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 10 matches
- Land Use and Planning 19 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 6 matches
- Sustainability 24 matches
- Natural Hazards 9 matches
- Global Change and Climate 31 matches
- Ecosystems 33 matches
- Policy 160 matches
Environmental Policy
- Global Policy 21 matches
- US National Policy 47 matches
- State Policy 18 matches
- Local Policy 17 matches
- Environmental Decision-Making 60 matches including risk assessment
- Environmental Economics 34 matches market forces, consumerism, cost/benefit analysis, distribution of wealth, privatization, incentives, taxes, fines, etc
- Environmental Ethics/Values 16 matches
Results 81 - 100 of 161 matches
Campus Ecology: Waste Reduction part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website showcases recycling and waste reduction projects from over 40 college campuses across the US. These activities involve a wide array of materials, ranging from common recyclables, to food ...
Campus Ecology: Water part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website presents creative ways that college campuses are meeting the challenge of preserving or protecting water resources. Aging dormitory showerheads, inefficient decorative fountains, leaks ...
Campus Ecology: Composting part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website from the National Wildlife Federation showcases campus composting projects currently in place at ten universities. The projects include ideas for creating a composting site for dining ...
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 ...
Cormas - Natural Resource and Multi-Agent Simulations part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Cormas is a programming environment dedicated to the creation of multi-agent systems, with specificity in the domain of natural-resources management. This site is devoted to the applied modelling of ...
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 ...
Trends in Precipitation Chemistry in the United States, 1983-94: An Analysis of the Effects in 1995 of Phase I of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, Title IV. part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA-90) (Public Law 101-549) seeks to reduce acidic deposition in the United States through phased reductions in sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide ...
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 ...
USGS National Landslide Information Center part of SERC Web Resource Collection
United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientists are working to reduce long-term losses and casualties from landslide hazards through better understanding of the causes and mechanisms of ground ...
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 ...
The Use of a Piece of Land (title provided or enhanced by cataloger) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This activity is designed to engage students in a practical exercise in land use planning; to make the students aware of the positive and negative aspects of land use laws and local zoning ordinances ...
Environmental Frontlines Issue Summary: mining on public lands part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This case study provided by the Environmental Frontline organization is a summary of the 1872 general mining law reform. It includes background information, facts and figures, 'quotable quotables', ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Model United Nations Headquarters part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Model United Nations (UN) is an authentic simulation of the U.N. General Assembly and other multilateral bodies. This Headquarters homepage offers an 'ask an ambassador' section, an overview of the ...
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 ...
Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This online book summarizes the results of a workshop that examined the connection between human health and the natural, built, and social environments. The book makes the assertion that a new vision ...
Laws, Policies and Guidances part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This EPA site provides links to resources concerning Superfund laws, regulations, policies, and guidances for hazardous waste sites and soil and groundwater remediation.
