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
- 8 matches General/Other
- Water Quality and Quantity 50 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Air Quality 17 matches
- Energy 33 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Waste 39 matches
- Mineral Resources 19 matches includes precious metals, base metals, industrial minerals, aggregate
- Forest Resources 7 matches
- Soils and Agriculture 17 matches
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 9 matches
- Land Use and Planning 19 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 6 matches
- Sustainability 23 matches
- Natural Hazards 9 matches
- Global Change and Climate 31 matches
- Ecosystems 32 matches
- Policy 160 matches
Environmental Policy
- Global Policy 20 matches
- US National Policy 47 matches
- State Policy 18 matches
- Local Policy 17 matches
- Environmental Decision-Making 60 matches including risk assessment
- Environmental Economics 33 matches market forces, consumerism, cost/benefit analysis, distribution of wealth, privatization, incentives, taxes, fines, etc
- Environmental Ethics/Values 16 matches
Results 1 - 20 of 160 matches
Snowmobile Usage in Yellowstone National Park part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Park Service website describes the regulations on snowmobile usage in Yellowstone and extensive research on the impact of snowmobiles on wildlife areas.
Compensation of Navajo Uranium Miners part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site addresses policy issues of the compensation of Navajo uranium miners. The site provides an annotated index of current issues, legislation, papers and presentations, books, and links that ...
Final Report of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Committee part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is the final report of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Committee published in July 1996. This report makes recommendations about policy issues relating to compensation for uranium ...
Geothermal Resources part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Park Service web page provides a summary of the geothermal resources in Yellowstone National Park, which is home to the largest geyser field in the world. The page describes the ways in ...
Potential Groundwater Drawdown and Recovery from Coalbed Methane Development in the Powder River Basin, Montana part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 58-page PDF document from the US Bureau of Land Management assesses the potential impacts of coalbed methane development on water resources in Montana's Powder River Basin. The study explores ...
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 ...
Environmental Risk Assessment part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site is the homepage for a course on environmental risk assessment taught by Douglas Crawford-Brown at the University of North Carolina. This course provides an overview of the evidential ...
Moratorium Imposed on Coalbed Methane Drilling part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle describes the creation of a temporary ban on coalbed methane development near Bozeman, Montana. The local county commission created an emergency zoning ...
Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr. Signs Dinà Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site holds the April 30, 2005 press release from Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr. stating that the first Native American tribal law banning uranium mining and milling on the Navajo ...
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 ...
Policy Debate: Power Plants on Navajo Land part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article discusses actions of the tribal government and community response related to plans to develop Desert Rock, a 1,500-megawatt coal-fired power plant, on 600 acres of tribal land in San ...
More Cyanide Uncertainties: Lessons from the Baia Mare, Romania Spill-Water Quality and Politics part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This paper describes the risks associated with the use of cyanide in modern mining and asserts that governments and mining companies have not adequately addressed this growing environmental problem. ...
Headwaters Province - Idaho and Montana: Earth Science Studies in Support of Public Policy Development and Land Stewardship part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource contains an organized database of resources that provide geoscience data and interpretations to the Federal Land Management Agencies (FLMA) that are basic to sound policy and ...
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 ...
Putting a Price on Pollution: Financial Assurance for Mine Reclamation and Closure part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 56-page PDF provides information about financial assurance for mine reclamation and closure. The topics covered include mine reclamation and liability; closure and financial assurance; and a ...
Idaho Department of Water Resources Website part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site provides links to investigate the water resources of Idaho including information on water management, forms/rules/statutes, on-line data, water information, geographic information, water ...
Ecological Footprint Calculators part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website contains interactive calculators for determining various environmental impacts. The site includes more than 15 different calculators to determine greenhouse gas emissions, ecological ...
When a Fish Is More Than a Fish part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a magazine article describing the relationship between the Nez Perce People and endangered salmon. This article provides first hand insight to the importance of salmon from a Nez Perce ...
Idaho Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The purpose of this web page is to make the Idaho Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS) available to all interested parties. The site provides links to multiple pdf's containing ...
Idaho Wolf Management part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site provides information concerning wolves in Idaho and how they are being managed. Also provided are links to further reports about wolf habitats in Idaho.
