Your project requires picking a local environmental issue affecting people at the state level or below (city, municipality, etc.). The following resources may help you browse and discover potential topics.
Browse a list of issues covered in the Environmental Studies (Gale in Context) database. Each topic lists relevant news, magazine, and scholarly articles.
Content about the environment and energy from The Conversation, a not-for-profit news website that publishes articles written by researchers and academics.
Finding References
In addition to the resources in the Picking a Topic section, these library databases may be useful for your research. They contain articles, book chapters, and reports relating to environmental science. Try searching for your issue and location.
Subjects covered include agriculture, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management. Find articles, academic and trade journals, book chapters, reviews, and reports.
The database contains citations for articles from domestic and international journals, monographs and conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.
Subjects covered include agriculture, environmental science, farming, nutrition, forestry, and plant science. Find academic journals, books & book chapters, government reports, and conference proceedings.
Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Coverage: 1981 -
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