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Selected journals and indexing resources:

  1. Africa Environmental Outlook
  2. Africa Renewal - produced by the United Nations
  3. African Journal of Environmental Assessement and Management
  4. African Studies Quarterly
  5. Energy for Sustainable Development
  6. Global Journal of Geological Sciences
  7. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology
  8. Journal of African Earth Sciences
  9. Science in Africa
  10. West Africa Review
  11. Africa Journals Online - tables of contents from journal about Africa research
  12. Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature


Selected books:

  1. Indistrialisation, mining resources and energy in Africa. Codesria Books, 1992.
  2. Ephemeral rivers and their catchments : sustaining people and development in western Namibia. by Peter J. Jacobson. Desert Research Foundation of Namibia,1995.
  3. El Dorado in West Africa: the gold mining frontier, African labor, and colonial capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900. By Raymond E. Dumett. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998.
  4. Dar es Salaam water demand : an end-use perspective. Dar es Salaam: Centre for Energy, Environment, Science, and Technology, 1998.
  5. Culture, historyand science and technology-based economic strategies in Africa: a view from political economy. SAPES Books, 1999.
  6. Proceedings of the Workshop on Engineering Development and the Environment. Prost Pub, 1999.
  7. Advances in planning and management of watersheds and wetlands in eastern and southern Africa. Weaver Press, 1999.
  8. Compendium on best practices in small-scale mining in Africa. UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002.
  9. Breaking new ground: mining, minerals and sustainable development: the report of the MMDS project. Earthscan, 2002.
  10. Digital atlas of Namibia.
  11. Mining for sustainable development in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam University Press, 2003.
  12. Climate change, trade and modes of production in sub-Saharan Africa. Dar es Salaam University Press, 2003.
  13. Extractive industries in arid and semi-aird zones. IUCA, 2003.
  14. Mining and critical ecosystems: mapping the risks. World Resources Institute, 2003.
  15. The great lakes of Africa: two thousand years of history. MIT Press, 2003.
  16. Artisanal and small-scale mining: challenges and opportunitites. World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2003.
  17. The socio-economic impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in developing countries. Balkema, 2003.
  18. Mineral exploration and sustainable development : proceedings of the Seventh Biennial SGA Meeting, Athens, Greece, 24-28 August 2003. Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits. Meeting (7th : 2003 : Athens, Greece), Millpress, 2003.
  19. Regulating mining in Africa: for whose benefit? Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2004.
  20. Re-creating Eden : land use, environment, and society in southern Angola and northern Namibia. Heinemann, 2004.
  21. Africa's blessing, Africa's curse: the legacy of resource extraction in Africa. Third World Network Africa, Ghana, 2004.
  22. The impact of climate change on drylands : with a focus on West Africa / edited by A.J. Dietz, R. Ruben, and A. Verhagen. Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c2004.
  23. Sustainable utilization of mineral resources in Sub-Saharan Africa: a comparative appraisal of the mining regime in Nigeria. G. A. Oke. Master's thesis, York University, 2004.
  24. Sustainable energy in developing countries : policy analysis and case study of Sri Lanka. Peter Meier. Edward Elgar Pub., 2005.
  25. Small-scale mining, rural subsidence and poverty in West Africa. Rugby, Warwickshire : Practical Action Publishing, 2006.
  26. Women miners in developing countries : pit women and others. By Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Marsha McIntyre. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub., 2006.
  27. Africa - Up in Smoke?: The Second Report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development. 2006.
  28. Environmental Sensitivity Atlas for Coastal Areas of Kenya. 2006.
  29. Regional climate variability and its impacts in the Mediterranean area. Springer, 2006.
  30. Climate change in developing countries. CABI, 2006.
  31. Atlas of cultural and environmental change in arid Africa. Köln : Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 2007.
  32. Untapped: the scramble for Africa's oil. By John Ghazvinian. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2007.

Other Resources:

 

Funding Sources and Subsidized Access Projects:

  • Penn State International Programs Office Funding Database
  • List of other funding sources - developed for AESEDA, 2004.
  • HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative) - provides developing nations with free or nominal-fee access to scientific resources in public health.
  • OARE (Online Access to Research on the Environment)- provides developing nations with free or nominal-fee access to scientific literature on the environment.
  • AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) - provides developing nations with free or nominal-fee access to scientific literature on agriculture and the environment.
  • AAPG Publication Pipeline - mission is to collect, store and send donated geoscience materials to libraries overseas.
  • Highwire Press - Provides free access to journal titles for developing economies
  • Lyell Collection - publications of the Geological Society of London. Free access to qualifying organizations in developing countries.

 

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