Statistical Resources on the Web
Environment
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Last updated on June 17,
2009
- Data.Gov
- Pan-government web site for microdata (raw, uncalculated data) produced by the
major statistical-producing agencies
- Searchable by keyword and/or category, agency, and file type (xml, csv,
kml/kmz, esri, and other)
- As of June 2009, this is a fledgling web site with 204 data files, primarily
from the Environmental Protection Agency and Internal Revenue Service; expansion
expected
- Earth
Platform
- Environmental search engine to news reports and web sites
- Subjects include nature, animals, energy, pollution
- Section devoted to Global
Warming
- Organizations represented include government agencies, non-profits,
and business
- Enviromapper
(EPA)
- Maps of watersheds and their environmental assessment, Superfund
sites, and facilities monitored by the EPA
- Searchable and browsable
- Environmental Maps
(HUD)
- State, county and census tract maps showing public housing and
environmental risks
- Either zoom in on place or search it
- Choose layers indicating various types of air, water, or solid waste
pollution with public housing projects or brownfields (indicated by symbols)
- FedStats
- Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal
government agencies
- Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts
- Search engine indexes individual statistical tables
by keyword or agency and provides direct connection
- Southeast Michigan
Environmental Monitor
- Maps arsenic, radon and septic tank potential in Washtenaw County
- Likely location of a 100-year flood, wetlands, watershed
- Local air and water quality data
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States
- Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on
the national and state levels
- Population and vital statistics, health, economics, education,
manufacturing, natural resources, transportation, and U.S. Industrial
Outlook (production and foreign trade by four-digit SIC for past six years)
- Full text available in Adobe Acrobat format
- State rankings and state/county profiles in HTML format
- The full text of Statistical Abstract is available in most University
of Michigan campus libraries as HA 202
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Search Tables for a selected number of statistical
tables in gif or xls formats
- Search Abstracts for the largest number of
possibilities
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign
country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: air pollution and by
city
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to
the Documents Center for the microfiche version
- University of
Michigan Digital Spatial Data Catalog
- Provides metadata for online and CD-ROM resources at the University of
Michigan for GIS
- Indexes datasets from the National Atlas, ESRI, Michigan Geographic
Data Library, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, and University of
Michigan Library
- Use specific subjects (e.g. population, cancer, butterflies) with
broader geographies (states, counties) to identify datasets
- Most data must be downloaded for later manipulation rather than used
directly on the web
- Hazard Maps
(FEMA)
- Flood insurance maps for the nation
- Requires a higher-level browser
- Forest Inventory
and Analysis
- Identify forest ownership, location, and optionally type of trees,
geographic features, etc.
- Output includes data files in csv format or maps
- Similar data base for timber products
- Forest Service (USDA)
- Acreage of national forests by state, county, and Congressional District
- Wildlife distribution by state
- State of the Land
(USDA)
- Maps depict U.S. croplands, grazing lands, forest lands, and wetlands
by acreage and their threats (e.g. soil erosion)
- Includes statistical tables in HTML or ASCII format
- Climate
Change Impacts on the United States
- Full text of report found under Overview
- PDF only; divided into chapters, some about 2 MB
- EPA
Climate Change Web Site
- Past, present and future changes to the climate
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Health and environmental effects of climate change
- National strategy on climate change and climate economics
- Advise for the user on strategies for home, school, business
- Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
- Established by the World Meteorological Organization and UNEP, this
working group assesses the physical science behind climate change,
likely impacts, and recommended policy initiatives
- Its Synthesis
Report #4
- Released on November 17, 2007
- World can expect 4.5 foot rise in oceans in next 1000 years
- If carbon dioxide not capped by 2015 and reductions begin, Europe
will lose species, Africa will suffer from water shortages, Asia from
flooding, North America from longer and hotter heat waves
- Scientific
Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United
States
- Worldwide climate change will increase heat, drought, and sea-level
in the United States
- Report outlines the effects on human (especially an increase in food
and waterborne disease), the air, land, biology, and transportation
- President's triennial report on climate change made available on May
29, 2008 by court order
- Another copy
- A companion volume, its Revised
Research Plan describes progress and cites studies
