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
- 10 matches General/Other
- Air Quality 24 matches
- Ecosystems 42 matches
- Energy 40 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Forest Resources 11 matches
- Water Quality and Quantity 55 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Global Change and Climate 29 matches
- Waste 45 matches
- Mineral Resources 19 matches includes precious metals, base metals, industrial minerals, aggregate
- Soils and Agriculture 15 matches
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 14 matches
- Land Use and Planning 24 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 10 matches
- Sustainability 26 matches
- Natural Hazards 6 matches
- Policy 183 matches
Subject: Environmental Science
- 10 matches General/Other
- Air Quality 24 matches
- Ecosystems 42 matches
- Energy 40 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Forest Resources 11 matches
- Water Quality and Quantity 55 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Global Change and Climate 29 matches
- Waste 45 matches
- Mineral Resources 19 matches includes precious metals, base metals, industrial minerals, aggregate
- Soils and Agriculture 15 matches
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 14 matches
- Land Use and Planning 24 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 10 matches
- Sustainability 26 matches
- Natural Hazards 6 matches
- Policy 183 matches
Results 1 - 20 of 184 matches
The Big Melt part of CLEAN Collection
This is a collection of five short videos that show how climate change is affecting fishing, native populations and access for the oil and gas industry in the Arctic. The videos include personal ...Learn more about this review process.
Geoethics, Ethical Challenges and Case Studies in Earth Sciences part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This 450-page book explores ethics in geoscience. It focuses on professional ethics and includes a discussion on improving communication between scientists and the public. The book was written by a ...
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This 274-page book focuses on education and the professional ethics that are dealt with by scientists, regulators, and practitioners of engineering geology related to the purposes, methods, ...
California Burning: A multimedia project part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This multimedia resource provides an overview of wildfire risk and response to the risk in California. Text, video, images, and data are used to discuss how drought and overgrowth of forests play a ...
Biomedical Ethics for Engineers part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Biomedical Ethics for Engineers provides biomedical engineers with a new set of tools and an understanding that the application of ethical measures will seldom reach consensus even among fellow ...
Expanding boundaries of exploration part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The appetite for mining beyond the confines of the land does not end with the deep ocean: celestial bodies, too, have stirred commercial interest. The prospect of mining the ocean floors and bodies ...
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 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 ...
Georgia Environmental Protection part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This homepage of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GEPD) presents information on how GEPD helps provide citizens of Georgia with clean air, clean water, healthy lives and productive land ...
Land Use: Past, Present, and Future part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In this laboratory activity students will gain an understanding of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and be able to apply it to a (perhaps hypothetical) community project. In the process, ...
Land Use: Past, Present, and Future part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In this laboratory activity students will gain an understanding of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and be able to apply it to a (perhaps hypothetical) community project. In the process, ...
Georgia Environmental Protection part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This homepage of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GEPD) presents information on how GEPD helps provide citizens of Georgia with clean air, clean water, healthy lives and productive land ...
Sustainable Development on Campus: Tools for Campus Decision Makers part of SERC Web Resource Collection
These tools will help decision makers at universities to learn more about sustainable development and "green" campuses. There are learning modules, case studies, action plans, environmental ...
Sustainable Development on Campus: Tools for Campus Decision Makers part of SERC Web Resource Collection
These tools will help decision makers at universities to learn more about sustainable development and "green" campuses. There are learning modules, case studies, action plans, environmental ...
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The GREEN program provides ideas and information related to creating a watershed-based educational project and is geared toward taking action to protect watersheds. There are exercises and action ...
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The GREEN program provides ideas and information related to creating a watershed-based educational project and is geared toward taking action to protect watersheds. There are exercises and action ...
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, ...
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, ...
Ecoregions part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website for the Critical Ecoregions Program of the Sierra Club aims to offer a practical, long-term strategy to buttress the "web of life" on Earth. Region by region, the Sierra Club ...
Ecoregions part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website for the Critical Ecoregions Program of the Sierra Club aims to offer a practical, long-term strategy to buttress the "web of life" on Earth. Region by region, the Sierra Club ...