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Sustainability Reference Center is a full-text database covering all aspects of sustainability, including environmental stewardship, corporate social responsibility and federal, state and local regulations. It includes full text journals, magazines, books and trade publications, plus expert analyses, benchmarks and best practices for sustainability initiative management.

Supporting executive decision-making and planning, Sustainability Reference Center helps users form a deeper understanding of the pillars of sustainability. It offers quick access to critical information including complete full text with images, tables, charts and other graphical content from many key titles.

Topics Include: 

• Corporate social responsibility
• Environmental stewardship
• Federal, state and local regulations
• "Green" issues and initiatives
• ISO 14000
• LEED
• Recycling
• Renewable energy
• Resource conservation
• Social entrepreneurship
• Sustainable business practices
• Waste reduction

Public Affairs Index is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of national and global public policy issues, including public health, the environment, housing, civil rights and international commerce. It includes thousands of indexed journals, conference papers, trade publications and government documents. 

This database does not have its own full text but any indexed items that are also full text in other EBSCO databases will provide an easy link. Out of about 1 million citations, over 800,000 will provide that "linked full text".

Subjects Include:

• Banking and public finance
• Criminal justice
• Economic policy and taxation
• Education and education policy
• Emigration and immigration
• Energy and energy policy
• Ethics
• Government
• Humanitarian issues
• Industry and labor
• Law and legislation
• Natural disasters and poverty
• Politics and elections
• Social policy
• Transportation