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Geoethics training in the Earth and environmental sciences part of Print Resource Collection
Ethical dilemmas are regularly encountered by Earth and environmental scientists. Explicit training is required to allow the community to recognize such dilemmas, and to prevent and mitigate ethical ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Geoscience
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Thin Section Scans part of Web Resource Collection

An online library of high resolution, full color scans of over 200 "exotic" igneous, metamorphic and metasomatic rocks in thin section, displayed under both natural ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy, Mineralogy:Optical Mineralogy, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Mineralogy:Mineral Analysis
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations

Isotropic Minerals in Thin Section part of Print Resource Collection
First volume of a 3 volume set, this is an e-book photographic atlas of isotropic minerals in thin section, accompanied by tabulated optical data and determinative characteristics. Both common and ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy, Mineralogy:Optical Mineralogy
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Geoethics, Ethical Challenges and Case Studies in Earth Sciences part of 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 ...

Subject: Geography:Human/Cultural, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Engineering Geology for Society and Territory part of 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, ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

California Burning: A multimedia project part of 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 ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Public policy, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Policy, Environmental Science, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Drought, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Public policy , Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Wildfires, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Forest Resources, Sustainability
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual

Can Earth's and Society's Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?: Summary of a Workshop part of Print Resource Collection
This 112-page report summarizes outcomes from a 2014 workshop focused on sustainability and meeting the needs of a growing population. It addresses the questions how do we prepare for a future ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Human Population, Sustainability
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Biomedical Ethics for Engineers part of 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 ...

Subject: Biology, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Health Sciences
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Pedagogic Resources:Overview/Summary

Expanding boundaries of exploration part of 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 ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Environmental Ethics/Values, Geography:Human/Cultural, Environmental Science:Mineral Resources:Mining, Environmental Science, Geoscience, Geology:Environmental Geology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Extraterrestrial Influence on Climate Change part of Print Resource Collection
Climate changes are being explained by various scientists based on the observational data of last 200 years. Most of the statistical scientific data were not able to answer satisfactorily the erratic ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work