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A National Human Dimensions Framework and Database for Conducting Social Assessments
Hosted by the U.S. Forest Service, this Web site provides on-line access to human dimensions information useful in conducting social assessments. The human dimensions site is a question-based tool that connects social assessment questions, social information, and methods of collecting data about the social information.
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Coastal Information Directory
This resource provides users with a multitude of mechanisms to explore libraries, learn about training opportunities, or search for coastal data.
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Coastal Information Directory (CID)
CID provides access to Web, library, and data resources relevant to coastal issues. The information can be browsed by library, data set, or pre-selected category.
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Cultural Resource Legislation
This site presents selected legislation related to the preservation of cultural and historical resources from the National Park Service.
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Economic Research Service: The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
This Web site contains a wide range of economic information in tabular, narrative, and spatial forms. Selected topics include macroeconomics in the ag and food economy; natural resources, environment, and conservation; policy topics; rural american life; trade; and U.S. and state facts.
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Economic Valuation of Natural Resources: A Guidebook for Coastal Resources Policymakers
Douglas W. Lipton, Katherine Wellman, Isobel C. Sheifer, and Rodney F. Weiher (NOAA Coastal Ocean Program Decision Analysis Series no. 5)
This online book (downloadable PDF files) is written for non-economists, addressing basic concepts of economic value (like willingness-to-pay) and other tools often used in decision making (like cost-effectiveness analysis, economic impact analysis, and sustainable development). A number of regionally oriented case studies are included to illustrate the practical application of these concepts and techniques.
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Ecosystem Valuation
This Web site is designed for non-economists who "need answers to questions about the benefits of ecosystem conservation, preservation, or restoration and 'providing' a clear, non-technical explanation of ecosystem valuation concepts, methods, and applications."
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Fisheries Economics Data Center: Social Science Resources
This social research bibliography was pulled together by Oregon State University Sea Grant and includes research on subjects related to fisheries, as well as articles on methods and theory.
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National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE)
This Web site has publications by NCEE, the Environmental Protection Agency, and others, analyzing relationships between the economy, environmental health, and environmental pollution control. Topics include economic benefits and costs; economic incentives; size, composition, and effects of the pollution-control industry; and risk assessment data for use in economic analyses.
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National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP)
The goals of this NOAA-sponsored program are to define and describe ocean and coastal economies and to establish a nationally consistent database for measuring the contribution of oceans and coasts to the U.S. economy, incorporating both market and non-market values. This Web site has data on market and non-market values, living marine resources, and federal marine resources, much of it downloadable. It also has a number of downloadable articles related to the coastal and ocean economies.
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National Ocean Economics Project
As part of its Oceans 2000 Initiative, NOAA budgeted funds to launch and partly sustain a four-year effort entitled "The National Ocean Economics Project: The Contribution of the Ocean Sector to the U.S. Economy." This site includes an extensive reference section, as well as market and nonmarket value databases.
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NOAA's Coastal and Ocean Resource Economics
This Web site provides background information on the Coastal and Ocean Resource Economics (CORE) Program. This program conducts marine-related socioeconomic research for a wide variety of applications and geographic areas. CORE projects include state-of-the-art socioeconomic monitoring in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, the first-ever nationwide estimate of participation rates in marine-related recreation activities, an extensive beach valuation effort in Southern California, and many other research activities.
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Research Resources for the Social Sciences
By Craig McKie, in association with McGraw-Hill Ryerson, this Web site provides links to resources in 18 categories of social science. An accompanying book, Using the Web for Social Research, has been published by the same author.
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Resources for the Future
Resources for the Future (RFF) seeks to "improve environmental and natural resource policy-making worldwide through objective social science research of the highest caliber." RFF hosts a Web site that provides a searchable database of downloadable publications related to a number of research topics linking social science to natural resource management and policy-making.
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Restoring Coastal Habitats for Rhode Island's Future: Socioeconomic Factors
Part of the Restoring Coastal Habitats for Rhode Island's Future Web site, these pages include a discussion on the interconnection between the natural environment and socioeconomic factors, as well as the relevance of social and economic factors to land use change.
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Social Science Research Strategy for Marine Protected Areas
From the National Marine Protected Areas Center, this strategy provides information on social science and how it applies to marine protected areas. Much of the structure of this Web site is derived from this strategy document.
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STICS
The STICS (Spatial Trends in Coastal Socioeconomics) Web site provides socioeconomic data by coastal area or watershed, as well as access to multiple tools that can be used to customize, analyze, and generate reports based on these data across time and space.
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Web Center for Social Research Methods
Developed for those involved in applied social research and evaluation, this Web site provides resources and links to locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods. Also included are an on-line hypertext textbook, an on-line statistical advisor, and a book of manual and computer simulation exercises of common research designs for students and researchers to learn how to do simple simulations.
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