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Environmental Research: Open Docs

Guide to Sustainability Centered Research

What are Open Docs?

Open government documents are useful for gaining global and national context for environmental standards and actions. These documents are open to the public, and accessible anywhere you can find an internet connection. 

Here is a resource with access to Open Government Documents for Environmental Research: https://www.epa.gov/data

International Docs

IPCC stands for International Panel on Climate Change. This panel is organized by the united nations and puts out regular reports on their findings as well as all of their meetings and work through digital documentation. 

 

UNSDG stands for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The sustainable development goals are internationally recognized and set by global leaders towards the goal of progress by the year 2030. These 17 goals cover a range of different topics such as an end to poverty, and a reduction of inequality throughout the world but are made up of many goals oriented towards a cleaner environment which are intertwined in many parts of the various goals. Specific to the environment are the following goals:

  • Good Health and Well being 
  • Clean Water and Sanitation 
  • Affordable and Clean Energy
  • Industries, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Responsible Production and Consumption
  • Climate Action
  • Life Below Water
  • Life on Land

EPA stands for environmental protection agency. 

Open Access Journals for Environmental Engineering: https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access-environmental-engineering-articles.php

 

MDPI Open Access Information and Policy

All articles published by MDPI are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. This means:

  • everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in MDPI journals;
  • everyone is free to re-use the published material if proper accreditation/citation of the original publication is given;
  • open access publication is supported by the authors' institutes or research funding agencies by payment of a comparatively low Article Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles.

https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess

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