Environmental Sciences  

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Environmental Sciences is an interdisciplinary approach to studying different aspects of the physical and natural environment using scientific, social, economic, moral, and other approaches.  The results are information output that is classified in nearly every subject area.  Today, the contemporary policy implications of environmental topics are increasingly complex as they resonate in many threatening ways.  They also contribute to many new, innovative and emerging disciplines that remind us what creativity and technology can allow.  The "greening" of many topics suggests the increased attention paid to environmental issues today.

For additional resources that share an orientation to Environmental and Occupational Health, you may want to visit that Subject Guide.

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Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources - or Evaluation Techniques for Internet Resources

1. Authority control - authorship - who, affiliation, where
2. Currency - note the date, the update, does it reflect the right period of time
3. Evaluate the source - establish criteria that is meaningful to covering the topic
4. Citing Internet resources - URL & date of the search
5. Capturing and citing
6. Copying

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