• EarthEd: rethinking education on a changing planet / Erik Assadourian
• Outdoor school for all: reconnecting children to nature / David Sobel
• Ecoliteracy and schooling for sustainability / Michael K. Stone
• Education for the eighth fire: indigeneity and native ways of learning / Melissa K. Nelson
• Pathway to stewardship: a framework for children and youth / Jacob Rodenburg and Nicole Bell
• Growing a new school food culture / Luis Gonzalez Reyes
• The centrality of character education for creating and sustaining a just world / Marvin W. Berkowitz
• Social and emotional learning for a challenging century / Pamela Barker and Amy McConnell Franklin
• Prioritizing play / David Whitebread
• Looking the monster in the eye: drawing comics for sustainability / Marilyn Mehlmann with Esbjorn Jorsater, Alexander Mehlmann, and Olena Pometun
• Deeper learning and the future of education / Dennis McGrath and Monica M. Martinez
• All systems go! Developing a generation of "systems-smart" kids / Linda Booth Sweeney
• Reining in the commercialization of childhood / Josh Golin and Melissa Campbell
• Home economics education: preparation for a sustainable and healthy future / Helen Maguire and Amanda McCloat
• Our bodies, our future: expanding comprehensive sexuality education / Mona Kaidbey and Robert Engelman
• Suddenly more than academic: higher education for a post-growth world / Michael Maniates
• Bringing the classroom back to life / Jonathan Dawson and Hugo Oliveira
• Preparing vocational training for the eco-technical transition / Nancy Lee Wood
• Sustainability education in prisons: transforming lives, transforming the world / Joslyn Rose Trivett, Raquel Pinderhughes, Kelli Bush, Liliana Caughman, and Carri J. LeRoy
• Bringing the earth back into economics / Joshua Farley
• New times, new tools: agricultural education for the twenty-first century / Laura Lengnick
• Educating engineers for the anthropocene / Daniel Hoornweg, Nadine Ibrahim, and Chibulu Luo
• The evolving focus of business sustainability education / Andrew J. Hoffman
• Teaching doctors to care for patient and planet / Jessica Pierce
• The future of education: a glimpse from 2030 / Erik Assadourian.

Earth education is traditionally confined to specific topics: ecoliteracy, outdoor education, environmental science. But in the coming century, on track to be the warmest in human history, every aspect of human life will be affected by our changing planet. Emerging diseases, food shortages, drought, and waterlogged cities are just some of the unprecedented challenges that today's students will face. How do we prepare 9.5 billion people for life in the Anthropocene, to thrive in this uncharted and more chaotic future? Answers are being developed in universities, preschools, professional schools, and even prisons around the world. In the latest volume of State of the World, a diverse group of education experts share innovative approaches to teaching and learning in a new era. Topics include systems thinking for children; the importance of play in early education; social emotional learning; comprehensive sexuality education; indigenous knowledge; sustainable business; medical training to treat the whole person; teaching law in the Anthropocene; and more.EarthEd addresses schooling at all levels of development, from preschool to professional. Its lessons can inform teachers, policy makers, school administrators, community leaders, parents, and students alike. And its vision will inspire anyone who wants to prepare students not only for the storms ahead but to become the next generation of sustainability leaders.
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• Living on a New Earth / Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah
• The Changing Shape of Global Environmental Politics / Ken Conca
• Green Earth : The Emergence of Planetary Civilization / Daniel Deudney and Elizabeth Mendenhall
• The Co-Production of Knowledge about International Governance : Living on the Science/Policy Interface / Oran R. Young
• Scholarship as Citizenship / Richard Falk
• Person/Planet Politics : Contemplative Pedagogies for a New Earth / Karen T. Litfin
• Make Way for Hope : A Contrarian View / Michael F. Maniates
• Institutional Politics and Reform / Kate O'Neill
• An Engaged Scholarship Narrative / Maria Ivanova
• Autonomy and Activism in Civil Society / Peter Jacques
• Could the Incremental Environmental Movement of Today Become a Missionary Religious Force of Tomorrow? / Erik Assadourian
• Towards Sharing Our Ecospace / Joyeeta Gupta
• China on the World Stage / Judith Shapiro
• The New Earth's Defining Problem Energy Transformations / Navroz Dubash
• Governing Climate Engineering / Wil Burns and Simon Nicholson
• Living at the Margins / Paul Wapner
• The Sustainability Story : Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and Illusions / Peter Dauvergne
• Politics for a New Earth : Governing in the Anthropocene / Frank Biermann.

Prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of global environmental politics consider the ecological and political realities of life on the new earth, and probe the field's deepest and most enduring questions at a time of increasing environmental stress. Arranged in complementary pairs, included are - reflections on environmental pedagogy, analysis of new geopolitical realities, reflections on the power of social movements and international institutions, and calls for more compelling narratives to promote environmental action.