conducted by the government on global warming, 2003-2008, along with an
outline for 2008-2010 research
- State
Climate Change Impacts (EPA)
- State-by-state
assessment of global warming trends, its impacts on agriculture
and ecosystems
- Surface
Temperature Reconstructions for the Past 2,000 Years (National
Academy of Sciences)
- Average temperature in past few decades has been the hottest in 400
years
- Scientific evidence prior to 1600 is a little less certain
- Report released on June 22, 2006
- U.S. Climate Change
Science Program
- Federal interagency organization which integrates research on global
and U.S. climate change as well as environmental, human, and economic
factors
- Its first report, Temperature
Trends in the Lower Atmosphere was released on May 2,
2006
- Resolves discrepancy between changes in the upper and lower
atmostphere
- Global warming in part caused by human influences in the
atmosphere
- Minerals Yearbook
- Volume
1: Commodity
Statistics
- Annual reports by individual mineral commodity since 1994 in pdf format
- Production by country, consumption, and trade statistics
- Leading producers in the U.S. by name of company
- Volume
2: State
- State reports since 1994 in pdf format
- Describes the mineral industry in each state and includes news developments
with the names of individual companies
- Production statistics on the state's leading mineral
- Volume
3: International
- Text and statistics on foreign mineral production, arranged by country and
then commodity
- Includes names of producers, regions within a country, and foreign laws
- Chemical Scorecard
(Environmental Defense Fund)
- Ranks states, counties, zip codes, and facilities by pounds of
pollution
- Can be customized by type of pollution (air, water, ground)
- Data manipulated from the Toxic Release
Inventory (EPA)
- Cleaning
Up the Nuclear Weapons Complex
- Federal and research institution web sites about cleaning up nuclear
weapons complex in an environmentally and economically safe manner
- Includes think tank reports
- Good annotations
- Environmental
Justice: Hazardous Waste and Census Data
(UMich)
- Guide to using Census data for assessing communities around toxic
waste sites
- Sources and mapping for identifying the sites, assessing health
consequences and lobbying
- Environmental Protection
Agency
- Massive searchable data base with national, state, and local
information
- Envirofacts Data
Warehouse
- Search by zip code, city or county for a list of polluters or
potential polluters in an area
- Covers waste, water, toxics, air, land, radiation and
compliance
- Superfund and Toxic
Release Inventory found under
Envirofacts
- Identifies industrial pollution sources or existing pollution
- Efforts to clean up area
- Health risks
- Hazardous and solid waste data downloadable in several formats
- Office of Air
and Radiation web site includes the full text of
the National Air Quality and Emissions
Report
- Numerous environmental maps
- Radon
Zone Map
- Radon is an odorless, colorless gas that can product lung cancer
- Caused by underlying rock and wells
- Ann Arbor is a high radon zone
- Map shows radon danger levels for each county in the U.S.
- National and individual state maps
- State
Climate Change Impacts provides a state-by-state
assessment of global warming trends, its impacts on agriculture
and ecosystems
- Risk Management
Plans
- Corporate plans for cleaning up accidents
- Arranged by state and then alphabetically
- Summarized rather than detailed on a right-to-know server for
national security reasons
- Sector Facility Indexing
Project (EPA)
- Air, water, and hazardous waste regulation compliance, historical and
current
- For individual facilities (plants) in petroleum refining, iron and
steel production, nonferrous metal refining and smelting, pulp
manufacturing, and automobile assembly industries
- Facilities may be searched by a combination of name, city, state and
EPA region
- Project closed in December 2004
- Superfund
Hazardous Waste Sites
- Lists current hazardous waste sites by state, city, and company with
brief event, financial, and enforcement information
- National Priorities List provides extensive
summaries of targeted cleanup sites, new and deleted sites, and
statistics
- A separate web page provides professionals and the public
with risk
assessment calculators
- Census of Waste
Management and Remediation Services - 1997
- First reports monitoring sales under the North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS 56)
- Geographic Area
Series
- Number of establishments, employment, payrolls, and receipts
sales for business support organizations
- Includes employment agencies, carpet cleaning, travel reservations,
pest control, locksmiths, hazardous waste disposal, recycling, telephone
call centers
- State reports have data for the state, MSAs, counties and
cities
- Smaller states being released first
- See also Pollution
- Center for Watershed
Protection
- Technical tools and publications on managing small watersheds
- Land conservation, aquatic buffers, erosion and sediment control,
rainwater runoff
- Enviromapper
(EPA)
- Maps of watersheds and their environmental assessment, Superfund
sites, and facilities monitored by the EPA
- Searchable and browsable
- Index of Watershed
Indicators (EPA)
- Search for individual watersheds by map, location, name,
