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Attitudes Toward Water Resources USDA. NAL. Water Quality Information Center. Offers a dynamic search of NAL catalog (AGRICOLA) article citations on attitudes toward water resources from 1995 to the present. Try a book citation search.

	Regulating Water Quality: Policy Standards and Laws USDA. NAL. Water Quality Information Center. Offers a dynamic search of NAL catalog (AGRICOLA) article citations on regulating water quality from 1997 to the present. Try a book citation search.

	Implementing Agricultural Conservation Practices: Barriers and Incentives - A CEAP Bibliography USDA. NAL. Water Quality Information Center. A guide to recent literature examining agricultural producers' views of conservation programs and practices. Two dynamic searches of NAL catalog (AGRICOLA) article and book citations from 2000 to the present are also available.

Who Will Pay for On-Farm Environmental Improvements in the 21st Century? USDA. NAL. Water Quality Information Center. Focuses on policies and programs related to agriculture and the environment.

	National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information University of Arkansas. School of Law. NCARLI conducts analysis and research and "provides up-to-date information to farmers and agri-businesses, attorneys, community groups, and others confronting agricultural law issues." NCARLI and the National Agricultural Library (NAL) are cooperating organizations.

	Community Culture and the Environment: A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place (PDF \| 10 MB) EPA. Office of Water. "Addresses the social and cultural aspects of community-based environmental protection. Offers a process and set of tools for defining and understanding the human dimensions of environmental issues."

	Community-Based Watershed Management: Lessons from the National Estuary Program (PDF \| 2.1 MB) EPA. Coastal Management Branch. Presents examples of successful watershed management plans highlighting estuary protection and restoration, promotion of public involvement and establishing credibility.

National Agriculture Compliance Assistance Center
EPA. Office of Compliance and Enforcement.
"Offers comprehensive, easy-to-understand information about compliance...approaches that are both environmentally protective and agriculturally sound. Provides information on reducing pollution and making good use of the latest pollution prevention technologies.."


	EPA Laws and Regulations Environmental Protection Agency. Offers access to the daily table of contents for the Federal Register, selected Federal Register documents, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations and proposed rules.

Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium
Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium.
CBCRC "brings together fields from conflict resolution and the social and natural sciences to address both the human and natural dynamics of collaboration concerning community environmental resources."


	USGS Guide to Federal Environmental Laws and Regulations DOI. USGS. Environmental Affairs Program. Find environmental statutes and corresponding regulations including sections, Water Quality and Water Resources Related Acts and Executive Orders.

	Volunteer Monitoring EPA. Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds. Contains information on volunteer water quality monitoring, including issues of the Volunteer Monitor, a newsletter which "facilitates the exchange of ideas, monitoring methods, and practical advice among volunteer environmental monitoring groups across the nation."

NACEC Summary of Environmental Law in North America
North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation.
Provides access to environmental law in North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries, Canada, Mexico and the United States. With the NACEC Transboundary Agreements Infobase find agreements and treaties covering transboundary environmental cooperation.


	Environmental Law: An Overview Cornell University. Law School. Legal Information Institute. Provides access to federal environmental statutes, the Code of Federal Regulations and links to state statutes and regulations.

	Enforceable State Mechanisms for the Control of Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Environmental Law Institute; Environmental Protection Agency. Examines "enforceable mechanisms the states have available to them, the scope of the existing mechanisms used by the states, and the general limitations and impediments that accompany some of these mechanisms, in order to inform the nation's policy decisions on the remaining nonpoint problem."

	Operations Manual for Hispanic Community-Based Organizations (PDF \| 540 KB) Forum on Hispanic Health and Safety; Environmental Protection Agency; National Safety Council; Pan American Health Organization; National Alliance for Hispanic Health. A manual to help "Hispanic CBOs grow, thrive, and find the financial and technical resources available to address pressing environmental health and safety issues."

Last Modified: Wednesday, 03-Dec-2008 17:22:04 EST


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