Overview of environmental design and planning
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Environmental Impact from CABI
Environmental Impact from CABI
Environment Impact indexes citations and full text of journal articles, conference proceedings, government reports, books and ebooks, and other publications on climate change and human impact on the environment. 1910-present.
GREENR (General Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) from Gale
GREENR General Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources from Gale
GREENR indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journal articles, newspapers, magazines, book reviews, reference works, case studies, images, videos, and podcasts on the business, environmental, and science aspects of emerging green technologies and sustainability. Full text presented in HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1864-present.
Art and Architecture encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Art and Architecture encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across ten subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 25,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
Earth and Environmental Science encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Earth and Environmental Science encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across nine subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 42,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
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