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GREENR General Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources from Gale
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) is a new online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more. GREENR is an important part of a new generation of solutions from Gale designed with users in mind.
GREENR is interactive and current, allowing users to navigate issue, organization and country portals. It's a one-stop site dedicated to studying sustainability and the environment.
Updated daily, GREENR is aligned to student and faculty needs with:
- Resources for coursework in science, international studies, business, law and politics and other disciplines
- Refereed case studies that illustrate environmental efforts in businesses and municipalities across the nation and around the world
Using convenient Web-like functionality and immersive multimedia to deliver deeper understanding, GREENR provides:
- The reference content that empowers users:
- Hundreds of English-language international newspapers, magazines and refereed journals
- Recognized sources of videos, podcasts and images, updated daily
- Searchable case studies to support targeted research
- A variety of search and browse options
- The technology that gets results:
- Interactive maps that facilitate browsing by country or topic
- The portals to greater understanding:
- Country portals covering more than 160 nations
- Topic/Issue portals in more than 150 categories, from animal welfare to wind energy
- Organization portals providing overviews and links to international associations
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Coverage
1864-present
Date
September 13, 2010
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