources for Global Change Research - within this document for a fairly complete list of WWW-based data sources.

Brief overview:

CIESIN - See The Kiosk: http://www.ciesin.org/kiosk/home.html

The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)'s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) facilitates information sharing and discussion. It makes data, studies (after peer review), reports and working papers related to global environmental change more accessible than they otherwise would be. Browse through the following options: - SEDAC Policy Application Issues (with info on population, land use, and emissions) - SEDAC Information Gateway Issues - General Global Change Material - Unpublished Papers (cf. the "CIESIN Human Dimensions Kiosk") - Electronic Bookshelf ... and much more.... Other internet access venues to CIESIN and SEDAC: http://wwwgateway.ciesin.org/ http://sedac.ciesin.org/

The Climate Action Network Newsletter: http://www.igc.apc.org/climate/Eco.html

At this site you can retrieve the Eco-Newsletter of the Climate Action Network (CAN), published at the UN Climate talks. Eco contains the views of environmental organizations participating in CAN.

CDIAC: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) provides climate related information (carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases). CDIAC also assures data quality, documents the data, distributes related reports and produces a newsletter (CDIAC COMMUNICATIONS). The CDIAC / DAAC on Biogeochemical Dynamics is also found here at: http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/ Data are most easily available as Numeric Data packages (NDPs) retrieved via FTP. For complete information on NDPs, contact CDIAC via e-mail at cdp@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov.

EOSDIS: http://ecsinfo.hitc.com and http://eos.nasa.gov/imswelcome

The Earth Observing System (EOS) is an integral part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth. Its Data and Information System (EOSDIS) manages and makes available satellite and other earth science data gathered through this mission.

USGS: http://www.usgs.gov/

The US Geological Survey collects mostly US data for land use/land cover at various scales; also information on hazards.

World Resources Institute:  http://www.wri.org/

The World Resources Institutes electronic version of the bi-annual World Resources Publication, an assessment of the state of the world. The 1996-97 publication has a large section on urban developments (go here for the 1998-99 volume).

U.S. Global Change Research Program: http://www.usgcrp.gov/ or http://gcrio.ciesin.org/

Information on the US government's research program on global change. Also provides access to the homepage of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which can also be accessed via http://www.usgcrp.gov/ipcc/See one of its more recent important technical documents at: http://gcrio.ciesin.org/ipcc/techrepI/toc.html

NASA, Global Change Master Directory: http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Access to NASA and many other global change resources on the world wide web.

NOAA: http://www.noaa.gov/

NOAA is also involved in global change research. Mostly climate change and some water resources related data.

International Human Dimensions Program (IHDP):  http://www.uni-bonn.de/ihdp/

The International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Program, created in 1990 by the International Social Science Council (ISSC), is an international and interdisciplinary program fostering activities that seek to describe and understand the human role in causing global environmental change and the consequences of these changes for society. Information on its activities and publications can be found at this site.

Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group (HDGCSG)

For an overview of the activities of the AAG Specialty Group on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, go to their homepage. It provides access to some of the resources mentioned above.

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