Internet resources for Geography

Australian

• AHURI - recent publications and reports from the Australian Urban Research and Housing Institute
• Australian Bureau of Meteorology
• Australian Bureau of Statistics - includes all yearbooks since mid 1990s.
• Institute of Australian Geographers - includes links to Australian geography departments and other related sites
• climatechange@flinders - site particularly aimed at South Australian researchers
• Department of Environment Water Heritage and the Arts - Federal
• Department of Environment and Heritage - State
• Environment Protection Authority (SA)
• Murray Darling Basin Commission
• National Dryland Salinity Program - decade long federal government initiative
• Professor Ross Garnaut Climate Change Review web site

International

• Human Development Report 2007/8 - from the UN Development Programme
• UN - Habitat - mandated by UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities
• Urban Age - an investigation into the future of cities organised by the London School of Economics and the Alfred Herrhausen Society
• World Water Council - an international multi-stakeholder platform, established in 1996
• Stern Review - highly influential British report on the economics of climate change
• Intute Human Geography links
• GIS Lounge - GIS information portal from the US
• GIS Dictionary - an online dictionary of GIS terms from the University of Edinburgh
• EoE - the Encyclopedia of Earth, an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.

Online resources available to Flinders staff, students and researchers.

• ScienceDirect, the largest online full text academic research collection
• Factiva for articles from major Australian and overseas newspapers.
• APA - FT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text)
• Proquest and Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac) both contain thousands of full text articles from a wide range of disciplines.
• Geobase (the principle index to journals from geography, geology, ecology & related disciplines)
• Informit (for Australian research sources)
• Sociological Abstracts ( provides abstracts to sociology research worldwide)
• Social Sciences Citation Index (citations to social science articles and researchers from 1987 onwards)
• Current Contents (indexes the current issues of a vast array of scholarly journals, from the social sciences, the humanities& the sciences).

Flinders University School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management

When you're in the Library, some useful call numbers to browse for books are:

• 910 - Geography general
• 910.285 - Geographic information systems
• 304.2 - Human geography
• 919.4 Australia geography
• 333.70994 - Australia environment

Need further assistance? Ask for help at the Information Desk or contact

Tony Giorgio
Liaison Librarian, Geography Population and Environmental Management
Level 1 , Central Library
Tel: 8201 3542
Email: tony.giorgio@flinders.edu.au

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