Caribbean

• Jamaican Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA)
• Caribbean Environment and Sustainable Development Homepage
• Trinidad & Tobago Environmental Management Authority

Asia

• Fisheries Division of Ishikawa Government, Japan (in English)

Australasia/South Pacific

• Australian Federal Government Marine and Coastal
• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
• Australian Federal Government Australian Antarctic Division
• Victorian State Government, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
• Western Australian Ministry for Planning

Great links into urban & regional planning

• Western Australian Local Government Envrionment News

Europe

• NetCoast (Dutch Government Centre for Coastal Zone Management)

Especially strong on coastal engineering issues.

• Climate Change and Coastal Evolution in Europe

European climate information.

• Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU).

Another superior Dutch site, linked to the global monitoring activities of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.

• CCTA's UK Government Information Service
• Electronic Development and Environment Information System (ELDIS).

"Gateway to information sources on development or the environment." Hosted by the British Library for Development. Includes a Climate: Electronic Resources List

• Scottish Environment Protection Agency
• English Environment Agency Home Page
• UK Heritage Coast (CoastNet)
• Sefton (England) Coast Life Project

North America

USA - State Coastal Zone Programs

These web sites document accomplishments and provide ideas for the organization and communication of important environmental and climate change concepts.

• [Alaska] Center for Global Change & Arctic System Research.
• California Coastal Commission
• Florida Coastal Management Program and FLORIDA COASTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
• Hawaii CZM Program Homepage
• Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Program
• Michigan Coastal Zone Management Program
• North Carolina Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources
• Oregon Coastal Management Program (OCMP)
• South Carolina Coastal Management Program Home Page
• Texas Coastal Management Program Home Page
• Virginia Coastal Resources Management, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
• Washington (State) Coastal Zone Management - Department of Ecology
• Wisconsin Coastal Zone Management Program

USA - Federal

• United States Global Change Research Program

THE premier Global Change site. Always a good starting point.

• Fedworld

The US Government central Web Site with a new, powerful web search tool.

• US Department of Energy,
• Energy Information Administration (EIA).

This rich source of information includes a large menu of Environmental Publications and Data and a home page for Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases

• US Department of Interior
• Fish &Wildlife Service
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

This agency of the US Department of Commerce is in charge of the US Weather Service, the coastal zone program, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the National Ocean Survey, and a variety of other coastal environmental programs

• National Ocean Survey
• Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM)

The link above is the first stop into the NOAA mother lode of coastal management sites. There is so much contained in these pages, that you're bound to find at least one thing of interest. Coastal Programs Division and Sanctuaries & Reserves Division are divisions within OCRM, and the divisions' homepages are contained within the OCRM Web site. These divisions, and info. on individual US state CZM programs, Estuarine Research Reserves, and National Marine Sanctuaries
can be easily accessed through the OCRM homepage. If you want to go direct to these - some examples are shown below.

• Coastal Assessment Framework
• Coastal Services Center in South Carolina
• Coastal America Partnership

• Sanctuaries & Reserves Division
• Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
• National Estuarine Research Reserve Centralized Data Management Office
• National Marine Fisheries Service
• US Department of State, International Policy, Environment.

Site maintained by the State Department's Directorate for Environment and Development, which is "responsible for policy formulation and action on international environment and sustainable development." By mid-April 1997, the site's latest global change postings included a Draft Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (dtd 17 Jan 1997) and an address by Timothy E. Wirth (Under Secretary for Global Affairs) on Sustainable Development: Managing the Transition (dtd 4 March 1997). On 22 April 1997 (Earth Day), the State Department added its annual report, Environmental Diplomacy: The Environment and US Foreign Policy, along with introductory remarks from Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Under Secretary for Global Affairs Timothy Wirth, and Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental & Scientific Affairs, Eileen Claussen. The site also includes many recent documents on the Man and the Biosphere Program.

• US Geological Survey

This is the primary US mapping agency. The site at http://www.fgdc.gov/ aims to be the primary node of a worldwide search tool for locating metadata records of geospatial data.

• National Biological Information Infrastructure

Data on a variety of environmental information issues, organized by the Biological Resources Division (BRD) of USGS. One of the best and most up-to-date sites on global, national and special interest sites pertaining to biodiversity is at http://www.nbs.gov/nbii/iabin/

• Marine and Coastal Geology, US Geological Survey
• Learning Web, Global Change.

Global change educational materials for grades 1-12.

• US National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction (SNDR).

The SNDR is made up of representatives from Federal government agencies addressing natural hazards from the points of view of assessment, mitigation, and warning. The goal of the SNDR is to create a sustainable society, resilient to natural hazards." Offerings include the Natural Disaster Reduction, Natural Disaster Reduction; A Plan for the Nation.

• US Environmental Protection Agency

Another treasure trove of both data (one of the several databases at EPA is STORET, the largest environmental database in the world--some of these data are interesting for ideas about monitoring systems), and programs.

• Office of Water
• National Estuary Program
• NASA Global Change Master Directory

NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is a comprehensive source
of information about satellite and in situ Earth science data, with
broad coverage of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, oceans, solid earth, and
biosphere. The GCMD is the American Coordinating Node of the Committee
on Earth Observation Satellites International Directory Network (CEOS
IDN) and is a component of the Global Change Data and Information System
(GCDIS).

• US National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

Global temperature trends are an important area of research for the institute. According to GISS, it "has set up a system to get the most out of the available surface air temperature data, developing and refining techniques to eliminate outliers and station discontinuities, and to combine the data into one coherent data set." The site provides regularly updated tables and figures showing temperature trends.
Goddard's research also emphasizes "a broad study of global change, an interdisciplinary research initiative addressing natural and man-made changes in our environment which occur on various time scales from decades to millennia and which affect the habitability of our planet." Among the site's offerings is an informative series of documents describing GISS' research. The series includes a set of "Popular Science" papers in which GISS scientists summarize their work "with the aim of briefly communicating to the public the relevance and even excitement of our research." As of April 1997, papers included:

• Pinatubo Climate Investigation
• Sea Level Rise
• Storms of This Century...and the Next
• ENSO, Seasonal Rainfall Patterns and Zimbabwe Maize Yield
• Human Impacts on the Global Water Cycle
• Soil Dust and Climate Change
• Cloud Climatology
• Climate Forecast: Cloudy, but Slowly Clearing
• Can Global Climate Change Abruptly?
• Climsat
• US Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II

Canada

• Coastal Zone Management in Canada

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