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 10 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Air Quality 9 matches
- Energy 10 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Waste 8 matches
- Mineral Resources 5 matches includes precious metals, base metals, industrial minerals, aggregate
- Forest Resources 4 matches
- Soils and Agriculture 5 matches
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 5 matches
- Land Use and Planning 7 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 1 match
- Sustainability 4 matches
- Natural Hazards 3 matches
- Global Change and Climate 11 matches
- Ecosystems 4 matches
- Policy 47 matches
Environmental Policy
- Global Policy 4 matches
- US National Policy 47 matches
- State Policy 2 matches
- Local Policy 2 matches
- Environmental Decision-Making 6 matches including risk assessment
- Environmental Economics 5 matches market forces, consumerism, cost/benefit analysis, distribution of wealth, privatization, incentives, taxes, fines, etc
- Environmental Ethics/Values 5 matches
Results 1 - 20 of 47 matches
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 ...
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 ...
US Fish and Wildlife Service - Division of Habitat and Resource Conservation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website features information related to environmental procedures and policy that is used by the Fish and Wildlife Service in their preparation and review of environmental documents. The actual ...
Rangeland Policy Issues part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site provides a balanced venue for the public to explore the key issues surrounding the use and management of rangelands. The goals of the website are to help citizens to clarify issues, to ...
Agriculture Policy & Farm Bill Briefing Book part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website summarizes various aspects of the Farm Bill. Background information on rural development, conservation and the environment, and biotechnology are provided, as well as relevant statistics ...
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 ...
Pribilof Islands Contamination part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website provides an overview of the contamination and resulting environmental impacts on the Pribilof Islands. The site details both human health and environmental concerns, and the current ...
Shedding some light on mercury lamps part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Environmental Science and Technology article discusses the problem created when mercury-containing lamps are not recycled. The article provides statistics on the amount of bulbs being disposed ...
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 ...
Public Lands for the People part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Public Lands for the People is non-profit organization 'dedicated to preserving the rights of the public to access and use of public lands'. The site's purpose is to educate people and government ...
Contaminated Sediment in Water part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This EPA site provides information about how sediments get contaminated, where the pollutants come from, how contaminated sediments become concentrated in lakes, rivers and oceans, their effects on ...
EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a large website that provides searchable databases, data tables, maps, country profiles and written reports on a variety of environmental issues. Topics include coastal and marine ecosystems, ...
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 ...
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act: What is Fair? part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article addresses the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Topics include the 1990 RECA, RECA criteria, exposure data, medical conditions and exposure thresholds, smoking, experience with ...
Memories Come To Us In the Rain and the Wind part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book contains 25 oral histories from Navajo uranium miners and their families. Their hope was to gain compensation for the great loss in death and illness brought about by mining uranium, with ...
The Makings of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act: A Legislative History and Analysis part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article analyzes whether the Sanctuaries Act of 1972 has performed its preservation mission, and how it might be improved to ensure that our marine resources are protected for the future.
