“EOLSS has the goal to provide a firm knowledge base for future activities to prolong the lifetime of the human race in a hospitable environment“
- Richard R. Ernst, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

UNESCO - Encyclopedia Life Support Systems (UNESCO-EOLSS)

One of the largest e-Books repositories on the Web, dedicated to the health, maintenance and future of the web of life on planet Earth, focusing on the complex connections among all the myriad aspects from natural and social sciences through water, energy, land, food, agriculture, environment, biodiversity, health, education, culture, engineering and technology, management, development and environmental security carrying knowledge for our times. It has been developed under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It is regarded as the world’s largest comprehensive professional publication carrying state-of-the-art, high quality, peer reviewed, thematically organized archival content in many traditional disciplines and interdisciplinary subjects with including the coverage of transdisciplinary pathways. The contributions are from thousands of scholars from over 100 countries and edited by more than 350 subject experts. It also includes up-to-date coverage of various aspects of sustainable development that are relevant to the current state of the world.

EOLSS offered free access to:

The Largest online Encyclopedia

UNESCO-EOLSS is an integrated compendium of twenty one component encyclopedias, each covering a large number of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary subjects.

Why EOLSS?

Are you searching for authoritative knowledge in Natural Sciences and Social Sciences in all their deep specializations, global issues such as climate change, sustainable development, etc?

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Here at www.eolss.net you are in the one place that will satisfy all your needs for authenticity, quality, breadth and depth of coverage with a choice among hundreds of subject areas and their interconnections.

The EOLSS On-line is a virtual library in which you have everything that you need for all practical purposes. At the same time, the annotated bibliography in each chapter of the EOLSS On-line references other outside sources.

UNESCO-EOLSS - Introduction

EOLSS e-Book Academic Collections

For the convenience of users' special interests the EOLSS body of knowledge of the various theme subjects of UNESCO EOLSS-online is now available in the form of e-Books (PDF) format, in volumes of manageable size with the provision for Print on Demand