General sites

• Friends of the Earth International, the world’s largest grassroots environmental network. 
• Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) promotes women’s and men’s equal access to and management of safe and adequate water.
• Greenpeace International
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) helps the world find solutions to its environment and development challenges.
• One World, the latest news in human rights and global issues around the world.
• Taking IT Global, publications on climate change, pollution, sustainable development and natural disasters.
• Time’s Up!: New York City’s Direct Action Environmental Organization promotes events and programs to promote a more sustainable, less toxic city.
• United Nations Environment Programme encourages caring for the environment by improving quality of life without compromising future generations.

Climate Change

• Climate resources and publications from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
• Climate Central is an organization of scientists and journalists researching and reporting on the changing climate and its impact on the public.
• Climate change, a reference site from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
• Community based risk screening tool: Adaptation and livelihoods: user’s manual. (2009). IISD. (2.17 Mb pdf)
• CRiSTAL user’s manual version 5: Community-based risk screening tool: adaptation and livelihoods. (2012). IISD.
• Dazé, A., Ambrose, K. & Ehrhart, C. (2009). Climate vulnerability and capacity analysis: Handbook. CARE International.
• FAO. (2014). Adapting to climate change through land and water management in Eastern Africa: Results of pilot projects in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. FAO. (2.41 Mb pdf)
• Fever – A video guide consists of four short films for indigenous communities to raise awareness about climate change and how it relates to their peoples, cultures, rights and territories. These films focus on communities in Ecuador, Nicaragua, the Philippines and Indonesia.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. The IPCC prepares reports related to climate change.

Community-Based Natural Resource Management

• The Ecologist is the world’s leading environmental affairs magazine.
• Guri, B. (n.d.). Community based natural resources management: Indigenous systems of NRM [Powerpoint presentation]. (47K pdf)
• Guri, B. (n.d.). Strengthening community capacities for engagement in CBNRM: The ED approach [Powerpoint presentation]. (2.78Mb pdf)
• Guri, B. & Laate, W. (2009). Development from the inside out: A guide for community organization development. (543K pdf)
• Mayers, J., Morrison, E., Rollington, L., Studd, K. & Turral, S. (2013). Improving governance of forest tenure: A practical guide (Governance of tenure technical guide no. 2). FAO. (2.85 Mb pdf)
• Natural Justice Video. (2012). Biocultural community protocols: Articulating and asserting stewardship [Video]. (13 min.)
• Rosen, R. (2011, October 3). The problem with geoengineering: What if it works? The Atlantic.
• Rugadya, M. (2009, March). Natural resource rights and biodiversity protection: Guidelines for policy and strategies to strengthen local governance systems. Paper presented at Best Practices for Land Tenure and Natural Resource Governance in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. (392K pdf)
• World Resources Institute. (2009). Enabling climate adaption [Video]. (5:59 min.). Heather McGray, a WRI Senior Associate and climate adaption expert, explains how to enable the rural poor to adapt to a changing climate.

Electronic Waste (E-Waste)

• Ghana: Digital dumping ground is a documentary developed by graduate journalism students from the University of British Columbia. They travelled to Ghana to view one of the world’s largest digital dumping grounds, where the West’s electronic waste accumulates.
• Nnorom, I. C. & Osibanjo, O. (2008). Electronic waste (e-waste): Material flows and management practices in Nigeria. Waste Management, 28(8), 1472-1479. (StFX only)

Suggested resources

• Bailey, R. (2008). Another inconvenient truth: How biofuel policies are deepening poverty and accelerating climate change (Oxfam briefing paper 114).
• Kirkbride, M. & Grahn, R. (2008). Survival of the fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa (Oxfam briefing paper 116).
• Lawson, M. (2008). Credibility crunch: Food, poverty, and climate change: an agenda for rich-country leaders (Oxfam briefing paper 113).
• Raworth, K., et al. (2008). Climate wrongs and human rights: Putting people at the heart of climate-change policy (Oxfam briefing paper 117).

Suggested journals in library

• Community Development Journal, issues available: Full text, 2000-current; Abstracts: 1996-current. (StFX only).
• Development Dialogue, Issues available: 1972-2002, 2006-2015.
• IIED Gatekeeper Series, Issues available: 1(1987) – current.