Agroecosystem
management
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/isg/isg.html
is a site on an International Support
Group that seeks to link local
experience in agroecosystem
management
Contact:
Assessing
Progress Toward Sustainability
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssp/index.html
IUCN has a web site that describes
monitoring and evaluation materials
from the Assessing Progress Toward
Sustainability program.
Contact:
- Marie-Claire Garavelli, IUCN
- M&E Initiative, 28, rue
Mauverney, CH-1196 Gland,
Switerland;
Tel. +41.22.9990269, Fax
+41.22.9990025,
e-mail mcg@hq.iucn.org
Chemical
constituents of medicinal plants
http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/Constituents/Constituents.html
An interesting Web address to
access information on the chemical
constituents of a great number of
medicinal plants.
Development
research reporting service
This site welcomes you to ID21:
the new Development Research
reporting service. Academics,
consultants and NGOs based in the UK
produce a constant stream of
development research findings. Yet
all too often, those who make or
implement development policy are
unaware of this new information and
its policy implications. Recent
developments in information
technologies can help to bridge this
knowledge gap. The UK Department for
International Development is backing
an Internet-based system which links
development research and researchers
directly to policymakers and
development practitioners around the
world through a new web site. Hosted
by the Institute of Development
Studies, the initiative is known as
ID21 - or Information for Development
in the 21st Century. Its key
feature is a searchable online
collection of short, one-page
(500-word) digests of the latest
social and economic research studies
across 30 key topic fields.
But many users around the world
have only slow or intermittent
Internet access and are therefore
unable to browse the World Wide Web
as freely as they would like.
Other users simply prefer
e-mail. To cater for these
users we have created an email
newsletter called ID21NEWS.
ID21NEWS brings you regular
updates of the latest research
findings that have been added to the
ID21 collection. A short
summary tells you about each study
and a clickable web-link takes you
directly to the full text of the
digest on the web, thereby saving you
from navigating a series of web
pages. We are currently
developing a system to enable you to
request each digest automatically via
email. This should become available
later this year.
To subscribe to ID21NEWS, simply
send a blank email message to: id21news@ids.ac.uk
. In the subject field include the
words: subscribe id21news. To
unsubscribe, follow the same
procedure but substitute the word
"unsubscribe" in place of
"subscribe".
We hope you will e-mail us at id21@sussex.ac.uk
to let us know if you like
ID21 or if you have practical
suggestions for making our online
services more useful or accessible to
you in the future. The ID21 team will
also continue to produce the
established research digest Insights,
which now also appears on the ID21
Web-site. If you wish to be put
on the mailing list for the paper
version of Insights please email
us.
Contact:
- Alistair Scott, Internet
Coordinator, ID21,
International Institute for
Environment &
Development, 3 Endsleigh
Street, London WC1H 0DD UK;
Tel. +44.171.3882117, Fax
+44.171.3882826
e-mail mailbox@iied.org
(general enquiries)
URL:
http://www.iied.org/
Directory of
Selected Tropical Forestry Journals
and Newsletters
http://members.aol.com/chaugen976/press.htm
A website that
contains a press release by Christine
Haugen (Director, Green Horizons
International) with instructions for
ordering a free copy of the Directory
of Selected Tropical Forestry
Journals and Newsletters, 2nd
edition, which contains 449 entries
with websites and e-mail addresses
and an appendix of 360 additional
websites of related interest.
Contact:
- Christine
Haugen, Director,
Green Horizons International,
PO Box 22046, Alexandria, VA
22304 USA;
Tel./fax +1.703.3705951,
E-mail chaugen976@aol.com
Mesoamerican
languages
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/maldp
Terry Kaufmann and John Justeson
have created a website on which to
post the materials produced by their
project, which they call the Project
for the Documentation of the
Languages of MesoAmerica (PDLMA), or
the Snake Jaguar Project (Proyecto
"Tigre Culebra").We will
eventually post not only dictionaries
but also text collections and
grammars and articles, but for the
moment what the site has is two
dictionaries: Oluta Mijean (by
Roberto Zavala Maldonado) and San
Miguel Chimalapa Soke (by Heidi A.
Johnson).
Both the United States National
Science Foundation and the National
Geographic Society sponsor the
research, which is expected to
produce about 25 dictionaries over
the next few (approximately 10)
years.
Contact:
