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
- Air Quality 2 matches
- Ecosystems 7 matches
- Energy 3 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Forest Resources 1 match
- Water Quality and Quantity 4 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Global Change and Climate 5 matches
- Waste 4 matches
- Soils and Agriculture 2 matches
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 1 match
- Land Use and Planning 4 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 2 matches
- Sustainability 2 matches
- Natural Hazards 1 match
- Policy 18 matches
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Subject: Environmental Science
- 1 match General/Other
- Air Quality 2 matches
- Ecosystems 7 matches
- Energy 3 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Forest Resources 1 match
- Water Quality and Quantity 4 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Global Change and Climate 5 matches
- Waste 4 matches
- Soils and Agriculture 2 matches
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 1 match
- Land Use and Planning 4 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 2 matches
- Sustainability 2 matches
- Natural Hazards 1 match
- Policy 18 matches
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- Maps 11 matches
- Animations/Video 4 matches
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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.
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 ...
Lessons from Woburn part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site presents a three-part videotape series produced to enhance classroom discussions of the book A Civil Action. The site gives outlines of material covered by each tape and allows users to ...
Love Canal Collection part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Between 1947 and 1952, Hooker Chemicals and Plastic Corporation buried thousands of tons of chemical waste in the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, New York. By 1978, President Jimmy Carter had ...
Lessons from Woburn part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site presents a three-part videotape series produced to enhance classroom discussions of the book A Civil Action. The site gives outlines of material covered by each tape and allows users to ...
Love Canal Collection part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Between 1947 and 1952, Hooker Chemicals and Plastic Corporation buried thousands of tons of chemical waste in the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, New York. By 1978, President Jimmy Carter had ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects at the Rural-Urban Interface: Project SLUCE 2 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Project SLUCE 2 seeks to understand the individual decision-making that drives land use decisions and to formulate and test alternative policies and interventions that could reduce environmental ...
Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects at the Rural-Urban Interface: Project SLUCE 2 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Project SLUCE 2 seeks to understand the individual decision-making that drives land use decisions and to formulate and test alternative policies and interventions that could reduce environmental ...
NRCS Irrigation and Water Management part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site provides a jump off point to many different areas of information concerning Idaho's irrigation and water management conservation planning. The site provides links to irrigation ...
Final Statewide Oil and Gas EIS and Proposed Amendment of the Powder River and Billings RMPs part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Environmental Impact Statement documents and discloses the results of the environmental analysis of anticipated coal bed methane and oil and gas development in the state of Montana. The ...
Water Classifications and Rights part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 40-page PDF document is a chapter from a book on coalbed methane. This chapter presents a summary of general water planning issues, including water classifications and water rights as they ...
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 ...
Coalbed Methane Development in the West: Primer part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 352-page PDF document, compiled by the Colorado University School of Law, is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of coalbed methane. This primer seeks to contribute to public policy ...
World Foundation for Environment and Development part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site is the home page for the World Foundation for Environment and Development (WFED), an independent non-governmental organization working to sustain economic development and conservation of ...