Studying sustainable practices means doing research in a lot of different fields. For example, if you are researching opinions regarding sustainable practices you may use a social science database but if you are researching the impact of a pollutant you may utilize a science database. Therefore, researching issues regarding sustainability often requires utilizing many different resources. That said, Web of Science and UDiscover search across many of these resources and can be a great place to start your research.
Below is a list of resources which has been divided into disciplines.
A search tool that lets you retrieve all types of research sources with one search. If you're looking for a variety of sources on your topic, or you're just getting started, UDiscover can help you access more information at once than ever before. It has a Google-like relevancy ranking, but helps you locate scholarly resources.
A citation database with multidisciplinary coverage in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Contains over 150 million records. Includes international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice - A peer-reviewed open access journal published under the brand SpringerOpen. It is an interdisciplinary journal on extensive livestock production systems throughout the world. The journal investigates pastoralism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives across the biophysical, social and economic sciences.
Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy - A peer-reviewed open access journal provided by Taylor & Francis. The journal aims to advance understanding about sustainability transformations of societal systems and seeks to catalyze social innovations that enable these transitions.
Ecology and Society - A open access peer-reviewed journal devoted to integrative science for resilience and sustainability.
PloS One Biology Collection - A collection of open access research of various degrees of
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The World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO) Worldwide NGO Directory - An international organization uniting NGOs worldwide
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Ecolex Environmental Law Resources - Includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature.