And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 13:51:47 EDT http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stenv.html (There are hypertext links on this website.) University of Michigan Documents Center Statistical Resources on the Web Environment United States | International Last updated on June 1, 1999 United States Chemical Scorecard (Environmental Defense Fund) •Ranks states, counties, zip codes, and facilities by pounds of pollution •Can be customized by type of pollution (air, water, ground) • Data manipulated from the Toxic Release Inventory (EPA) Endangered Species (Fish & Wildlife Service) •Number and names of endangered species by state Environmental Justice: Hazardous Waste and Census Data (UMich) •Guide to using Census data for assessing communities around toxic waste sites •Sources and mapping for identifying the sites, assessing health consequences and lobbying Environmental Protection Agency •Massive searchable data base with national, state, and local information •Superfund and Toxic Release Inventory found under Envirofacts•Identifies industrial pollution sources or existing pollution •Efforts to clean up area •Health risks•Hazardous and solid waste data downloadable in several formats •Office of Air and Radiation web site includes the full text of the National Air Quality and Emissions Report •Numerous environmental maps •State Climate Change Impacts provides a state-by-state assessment of global warming trends, its impacts on agriculture and ecosystems FedStats •Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal government agencies •Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts •Search engine indexes individual statistical tables by keyword or agency and provides direct connection Forest Service (USDA) •Acreage of national forests by state, county, and Congressional District •Wildlife distribution by state Index of Watershed Indicators (EPA) •Search for individual watersheds by map, location, name, characteristics, and zip code •Data includes 1990 population, water consumption, land use, EPA superfund sites, and toxic release information Migratory Bird Research (Natl Biological Service) •Trends in summer, winter, and grassland bird populations •Information available by U.S. state or Canadian province and by species •Numerous graphs and charts •A description of federal plant and animal monitoring programs appears on the National Biological Service web site National Oceanographic Data Center •Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of ocean temperatures worldwide •Water temperatures, salinity, and buoys Sector Facility Indexing Project (EPA) •Air, water, and hazardous waste regulation compliance, historical and current •For individual facilities (plants) in petroleum refining, iron and steel production, nonferrous metal refining and smelting, pulp manufacturing, and automobile assembly industries •Facilities may be searched by a combination of name, city, state and EPA region State of the Land (USDA) •Maps depict U.S. croplands, grazing lands, forest lands, and wetlands by acreage and their threats (e.g. soil erosion) •Includes statistical tables in HTML or ASCII format Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1996 •Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on the national and state levels •Population and vital statistics, health, economics, education, manufacturing, natural resources, transportation, and U.S. Industrial Outlook (production and foreign trade by four-digit SIC for past six years) •Full text available in Adobe Acrobat format • State rankings and state/county profiles in HTML format •The full text of Statistical Abstract is available in most University of Michigan campus libraries as HA 202 Statistical Universe (UMich Only) •Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980, and international agencies since 1983 •Access through the Statistical Sources menu •Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign country, by age, by disease)•Sample Search: air pollution and by city•About 15% of the abstracts link to full text •For items not hot-linked:•Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to the Documents Center for the microfiche version •Consult Statistical Universe Guide for various web searching alternatives and a Slide Show for further details Superfund Hazardous Waste Sites •Lists current hazardous waste sites by state, city, and company with brief event, financial, and enforcement information •National Priorities List provides extensive summaries of targeted cleanup sites, new and deleted sites, and statistics •A separate web page provides professionals and the public with risk assessment calculators Water Resources in the United States (USGS) •Statistics on water supply, water use, and acid rain found as tables in the text of its reports •Search engine also available International Consortium for Intl. Earth Science Information •CIESIN gateway to statistical data servers on human interactions in global environmental change •Also includes mapping and demographic data Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations) •Agriculture, fisheries, forestry, land use, and population data bases • Searchable by commodity or country with various outputs •Some time series date back to 1961 Global Change Master Directory (NASA) •Descriptions of 3900 earth science data sets worldwide •Includes weather, oceans, land surface, and solar information •Use search engine to identify materials •Access to the data itself may not be available on the Internet Global Environment Outlook-1 (UNEP) •Extensive report on population growth and the status of forestry, fisheries, land, agriculture, air pollution, water supplies, and urban waste •Complete report provides text, graphs, and data •Historical data and projections usually available by continent with some information also by country Global Warming (EPA) •Scientific reports and fact sheets on the causes and effects of global warming •Statistics embedded in text and as separate tables •Annotated links to related global warming web sites Info Nation (UN) •Current statistics on 185 countries •Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy, fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, and motor vehicles •Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption are among the environmental data • Separate section on Twenty-One Cities focuses on population and environment Ozone Depletion (UNEP/CIESIN) •Annual reports on ozone depletion and its affects on organisms •Text and summary contain numerous statistics State of the World's Forests (FAO) •Global forest ground cover, 1995-97 •Loss of forests, 1980+, and demand for forest products •Short executive summary in HTML format; most files must be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat format and require considerable disk space Urban Environmental Management •Numerous worldwide reports on managing the urban environment (population, air pollution, disease, pests) •Brief statistics on megacity population projections, current world population, ecological capacity of nations World Conservation Monitoring Centre •Statistics on threatened plant and animal species worldwide •Country data on forests, marine life, protected areas World Development Indicators CD-ROM Guide •World Development Indicators provides annual data since 1960 on 256 variables for 210 countries •Data includes agriculture, economics, national accounts, prices, health, the environment, education, and demographics •Replaces the World Bank's World Tables •The guide provides screen shots for using the CD and a searchable data base of variables • Note: this is a CD-ROM product available in the Documents Center; only selected tables are available on the web World Resources, 1998/99 (World Resources Institute) •Numerous statistical tables in Adobe Acrobat format with country data • Population: projections to 2025, birth, death, health, education • Economic: gross national and domestic product, prices, development assistance •Environment: forestry, fisheries, water, weather • Alternative statistical interface provided by CIESIN permits downloading of just data sets in SGML World Wildlife Federation •Charts and maps on endangered species, forests, freshwater, and marine life •Details on threatened species, such as the Asian elephant •Press releases and descriptions of projects Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center University of Michigan Library Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles Send comments and suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stenv.html Since August 4, 1997 this page has been accessed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/nativeamericanlaw http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