• 1 Front Matter-- 2 Summary-- 3 1 Introduction-- 4 2 Chemical and Physical Properties of Crude Oils-- 5 3 Environmental Processes, Behavior, and Toxicity of Diluted Bitumen-- 6 4 Spill Response Planning and Implementation-- 7 5 Comparing Properties Affecting Transport, Fate, Effects, and Response-- 8 6 Regulations Governing Spill Response Planning-- 9 7 Recommendations-- 10 References-- 11 Appendix A: Glossary-- 12 Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies.
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Diluted bitumen has been transported by pipeline in the United States for more than 40 years, with the amount increasing recently as a result of improved extraction technologies and resulting increases in production and exportation of Canadian diluted bitumen. The increased importation of Canadian diluted bitumen to the United States has strained the existing pipeline capacity and contributed to the expansion of pipeline mileage over the past 5 years. Although rising North American crude oil production has resulted in greater transport of crude oil by rail or tanker, oil pipelines continue to deliver the vast majority of crude oil supplies to U.S. refineries. Spills of Diluted Bitumen from Pipelines examines the current state of knowledge and identifies the relevant properties and characteristics of the transport, fate, and effects of diluted bitumen and commonly transported crude oils when spilled in the environment. This report assesses whether the differences between properties of diluted bitumen and those of other commonly transported crude oils warrant modifications to the regulations governing spill response plans and cleanup. Given the nature of pipeline operations, response planning, and the oil industry, the recommendations outlined in this study are broadly applicable to other modes of transportation as well.
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• Introduction: looking within to seed an enduring vision for the future
• A new story
• Changing the old story
• Purpose, meaning and happiness
• Reconnecting to ourselves and to nature
• Leading from the heart
• Activism with heart
• Finding and connecting the dots
• Envisioning a compelling future.

"A worldwide movement is afoot. The search for meaning, embodied by such values as mindfulness, creativity, compassion and empathy, is driving global transformation. The Heart of Sustainability explores the ways this paradigm shift is shaping our collective future, focusing on specific examples of visionaries whose leadership, activism and community engagement are helping to build a world that works for all."-- Provided by publishers.

• Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms; Notes on Language and Terminology; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Activist Environmental Governance; 3 Environmental Politics in Thailand and Myanmar; 4 Local Activism; 5 Bridging North and South: EarthRights International; 6 Transnational Campaigns; 7 Environmental Politics in the South; Affiliation of Interviewees; References; Index.

Based on extensive fieldwork in the region this groundbreaking book explores the important role that environmental movements from these countries are playing in promoting effective energy and environmental governance. By comparing the nature of this activism under two very different political regimes, Adam Simpson provides crucial theoretical insights for sustainable resource development in the South.

The environment in ecological systems includes both physical parameters and biotic attributes, and is a holocoenotic, dynamically interlinked system. Its investigation requires a dialectical approach which examines the different parts, but integrates the organism and the environment into a dynamic whole. Environment and ecology place emphasis on the real world. Many decisions that directly or indirectly affect the balance of our environment are based on individual, community, state, national ...

• Environment and environmental philosophy in India / George Alfred James
• Atman, identity, and emanation : arguments for a Hindu environmental ethic / Christopher Framarin
• Gandhi's contributions to environmental thought and action / Bart Gruzalski
• Acting with compassion : Buddhism, feminism and the environmental crisis / Stephanie Kaza
• Against holism : rethinking Buddhist environmental ethics / Simon P. James
• Causation and "telos" : the problem of Buddhist environmental ethics / Ian Harris
• The relevance of Chinese neo-Confucianism for the reverence of nature / Mary Evelyn Tucker
• Beyond naturalism : a reconstruction of Daoist environmental ethics / R.P. Peerenboom
• Conceptual foundations for environmental ethics : a Daoist perspective / Karyn L. Lai
• Process ecology and the "ideal" dao / Alan Fox
• The viability (dao) and virtuosity (de) of Daoist ecology : reversion (fu) as renewal / Sandra A. Wawrytko
• Envisioning the Daoist body in the economy of cosmic power / James Miller
• The Japanese concept of nature in relation to the environmental ethics and conservation aesthetics of Aldo Leopold / Steve Odin
• Dogen, deep ecology, and the ecological self / Deane Curtin
• Conservation ethics and the Japanese intellectual tradition / David Edward Shaner and R. Shannon Duval
• From symbiosis (kyosei) to the ontology of "arising both from oneself and from another" / Hiroshi Abe
• The Confucian environmental ethics of Ogyu Sorai / Tomosaburo Yamauchi
• Triple negation : Watsuji Tetsuro on the sustainability of ecosystems, economies, and international peace / James McRae
• Afterword : recontextualizing the self in comparative environmental philosophy / J. Baird Callicott.

