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
- 3 matches General/Other
- Water Quality and Quantity 2 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Energy 2 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Waste 4 matches
- Mineral Resources 2 matches includes precious metals, base metals, industrial minerals, aggregate
- Soils and Agriculture 1 match
- Human Population 1 match
- Sustainability 2 matches
- Global Change and Climate 1 match
- Ecosystems 1 match
- Policy 16 matches
Environmental Policy
- US National Policy 5 matches
- State Policy 1 match
- Environmental Decision-Making 7 matches including risk assessment
- Environmental Economics 2 matches market forces, consumerism, cost/benefit analysis, distribution of wealth, privatization, incentives, taxes, fines, etc
- Environmental Ethics/Values 16 matches
Results 1 - 16 of 16 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 ...
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 ...
Campus Ecology: Environmental Management Projects part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website describes projects on college campuses that aim to improve environmental management systems of their university. The goals of these programs are to weave environmental responsibility ...
Environmental Ethics part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site provides access to Internet resources throughout the world which pertain to or focus on environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. It includes links to publications, associations, ...
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. ...
EarthScore: Your Personal Environmental Audit and Guide part of SERC Print Resource Collection
How do your daily activities at home, on the job and in between affect the environment? EarthScore offers an opportunity to quantify your environmental impact. This booklet consists of 107 questions ...
Teaching and learning in environmental education: Developing environmental conceptions part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper discusses how environmental education is closely connected with the affective domain in that it involves attitudes, values and behaviors, in addition to cognitive knowledge. The authors ...
A Multivariate Analysis of the Relationship Between Attitude Toward Science and Attitude Toward the Environment part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This statistical study from the Journal of Environmental Education identifies the relationship between students' attitude toward science and their attitude toward the environment. Canadian 9th grade ...
The Lifestyle Project part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper from the Journal of Geoscience Education describes the Lifestyle Project. This project is an innovative way for students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own ...
Science Policy part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Science policy involves consideration of two fundamental human activities: science and policy. People make decisions of valued outcomes, so thinking about science policy necessarily implicates ...
The Sierra Club Homepage part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Sierra Club is the oldest and largest environmental organization that works to protect our communities and the planet. From their homepage, users can access Sierra Club headlines, information on ...
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental Justice part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website features information relating to the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental policies. ...
Environmental Justice part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site gives a brief of overview of the concept of environmental justice, and the fact that minority populations are often disproportionately affected by environmental pollution. There are also ...
Natural Resources Defense Council Homepage part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) is an environmental action organization. They use law, science and the support of more than 1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's ...
Toward Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This online book uses five case studies to investigate whether environmental degradation is worse in poor and minority communities, and if these communities suffer more adverse health effects as a ...
