Library Guides: POLS/ES 366/466: Advanced Environmental Policy: Home

Required Reading

Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves : a History of American Environmental Policy by Richard N.L. Andrews
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2020
3rd edition

Tracking Policy and Regulatory Changes

EELP Regulatory Tracker
From the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard University.

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Legal history documents, including the Congressional Record, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, law journals, and more.
NexisUni This link opens in a new window
Use NexisUni to search the US Federal Register, as well as news, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and legal news and briefs for policy information. Try limiting your search to "Administrative Codes and Regulations" for rulemaking specifics.

Regulations.Gov
Find proposed regulations and related documents published by the U.S. Federal government, including: Final Regulations, Notices, Scientific and Technical Findings, Guidance, Adjudications, Comments Submitted by Others, and the Unified Agenda and Regulatory Plan

Finding Articles and Policy Memos

EconLit This link opens in a new window
Covers journals, books, and working papers on economics providing citations for dissertations and articles in more than 620 collective volumes per year.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Legal history and documents in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. Find law journals, the Congressional Record in entirety, coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials back to the early 1700's, legal classics, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from 1936, the CFR from 1938, and much more.
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.

National Service Center for Environmental Publications
EPA reports. Complete documents begin about 1970.

Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers political topics with a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse.
Politics Collection This link opens in a new window
Political science, public policy, and international relations database of scholarly articles with full text of many documents.
Includes PAIS Index, Policy File Index, Political Science Database, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA). Covers 1985 to present (full text) and 1914 to present (abstracts)

Finding Data and Statistics

Data.gov
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
Online mapping tool with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more from communities across the US
Roper iPoll This link opens in a new window
The largest collection of public opinion poll data with results from 1935 to the present, containing poll questions and answers, datasets, and survey questionnaires from academic, commercial, and media survey organizations from both U.S. and international polling firms.
To access without logging in to iPoll, use http://login.ezproxy.lib.lehigh.edu/login?qurl=https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Easy access to demographic information about the U.S. Create custom maps and reports. Covers 1790 to present.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Data on over 600 international industries from more than 18,000 sources. Includes market researcher, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases.
U.S. Census Data This link opens in a new window
Provides access to US Census data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.
Note: American FactFinder decommissioned in 2020.

Zotero

Zotero This link opens in a new window
A tool to capture, organize, share and cite references. Lehigh provides unlimited storage - simply use your Lehigh email to setup your account or add it to your current account. Learn more by consulting the Zotero guide.

Lehigh's Zotero and ZoteroBib Guide

Zotero Slides from SWAN Seminar October 2024

Interlibrary Loan

Use Interlibrary Loan to request a PDF of an article that isn't available at Lehigh or a scanned PDF of a print article that Lehigh owns. You will get an email when the article is ready for download.

Presentation Slides

PowerPoint Slides

Social Sciences Librarian

Elizabeth Young-Miller

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POLS/ES 366/466: Advanced Environmental Policy: Home