Resource & Environmental Management Information Resources: Facts & Data

Liaison Librarian

Heather DeForest

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Environmental statistics

Gateway to Scientific Data (NRC-CISTI): Canadian environmental data from research projects. Categories for the data sets available include forestry, water quantity, marine sciences, agriculture, and more.
EarthTrends from the World Resources Institute: Global, regional and country level environmental, social and economic information
Atlas of global development: A visual guide to the world's greatest challenges. G 1046 G1 W671 2007
- Replaces earlier publication: World Bank Atlas (1967-2004 in print: G 1046 G1 W67 and 2004 edition online). Note that much of the data in this atlas is from the World Development Indicators (below).
Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: "Environmental indicators for water quality, air quality, and greenhouse gas emissions... intended to assist those in government responsible for developing policy and measuring performance..."
- Some editions also in print HC 79 E5 C325
Human Activity and the Environment: Annual Statistics: A "current statistical picture of Canada's environment with special emphasis on human activity and its relationship to natural systems - air, water, soil, plants and animals."
- Also in print STATSCAN no. 16-201 & GF 511 H862
BC STATS: Environmental Statistics: Local data from the BC government on topics ranging from air quality to waste management.

World development indicators: Provides access to over 600 development indicators including economic, social, environmental, business, and technology for more than 208 countries.
Statistics Portal (Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations): The FAO statistical databases listed on this page are on-line multilingual databases containing statistical information on various topics. For statistics on agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry, food aid, land use and population, see: FAOSTAT.
UNdata (Formerly known as UNSTATS): "A compilation of United Nations and agency statistics, covering economic, social, financial and development topics."
- Also see Environment and Energy at the UN site.
Statistics Canada: Use the many Search options or browse a selection of Environment reports such as EnviroStats. Also see CANSIM via the SFU Library: Statistics Canada time series data (all topics).
SourceOECD: Statistics on OECD countries (and selected non-OECD countries) covering themes such as Agriculture & Fisheries, Economic Projections, Environment, and Health.
Local sources: BC Stats / Metro Vancouver Key Facts

Last Modified: 2012-08-17