Databases
International Water Event Database
Maintained by the Oregon State University, the International Water Event Database is a searchable database documenting over 6400 historical international water relations from 1948 to 2008. Events in the database concern water as a scarce or consumable resource or as a quantity to be managed. These Events are sourced from various news articles and are coded according to country interactions.
Water History Research Papers – Academia.edu
The Water History Research portal maintained by academia.edu is a database encompassing a wide range of research papers and book chapters written on the topic of Water History. The website also includes a list of scholars with the most publications in the discipline.
Eurostat is an official statistical resource website maintained by the European Union. It publishes water statistics cover water resources, per year and long-term annual average values of minimum 30 years among other water-related datasets.
Environmental History Archives of North America
A database containing descriptions of over 7,000 groups of environmental history records is located in more than 450 repositories across North America and worldwide. The collections represent individuals, organizations, and associations involved with land use, conservation, or natural resource issues. The database is maintained by the Forest History Society.
Working under the title The Humanity Behind Glacial Melt, the Oral Histories and Glaciers database hosts a variety of sources on the Oral History of Sea Ice, Glaciers, and Polar History maintained by the University of Oregon.
NOAA- Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
The NOAA has compiled a database of the historical field experiments that have taken place in the Great Lakes region. The website also includes hydrological historical data from the area.
Carnegie Mellon Environmental History Primary Sources: Books, Collections, Documents, Essays
The Carnegie Mellon Library maintains a database of primary sources in Environmental History. The sources are both digital and physical, with locations included. Both American and European Sources are included.
Environmental History I Gale Primary Sources
Gale Primary sources on Environmental History explore the long history behind environmental contests that join advocacy to action and pit public policy against human behavior, including the development of environmental protections, disaster response strategies, and international trade rules.
IISG I The International Institute of Social History
The International Institute of Social History holds a rich collection of physical and digital documents and datasets in environmental and water history. The IISH’s physical archives are located in Amsterdam.
Documentary History of American Waterworks
The major reference for the history of American waterworks is the four-volume Manual of American Water-works edited by Moses Nelson Baker and published by Engineering News between 1888 and 1897. Baker provided summaries of water-works systems operating at the end of each decade starting in 1888, 1890, and 1891, with his latest numbers shown in the following table along with the number of systems that have been found in the current study.
Environmental History Collections, Institute of Historical Research
The Environmental History Collections website presents the HR Wohl Library. Other resources include works on historiography and methodology, small collections of secondary monographs and reference works as well as a growing number of published primary sources.