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Environmental Health SIG Links
International Links
- Environmental Health Perspectives article - Persistent Tissue Kinetics and Redistribution of Nanoparticles
- Green Cross International
- "We need to recognize that we are the guests, not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by them limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism." Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman of the Board, Green Cross International.
- Pew Centre on Global Climate Change
- The Pew Centre on Global Climate Change brings together business leaders, policy makers, scientists, and other experts to bring a new approach to a complex and often controversial issues. Their approach is based on sound science, and a belief that working together can protect the climate while sustaining economic growth. Their activities include : producing first-rate analyses of key climate issues. working to keep policy makers informed. and engaging the business community in the search for solutions.
- Global Climate Change Action
- United Nations Development Programme
- The Env Law Institute (USA)
- United Nations Environment Programme
- Environmental Law Reporter
- Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science
- Climate Action Network Australia (CANA)
- The World Conservation Union
- Environmental Expert .com
- Kids Green
- The EnviroLink
- Recent PEW publication on International Climate Efforts Beyond 2012: A Survey of Approaches
- The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
- The European Environment Agency
- International Right to Know: Empowering Communities Through Corporate Transparency, 2003
- International Right to Know Campaign (IRTK) Uses case studies to argue for increased regulations and policies directed at American transnational corporations. Includes accounts of human rights abuses, environmental destruction, and labour right violations.
- The Canadian National Pollutant Release Inventory Database
- Children's Environmental Health Network
- The Children's Environmental Health Network is a national, multi-disciplinary organization, whose mission is to protect the fetus and child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.
- Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies, 2nd Edition, 2002
- Brewster Kneen. Examines Cargill--the largest private company in the U.S.--and its trade activities in global financial markets. Discusses the implications of Cargill's influence worldwide, especially in the global food system.
- Dirty Deals: Cases of Corporate Influence on Global Environmental Negotiations, 2002
- Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). Investigates the influence of corporate interests on globalization and international environmental and human rights law and policy. Four case studies demonstrate corporate manipulation of multilateral governance. One in a series of publications on the impact of corporate-led globalization on biodiversity.
- Partners in Pollution: Voluntary Agreements and Corporate Greenwash, 2002
- GroundWork and Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). Questions voluntary corporate self-regulation through an examination of environmental and human rights implications of corporate presence in South Africa. Discusses corporations' use of greenwashing campaigns and shortcomings of voluntary agreements in corporate responsibility. The second in a series of 5 booklets addressing sustainable development in South Africa.
- Environmental Health Competency Guidelines Project, of the American Public Health Association
- United Nations Environment Programme. environment for development
- Voluntary Approach to Corporate Responsibility: Readings and a Resource Guide, 2002
- UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS).
Discusses the development and impact of voluntary initiatives in corporate social responsibility including codes of conduct, the adoption of environmental management systems, social and environmental reporting, certification schemes, company support for community development projects, and "partnerships" with NGOs.
- NELA (National Environmental Law Association)
International Government Links
Australian Links
- Doctors for the Environment Australia
- Uranium Information Centre, The Economics of Nuclear Power, Briefing Paper 8 - January 2007
- Clean Air Society of Australia & New Zealand (CASANZ)
- ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association of Australia
- The ME / CFS Association Australia collects and distributes information about the conditions, supports people living with ME / CFS and related conditions, and liaises with health professionals to improve services. It also lobbies for more research into ME / CFS and provides public education on the conditions.
- ME/CFS/Fibromyalgia Assoc. QLD
- This organisation provides information, support and counselling to patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia and their carers, and raises funds for medical research into the illnesses.
- ME/CFS Society (SA) Inc
- The Society aims to improve the quality of life and health management of people with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, whilst supporting community education and research initiatives, which will lead to recognition by government health providers of the need for better outcomes in service provision.
- Australian Chemical Trauma Alliance Inc
- The Australian Chemical Trauma Alliance (ACTA) provides its members with counselling, advice, referrals to appropriate medical and legal practitioners, and introductions to other members for mutual support.
- The Australian Conservation Foundation
- Doctors for the Environment Australia
- An earthbeat transcript - the environmental budget
- Interview with Kemp asking "When you say that it's a record spending of -billion on the environment, but how can you justify increasing the environmental expenditure by hundreds of millions of dollars by adding money spent on overseas aid and customs which wasn't in the Budget previously under environmental expenditure; isn't that really misleading the public Dr Kemp?"
- CSIRO
Australian Government Links
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