Research Guides: International Environmental Policy: Home

International Environmental Policy Search Engine

Start here. Focuses on some of the major UN organizations and related U.S. government agencies with an environmental focus.

If you find your search results are not what you want, then try some of these tips or email Kristan:

Read a chapter in a book on this topic: Environmental policy & colonialism/imperialism
Read reports and speeches from the UN on colonialism. Use the international environmental policy search engine to do so. An example search to type is: colonialism AND climate change.
Search for your treaty or treaty topic and then add one of these keywords: indigenous rights OR indigenous peoples OR traditional knowledge OR climate justice OR environmental justice
Try replacing the keyword colonialism with globalization.
Try one of these 2 databases for academic journal articles and newspaper articles:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Great option for current events and multidisciplinary topics. Includes respected newspapers, journals, and magazines.
Access broad ranging resources that include full-text journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and video content from the Associated Press, etc.
Public Affairs Information Service Index (PAIS) This link opens in a new window Indexes books, periodicals and selected local, state, national, and international government documents in the areas of public policy, social policy and the social sciences from 1915 onward.