LibGuides: Geography: Environmental Change and Management

Catalogue

Whose Water Is It? by Douglas Jehl Presents a collection of essays covering every aspect of the water supply crisis that is affecting the global population.
Call Number: 333.91 WHO
Environmental issues by Mark Manuel
Call Number: 333.7 MAN

This LibGuide will assist you with your Investigative Study on Environmental Change and Management.

Department of the Environment This link opens in a new window
The Department of the Environment designs and implements the Australian Government's policies and programmes to protect and conserve the environment, water and heritage and promote climate action.
People & the Planet This link opens in a new window
This website provides a global review and internet gateway into the issues of population, poverty, health, consumption and the environment, past and present.
ShowWorld This link opens in a new window
This website allows you to select a subject from the menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject - both its share of the total and absolute value. This is a great resource to determine the importance of a topic in a country.
Worldometers This link opens in a new window
Worldometers is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world.

World Climate
UN - Global Issues Overview
As the world’s only truly universal global organization, the United Nations has become the foremost forum to address issues that transcend national boundaries and cannot be resolved by any one country acting alone. This website offers an overview of some of these issues in depth, and links to other resources where you can get additional information.

Ganges River
Britannica - includes links to fast facts, physical features, people, economy, maps, videos, images
Ganges River Basin
National Geographic encyclopedic entry
India's effort to clean up sacred but polluted Ganga River
PBS News Hour article
The Ganges River Is One of the Most Polluted in the World
Article by Kori Williams published on Green Matters 27 March 2023
The Ganges: river of life, religion and pollution
Article published 20 January 2022 on Geographical, UK magazine.
Why the River Ganges in so important
WWF weblink

Mekong River
Britannica - includes links to fast facts, physical features, people, economy, maps, videos, images
Mekong Basin
Mekong River Commission for Sustainable Development website
The status and trends of riverine plastic pollution in the Lower Mekong River Basin
Mekong River Commission for Sustainable Development Report
Greater Mekong
WWF weblink
Requiem for a river: Can one of the world’s great waterways survive its development?
The Economist Essay: The Mekong
Plastic pollution threatens the Mekong, a wildlife wonderland
UN Story, published online 25 March 2021
Clean me a river: Southeast Asia chokes on Mekong plastic pollution
An article published 18 July 2023 on Mongabay, a US non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform.

Nile River
Britannica - includes links to fast facts, physical features, people, economy, maps, videos, images
Nile River
National Geographic encyclopedic entry
The Nile is the world’s longest river? The Amazon would like a word.
Washington Post article by Terrence McCoy, Lauren Tierney and Marina Dias published 12 June 2023.
USC research identifies existential threats to the iconic Nile River Delta
University of Southern California News website
The mighty Nile, threatened by waste, warming, mega-dam
Phys.org article
The Nile is in mortal danger, from its source to the sea
The Japan Times article by Bassam Aboualabbas, Grace Mitsiko and Menna Zaki published on 3 November 2022
Indices of water quality and metal pollution of Nile River, Egypt
Article published in The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research available via Science Direct
Effects of Water Pollution in Egypt
The Borgen Project weblink