Contact info

If you need help, please contact Jenna Walsh, Indigenous Initiatives Librarian & Librarian for Indigenous Studies, Archaeology, Environmental Science, and Resource & Environmental Management at or jmwalsh@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian

Dictionaries and terminology

• A dictionary of environment and conservation [online or print]
• A dictionary of ecology (2010) [online or print]
• McGraw-Hill dictionary of environmental science (2003)
• A dictionary of environmental economics, science, and policy (2001) [online or print]
• The Facts on File dictionary of environmental science [print]

Encyclopedias & handbooks

General

• Enviromation: Articles on topics related to environmental law, policy, and business issues such as climate change/global warming, environmental remediation, new technologies and other business opportunities, legislation, regulations, enforcement, and events. Canadian focus. Updated bi-monthly [print]
• Encyclopedia of environment and society. 5 vol. set (2007) [print]
• Encyclopedia of environmental ethics and philosophy (2009)
• Encyclopedia of global change: environmental change and human society (2002) [online or print]
• Encyclopedia of environmental issues [print]
• Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics [online or print]
• McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology -- Good starting point if you need the background on any scientific concept [print]
• Blackwell's concise encyclopedia of environmental management (1999) [online or print]

Focused on specific aspects of REM

• Encyclopedia of environmental analysis and remediation [print]
• The encyclopedia of ecology and environmental management [print]
• The Wiley encyclopedia of energy and the environment [print]
• Encyclopedia of biodiversity [print] Bennett Reference QH 541.15 B56 E53 2001
• Encyclopedia of tourism[print]  Bennett Reference G 155 A1 E4395 2000
• Pollution A to Z