Environmental Studies and Geography

BORIS Catalogue:   English

The following is a selective list of reference sources available in the Bishop’s Library for the study of Environmental Studies and Geography. This is not a complete list of the available material and does not include any items that can be circulated.

The main source of information is BORIS, the Library’s OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue), and it should be consulted first. You may search by author, editor, title and/or subject either in the web-based version or through telnet. If you know the title or author you are looking for, use Browse otherwise use Keyword to search. If you need help in determining relevant subject headings, look in the Library of Congress Subject Headings or ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.

Look for Library of Congress (call) numbers on the Library shelves between G and GC, GE, GF, GV as well as, QC 851-999, QE1 – 996.5, S 590 - 600 and TD if you want to browse for material on the Library shelves. Material marked Ref. or Ref.Ind.Sd. are in the Reference Room. Material marked Period. If they are recent publications (within the last year) they will be in the Periodical Room to the left of the Lobby as you enter the library. If they are more than a year or two old they will be found in the Bound Periodicals area of the basement. Maps, atlases and Canadian census material can be found in the Map Collection Room on the basement level. Any material put on reserve by your professors can only be found by using the telnet to BORIS. Reserve material is kept at the Circulation Desk. Anything marked with the location General in BORIS is located on the second floor and may be borrowed. Check the status in BORIS to see if it is in the Library.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

A-Z Countries of the World.
Columbia gazetteer of the world
Conservation and environmentalism: an encyclopedia.
Dictionary of environment and development people, places, ideas and organizations.
Dictionary of environment and sustainable development.
Dictionary of environmental science and technology.
A dictionary of geography.
Dictionary of human geography.
A dictionary of weather.
Dictionnaire de la géographie.
Earth sciences for students.
Encyclopedia of the Arctic.
Encyclopedia of earthquakes and volcanoes.
Encyclopedia of environmental issues.
Encyclopedia of environmental science.
Encyclopedia of environmental studies.
Encyclopedia of global change: environmental change and human society.
Encyclopedia of the sea.
Encyclopedia of volcanoes.
Encyclopedic dictionary of environmental change.
Encyclopedic dictionary of physical geography.
Encyclopédie de géographie.
Environmental Encyclopedia.
Facts on File dictionary of environmental science.
Feminist glossary of human geography.
Illustrated encyclopedia of world geography.
Macmillan encyclopedia of earth sciences.
Natural disasters.
Oxford companion to the earth.
Sciences of the earth: an encyclopedia of events, people and phenomena.
Wiley encyclopedia of energy and the environment.
Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations.
A dictionary of geography.
Encyclopedia of geographic information science.
Diccionario de nombres geograficos y etnicos del mundo.
A-Z of countries of the world.
National Geographic almanac of geography.
The ethical travel guide: your passport to exciting alternative holidays.
Encyclopedia of the Arctic.
The mountain encyclopedia: an A-Z compendium of more than 2,300 terms, concepts, ideas, and people.
Historical dictionary of the green movement.
Encyclopedia of Native American tribes.
Historical dictionary of the Inuit.
Financial Times world desk reference.
The Gree list: a guide to Canadian environmental organizations and agencies.= La Liste verte: le repertoire des groupes environnementaux du Canada.
Repertoire des principaux pesticides utilises au Quebec.

 G 103.5 .S68 2004 Ref.
G 103.5 .C645 1998 Ref.
GE 10 .C68 1995 Ref.
GE 10 .C78 1993 Ref.

