GEOG 435 : Global Environmental Justice

What is in this guide?

This is a course guide for Geography 435. This guide compiles resources to assist you in this course, including article databases, access to the library catalog, and online mapping tools.

UNC Catalog Search

Relevant Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection
Major source for academic journals, trade publications, market and industry research reports, company annual reports, dissertations, and working papers. Also contains country profiles and economic forecasts for most major economies.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Coverage varies. Some academic journals start in the 1800s, and some newspapers start in the early 1900s.
Language: Primarily English. Over 20 languages total.
Academic Search Premier
Find information on academic areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics; resource provides access to major popular and scholarly journals with many full-text articles.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Indexing, 1975-present; Full-text, 1975-present
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is the major source for scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of business; marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies widely.

Harvard Business School Case Studies
Engaging and dynamic, HBR case discussions provide students with a way to apply conceptual material to real-world business situations.
News Databases
The University Library subscribes to many news resources. This page is a good place to get started.

GlobalData Intelligence
More than just a new name, new data is included such as company, consumer, product, market and country specific "Insight" and analysis for consumer packaged goods. The former Product Launch Analytics database contains information on new consumer packaged goods with more than one million new SKUs for new foods, beverages, health & beauty aids, household, pet and tobacco products from around the world. More than 20 searchable data fields per report help you track launches by brand and product name, manufacturer, product category, health claim, flavor, ingredient and more.

Access: Students, faculty, and staff or AHEC users affiliated with UNC-CH with an AHEC Digital Library account may access from on- or off-campus, but must ALWAYS authenticate, EVEN when on-campus.
Corporate Affiliations
Contains data on corporate hierarchy ("who owns whom") for thousands of parent companies and millions of subsidiaries. Also contains contact information for the company and executives, board member biographies and board relationships, lists of current and former executives and their compensation, and lists of products, brands, and key competitors.

Note: Please Log out of this resource when you are finished. We are limited to 2 simultaneous users.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Current Information Only
Factiva
Contains major global newspapers, business newspapers and magazines, trade and industry journals, prominent newswires, and network broadcast transcripts. In the Companies/Markets tab, there are global company reports, limited industry reports, and market data. The results pages allow robust filtering, and there is live chat help.

Note:Please note the time out period for inactive viewing is 10 minutes. The simultaneous user limit for this resource may result in temporary delays.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies. 9,000 sources are updated on the day of publication.
Language: Primarily English. Over 20 languages total.
IBISWorld Industry Reports
Provides reports for about 700 industries in the United States as categorized by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Our IBISWorld subscription also contains more than 600 "specialized" reports on new and emerging industries, and hundreds of China and Global reports. Each report contains statistics and analysis on market size, market share of competitors, and industry growth rates, including 5-year forecasts. Each report also contains barriers to entry, operating cost structure (industry averages), technology and systems, and domestic and international markets. Tables and statistics include: Industry revenue, exports, imports, wages, and number of companies in the industry. We do not have access to Company Reports or the archive of specialized reports.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Mergent Archives
Provides a comprehensive history of corporate America for almost 100 years, including corporate histories, financial statements, subsidiaries, long-term debt, and company officers and directors. Resources include the Transportation Manual 1909-present; Public Utility Manual 1914-2007; Industrial Manual 1920-present; Bank and Finance Manual 1928-present; OTC Industrial Manual 1970-present; International Manual 1981-present; OTC Unlisted Manual 1986-present; and Municipal and Government Manual 1955-present.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
NetAdvantage
Broad spectrum of industry, company and investment analysis including S&P Industry Surveys, Stock Reports (S&P Equity Research), and now with Markets tab for drill downs to key ratios, benchmarks, constituents, etc. by sub-industry. Company data covers a global universe of over 3 million private and public companies.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: The Outlook (2002 forward), company financials (latest 6 years), Industry Surveys (1998 forward), Trends & Projections (1999 forward).
Orbis
Information on more than 190 million publicly traded and privately held companies from almost 200 countries around the world. For the more than 65,000 publicly traded companies, information includes: typical directory facts, Detailed or summary financial and ownership information, listings of subsidiaries, names and titles for executives and directors, M&A deals and more. For the privately held companies summary information includes much of the information that is included for the public companies except for the financial information.

Note: Disable pop-up blockers to use this resource.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Osiris
Contains information on more than 80,000 listed (publicly traded) companies, banks and insurance companies from 190 countries around the world. Provides ownership, subsidiaries, earnings estimates and stock data. Contains specific report formats for companies, banks and insurance companies and also has reports that reflect accounting procedures in the major world regions.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1996 - present
ProQuest Business Market Research Collection
Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles; OxResearch; Snapshots.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
ReferenceUSA Business, Residential, Healthcare & TechUSA
Provides detailed directory information for millions of U.S. businesses and households. You can search the more than 12 million business listings by company name, yellow page headings, NAICS and SIC codes, executive names, sales volume, number of employees, and stock exchange ticker symbols.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. North Carolina residents with a borrower's card may access from off campus by visiting NCLive directly. Contact the Davis Library Service Desk for the NCLive password (instructions).
Coverage: Current information only
Regulatory Insight
This companion to ProQuest Legislative Insight allows researchers to trace the history of regulations promulgated in conjunction with federal law. It provides regulatory histories for individual U.S. federal statutes and Executive Orders for the period 1936-2014, organized by federal statute and Executive Order.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies. 1979 - present
Thomson ONE
Contains financial information on publicly traded US and international companies. The information typically includes summary financial data (with links to company filings), key ratios, actual and forward estimates, stock pricing data, key corporate events, officers and directors, analyst ratings, and analyst reports. Data sources include: FirstCall and WorldScope. Investext is known as Research Reports in Thomson ONE.

Note: You must view this resource using Internet Explorer.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies.

UN Comtrade
UN Comtrade provides detailed, annual export and import statistics reported by almost 200 countries and areas, from 1962 to date in some cases.

Zephyr
Includes information on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, private equity, and venture capital deals and rumors. Zephyr has global coverage: European deals from as early as 1997, North American deals from 2000, and Other global areas deals from 2003 are included. No minimum deal value is applied. Users can search by hundreds of different deal elements including deal type, geography, industry, company financials and multiples.

Deals can be analyzed in both tabular and graphical formats by any criteria. The segmentation tool plots search results in tables that illustrate deals by one or two variables such as time period, region, deal size and various other financial criteria.

Note: Disable pop-up blockers to use this resource.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

Online Mapping Tools

data&vis workshops
Learn about these tools and more at our workshops!
ArcGIS Online
This is an easy to use, online mapping resource. Register your Esri Global Account or create a public account (do not sign up for the trial) and make a great looking map in minutes that you can share online and embed in websites.

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The University site license includes an institutional account for ArcGIS Online. For more information, see: http://guides.lib.unc.edu/software (look under the GIS Software tab).

PolicyMap
An online data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US. Use it for research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Social Explorer
Provides web-based access to United States Census data from 1790 to the present, and to other U.S. and international data, with the ability to make tables and interactive maps easily or export data for analysis. Data include the most commonly used variables and geographies.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
SimplyAnalytics
A web-based mapping application that enables users to quickly and easily create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic, business and marketing data. The data is from EASI Analytics, Mediamark Research Inc., and Simmons Study of Media Markets and is derived from government and other sources. Variables include demographics, housing, income, retail sales, consumer expenditures, consumer price index, quality of life, employment and establishments by industry, census data from 1980 to present and future projections, and EASI/MRI market research data. Export high resolution map images. Data can be exported in spreadsheet or shapefile format. Commercial use and republication of the data are prohibited.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.