Internet Collection
This is a collection of useful web sites for teaching public policy in the earth sciences. If you know of web sites, journal articles or other references that are useful for teaching and learning about public policy issues, let us know about them.
Subject: Environmental Science
- Water Quality and Quantity 2 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Air Quality 1 match
- Energy 1 match sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Waste 2 matches
- Soils and Agriculture 1 match
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 1 match
- Land Use and Planning 1 match planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 1 match
- Sustainability 1 match
- Natural Hazards 1 match
- Global Change and Climate 5 matches
- Ecosystems 5 matches
- Policy 11 matches
Environmental Policy
Results 1 - 11 of 11 matches
Energy and the Environment part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website examines the issues related to balancing America's energy needs with concerns about safety and the environment. This site features articles and teaching materials from the New York Times ...
Center for International Earth Science Information Network part of SERC Web Resource Collection
CIESIN was established in 1989 as a non-profit, non-governmental organization to provide information that would help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand their changing ...
Lessons from Woburn part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site presents a three-part videotape series produced to enhance classroom discussions of the book A Civil Action. The site gives outlines of material covered by each tape and allows users to ...
Changing Planet: Ocean Acidification part of CLEAN Collection
This video addresses acidification of the ocean and the ecological and economic implications of the resulting pH change on marine life. It includes information about how ocean acidification resulting ...
World Foundation for Environment and Development part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site is the home page for the World Foundation for Environment and Development (WFED), an independent non-governmental organization working to sustain economic development and conservation of ...
Water Classifications and Rights part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 40-page PDF document is a chapter from a book on coalbed methane. This chapter presents a summary of general water planning issues, including water classifications and water rights as they ...
Trends in Precipitation Chemistry in the United States, 1983-94: An Analysis of the Effects in 1995 of Phase I of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, Title IV. part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA-90) (Public Law 101-549) seeks to reduce acidic deposition in the United States through phased reductions in sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide ...
Love Canal Collection part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Between 1947 and 1952, Hooker Chemicals and Plastic Corporation buried thousands of tons of chemical waste in the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, New York. By 1978, President Jimmy Carter had ...
Societal Impacts Program part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Collaborative Program on the Societal Impacts and Economic Benefits of Weather Information (SIP) was created to provide a focal point for assembling, coordinating, developing, and synthesizing ...
Climate Change at the Doorstep part of CLEAN Collection
This PBS video focuses on sea level rise in Norfolk, Virginia and how the residents are managing the logistical, financial and political implications. Science journalists who have been studying ...
Inuit Observations of Climate Change part of CLEAN Collection
This video features changes in the land, sea, and animals that are being observed by the residents of Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, Canada â many of whom hunt, trap, and fishâbecause of ...
