LibGuides: ENV 171/ SOCIOL 172: Food and Energy: Getting Started

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Energy/Environment

U.S. Energy Information Administration
Analysis and data for both the United States and the world.

U.S. EPA Climate Change Site
Analysis and policy on climate change issues

World Energy Council
Array of information sources on world energy.

Statistical Review of World Energy 2011
frequently cited web publication compiled by BP Global

ClimateWire [Duke only]
Reports on environmental and energy policy.

NGOs: Environmentally Sustainable Development
List compiled by our international documents librarian

International Energy Agency:
IEA public interface for generating statistics by country and region. OECD iLibrary contains the full datasets assembled by the IEA as well as IEA publications.

Welcome

Welcome to the Duke University Libraries' research guide for Rebecca Dunning's spring 2112 course on Food and Energy.

This guide offers a selection of resources about the emerging world of food studies, energy, and climate change.

Discipline-specific resources can be found via the tabs at the top of the page.

This guide is a work in progress; if you have any comments, suggestions, or requests about resources to add, please contact us!

Special thanks to Amber Welch, graduate student at UNC-SILS, for her contributions to this guide as part of her internship with the Duke Libraries, fall of 2011.

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2011
Raises awareness about global hunger issues, discusses underlying causes of hunger and malnutrition and monitors progress towards hunger reduction targets. Pdf of book can be downloaded.

State of Food and Agriculture
FAO’s major annual publication, aims to bring science-based assessments of important issues in the field of food and agriculture. Each document can be downloaded: