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.Refine the Results
Subject: Environmental Science
- Water Quality and Quantity 2 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Air Quality 2 matches
- Energy 2 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Waste 1 match
- Soils and Agriculture 3 matches
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 1 match
- Land Use and Planning 2 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 6 matches
- Sustainability 1 match
- Natural Hazards 1 match
- Global Change and Climate 3 matches
- Ecosystems 3 matches
- Policy 6 matches
Environmental Policy
- Global Policy 3 matches
- US National Policy 1 match
- Environmental Decision-Making 4 matches including risk assessment
- Environmental Economics 1 match market forces, consumerism, cost/benefit analysis, distribution of wealth, privatization, incentives, taxes, fines, etc
- Environmental Ethics/Values 1 match
Results 1 - 6 of 6 matches
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 ...
Water-Borne Illnesses part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In this curricular unit, students learn how water becomes contaminated with specific water-borne diseases, read personal accounts of unsafe water, and work together to brainstorm solutions to the ...
Transitions and Tipping Points in Complex Environmental Systems part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This report, by an NSF advisory committee, details many of the environmental challenges facing our planet and our society, and issues a call to action for NSF, for researchers, and for educators, to ...
Toward Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This online book uses five case studies to investigate whether environmental degradation is worse in poor and minority communities, and if these communities suffer more adverse health effects as a ...
Environmental Quality Statistics part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Hosted by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), this site contains updated monthly tables with statistics about United States environmental quality. The major topics covered in these tables are ...
Environmental Risk Assessment - Approaches, Experiences and Information Sources part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website provides access to a report from the European Environment Agency that gives a broad overview of approaches and experiences on how to assess ecological and human information on health ...
