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 1 match including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Air Quality 1 match
- Energy 2 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Forest Resources 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 2 matches
- Natural Hazards 9 matches
- Global Change and Climate 2 matches
- Ecosystems 3 matches
- Policy 9 matches
Environmental Policy
Results 1 - 9 of 9 matches
Hurricanes, Climate, and Katrina part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website provides links to many Science Magazine articles related to hurricanes, coastal disasters and disaster policy. The articles are divided into four sections: The Gulf Coast hurricanes and ...
Ecosystem Management Coordination part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This US Forest Service site provides access to the major information collection, storage, analysis, and decision-making processes used to manage the lands and resources of the National Forest system. ...
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the US Forest Service part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Federal legislation enacted in 1970 requires that government agencies consider the environmental costs of their actions through a process of environmental impact statements and public comment. This ...
USGS National Landslide Information Center part of SERC Web Resource Collection
United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientists are working to reduce long-term losses and casualties from landslide hazards through better understanding of the causes and mechanisms of ground ...
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 ...
Projected Impact of Climate Change part of CLEAN Collection
This visualization is a chart that displays future climate change in terms of temperature increases and the impacts and Food, Water, Ecosystems, Extreme Weather Events, and Risk of Abrupt and ...
Exploring the Environment: Yellowstone Fires part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from Wheeling Jesuit University features an exercise in which students engage in a policy debate using an Earth System Science (ESS) analysis of a fire's impact on the air, land, water, and ...
Yellowstone Fires part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Yellowstone Fires belongs to a series of online modules entitled Exploring the Environment. Emphasizing an integrated approach to environmental earth science through problem-based learning, the ...
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 ...
