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
- 1 match General/Other
- Water Quality and Quantity 6 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Air Quality 7 matches
- Energy 10 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Waste 2 matches
- Forest Resources 3 matches
- Soils and Agriculture 6 matches
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 2 matches
- Land Use and Planning 6 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 3 matches
- Sustainability 7 matches
- Natural Hazards 2 matches
- Global Change and Climate 31 matches
- Ecosystems 11 matches
- Policy 31 matches
Environmental Policy
- Global Policy 10 matches
- US National Policy 11 matches
- Local Policy 1 match
- Environmental Decision-Making 10 matches including risk assessment
- Environmental Economics 11 matches market forces, consumerism, cost/benefit analysis, distribution of wealth, privatization, incentives, taxes, fines, etc
- Environmental Ethics/Values 1 match
Results 1 - 20 of 31 matches
Geography 135: Climate Summit part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource is a role-playing geography course at UC-Santa Barbara. In this cooperative learning exercise students are challenged to assume the roles of nations and organizations in order to ...
Global Change 3 Lectures part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from the University of Michigan features the list of lectures for the Global Change 3 course. The lectures are brief and presented in outline form.
United Nations Environment Programme part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This program seeks to provide leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by informing and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising ...
Council on Environmental Quality part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website from the White House presents environmental news and policies, agency news, reports, a photo gallery and agency links. A variety of environmental policy topics are covered, including the ...
Almanac of Policy Issues: Environment part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This collection provides balanced information on major U.S. public policy issues concerning the environment. Topics include air quality, energy, global warming, hazardous waste, land use, recycling, ...
Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website provides environmental data and summaries that compare 133 countries along 16 environmental policy criteria. Categories include air quality, water resources, environmental health, ...
Global Climate Change Briefing Book part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website presents general resources and legislative issues related to global climate change. The site includes greenhouse gas sources, trends and effects on the environment, the text of the Kyoto ...
Global Climate Change Policy Book part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website summarizes the current administration's approach to global climate change, including the President's Program of Domestic and International Initiatives. These include a national goal to ...
Woods Hole Research Center: The Program on Science in Public Affairs part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website describes the role that science plays in public and international affairs as human activities create increasingly complex global environmental problems. The Wood's Hole Research Center ...
Global Warming Facts and Our Future part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This virtual museum website provides easily understood scientific information that helps both policy makers and the public answer important questions about the changing global climate in order to ...
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 ...
Global Warming and Lewis and Clark College part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website describes the actions undertaken by students at Lewis and Clark College to comply with the greenhouse gas emissions targets called for in the Kyoto Protocol. The effort was ...
Campus Ecology: Transportation Projects part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website describes methods that universities can use to remedy common transportation problems such as traffic congestion, sprawling parking lots, and excessive fuel use. Alternative fuels, ...
Energy Information Administration: Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Energy Information Administration (EIA), created by Congress in 1977, is a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy. They provide policy-independent data, forecasts, and analyses to ...
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 ...
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 ...
US Global Change Research Program part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site contains a variety of information related to global change research and specifically the research efforts of the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). Some of the sections on this ...
EnviroHealthAction part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site provides an online community for health professionals and others interested in environmental health and gives users the opportunity to access important resources about public health. Topics ...
The Warming of the Earth: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Issue of Global Warming part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Produced by the Woods Hole Research Center, The Warming of the Earth introduces the concept of global warming through the following topics: the greenhouse effect, scientific evidence, the culprits, ...
Melting Sea Ice part of CLEAN Collection
This activity uses a mix of multimedia resources and hands-on activities to support a storyline of investigation into melting sea ice. The lesson begins with a group viewing of a video designed to ...