"Leading scholars draw from the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese traditions of thought to provide a normative framework that can address the environmental challenges being faced in the twenty-first century. Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist approaches are considered along with those of Zen, Japanese Confucianism, and the contemporary philosophy of the Kyoto School. An investigation of the environmental philosophy in these Asian traditions not only challenges Western assumptions, but also provides and understanding of Asian philosophy, religion, and culture that informs contemporary environmental law and policy."--Back cover.

• Overture. End of a world
• Influence and confluence: family, nature, war
• Ecology then: the lake of tears
• Dispelling dejà vu, part one
• Dispelling dejà vu, part two
• Defying apocalypse
• Apocalypse redux and the fate of sustainability
• No illusions, no fantasy, no melodrama: the legacy of Rachel Carson
• Epiphany matters
• Imagination wild and tame: the smell of money
• The presence of roadkill
• Reprise. World's end: seeing and sustenance.

Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning readers in waves of ecological angst, M. Jimmie Killingsworth seeks alternative images and episodes to invoke presence without crippling the hope for survival and sustenance in places and communities of value. In deft, highly accessible prose, Killingsworth takes the reader through a Cold-War childhood, an adolescence colored by anti-war and ecological activism, and an adulthood darkened by terrorism and climate change. Inviting us on walks through tame suburbias (riddled with environmental abuse) and wild deserts and mountains (shadowed by industrial development), he celebrates the survival of natural beauty and people living close to the earth while questioning truisms associated with both economic advancement and environmental purity. Above all, this book invites the reader to face it: to look with wide-open eyes on a new nature that will never be the same, but that continues to offer opportunities for renewal and advancement of life.
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• Preface: The Farm Story A single chapter overview of the historical timeline of The Farm Community, from its original origins to its current incarnation.
• Chapter 1: Collectivity and Community This chapter will explore the many different ways shared ownership, responsibility and collectivity plays out in the current community.
• Chapter 2: Community, Conflict and Compassion The key to survival and continued existence for any intentional community is its ability to deal with internal conflict. "Working it out" has been a central component to The Farm's way of life since the very beginning and remains a vital part of who we are today. Centered on truth and compassion, each individual's personality, history, attachment and skills can affect the outcome of every encounter. This chapter presents guidelines and examples that anyone can use to assist in their personal interactions.
• Chapter 3: Following the Spiritual Path The Farm was founded as a spiritual community that respected and borrowed from all religions and philosophies. Although the community shied away from a written text that could potentially evolve into ritualized dogma, over the course of 40 years many commonly held principles have emerged. These include forms of communion, sacraments, and essential truths universal to all humans.
• Chapter 4: Governance The Farm's structure and internal government has taken many forms, from loose gatherings to a benevolent dictatorship under the guise of guru, to stratified hierarchies and consensus democracies. This chapter follows the community's historical timeline, illustrating how The Farm's currently manages a complex infrastructure with a population whose core identity and purpose is to question authority.
• Chapter 5: Earning a Living From the very beginning, a primary element of The Farm's philosophy was the principle of Right Livelihood, a Buddhist teaching which states that your work should be seamless with your ideals. The transition from a communal to a private economy placed the responsibility of earning a living back on the individual. Located in one of the poorest counties in Tennessee, 70 miles from the nearest city, made the transition extremely challenging and in many ways came to define who stayed and who left at the time of The Changeover. The spirit of entrepreneurship has allowed The Farm to become a breeding ground for small business and the various nonprofits that provide employment for community members. At the same time, members have also identified skills that translate into income producing work especially suited for a rural lifestyle.
• Chapter 6: Health Care and Midwifery During the communal period, in addition to the midwives The Farm's medical team included doctors, nurses, a lab, pharmacy, even an ambulance staffed 24/7 with emergency medical technicians. Unfortunately, The Farm's vow of poverty, coupled with a rejection of insurance and welfare assistance, almost brought down the community, when a crippling debt to Vanderbilt Hospital resulted in a lean against the land. After the great economic shift in 1983 called "The Changeover, " what remained was The Farm's sense of interdependence and a commitment to personal care based on love and deep friendships. A significant number of the community's members continue to work and serve in the health care field, giving members a greater access to care than typically experienced by people living on their own at the mercy of the modern medical system.
• Chapter 7: Health and Diet From its earliest days The Farm has been a leading example on the value of a healthy lifestyle, and its influence has played a major role in the increasing awareness on the benefits of a plant based diet.
• Chapter 8: Housing and Construction Early on, Farm builders experimented with passive solar design, earth berms, rammed earth and built almost exclusively with recycled materials. The community's Solar School is still the largest passive solar building in the state of Tennessee. On the current Farm, new homes provide examples of the many different approaches to green building.
