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
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Northwest Passage part of CLEAN Collection
In this activity, students use Google Earth and information from several websites to investigate some of the consequences of climate change in polar regions, including the shrinking of the ice cap at ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States' Response to Global Warming part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book by Donald Brown opens with a historical analysis of America's response to global warming, and continues with a look at the history of scientific and political concern with climate change. ...
The Use of a Mock Environment Summit to Support Learning about Global Climate Change part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper describes a course that addresses the human aspects of global change through the development and negotiation of an international environmental agreement. Students play the roles of country ...
United Nations Environment Programme: Climate Change part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This portal provides access to information on the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) initiatives on the issue of climate change. Materials include UNEP's areas of focus on addressing ...
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 ...
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, ...
