Sources:

• World Resources 2000-2001 (2000) World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.

  This is an excellent popular audience book, containing pictorial essays and extensive data tables. Readable online, or available as a companion book to a PBS special, Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge. Also available in Spanish, French, Japanese, and Arabic.

• U.S. Census Bureau International Database (IDB).

  This online database provided the real population structure, mortality, and fertility figures that formed the basis for Aid Game's fictional countries of Hydrangea and Wisteria.

Funding for this project was granted by the Yale Center for Media Initiatives. This game was produced by the Yale Center for Computational Ecology at Yale University.

Aid Game used software developed for the Yale CourseWare Project. This site contains other online simulators which may be of interest.

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