ENVS 31000 Contemporary Applications of Ancient Agriculture



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OECD Compendium of Agri-environmental Indicators Comprehensive data and analysis on the environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, covering soil, water, air and biodiversity.
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USDA Data and Statistics Data on US Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture, and the World Agricultural Outlook.
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The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography. Includes a chapter on the Political Economies of Nature.
AnthroSource - Links to articles from the journal "Culture, Agriculture, Food, and Environment"
AgEcon Search Scholarly articles, working papers, and conference papers on agriculture and applied economics.
Annual Reviews "Comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 46 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics."
JSTOR Scholarly articles in anthropology, biology, chemistry, ecology, and botany.
AgNIC Scholarly information on agriculture, food, and natural resources.
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest) Over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.
United Nations Environment Statistics Section. Environmental indicators such as land use, air, climate, biodiversity, and emissions for UN member countries.
FAOSTAT Statisical data for food and agriculture for 245 countries. Registration is free but required. International statistics on production, trade, food balances, forestry, land use, irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, agriculture, food aid, and fisheries.
OECD Compendium of Agri-environmental Indicators Comprehensive data and analysis on the environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, covering soil, water, air and biodiversity.
World Resources Institute Maps, charts, data sets, infographics, reports, working papers, issue briefs, and fact sheets will support the Research Proposal assignment.
USDA Data and Statistics Data on US Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture, and the World Agricultural Outlook.
Environmental Studies & Policy Collection Covers environmental issues and policies. Topics covered include agronomy, soil, and plants.
GreenFILE Covers the human impact to the environment, including the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments.
The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography. Includes a chapter on the Political Economies of Nature.
The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change
Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance
Designing Our Future: Local Perspectives on Bioproduction, Ecosystems, and Humanity
Designing Urban Agriculture Guide to maintenance and management of edible landscapes.
Ethnobotany: a Methods Manual
Gardens of Prehistory: The Archaeology of Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica
How to Feed the World in 2050. Discusses food security, the natural resource base, biofuels, and sustainable agricultural production.
Managing agrodiversity the traditional way: lessons from West Africa in sustainable use of biodiversity and related natural resources.
One billion hungry : can we feed the world?
Rebuilding the Foodshed : How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems
Seeds, Science, and Stuggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops
Traditional Knowledge in Policy and Practice: Approaches to Development and Human Well-Being
World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development
Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance
Designing Our Future: Local Perspectives on Bioproduction, Ecosystems, and Humanity
Designing Urban Agriculture Guide to maintenance and management of edible landscapes.
Ethnobotany: a Methods Manual
Gardens of Prehistory: The Archaeology of Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica
How to Feed the World in 2050. Discusses food security, the natural resource base, biofuels, and sustainable agricultural production.
Managing agrodiversity the traditional way: lessons from West Africa in sustainable use of biodiversity and related natural resources.
One billion hungry : can we feed the world?
Rebuilding the Foodshed : How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems
Seeds, Science, and Stuggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops
Traditional Knowledge in Policy and Practice: Approaches to Development and Human Well-Being
World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development
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Tableau Public is a free interactive data visualization tool. After downloading and installing the program, you can upload data and create data visualizations. See this tutorial on Geo-Mapping using Tableau (Smith College).
ManyEyes, a free, web-based visualization tool, allows you to upload data sets and generate various types of visualizations from that data.
Tabula - App that extracts data from PDF's into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Works on Mac, Windows and Linux.
For a visual display of information, try a Term Cluster search in Academic OneFile Here is the result for Aquaculture:
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