characteristics, and zip code
- Data includes 1990 population, water consumption, land use, EPA
superfund sites, and toxic release information
- National Oceanographic
Data Center
- Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of ocean
temperatures worldwide
- Water temperatures, salinity, and buoys
- National Water
Quality Report to Congress
- Water quality assessments for each state, territory, and Indian
reservation
- Includes map of the water basins
- Rates streams, inland lakes, and the Great Lakes for swimming,
fishing, and pollution
- Water Resources in the
United States (USGS)
- Statistics on water supply, water use, and acid rain found as tables
in the text of its reports
- Search engine also available
- Endangered Species
- Endangered Species
(Fish & Wildlife Service)
- Number and names of endangered species by state
- Nature
Serve
- Encyclopedia of 50,000 plants and animals in the U.S. and Canada
- Searchable by popular name, taxonomy, endangered status, and location
- Results provide popular name, scientific name, endangered status,
location, and maps
- Heritage rating, 1-5, goes from seriously endangered to plentiful
- Migratory Bird Research (Natl
Biological Service)
- Trends in summer, winter, and grassland bird populations
- Information available by U.S. state or Canadian province and by species
- Numerous graphs and charts
- A description of federal plant and animal monitoring programs appears
on the National Biological
Service web site
- Consortium for
Intl. Earth Science Information
- CIESIN gateway to statistical data servers on human interactions in
global environmental change
- Also includes mapping and demographic data
- Earth Trends (World Resources
Institute)
- Numerous statistical tables with country
data
- Population: projections to 2025, birth, death, health,
education
- Economic: gross national and domestic product,
prices, development assistance
- Environment: forestry, fisheries, water,
weather, marine and coastal resources
- Environmental
Sustainability Index (CIESIN)
- Ranks countries on 67 environmental factors
- Air and water quality, biodiversity, capacity for debate,
environmental actions to reduce stress
- Data includes a book in pdf format, Powerpoint slide show, Excel
spreadsheet, and pdf files which provide data by country and by
environmental variable
- Global Environment
Outlook-3 (UNEP)
- Extensive report on population growth and the status of forestry,
fisheries, land, agriculture, air pollution, water supplies, and urban waste
- Complete report provides text, graphs, and data
- Historical data and projections usually available by continent with
some information also by country
- Updated by Geo4, a
report but less graphic than Geo-3, in 2007
- Info
Nation (UN)
- Current statistics on 185 countries
- Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy,
fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, and motor vehicles
- Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption
are among the environmental data
- Separate section on Twenty-One
Cities focuses on population and environment
- Urban Environmental
Management
- Numerous worldwide reports on managing the urban environment
(population, air pollution, disease, pests)
- Brief statistics on megacity population projections, current world
population, ecological capacity of nations
- Millennium
Indicators (United Nations)
- Forty-eight social and economic indicators for 197 countries annually,
1985-2000
- Includes carbon dioxide emissions, immunizations, AIDS, education,
illiteracy, mortality, malnutrition, forested lands, sanitation, water and
telephone lines
- Data accessed by name of country
- NationMaster
- Create graphs, maps, and country rankings for a very broad range of
social, economic and cultural statistics
- Subjects include individual crimes, currency, sports, religion,
transportation, electoral system, budget, trade balance, health,
education, economics, marriage rate
- Countries may be ranked by region as well as worldwide from the top
100 to the bottom 5
- Sample: Papua-New Guinea has one of the lowest crime rates in the
world while Saudi Arabia has the largest car theft rate in the Middle
East
- Project Level
Aid (William and Mary)
- Data base being developed that will show the donor and recipient of environmental
improvement projects worldwide
- Some data available in its periodical
- Contact data providers for additional information
- UN
Statistics Common
Data Base (UMich Only)
- Hundreds of data elements for almost all countries, 1946+ present
- Subjects include agriculture, economics, health, prices, men and
women, education, labor, development assistance, environment
- Basic View allows
selection of single data series for up to 10 countries for 20 years
- Advanced View supports multiple series, years, and countries with
downloading capability into Excel, ASCII, or CSV formats
- Web site includes definitions, sources of the data, and a topical list
of
subjects
- World
Development Indicators (UMich Only)
- World Bank data base with 593 series of demographic, economic, and
environmental information for 226 countries
- Time series covers 1960 to present when annual data are available for a
given country
- Choose countries or groups of countries
- Choose series with the tree or alphabetical view (environmental data
