Guides: SUST 592 International Environmental Politics (Vabulas): Recommended Databases

Recommended Databases

GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Articles on the environment and its connection to a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Access to peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical journals.
BioOne This link opens in a new window
Collection of peer reviewed journals in the fields of biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Nature This link opens in a new window
Weekly journal of peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Encyclopedia of Human Rights This link opens in a new window
Coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history includes major figures, organizations and institutions, human rights events and crises, and human rights norms.

National Sustainable Agriculture Service
300 titles covering organic production, livestock, horticultural crops, business and marketing, farm energy, water and pest management, etc.

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Access to online research on legal history. Visit HeinOnline LibGuides for tips on searching this database.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
Foreign Law Guide This link opens in a new window
Provides an analysis of the legal systems of approximately 200 countries, plus links to a wide range of conventions and treaties.

United Nations Treaty Collection
The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the depositary of more than 560 multilateral treaties which cover a broad range of subject matters such as human rights, disarmament and protection of the environment.
University of Oxford’s Environmental Law Treaties research guide
Use this guide to find out about sources and commentary for environmental law, including ebooks, ejournals, and databases.
ECOLEX
ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP. Its purpose is to build capacity worldwide by providing the most comprehensive possible global source of information on environmental law .
International Environmental Agreements (IEA) Database Project
The International Environmental Agreements (IEA) Database Project seeks to foster analysis of international environmental agreements (IEAs) by providing a "single source" repository for most information related to IEAs and the evaluation of their influence.
InforMEA
InforMEA provides easy access to information on MEAs. You can consult treaty texts and provisions of decisions and resolutions adopted by the Governing Bodies of MEAs. You may browse Party information including contacts, national reports and national plans submitted under MEAs. Feel free to learn of terms and concepts as defined in the context of MEAs and consider taking one of over 20 free online courses introducing MEAs.

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, includes access to the Global Consumer Survey .
Passport (formerly Global Market Information Database) This link opens in a new window
Market research reports on countries, consumers and industries from Euromonitor International. Historic data from 1997 plus up-to-date forecast models including industry reports and market share data. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
International Monetary Fund Data This link opens in a new window
Economic statistics for 269 countries from the International Monetary Fund.
World DataBank This link opens in a new window
Analysis and visualization tool for data regarding economic policy and debt, education, environment, financial sector, health, infrastructure, labor, poverty, and trade.