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Relevant Journals

Ecological Modelling Ecological Modelling publishes new mathematical models and systems analysis for describing ecological processes, and novel applications of models for environmental management.
Ecology We’re the journal for ecologists, by ecologists. Clear, concise papers spanning empirical and theoretical research, varied approaches, and every area of ecology.
Environmental & Ecological Statistics Environmental and Ecological Statistics publishes papers on practical applications of statistics and related quantitative methods to environmental science addressing contemporary issues. Emphasis is on applied mathematical statistics, statistical methodology, and data interpretation and improvement for future use, with a view to advance statistics for environment, ecology and environmental health, and to advance environmental theory and practice using valid statistics.
Environmental & Resource Economics In EBSCO collection follow links to SpringerNature collection for current year. The primary concern of Environmental & Resource Economics is the application of economic theory and methods to environmental issues and problems that require detailed analysis in order to improve management strategies.
Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics The Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics (JABES) is dedicated to introducing new statistical methods to solve practical problems in the agricultural, biological, and environmental sciences.
Journal of Environmental Statistics The Journal of Environmental Statistics' is an open access journal. Its purpose is to contribute to the development of statistical techniques aimed at addressing questions related to environmental data. Emphasis is on applied statistics and it is expected that published papers will be of practical use for researchers working in the environmental sciences.
Oikos Follow link in EBSCO to Wiley online Library Full Collection. Oikos publishes original and innovative research on all aspects of ecology, defined as organism-environment interactions at various spatiotemporal scales, so including macroecology and evolutionary ecology. Emphasis is on theoretical and empirical work aimed at generalization and synthesis across taxa, systems and ecological disciplines.

Annual Publications

Global Risks Report World Economic Forum publication. The Global Risks Report explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade, against a backdrop of rapid technological change, economic uncertainty, a warming planet and conflict.
Global Trends / UN Refugee Agency Global Trends report includes the latest official statistics on refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, as well as the number of refugees who have returned home.
Human Development Report The annual HDR includes a range of socioeconomic statistics and analysis with the stated goal of "going beyond income to assess the level of people's long-term well-being". This database includes the statistical data from the HDRs. The reports include indicators on a range of topics including, for example, access to information and communication, urbanization, food security, women's access to education, aid flows and energy use. Each report has a thematic focus.
The World Factbook / CIA The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
World Economic Outlook A Survey by the IMF staff usually published twice a year. It presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview as well as more detailed analysis of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries, developing countries, and economies in transition to market; and address topics of pressing current interest. Annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statistical appendix augment the text.

