+Estonian Environment Links

by Gundars Kaupins, Boise State University

Being Updated March 2007-August 2007

The purpose of this link page is to provide useful business links associated with Estonia.  There is no commercial purpose or personal financial gain from this link page.  Most links include a title, languages used, services, and a brief description of the mission and purpose of the site.  Services include search engines, blogs, on-line polls, site of origin (e.g., .lv, .com, .net) and transactions.  Transactions could be nonfinancial (e.g., registration) to financial (e.g., payment of fees) Almost every brief description is a direct quote from the link.  Most of these direct quotes will refer to either the mission or objectives of the link.

Baltic Environmental Forum (Lv, E) "The Baltic Environmental (BEF) project started operating in June 1995. It was founded to enable the three Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to co-ordinate information, expertise and experience exchange in the environmental field. It provides practical support for the environmental co-operation as laid down in a trilateral agreement of the three governments in 1995."

EnviroLink Network (E, F) "The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991."

NPP Database Sites (E) "Welcome to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center's (ORNL DAAC's) Net Primary Productivity (NPP) Database. The NPP Database contains documented field measurements of biomass and estimated NPP for terrestrial sites worldwide, compiled from published literature and other extant data sources. It includes intensively studied and well-documented field study sites, together with more extensive collections of worldwide data. Compilation of these data was sponsored by the Terrestrial Ecology Program of NASA's Office of Earth Science."

Oak Ridge DAAC for Biogeochemical Dynamics (E) "A source for biogeochemical and ecological data useful for studying environmental processes. These data have been collected on the ground, from aircraft, or by satellite or have been generated by computer models. The extent of data ranges from site-specific to global, and durations range from days to years."

World Conservation Monitoring Centre (E) "The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information for policy and action to conserve the living world. Our programs concentrate on species, forests, protected areas, marine, mountains and freshwaters; plus habitats affected by climate change such as polar regions. We also address the relationship between trade and the environment and the wider aspects of biodiversity assessment."

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