Nature and Innovation Residential College: Harnessing Nature (Knoedler)

General databases cover a wide variety of topics or disciplines, and also include both scholarly sources, such as peer-reviewed journal articles, and non-scholarly sources, such as newspapers. Searching in these databases is a good way to get started exploring a topic, and finding out about current debates around your topic.

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