• Chapter 9: Land and Water The Farm Community's ability to maintain the integrity of its land base is a dynamic achievement, and like no other aspect of its existence, creates the unity that defines its cohesive identity. Human relationships ebb and flow, experience conflict and resolution, are born and fade away, but the spirit of the land endures. Both current and former members identify their connection to the land as a spiritual touchstone. As our world deals with the effects of climate change, including terrible draughts, preservation of this vital resource remains an important concern.
• Chapter 10: The Gate and Membership In an era where "crash pad" was considered almost synonymous with hippy, it may come as some surprise to consider that in the early years , The Farm's gate was perhaps its most critical organizational structure, the one thing that made it possible to continue beyond the first year. The Gate was, and still is, considered the front door to our collective home, which means ideally each person living on The Farm should be as comfortable and safe as if they were inside their own living room.
• Chapter 11: Tribal Cultures As The Farm Community began to establish its own identity by creating something real, it had something to offer native people that went beyond purchasing crafts and colonial empathy. It started by providing midwifery training to women from the Onondaga Nation or Iroquois Confederacy in upstate New York. It grew by leaps and bounds when in 1976, The Farm's relief effort, a nonprofit called Plenty (because there is enough when you share) went to Guatemala, sending over 100 volunteers down to work with the Mayan people rebuilding after a devastating earthquake.
• Chapter 12: Living Green - The Future Farm As we look ahead to the future, it seems clear that the western model of capitalism is collapsing under its own weight as it fails to address the needs of people, the environment and the sustainability of life on our planet. Life in community serves two purposes. For its members, intentional community is a lifeboat, offering a buffer from the instability of economic systems, the breakdown of the nuclear family, and vital elements such as food production. Intentional communities also serve as flagships, leading the way as visible, viable alternatives to mainstream consumerism and corporate dominance over our lives. It has been 40+ years since the caravan of buses pulled on to the land in Tennessee. The Farm has reached middle age. No longer able to ride on the energy and enthusiasm of its idealistic beginnings, The Farm faces the challenge of passing the momentum on to a new generation. Over the next 20 years, the founding members of The Farm will enter their 70'and 80's, placing a greater financial and management burden on those currently under the age of 40 who represent about 1/3 of the community's population. Can The Farm attract enough new people to maintain the population levels it needs to support its massive infrastructure and internal economy? If the past is any indicator, this School of Change will continue its evolution, following a path that will insure its survival for decades to come.
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In the Summer of Love in San Francisco's Haight-Asbury, a charismatic young hippie by the name of Stephen Gaskin launched "Monday Night Class"-a weekly event which drew together an eclectic mix of truth-seekers and flower children. Soon the class became a caravan, and after touring the country this colorful crew decided to seek a plot of land and found a commune based on their shared values. Thus was born The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. The Farm Then and Now presents the story of a group that has defied the odds, blending idealism with a practical approach to intentional community and creating a model for sustainable living. Just as the Monday Night Classes taught students to open their hearts and minds, The Farm continues as a School of Change, demonstrating ways to operate collectively in terms of: * Land, water, and stewardship * Health care, building, and infrastructure * Cooperation, compassion, and spiritual values For humans to survive as a species, we must relearn the skills needed to work together; the lessons of The Farm can be applied in any community or organization. The Farm Then and Now addresses both the successes and shortcomings of this unique ongoing social experiment, showing how what was once the largest commune in the world has evolved into an exceptional example of living lightly on the earth. Douglas Stevenson has been a member of The Farm Community for forty years. His company Green Life Retreats hosts the Farm Experience Weekend and other instructional seminars about sustainable living.
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• Non-Conventional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Engineering; Preface; Table of Contents;
• Chapter 1: Bamboo and Wood; Bamboo Mast for Lightweight Arquitecture; Analysis of the Fiber Density in Bamboo Guadua angustifolia Kunth by Extended Field Microscopy and High Resolution Images Processing; Determination of the Delamination Percentage of Compacted Bamboo Guadua Using Extended Field Digital Images Processing; Environmental Savings Potential from the Use of Bahareque (Mortar Cement Plastered Bamboo) in Switzerland; Introducing Bamboo in the Education of the Building Engineer.

• Mechanical Behavior of Bamboo Species Guadua angustifolia under Compression along the Thickness of the CulmMechanical Behavior of Glued Laminated Pressed Bamboo Guadua Using Different Adhesives and Environmental Conditions; New Approaches to Bond between Bamboo and Concrete; The Bubble Hall: Bamboo Reticular Geodesic Structure with the Shape of a Soap Bubble; The Importance of Shear in the Deflection of Bamboo Beams; Analysis of Wood Laminated Beams Reinforced with Sisal Fibres; Connection Efficiency of Wood-Concrete Structural Floor System.