Data

African Development Bank - Data Portal The AFDB Statistical Data Portal has been developed in response to the increasing demand for statistical data and indicators relating to African Countries. The Portal provides multiple customized tools to gather indicators, analyze them, and export them into multiple formats. With the Data Portal, you can visualize Socio-Economic indicators over a period of time, gain access to presentation-ready graphics and perform comprehensive analysis on a Country and Regional level.
Asian Development Bank Key Indicators Database (KIDB) The Key Indicators Database (KIDB) is ADB's central statistical database and one of the world's most comprehensive resources for macroeconomic and social indicators from across Asia and the Pacific.
BP Statistical Review of World Energy The site provides an annual review by BP focusing on statistical data on energy trends worldwide. Information provided includes consumption, production, and prices and can be viewed by energy type, country, or region. Reports are available for downloading and printing.
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center CDIAC serves the climate change-related data and information needs of users worldwide. CDIAC's holdings - all of which are available free of charge - include estimates of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel consumption and land-use changes; records of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other radiatively active trace gases; carbon cycle and terrestrial carbon management datasets and analyses; global and regional climate data and time series; and analyses of land-cover/land-use change. **See data tab
Climate Watch Data Explorer Climate Watch is an online platform designed to empower policymakers, researchers, media and other stakeholders with the open climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change.
ELDIS Eldis provides free access to relevant, up-to-date and diverse research on international development issues.Our database includes over 50,000 summaries and provides free links to full-text research and policy documents from over 8,000 publishers.Eldis is hosted by the Institute of Development Studies based in the UK but our services profile work by a growing global network of research organisations and knowledge brokers.
FAOSTAT (FAO) Statistical information covering 210 countries and territories and 3,000 items in the areas of production, trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer, pesticides, landuse and irrigation, forest products, fishery products, population, agricultural machinery and food aid shipments. The registration service provides access to the FAOSTAT bulk download files.
Global Resource Information Database (GRID) The Global Resource Information Database - Geneva (GRID-Geneva), is a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the University of Geneva (UniGe). With a team of 20 Environment Data Scientists, GRID-Geneva's main role is to transform data into information and knowledge to support the decision making process related to environmental issues.
Gross Domestic Product The National Accounts Main Aggregates Database presents a series of analytical national accounts tables from 1970 onwards for more than 200 countries and areas of the world. It is the product of a global cooperation effort between the Economic Statistics Branch of the United Nations Statistics Division, international statistical agencies and the national statistical services of these countries and is developed in accordance with the recommendation of the Statistical Commission at its first session in 1947 that the Statistics Division should publish regularly the most recent available data on national accounts for as many countries and areas as possible. The database is updated in December of each year with newly available national accounts data for all countries and areas.
IEA Energy Data Explorer Access the most extensive selection of IEA statistics with charts and tables on 16 energy topics for over 170 countries and regions. Purchase may be required for extended datasets.
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) This section of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) contains links to IDEA's databases. The site contains information on direct democracy, electoral justice, electoral system design, political finance, and information on voter turnout and voting from abroad. There are also links to partnership networks that provide additional information on democracy and elections worldwide.
OECD Data Explorer New OECD platform (2024). It includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.Browse by topic or search by keyword.
Online Sources of International Statistics (Univ of Maryland) Contains links to subscription services. Contact your Librarian for more information. Many governments and international organizations are putting their statistical data on the Internet. The majority of the sources listed here are free-of-charge and accessible to anyone with access to the World Wide Web
Our World in Data Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. All free. Open access and open source.
SDG Global Indicators Database (United Nations) SDG Global Database gives you access to data on more than 210 SDG indicators for countries, areas or regions across the globe.
UnctadStat - Statistics and Data The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development trade flows and foreign direct investment statistics.A free to use dissemination platform.
UN Data Commons for the SDGs Created by the UN Statistics Division, partnering with Google.org. This new platform integrates authoritative SDG data and insights from across the UN System into a public repository with advanced search functionality and an innovative, user-friendly interface Key features include: * Easily explore and download SDG data by country, region and Goal * Advanced search functionality for SDG data insights * SDG data and data stories together in one place * Tools to explore and visualize SDG data * Official SDG data available in Google’s Data Commons for further exploration
UNEP Data Resources United Nations Environment Programme - These real-time data tools and platforms feature data sets, reports, publications, fact sheets, interactives and more.
United Nations Population Data United Nations Population Data Portal provides access to global datasets of demographic indicators produced by the United Nations Population Division.The data portal allows users to search data based on indicators and country selections, compare data by selecting multiple regions, countries and areas, create visualizations in the form of the bar, line or spatial layouts and to download data in a variety of formats for further analysis.
World Bank Data Portal to World Bank statistical information - topic areas include: Agriculture, Aid, Childhood Development, Debt, Education, Environment, Finance, GDP, Gender, Globalization, Governance, Health Information Technology, Infrastructure, Industry, Labor, Macroeconomics, Population, Poverty, PPP, Private Sector, Public Sector, Rural Development, Social Development, Trade, Urban Development by country, indicator, topic. Robust database.
World Development Indicators The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. Part of the World Bank Data - direct link to the WDI
World Income Inequality Database (WIID) Developed by the United Nations University (UNU) World Institute for Development Research (WIDER), the World Income Inequality Database (WIID) provides information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries.
World Trade Organization (WTO) Statistics International Trade Statistics is an annual report that provides comprehensive, comparable and up-to-date statistics on trade in merchandise and commercial services for an assessment of world trade flows by country, region and main product groups or service categories. The overview explains the main features of trade for the past year, an outlook towards trade in the current year, global trade and output developments, and more. The entire report is available for download using Acrobat (PDF).