includes carbon dioxide emissions, electric power and oil usage per
capita
- Choose years
- Once you view the data, choose the orientation (columns or rows), scaling
options, display (chart, index, raw)
- Download into ASCII or Excel format
- Food and Agriculture
Organization (United Nations)
- Agriculture, fisheries, forestry, land use, and population data bases
- Searchable by commodity or country with various outputs
- Some time series date back to 1961
- State
of
the World's Forests (FAO)
- Global forest ground cover, 1995-97
- Loss of forests, 1980+, and demand for forest products
- Short executive summary in HTML format; most files must be downloaded
in Adobe Acrobat format and require considerable disk space
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis
Center (DOE)
- Top Ten has data and reports on carbon
dioxide emissions, its effects on vegetation, weather, clouds, and oceans
- Link at bottom of the World Data Center
indexes reports with detailed historical data on carbon dioxide emissions
in ASCII and graph format
- Example includes yearly carbon dioxide emissions in China,
1899-1996
- Climate
Research Center (University of East
Anglia)
- Known for its historic data on climate
change
- Average world temperatures, 1856-2000 in zip
format
- Global Change Master
Directory (NASA)
- Descriptions of 3900 earth science data sets worldwide
- Includes weather, oceans, land surface, and solar information
- Use search engine to identify materials
- Access to the data itself may not be available on the Internet
- Global
Warming (EPA)
- Scientific reports and fact sheets on the causes and effects of
global warming
- Statistics embedded in text and as separate tables
- Annotated links to related global warming web sites
- Ozone
Depletion (UNEP/CIESIN)
- Annual reports on ozone depletion and its affects on organisms
- Text and summary contain numerous statistics
- United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Changes
- Text of the United
Nations Framework Convention and list of
ratifications
- Text of documents from previous and forthcoming conventions
- Text of the Kyoto
Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions
- Country reports on the implementation of various agreements
- Minerals Yearbook
- Volume
1: Commodity
Statistics
- Annual reports by individual mineral commodity since 1994 in pdf format
- Production by country, consumption, and trade statistics
- Leading producers in the U.S. by name of company
- Volume
3: International
- Text and statistics on foreign mineral production, arranged by country and
then commodity
- Includes names of producers, regions within a country, and foreign laws
- Global Environment
Outlook-1 (UNEP)
- Extensive report on population growth and the status of forestry,
fisheries, land, agriculture, air pollution, water supplies, and urban waste
- Complete report provides text, graphs, and data
- Historical data and projections usually available by continent with
some information also by country
- New Ideas in Pollution
Regulation
(World Bank)
- Studies on industrial pollution
- Focus on Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the
Philippines
- Text supplemented by charts and graphs
- Some downloadable data
- Environmental
Sustainability Index (CIESIN)
- Sixty-four measures of economic development without adversely
affecting the environment
- Measures divided into five categories: environmental systems,
environmental stresses, human vulnerability, social and institutional
capacity, and global stewardship
- Includes data on individual countries
- Measures prepared by the Global Leaders of Tomorrow section of the
World Economic Forum
- Global
Development Gateway (World Bank)
- Articles on sustainable development in developing countries
- Economics, politics, environment, government and law
- Arranged by country and subject
- Global System for Sustainable
Development (MIT)
- Abstracts, index, and links to over 2500 online sources on
sustainable development
- Subject areas include agriculture, industry, environment, energy,
forestry, water use and demographics
- International Institute for Sustainable
Development
- Bellagio Principles for measuring sustainable
development
- Numerous reports in pdf format on natural resources in Canada and the
world, foreign trade, and public policy
- United Nations
Sustainable Development
- Social, economic, natural resource, and institutional (patents,
newspapers, broadcasting) statistics for individual countries
- Country plans specifically outlining how will monitor sustainable
development in those four areas
- Some reports in the language of the country
- World Resources Institute
- Conference papers, working papers, and statistics on sustainable
development worldwide
- IUCN Red List of
Threatened Species
- World list of over 11,000 endangered or extinct plants and animals
- Searchable by status (e.g. endangered), country or marine area, and
taxonomy
- World
Conservation Monitoring Centre
- Statistics on threatened plant and animal species worldwide
- Country data on forests, marine life, protected areas
- World Wildlife Federation
- Charts and maps on endangered species, forests, freshwater, and
marine life
- Details on threatened species, such as the Asian elephant
- Press releases and descriptions of projects
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