• Elastic Properties of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanically Modified Bamboo (Guadua angustifolia Kunth) Measured in Tension
• Chapter 2: Earthen Materials and Constructions; Building with Earth
• Brazil's Most Popular Raw Earth Building Techniques and the Opinion of Experienced Builders; Comparing the Environmental Impact of Stabilisers for Unfired Earth Construction; Evaluation of Physical Properties of Adobe Chemically Stabilized with Synthetic Termite Saliva; Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of Adobe Chemically Stabilized with ""Synthetic Termite Saliva""

• Fabric Reinforcement for Improved Toughness of Adobe Block Wall SystemsFeasibility Study of the Manufacturing Process of Soil-Cement Blocks for the Construction of Masonry Aiming to Eliminate the Settling Mortar Application; Geopolymer Stabilisation of Unfired Earth Masonry Units; Heritage Earth Construction and Hygrothermal Comfort: The Challenge of Rebuilding in Central Chile; Preliminary Evaluation of the Adoption of Machines for the Partial Mechanization of Adobe Production; Reinforcement of Adobe Constructions with Toad Rush Mesh; Stabilization of Raw Earth through Alkaline Activation.

• Chapter 3: Cement, Mortar and ConcreteEffect of High Temperature on Properties of Bricks Using Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag as Aggregate Replacement; Effect of Milling Process for Rice Husk Ash on Mechanical Strength of Blended Portland Cement Mortars; Evaluation of Compatibility between Sugarcane Straw Particles and Portland Cement; Effect of Recycled Concrete Aggregates and Natural Pozzolana on Rheology of Self-Compacting Concrete; Evaluation of Concrete Produced with Pebble from the Region of Tangará da Serra-MT.

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 14th International Conference on Non-Conventional Materials and Technologies Construction Materials and Technologies for Sustainability (14th NOCMAT 2013) March 24-27, 2013, Joao Pessoa, Brazil. The 84 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Bamboo and Wood; Chapter 2: Earthen Materials and Constructions; Chapter 3: Cement, Mortar and Concrete; Chapter 4: Standards, Guidelines and Policy Issues; Chapter 5: Composites Reinforced with Vegetable Fibers; Chapter 6: Structural Integrity and Durability; Chapter 7: Advances in Research Methodolo.

• List of Illustrations
• 1. What I Lived For
• 2. Sustainable Compromises
• 3. Where I Lived
• 4. Water
• 5. Design
• 6. Foundations
• 7. El Sol
• 8. Economics
• 9. The Beautiful Tree and Other Disasters
• 10. The Amoeba
• 11. Straw That Broke The
• 12. Finances
• 13. Collaboration
• 14. Artifacts
• 15. Solitude
• 16. Visitors
• 17. Thick Skin in a Winter of Discontent
• 18. Spring
• 19. Higher Laws
• 20. Post script: Mistakes Were Made Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography.
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Living simply isn't always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise-until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he'd built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years later, he decided to try again. This time, with an idealism tempered by experience and practical considerations, Boye and his wife constructed an off-the-grid, energy-efficient, straw bale house in Vermont. Sustainable Compromises chronicles these two remarkable attempts to live simply in two disparate American eras. Writing with hard-won authority and humor, Boye takes up the "how-to" practicalities of "building green, " from finances to nuts and bolts to strains on friends and family. With Walden as a historical and philosophical touchstone and his own experience as a practical guide, he also explores the ethical and environmental concerns that have framed such undertakings from Thoreau's day to our own. A firsthand account of the pleasures and pitfalls of living simply, his book is a deeply informed and engaging reflection on what sustainability really means-in personal, communal, ethical, and environmental terms.
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• A transparency turn in global environmental governance / Aarti Gupta and Michael Mason
• The lost innocence of transparency in environmental politics / Arthur P.J. Mol
• The national context for transparency-based global environmental governance / Ann Florini and Bharath Jairaj
• So far but no further? Transparency and disclosure in the Aarhus convention / Michael Mason
• Global pesticide governance by disclosure : prior informed consent and the Rotterdam Convention / Kees Jansen and Milou Dubois
• Risk governance through transparency : information disclosure and the global trade in transgenic crops / Aarti Gupta
• Transparency in the governance of access and benefit sharing from genetic resources / Amandine Orsini, Sebastian Oberthür, and Justyna Pożarowska
• Making REDD+ transparent : the politics of measuring, reporting, and verification systems / Aarti Gupta [and others]
• The political economy of governance by disclosure : carbon disclosure and nonfinancial reporting as contested fields of governance / Janelle Knox-Hayes and David Levy
• Tamed transparency and the global reporting initiative : the role of information infrastructures / Klaus Dingwerth and Margot Eichinger
• Transparency in energy governance : the extractive industries transparency initiative and publish what you pay campaign / James Van Alstine
• Learning through disclosure : the evolving importance of transparency in the practice of nonstate certification / Graeme Auld and Lars H. Gulbrandsen
• Transparency and environmental equity : the international finance corporation's disclosure practices / Timothy Ehresman and Dimitris Stevis
• Transparency revisited / Michael Mason and Aarti Gupta.

