Environmental Studies: Dictionaries & encyclopedias

This is a free, expert-reviewed, electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.

Global access to knowledge about life on Earth

This encylopedia provides an overview of people within the geographical and social framework of Canada.

The online version of a classic Canadian reference work. Useful for finding basic information on people, themes and events.

Each entry features numerous cross references and definitions of weather- and climate-related terms as well as additional sources for further study. Over 250 photographs, maps, and charts offer highly evocative depictions of various weather and climate conditions.

It provides an authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the complete field of ecology, from general to applied. It includes over 500 detailed entries, structured to provide the user with complete coverage of the core knowledge, accessed as intuitively as possible, and heavily cross-referenced. Written by an international team of leading experts.

"This set, weighing in at five volumes, attempts to embrace a multidisciplinary and splintered field. The emphasis is on public health problems: description, detection, evaluation, control, and prevention. This involves toxicology, waste management, water and air quality, pesticides, radiation, noise, and communicable diseases."

"[It] embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the things that make people and places different."

Available both online and in print this resource contains comprehensive articles relating to the social sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, history, geography, law, education, philosophy, linguistics etc.). Includes biographies of important social science theorists. Each entry concludes with a bibliography on each topic.

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Online searchable resource with over 8,500 entries on all aspects of environmental science and conservation. Social as well as scientific in focus, it provides comprehensive coverage of the social aspect of environmental science (including treaties, organizations, and agencies relating to the environment) and ecology, as well as biographies of key figures in the field.

Coverage in this first phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years. It also includes a selection of biographies of notable Canadians who died in the later years. Each biography in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online reproduces one that was originally commissioned by the Dictionary of Canadian Biography for its print version

The most comprehensive dictionary of the English language ever produced. Includes definitions, quotations, and full etymologies. All are searchable.

It provides clear and concise definitions for 1,250 terms, from A* to zero tolerance, that those studying education or working in the field are likely to encounter