Monthly Archives: September 2010

Books on sustainable development

Look for these materials in the Library catalogue or follow these links:

Sustainable living

Sustainable development

Sustainable development–Case studies
Sustainable development–Congresses
Sustainable development–Economic aspects
Sustainable development–Finance
Sustainable development–Government policy
Sustainable development–International cooperation

There are many books out there. Below are some books which you may like to recommend for purchase. Send the title to me : catherinetan@ntu.edu.sg.
Remember to use your NTU email account. Post useful weblinks under “Comments”. I will be compiling useful weblinks in another posting.

For more books on sustainable development, please visit the following:

Earth Print

Amazon

Barnes and Noble.

Articles on Sustainable Development

Here are articles on sustainable development. To access these articles, you need to be a student or staff of NTU.

The search will include the following databases: ABI/INFORM, Accounting & Tax, Dissertations & Theses, Entrepreneurship.

GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

This search using EBSCOHOST Research Databases includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Computer Source, EconLit with Full Text, Hospitality & Tourism Complete, PsycARTICLES, PsycCRITIQUES, PsycINFO and GreenFILE.

Other databases available to you are available at the NTU Library.

Videos on Sustainable Development


Academic Earth
Academic Earth is very much like YouTube, except its contents are more academic. They offers free access to video courses and academic lectures from leading colleges and universities.

Have a look at its videos on Environmental Studies

Green TVGreen TV: Find out what businesses are doing through these videos on Green TV. Green.tv is a web and broadband channel entirely devoted to environmental programming. On blog.green.tv, the team hope to bring you fun and fantastic information to raise the awareness of green issues and get you riled up enough to act.

Fora TV

Note: the videos take awhile to play… so go and grab that cup of tea first.

Fora.tv provides videos from events, lectures from universities, think tanks and conferences.