A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role. Transparency-openness, secured through greater availability of information-is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of economic, political, and ethical problems in an interconnected world. The "transparency turn" in global environmental governance in particular is seen in a range of international agreements, voluntary disclosure initiatives, and public-private partnerships. This is the first book to investigate whether transparency in global environmental governance is in fact a broadly transformative force or plays a more limited, instrumental role. After three conceptual, context-setting chapters, the book examines ten specific and diverse instances of "governance by disclosure." These include state-led mandatory disclosure initiatives that rely on such tools as prior informed consent and monitoring, measuring, reporting and verification; and private (or private-public), largely voluntary efforts that include such corporate transparency initiatives as the Carbon Disclosure Project and such certification schemes as the Forest Stewardship Council. The cases, which focus on issue areas including climate change, biodiversity, biotechnology, natural resource exploitation, and chemicals, demonstrate that although transparency is ubiquitous, its effects are limited and often specific to particular contexts. The book explores in what circumstances transparency can offer the possibility of a new emancipatory politics in global environmental governance.
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• The environment in Palestine in the late Ottomas period, 1789-1918
• The environmental legacy of the Fellaheen and the Bedouin
• Human impact on wildlife in Israel since the nineteenth-century
• Zionist and Israeli perspectives on population growth and environmental impact in Palestine and Israel
• Combating desertification : evolving perceptions and strategies
• The agricultural roots of Israel's water crisis
• Open space in an urban society
• The battle of the "True Believers" : environmentalism in Israeli party politics
• Environmental challenges facing the Arab Society in Israel
• A prolonged recessional : the continuing influence of British rule on Israeli environmental law
• Marin-pollution abatement along Israel's Mediterranean coast : a story of policy success
• Olive green : environment, militarism, and the Israel Defense Forces
• "Going beyond Israel" : epistemic communities, global interests, and international environmental agreements
• Toward sustainable development : mainstreaming environment in Israel
• Anthropogenic climate change in Israel
• Nature knows no boundaries? : notes toward a future history of regional environmentalism
• The future of the Israeli environmental movement : is a major paradigm shift under way?

The environmental history of Israel is as intriguing and complex as the nation itself. Situated on a mere 8,630 square miles, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf, varying from desert to forest, Israel's natural environment presents innumerable challenges to its growing population. The country's conflicted past and present, diverse religions, and multitude of cultural influences powerfully affect the way Israelis imagine, question, and shape their environment. Zionism, from the late nineteenth onward, has tempered nearly every aspect of human existence. Scarcities of usable land and water coupled with border conflicts and regional hostilities have steeled Israeli's survival instincts. As this volume demonstrates, these powerful dialectics continue to undergird environmental policy and practice in Israel today. Between Ruin and Restoration assembles leading experts in policy, history, and activism to addresses Israel's continuing environmental transformation from the biblical era to the present and beyond, with a particular focus on the past one hundred and fifty years. The chapters also reflect passionate public debates over meeting the needs of Israel's population and preserving its natural resources. The chapters detail the occupations of the Ottoman Empire and British colonialists in eighteenth and nineteenth century Palestine, as well as Fellaheen and pastoralist Bedouin tribes, and how they shaped much of the terrain that greeted early Zionist settlers. Following the rise of the Zionist movement, the rapid influx of immigrants and ensuing population growth put new demands on water supplies, pollution controls, sanitation, animal populations, rangelands and biodiversity, forestry, marine policy, and desertification. Additional chapters view environmental politics nationally and internationally, the environmental impact of Israel's military, and considerations for present and future sustainability.
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• ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""
• Chapter 1 The Encounter""; ""
• Chapter 2 The Childhood of an Activist""; ""
• Chapter 3 Going Underground""; ""
• Chapter 4 The Short Career of an Activist Politician""; ""
• Chapter 5 Meeting Mira Behn""; ""
• Chapter 6 Marriage and the Parvatiya Navjeevan Ashram""; ""
• Chapter 7 Embracing the Trees""; ""
• Chapter 8 Modes of Chipko Resistance""; ""
• Chapter 9 A Permanent Economy""; ""
• Chapter 10 Chipko Ecology: Shallow or Deep?""; ""
• Chapter 11 Srinagar to Kohima: An Educational Mission""; ""
• Chapter 12 Protesting the Tehri Dam""

