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Environment, Science, Technology and Health Sources General INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections Search Engines -- Beaucoup! (Science/Nature/Technology) -- Keyword searches WWW Virtual Library Statistical Data on Member States Britannica.com free keyword search of the Encyclopedia Britannica Dictionary of Environment Terms from U.S. EPA Internet Scout Project Archive of weekly reports on web resources Recent U.S. Government Publications Related to China CompletePlanet Search China in Space  · Go Taikonauts!  an unofficial web page with China space news, web links and photographs · Go Taikonauts! - China Space Links · Chinese Piloted Programs from the Federation of American Scientists · Chinese Aerospace Periodicals Online from the  ChinaInfo · PRC Landsat Serves Agriculture and Land Use Planners Health WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences: Medicine UNAIDS The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS UNAIDS-Beijing aidsinfonyc.org HIV/AIDS information Exploring the American Response to the Global AIDS Pandemic 8/2000 NGO report on USG foreign assistance on HIV/AIDS. World Resources Institute: China's Health and Environment WHO Infectious Diseases reports Economics of Tobacco Control from the World Bank Injection Safety (SIGN) United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA Population Action International PAI advocates the expansion of voluntary family planning, other reproductive health services, and educational and economic opportunities for girls and women. These strategies promise to improve the lives of individual women and their families while slowing the world's population growth. International Interests in U.S. Tobacco Legislation  NGO viewpoint: A responsible U.S. policy should include the following measures: Support for tobacco control efforts internationally. Supporting international tobacco control efforts is one of the most cost-effective public health strategies in the world.  National Institutes of Health - Allergies and Infectious Diseases/AIDS International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Exploring the American Response to the Global AIDS Pandemic NGO viewpoint: When HIV remains unchecked in large regions of the globe, as it does now, no country is safe, including America. Fighting AIDS abroad is in America's own interest. Healthoo health press clips and information in Chinese Healthoo-AIDS: PRC press reports in Chinese on AIDS The Global Health Network home of an innovative project to share information on epidemiology and public health over the Internet -- Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty Water The Water Librarians' Home Page The Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies [www.amwa-water.org] was formed by water organizations from most the the major cities in the US to deal with common problems and keep track of US Federal laws and issues which might affect local operations. Their website has links to many of the cities in the US as well as their own information on water issues. The American Water Works Association [www.awwa.org] was formed by public water utilities to help deal with problems with delivering drinking to America's citizens. Its member organizations provide water to more than half of America's citizens. Their website also has contact information.  In a number of places in the US water and waste water services have been taken over by private companies. The national Association of Water Companies also has a website with information about privatization of water utilities.[www.nawc.org] Energy Foreign Direct Investment in China's Power Sector from Resources for the Future Environment Databases  Wilson Int'l Center for Scholars Recent Publications Environmental Treaty Texts Full text of more than 140 international environmental agreements.  Can China Feed Itself? PRC Food Security Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center Query World Resources 1996-97 Data Interactive query of the authoritative Guide to the Global Environment from World Resources Institute.  CNIE's Population/Environment Database Monitoring Environmental Progress Interactive query of the World Bank's database of indicators of environmentally sustainable development.  Univ. of Toronto: Environment, State and Society: China World Resources Institute: China's Health and Environment National Library for the Environment The GEMET Approach environmental term equivalents in many European languages.  Human Genome Central - spring board for Human genome data World Resources Report 2000-2001 World Environment Library Directories  Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development from the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Norway) Pace University School of Law Virtual Environmental Law Library Virtual Library on Development from Canadian International Development Agency The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Sustainable Development The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Environment United Nations - Economic and Social Development Web Site Air Pollution Related Web Site list by Ohio State EPA Environmental Organization Web Directory! Univ. of Toronto: Environment, State and Society: China Environmental Sites on the Internet from Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden Organizations Global Green grants Fund U.S. - China Relations Working Group on Environment PACE  Chinese environment information, discussion, contact list China Council for International Co-op and Development THE ENVIRONMENT on NRDC ONLINE -- from the Natural Resources Defense Council The NRDC, a large U.S. environmental NGO, often uses the court system to ensure that law and regulations on the environment are obeyed. The NRDC offers many links to other environmental web sites. NIPR: New Ideas in Pollution Regulation working papers on the environment from the World Bank China Council for International Co-op and Development China Brief on private, corporate and official development aid to China  WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability IPCC Technical Paper I: Technologies, Policies, and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change GLOBE - International Hands-On Science and Education High school students worldwide study the environment together and exchange data with other GLOBE schools on the Internet. Main Links for the Globe Program in the People's Republic of China Twenty Chinese GLOBE schools participate. The Chinese National Environmental Protection Agency coordinates Globe for China. Science Flora of China Home Page US-China Macrofungi Home Page Yahoo! Science - list of science links China Dimensions Data Collection Guides for and access to a rich collection of data resources on the People's Republic of China. Highlights include digital administrative boundaries; fundamental GIS layers; county-level data on population, agriculture, economics and hospitals; and interactive access to the 1982 census of population. ECCC - The Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity Seismo-surfing the Internet links to original seismic data or seismic research information from the Geophysical Department of the University of Washington. Netlib  is a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases.  Technology  Yahoo! Science > Engineering Green Pages A guide to environmental products & services, featuring 3,075 leading suppliers from 76 countries. *Inclusion of non-U.S. Government links does not imply endorsement of contents.