HC 79 .E5 G518 1996 Ref.
GE 10 .P67 1996 Ref
G 63 .M39 2004 Ref.
GF 4 .D52 2000 Ref.
QC 854 .D 86 2001 Ref.
G 108 .F7 D52 1990 Ref.
QE 29 .E274 1999 Ref.
G 606 .E49 2005 Ref.
QE 521 .R58 2001 Ref.
GE 10 .E52 2000 Ref.
GE 10 .M66 2000 Ref.
TD 9 .A84 2001 Ref.
GE 149 .E47 2002 Ref.
GC 9 .E38 2000 Ref.
QE 522 .E53 2000 Ref.
GE 149 .E52 2001 Ref.
GB 10 .E53 1994 Ref.
G 63 .E56 1992 Ref.
GE 10 .E38 2003 Ref.
TD 9 .F33 2001 Ref.
G 63 .F45 1999 Ref.
G 63 .I44 Ref.
QE 5 .E5137 1996 Ref.
GB 5014 .D38 2001 Ref.
QE 5 .O94 2000 Ref.
QE 11 .S38 1998 Ref.
TJ 163.235 .W55 1996 Ref.
G63 .W67 1995 Ref.
G63 .F55 2005 Ref.
G70 .212 .E53 2008 Ref.
G 103.5 .S23 2004 Ref.
G 103.5 .S68 2004 Ref.
G 123 .N37 2005 Ref.
G 155 .A1 P353 2006 Ref.
G 606 .E49 2005 Ref.
GB 500.5 .H37 2004 Ref.

GE 195 .P36 2007 Ref.
E 76.2 .W35 2006 Ref.
E 99 .E7 S825 2004 Ref.
G 63 .M39 2004 Ref.

TD 171.5 .C3 G74 2002 Ref.
SB 951 .R46 2002 Ref.

 

HANDBOOKS AND DIRECTORIES

Canadian graduate programs in environmental studies.
Green List (The): a Guide to Canadian Environmental organizations and agencies.
Job opportunities for geography graduates.
Making sense in geography and environmental studies: a student’s guide to research, writing and style.
Mapping America’s past.
Le monde aujourd’hui.
Sport in the ancient world from A to Z.

 GF 28 .C2 C37 v. 2002/03 Ref.
TD 171.5 .C3 G74 Ref.

G 65 .J62 1992 Ref.
G 74 .N67 2001 Ref.

G 1201 .S1 C3 1996
GF 4 .M66 1990 Ref.
GV 573 .G654 2004 Ref.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Bibliography of geography.
A geographical bibliography for American libraries.
A scholar’s guide to geographical writing on the American and Canadian past.

 G 115 .H3 Z99 1976 Ref.
G 58 .G4 Z99 1985 Ref.
E 179.5 .C66 Z99 1998 Ref.

 

MAPS AND ATLASES

The Library’s collection of maps and atlases can be found in the Map Collection room in the basement.. Maps will be found in the map cabinets. Specific maps can be found by using the Area or Subject map lists. Copies of both lists can be found on the tables in the Map Collection Room and at the Reference Desk. Please return the lists to their locations when you have finished using them. Maps should be left on top of the cabinets. Please do not re-shelve them.

Most atlases can be found along the left-hand wall in the Map Collection Area but there are also some in the Reference Room as well as others on the general shelves. Check BORIS to find the location of the atlas you are looking for.

Some of the atlases are listed below:

21st century world atlas.
Annual arctic ice atlas.
Atlas of exploration.
Atlas of maritime history.
Atlas of the world.
Deserts: the encroaching wilderness: a world conservation atlas.
Ecozones of Canada.
Great Lakes: an environmental atlas and resource book.
Historical atlas of exploration, 1492-1600.
Macmillan world atlas.
NASA atlas of the solar system.
National geographic atlas of natural America.
National geographic atlas of the ocean: the deep frontier.
Rand McNally road atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico.
Resources and environment: world atlas.
Sea ice climatic atlas, east coast of Canada, 1971 - 2000.
World Atlas of desertification.
The water atlas.
Hitorical Atlas of Canada.
Nouvel atlas Québec/Canada.

 G 1041 .A14 2000 MapColl.
G 1055 .A68 MapColl.
G 1036 .S12 R6 1997 Ref.
G 1059 .N3 1986 MapColl.
G 1021 .A7545 2002 MapColl.
GB 611 .D48 OverS.
QH 106 .W53 1996 MapColl.
G 1107 .G7 G7 1995 MapColl.
G 95 .K66 2000
G 1021 .M235 1996 MapColl.
G 1000 .G7 1997 MapColl.
G 1105 .N4 2000 MapColl.
G 2800 .E2 2001 MapColl.
G 1106 .P2 R35 1997 MapColl.
G 1046 .C1 I45 1998 Map Coll.
GE 2429 .S41 2001 Map Coll.
G 1046 .J4W67 1992 MapColl.
TD 345 .C592 2004 Ref.
G 1116 .S1 H58 MapColl.
G 11158 .G73 1980 MapColl.