• ""
• Chapter 13 Social Ecology, Religion, and the Tehri Protest""""The Dam and the Hindu Right""; ""The Rising Tide and the Judgment of the Supreme Court""; ""
• Chapter 14 Against the Tide: Bahugunaâ€?s Philosophy of Life, Religion, and Nature""; ""Bahuguna and Gandhi""; ""Bahuguna, Gandhi, and Ecology""; ""Bahuguna and Indian Spirituality""; ""
• Appendix 1 Some Critical Dates in the History of Modern India and the Activism of Sunderlal Bahuguna""; ""
• Appendix 2 Arguments of the Petitioners in the Public Interest Litigation against the Tehri Dam""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""

• 1 Front Matter-- 2 Summary-- 3 1 Introduction-- 4 2 Risk Assessment and Uncertainty-- 5 3 Uncertainty in Technological and Economic Factors in EPA's Decision Making-- 6 4 Uncertainty and Decision Making: Lessons from Other Public Health Contexts-- 7 5 Incorporating Uncertainty into Decision Making-- 8 6 Communication of Uncertainty-- 9 7 Synthesis and Recommendations-- 10 Appendix A: Approaches to Accounting for Uncertainty-- 11 Appendix B: Committee Member Biographical Sketches-- 12 Appendix C: Meeting Agendas.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of several federal agencies responsible for protecting Americans against significant risks to human health and the environment. As part of that mission, EPA estimates the nature, magnitude, and likelihood of risks to human health and the environment; identifies the potential regulatory actions that will mitigate those risks and protect public health1 and the environment; and uses that information to decide on appropriate regulatory action. Uncertainties, both qualitative and quantitative, in the data and analyses on which these decisions are based enter into the process at each step. As a result, the informed identification and use of the uncertainties inherent in the process is an essential feature of environmental decision making. EPA requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convene a committee to provide guidance to its decision makers and their partners in states and localities on approaches to managing risk in different contexts when uncertainty is present. It also sought guidance on how information on uncertainty should be presented to help risk managers make sound decisions and to increase transparency in its communications with the public about those decisions. Given that its charge is not limited to human health risk assessment and includes broad questions about managing risks and decision making, in this report the committee examines the analysis of uncertainty in those other areas in addition to human health risks. Environmental Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty explains the statement of task and summarizes the findings of the committee.
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• Introduction: How A Biology Teacher Became Involved with The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Her Classes-- Environmental Education: The Challenge of Conceiving Nature-- Getting to Know & Appreciate Nature: An Integrative Proposal-- Research & Teaching: Actions Performed City-- Conclusion: Limits & Possibilities of the Proposal Presented-- References-- Appendices-- Index.
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The call for changes in the situation of environmental degradation that characterizes the contemporary world has come from diverse sectors of society, and education has an important role to play. To achieve this goal, educational efforts must contemplate the natural, as well as the cultural aspects of the environment. The theme can be addressed at the different levels of formal teaching, by adopting an interdisciplinary approach that addresses the aesthetic dimension of natural and man-made environments. The purpose of this book is to present the analysis of an intervention, developed in biology classes related to the environmental thematic focusing on ecological knowledge and aesthetic dimension of natural and man-made environments. The author analyses the engagement and participation of high school students and some possibilities and limits for the development of such activities.
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• The environment and environmental science
• Environmental science: the fundamentals
• Environmental chemistry
• Environmental biology
• Environmental toxicology
• Environmental geology and groundwater hydrology
• Environmental sampling and analyses
• Technology and the environment
• The atmosphere: basic air quality
• Meteorology
• Atmospheric pollutants
• Atmospheric air dispersion
• Atmospheric change
• All about water: Earth's blood
• Freshwater: surface and ground sources
• Water pollution and control
• Soil characteristics, pollution, and pollution control
• Solid/hazardous wastes and control.

