ECON 493 Capstone: Finding SUSTAINABILITY articles

Although the name of this database is similar to other databases on this page, its breadth of coverage brings together resources from classic Agricultural science as well as from classic Environmental science. The unique strength of this database is the high proportion of citations that can lead you to full texts of underlying documents in just one click.

AGRICOLA is the world's largest database focusing on agricultural sciences. It covers a wide array of subjects from cultivated grasses, shrubbery or trees; harvesting seeds, nuts, honey, fruits or vegetables, to managing forests. This database also include raising livestock, food crops, food preparation, food processing, nutritional research and meal preparation. The management side of agriculture & manure is also covered, along with research on pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and food additives for human or livestock consumption. It includes veterinary science & nutrition for household pets as well as livestock. PLEASE NOTE for the majority of citations from this database, you will have to go through several clicks to get the underlying documents.

Covers life sciences and biomedical research on thousands of biological forms ranging in size from microbes, fungi, plants, invertebrates to vertebrates (including humans). Covers a wide variety of journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, and document formats. Any subject could be picked up in pre-clinical or experimental research, methods, instrumentation, or animal studies. Major subjects include: Molecular Biology, Botany, Zoology, Ecology and the Environment, Microbiology, Agriculture and Nutrition, Biochemistry, Experimental, Clinical and Veterinary Medicine, Biotechnology and Genetics, Pharmacology, and Public Health.

MEDLINE is one of the oldest and also largest databases focusing on human medicine & health, with secondary coverage of life sciences of other vertebrates. Because it has been operating a long time, it is an excellent source for historical research which might have been cutting edge, its own time. Its coverage has long included discussions about professional ethics in all sorts of settings. Its coverage of pharmaceutics includes research on side effects, drug interactions, and long term complications.

Provides full text access to a rapidly growing array of recent literature related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research of previous pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis. Sources include journal articles & research reports from the Natural sciences, Social sciences and Humanities if they are focusing on COVID or other types of Corona viruses, epidemics or pandemics.

This set of encyclopedia explore the dynamics of the Earth. It covers earth materials and resources, earth surface history, physics and chemistry of the Earth, climate change and underlying factors, geothermometry, geobarometry, glacial events, and mass extinction theories, earthquakes, hazards engineering, hazards predictability, and more.

This globally focused database draws on connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, designing "green" buildings, energy (production, usage, management, renewable, storage), pollution (air, water, radiation), sustainable agriculture, recycling, waste management, water quality and wildlife (plants, animals, fish, birds).

Although this database name is similar to several of the other resources already mentioned, this one has a heavier emphasis on policies and multiple viewpoints. This database also offers 2 unique search options -- "Topic Finder" provides a visual indication of terminology that might yield similar results or a introduce you to a parallel concern. "Subject Guide" offers you alternative search terms that might yield additional or a finer tuned set of results. ES&PC also offers a more "traditional" search option called "Advanced Search", which is the fill in the box approach. The different ways of searching this database might appeal to students who prefer working in a non-traditional modality. The range of subject matter covered is relatively comparable to other databases that focus exclusively on environmental concerns.

GEOREF is produced by the American Geosciences Institute, and is the largest article oriented database focusing on geosceinces. Among the subjects covered are: both environmental & engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, marine geology meteorology, mineralogy and oceanography. Coverage of all topics is global.

Provides links to full texts of administrative laws of all the various regulatory agencies of the U.S. federal government that are involved in administering federal laws. This database includes U.S. federal administrative law histories for the period 1936-2014 organized by federal statute and Executive Orders. If you are looking for proposed regulations that are currently in process, then you need to switch over to the sibling database named PROQUEST LEGISLATIVE INSIGHT.

Provides full text links to recently proposed changes to public laws and regulations of U.S. federal government agencies. This database includes legislative histories of all proposed changes. If you are looking for laws & regulations that are already in place, or for historical research of law & regulations more than 6 years old, then you need to switch over to the sibling database named PROQUEST REGULATORY INSIGHT.