Scientific Facts on
Ecosystem Change
Sites linking to our Ecosystem Change Digest
Note: Links are provided for information purposes only and are not an endorsement of the content of the sites to which they are made.
1 Environment and Health non-profit organizations
- The Earth Legacy points
towards the GreenFacts summary of the
MA in an
article titled "Urgent action needed to protect global environment, new
report says":
www.earthlegacy.org/press_room
.
- The Center for Applied Biodiversity Science
(Cabs) at
Conservation International
(CI) links
to GreenFacts' study on ecosystem change (under "Learn More") in
reporting on the publication of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
(MA):
www.biodiversityscience.org/xp/CABS/home
.
- The Natural Resources Defense Council
(nrdc) points
towards the GreenFacts summary of the
MA in an
article titled "Urgent action needed to protect global environment, new
report says":
www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/050330.asp
.
- COM+,
an international alliance of communicators for sustainable development,
refer to the GreenFacts summary as the "popularized version" in an
article on the
MA report:
www.complusalliance.org/templates/COMPLUS/COMPLUS2/layout.asp?MenuId=MzY

- The German activist website Waldportal links to GreenFacts'
Ecosystem Change study when reporting on the publication of the
MA report:
www.waldportal.org/news.allg.20050331
(in German).
2 International institutions
- The World Health Organization
(WHO) links
to the GreenFacts Digest (as the popularized version of the
MA report)
in an article titled "Damage to ecosystems poses growing threat to human
health":
www.who.int/globalchange/publications/masynthesis/en/

- The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
(MA), the
international work programme that published the source document used in
this study, also refers to the GreenFacts Digest as the 'popularized
version' of their document. They link to the study for example from the
webpage where all the different synthesis reports are presented:
www.millenniumassessment.org/en/Synthesis.aspx
.
3 Governmental institutions
- The US Global Change Research Program
(USGCRP) links
to the GreenFacts summary as the "popularized version" when reporting on
the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
(MA):
www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/archives/archives2005b.htm
.
- EMU, a resource portal for education financed by the Danish
Ministry of Education, links to the GreenFacts summary as the "popular
edition" of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
(MA):
www.geografi.dk/oldklip
(in Danish).
- The website of Finland’s environmental administration links to the
GreenFacts Digest on Ecosystem Change from LUMONET (the Finnish
Clearing-House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity) at:
www.environment.fi/default.asp?contentid=203931&lan=EN
, also available in Finnish: www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?contentid=203929&lan=FI

4 Universities
- ISSE,
The Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, which is
operated by UCAR, a non-profit consortium of over 100 universities in
the US, points to the GreenFacts Digest in their newsletter:
www.isse.ucar.edu/pdf/newsletter_archive/april05.pdf.
- The Australian National University links to the GreenFacts Digest
in the bulletin of their Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program:
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/rmap/bulletins/bulletin_05_04_01.pdf.
- Baltic21,
an information site on sustainable development by and for universities
in the Baltic region, links to the GreenFacts summary in their report on
the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
(MA):
www.balticuniv.uu.se/esd/resources/reports.shtml
.
- The University of Toronto's module on Global Change provides
students with a link to the GreenFacts summary of the Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment
(MA):
www.cquest.utoronto.ca/env/env200y/ESSAY06/05-06bonus_assignment.html
.
5 Other websites
- The Development Gateway Foundation
(DGF links
to this GreenFacts Digest on Ecosystem Change in the Environment and
Development part of its website:
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/rc/ItemDetail.do~1034465

- EurActiv
links to this GreenFacts Digest on Ecosystem Change in an article titled
"New UN report warns of eco-collapse":
www.euractiv.com/Article?_lang=EN&tcmuri=tcm:29-137378-16&type=News
, and at: www.euractiv.com/en/environment/environment-health-strategy-scale/
.
- EnergyBulletin.net
publishes an article on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
(MA) that
originally appeared in the UK newspaper The Independent, and points to
the GreenFacts summary in its Editorial Notes:
www.energybulletin.net/4987
.
- EcoEarth, an information gateway empowering the movement for
environmental sustainability:
www.ecoearth.info/links/Sustainability/Information/welcome.asp

- Sustainability Now is a website run by engineers that aims to
increase awareness about sustainability and make it common practice in
engineering
www.sustainability.ca/index.cfm?body=SourceView.cfm&ID=775
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