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Background Information

CQ Researcher
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Summary reports on contemporary issues that include an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. Coverage: 1991-present.
Opposing Viewpoints
Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.
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CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States by Susan R. Burgess; Kathryn C. Leeman
Publication Date: 2016
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice by Gary Anderson (Editor); Kathryn G. Herr (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste by Carl A. Zimring (Editor); William L. Rathje (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012
Explores the topic across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to include business, consumerism, environmentalism.
Encyclopedia of Environmental Change by John A. Matthews (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014
Includes all of the following aspects of environmental change including the social, economic and political dimensions of environmental issues, environmental conservation and management and environmental policy.
Encyclopedia of Sustainability by Robin Morris Collin; Robert William Collin
Call Number: Burke Compact Stacks - Ref GE10 .C65 2010
Encyclopedia of the U.S. Government and the Environment History, Policy, and Politics by Lindstrom, Matthew J. (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011
A comprehensive resource on the history of the U.S. government's approach to environmental policy.
Environmental Leadership by Deborah R. Gallagher (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012

The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City by Suzanne Hall (Editor); Ricky Burdett (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018
An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and inequalities in experimental ways.

Annual Reviews
Literature reviews providing overviews of the principal contributions to scholarship for 41 focused disciplines within the biomedical, life, physical, and social sciences.