duPont Library: Environmental Studies 317: Advanced Applications of GIS: Explore the Issues

Explore the Issues

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to differing points of view on current social issues. Brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.
ProCon.org This link opens in a new window
Provides resources on the pros and cons of controversial issues. (An independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit public charity.)
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
A database of in-depth, authoritative reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923. Each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.