 

STATISTICAL INFORMATION

Paper copies of the Canadian Census reports can be found in the Map Collection Room in the basement. Some of this material, as well as statistical material, is also available on the computer network in the Reference Room. E-Stat is an online source of statistical information on Canada and Canadians which includes census information for 1986, 1991, 1996 and 2001 as well as some historical data. You will also find statistics on the environment as well as some data from CANSIM and CANSIM II which are also available separately. To access these sources of Canadian statistics you will find hypertext links to them on our periodical indexes and databases page. They both have time series of statistical data which can also be shown graphically. If you need to know how to properly cite data and products from Statistics Canada visit
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/12-591-XIE/12-591-XIE2006001.htm

Access to Online Canadian Data at McGill (including Human Activity and the Environment 2000) is also available to Bishop's University students at http://www.library.mcgill.ca/edrs/data/data.html

PERIODICAL INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

Library users have access to a large range of periodical titles through either our print periodical collection or through our online full-text titles. To learn more about the Library’s periodical holdings visit BORIS and type in the title of the periodical sought. Current issues of philosophy journals are shelved in the Periodicals Room off the Main Lobby; back issues are bound and shelved on the basement level. Electronic (full-text) titles can be found using our “Electronic Journals” search page on the Library home page – it is found under the link to BORIS. In order to find articles published within these titles, library users must refer to a periodical index.

The following paper indexes can be found in the Reference Room.

Current geographical publications.
National geographic index.
The Library subscribes to a number of online periodical indexes/databases which may be of use to students in philosophy. These include (but are not limited to): ProQuest, Academic Search Premier.

 G 1 .C8 Ref.Ind.Sd. v 53-
G 1.C8 RefM. v 25-52

G 1.N274 Ref.Ind.Sd.

 

POEISIS

Religion and Philosophy Collection
JSTOR Arts and Science I Collection
ATLA Religion Database
These periodical indexes/databases can be accessed by visiting:   http://www.ubishops.ca/library_info/data-index.htm.
If you need help in using any of these databases, or locating an article please ask at the reference desk, a librarian we will be more than happy to help.

INTERNET

You will find many sources of information on environmental studies and geography on the internet. However, it is not always easy to choose the most useful sites. You are cautioned to ask yourself the following questions before using any information you find on the net.

1. Who wrote or developed this web page?
2. Does this person have credentials?
3. Is the web site biased?
4. Does the writer offer contact information?
5. How current is the information?

The following are some environmental internet sources that you may find useful.

The Encyclopedia of Earth
   http://www.earthportal.net/about/eoe/
Environment Canada. The Green Lane – La voie verte.
   http://www.ec.gc.ca
Environmental sites on the Internet
   http://www.ima.kth.se/im/envsite/envsite.htm
Earth Trends: The Environmental Information Portal
   http://earthtrends.wri.org/
The Green pages.ca.
   http://www.thegreenpages.ca
The World’s Water.
   http://www.worldwater.org
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
   http://www.epa.gov
Envirolink network.
   http://www.envirolink.org
Electronic reference shelf: atlases, maps, gazetteers.
   http://www.library.mcgill.ca/refshelf/atlas.htm
Wilfred Laurier University Geography and Environmental Studies: Internet Resources.
   http://www.wlu.ca/wwwlib/subject/geog/igeog.html
Canadian Environmental History Bibliography
   http://www.cieq.uqtr.ca/fci_hec/index_en.php

If you use any electronic sources in your essay, you must give credit to the author by providing the appropriate references.

W. Durrant, November 2008

Contact:  D. Bromby


January 2009
L. Lemay