Policy Studies

Environment Canada.

BC Ministry of Environment.
"Environmental indicators provide information on the condition of our natural environment. They visually represent the status or trends of different aspects of B.C.'s environment. Some indicators also measure human activities which affect the condition of the environment and our responses to this change."

Provides data from monitoring stations on air and water quality, wildlife contaminants, biodiversity & disturbance. Also includes interactive map for all these indicators.

Environment Canada.
"Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) measure the progress of the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy, report to Canadians on the state of the environment, and describe Canada’s progress on key environmental sustainability issues. The indicators, built on rigorous methodology, are added and updated as new, high quality data become available."

An organization for those involved in sustainability measurement. 'Tools and Resources' page lists many useful websites and documents.

"ENTRI is a fast, convenient, comprehensive online search service for finding information about environmental treaties and national resource indicators. The ENTRI system is unique in allowing you to construct queries that integrate these different types of data."

From International Energy Agency.
IEA also publishes the more extensive 'World Energy Outlook' which is available in the Surrey Reference Collection.
Shelved at: REF HD 9502 A2 W6694 2011

SEDAC = Socioeconomic Data Applications Center.
"The goal of this Web site is to provide access to data from a wide range of environmental sustainability indicator efforts, as well as citations and information related to those efforts. The Web site also provides access to geospatial data, including those derived from remote sensing instruments, that are relevant to environmental sustainability." [Note: focus is on environmental versus social and economic indicators.]

2011 World Bank report.
Also available in print format in Surrey and Richmond. Shelved at HC 59.15 C434 2011