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Reference sources for topic ideas and background information.
Selected Reference Titles
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AccessScienceWritten for the non-scientist, informative entries on a wide variety of science topics.
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Green Technology by
Publication Date: 2011"Green Technology: An A-to-Z Guide explores the essential role of technology and its most recent developments toward a sustainable environment. .... green technology includes the changing of existing technology toward energy conservation as well as the creation of new, clean technology aimed at utilizing renewable resources." [Publisher description] -
Fostering Innovation for Green Growth by
Publication Date: 2011-09-14"This book explores policy actions for the deployment of new technologies and innovations as they emerge: investment in research and development, support for commercialisation, strengthening markets and fostering technology diffusion." [Publisher description] -
Innovations in Green Chemistry and Green Engineering by
Publication Date: 2012-12-12"Worldwide experts present the latest developments on topics ranging from organic batteries and green catalytic transformations to green nanoscience and nanotoxicology. An essential, one-stop reference for professionals in research and industry, this book also fills the need for an authoritative course text in environmental and green chemistry and chemical engineering at the upper-division undergraduate and graduate levels." [publisher description] -
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society by
Publication Date: 2018-05-03Sample search: Green Marketing
"... explores current topics, such as mass social media, cookies, and cyber-attacks, as well as traditional issues including accounting, discrimination, environmental concerns, and management." -
Encyclopedia of Science Technology and Ethics by
Call Number: Olin Library Reference, Q175.35 .E53 2015 +Publication Date: 2014-08-25This work considers both the professional ethics of science and technology, and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society. This broad coverage supports the numerous courses in applied and professional ethics and policy related to the practice of science and technology in education, including new analytical and interpretive essays on events, scholarship, people, and legal decisions -
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences by
Call Number: Also in print: Olin Library Reference (Non-Circulating) H41 .I58x 2001Publication Date: 200126 Vols. Covers theory and methodology in core disciplines and emphasizes the cross-disciplinary interconnectedness among fields within the social sciences. More than 4,000 signed entries including overviews, reviews of future directions, biographies and bibliographies. Online version provides ongoing regular updates and additional new articles. Vol. 26 in print format is a classified list of entries by field and extensive subject index connecting related topics. -
Science, Technology, and Society by
Publication Date: 2005-05-19"Emphasizing an interdisciplinary and international coverage of the functions and effects of science and technology in society and culture." [publisher]