Natural Resources

This blog provides information on natural resources and natural resource trends. _________________________________________________________________________________

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VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL LINKS:

• American Agric. Economics Association
• Berkeley Institute of the EnvironmentLeading environment research center of UC Berkeley
• Ecological EconomicsBlog by Dave Iverson; highly academic; giving an “ecological” perspective on the current environmental debate
• EcoTrekkerTop 50 Alternative Energy Blogs
• Environmental and Urban Economics:Blog of UCLA professor Matthew E. Kahn; posts are a mix of environmental and urban economics. Matt also gives some excellent insights into academic life and a top quality publication record to match
• Daily Reckoning (Commodities Section)
• Environmental CapitalDaily analysis of the business of the environment by The Wall Street Journal
• Environmental EconomicsEconomists Tim Haab and John Whitehead on Environmental and Natural Resources: News, Opinion, and Analysis
• Harvard Environmental Economics ProgramA University wide research initiative
• International Trade Statistics by Product (UNCTAD)
• MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
• Oxford Business Group
• PERCthe US's oldest and largest institute dedicated to original research that brings market principles to resolving environmental problems
• Planet Ark (Reuters)daily environmental news
• United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database
• United Nations environmental Publications
• US Geological Service - Minerals Information
• US Senate on Natural Resources
• Whiskey and Gunpower
• WTO
• Sierra Club

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COMMODITY DATA:

• CNN Money (Commodities)
• Reuters Commodity Prices
• World Bank Commodity Price Data
• The World Gold Council

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ENVIRONMENT AND INDUSTRY:

• Eco Business Links
• Business in the Environment
• Earth Trends
• Energy Information Administration (Official US enviromental Statistics)
• Environmental Code of Conducts
• Global Environmental Management Initiative
• Environmental Protection Agency
• GRIST.ORG
• International Corporate Sustainability Reporting
• The European Pollutant Emission Register (Information on approx. 9'200 industrial Sites)
• MasterResource: a free-market energy blog
• World Business Council for sustainable Development (WBCSD)
• World.org: 100 top environmental sites
• Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH

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VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS:

• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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COMPANY'S SUSTAINA- BILITY REPORTING:

• British Petroleum: Environment and Society
• British Telecom: Society and Environment
• NEC: Annual environmental Report 2006
• Novo Nordisk: Sustainability
• Shell: Environment and Society
• Unilever: Sustainability Development Report
• Global Reporters 2006: Ranking of non-financial Reporting

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ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS:

• United Nations: Global environmental Statistics most comprehensive environmental statistics and indicators

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WORKING PAPERS:

• SSRN: Biggest Collection of Working Papers (Environmental Economics)
• Globalization of sustainable Development?: Principles and Practices in transnational Corporations (Dennis A. Rondinelli)

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