Research Guides: GEO 210 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Home

Intro

Welcome to your GEO 210 research webpage! This website has been designed in partnership with your instructor for your specific class! Your librarian is aware of your assignment and research resources' requirements and has made this webpage to help guide you along in the research process. Please email your librarian, Brittany Davis, at brittany.davis@eku.edu with any questions!

This guide is organized by SDG; meaning that each tab on the right is organized by the resources for your specific SDG. For example, the second tab "SDG 6" has websites, scholarly articles, and maps that contain quality information about the Clean Water & Sanitation SDG only.

The page you are currently on lists a few quality resources that have information about more than one SDG. The last tab, "Environmental Justice Resources" has resources that cover multiple SDGs, with a primary focus on the environmental justice aspect. If you want to know more about what exactly environmental justice is, click on that tab!

Multiple SDGs Resources

Sustainable Development Report Maps
The overall score measures the total progress towards achieving all 17 SDGs. The score can be interpreted as a percentage of SDG achievement. A score of 100 indicates that all SDGs have been achieved. You can narrow by specific SDG as well.
Sustainable Development Report Overview
This inaugural report on the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a first accounting of where the world stands at the start of our collective journey to 2030. The report analyses selected indicators from the global indicator framework for which data are available as examples to highlight some critical gaps and challenges. The list of SDG indicators, agreed upon by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2016, will be subject to refinements and improvements as methods and data availability improve.
Data Pathfinders
Data Pathfinders guide users through the process of selecting application-specific datasets and learning how to use them through intuitive tools, facilitating equal and open access to the breadth of NASA Earth science data. The pathfinders are intended to familiarize users with and provide direct links to the applicable, commonly-used datasets across NASA’s Earth science data collections. After getting started here, there are numerous NASA resources that can help develop one’s skills further.
The Sustainable Development Goals Programme
Springer Nature's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Programme aims to connect the researchers who are tackling the world’s toughest challenges with the practitioners in policy and business who desperately need those insights to achieve their goals in improving the world, by making our publishing activities more visible to our key communities through a variety of channels.
SDG Profiles of Specific Countries
Pick a country and see how they are doing with any SDG.
SDG Report 2022
Ebooks
The 2022 Climate Change collection created by Knowledge Unlatched. The Knowledge Unlatched vision is “a sustainable market where scholarly books and journals are freely accessible for each and every reader around the world.”
Notable Environmental Advocates
Resources by and about notable environmental advocates.
2023 Severe Weather
An updated look at how the Earth & humans are affecting the natural cycles of the environment and what that means in terms of severe weather.