The goal of Environmental Science: Principles and Practices provides the scientific principles, concepts, applications, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and human-made, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and to examine alternative solutions, such as renewable energy sources, for resolving and even preventing them.
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• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Environmental Winds Chapter Two: Fleeting Intersections and Transnational Work Chapter Three: The Art of Engagement Chapter Four: Making an Indigenous Space Chapter Five: On the Backs of Elephants Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography.
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Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site-specific social interactions that complicate and defy divisions between 'global' and 'local.' The book brings the reader into the lives of Chinese scientists, officials, villagers, and expatriate conservationists who were caught up in environmental trends over the past 25 years. Hathaway reveals how global environmentalism has been enacted and altered in China, often with unanticipated effects, such as the rise of indigenous rights, or the reconfiguration of human/animal relationships, fostering what rural villagers refer to as "the revenge of wild elephants.".
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• How to Use This Book
• Introduction Documenting Global Change
• Part 1. Population Are We Too Many, or Are We Too Greedy?
• An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) / Malthus, Thomas
• The Shadow of the World's Future (1928) / Knibbs, George
• "Ghost Acreage" (1962) / Borgström, Georg
• The Population Bomb (1968) / Ehrlich, Paul
• Part 2. Sustainability Are We Limited by Knowledge or Resources?
• Sylvicultura oeconomica (1713) / Carlowitz, Hans Carl Von
• Sylvicultura oeconomica / Carlowitz, Hans Carl Von
• The Coal Question (1865) / Jevons, William Stanley
• "Possible Limits of Raw-Material Consumption" (1956) / Ordway, Samuel H.
• The Limits to Growth (1972) / Meadows, Donella H. / Randers, Jorgen / Meadows, Dennis L.
• Part 3. Geographies Are Human and Natural Futures Determined or Chosen?
• The Pulse of Asia (1907) / Huntington, Ellsworth
• "Nature Versus The Australian" (1920) / Taylor, Griffith
• The Northward Course of Empire (1922) / Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
• Part 4. "The Environment" How Did the Idea Emerge?
• How Did the Idea Emerge? / Vernadsky, Vladimir I.
• Deserts on the March (1935) / Sears, Paul
• Road to Survival (1948) / Vogt, William
• Silent Spring (1962) / Carson, Rachel
• Part 5. Ecology How Do We Understand Natural Systems?
• Essay on the Geography of Plants (1807) / Humboldt, Alexander Von / bonpland, aimé
• "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" (1935) / Tansley, A.G.
• Fundamentals of Ecology (1953) / Odum, Eugene P.
• Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems (1973) / Holling, C.S.
• Part 6. Technology Does Technology Create More Problems Than It Solves?
• The Tree of Science (1857) / Huzar, Eugène
• To Choose a Future (1972) / Myrdal, Alva
• "The Dynamics of Energy Systems and the Logistic Substitution Model" (1979) / Marchetti, Cesare / Nakicenovic, Nebojsa
• Part 7. Climate How Can We Predict Change?
• "On the Transmission of Heat" (1859) / Tyndall, John
• "On the Infl uence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground" (1896) / Arrhenius, Svante
• "Seasonal Foreshadowing" (1930) / Walker, Gilbert t.
• "The Artifi cial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Infl uence on Temperature" (1938) / Callendar, G.S.
• "Unpleasant Surprises in the Greenhouse?" (1987) / Broecker, Wallace S.
• "Climate and Atmospheric History of the Past 420,000 Years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica" (1999) / Petit, J.R. / Jouzel, J. / Raynaud, D.
• Part 8. Diversity Why Do We Need It, and Can We Conserve It?
• The Invaders (1958) / Elton, Charles S.
• The Forestry Projections and the Environment: Global-Scale Environmental Impacts (1980)
• "What Is Conservation Biology?" (1985) / Soulé, Michael E.
• "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" (1997) / Guha, Ramachandra
• Part 9 Measuring How Do We Turn the World into Data?
• An Investigation of the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean (1832) / Rennell, James
• "Current Problems in Meteorology" (1957) / Rossby, Carl-Gustaf
• Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems (1997) / Daily, Gretchen C.
• The Economics of Climate Change (2006) / Stern, Nicholas
• Part 10. The Anthropocene How Can We Live in a World Where There Is No Nature Without People?
• "The 'Anthropocene''' (2000) / Crutzen, Paul J. / Stoermer, Eugene F.
• "A Safe Operating Space for Humanity" (2009) / Rockström, Johan / steffen, will / noone, kevin
• "Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism" (2011) / Hulme, Mike
• Select Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Commentators
• Selection Credits
• Index
• About the editors.

This anthology provides an historical overview of the scientific ideas behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy, and public perception. Through an array of texts and commentaries that examine the themes of progress, population, environment, biodiversity and sustainability from a global perspective, it explores the meaning of the future in the twenty-first century. Providing access and reference points to the origins and development of key disciplines and methods, it will encourage policy makers, professionals, and students to reflect on the roots of their own theories and practices.
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• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction: Nature's Strange Bedfellows
• Chapter 1. Arizona Portraits: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part I
• Chapter 2. Precious Bodily Fluids: Fluoridation, Environmentalism, and Antistatism
• Chapter 3. The Environmental Conscience of a Conservative: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part II
• Chapter 4. Tending Nature with the Invisible Hand: The Free-Market Environmentalists
• Chapter 5. Like a Scarlet Thread: Into the Political Wilderness with Edward Abbey
• Epilogue: The Fading Green Elephant; Or, the Decline of Antistatist Environmentalism
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index.

A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since the environmental movement's beginnings. In this wide-ranging history, Drake explores the tensions inherent in balancing an ideology dedicated to limiting the power of government with a commitment to protecting treasured landscapes and ecological health. Drake argues that "antistatist" beliefs--an individualist ethos and a mistrust of government--have colored the American passion for wilderness but also complicated environmental protection efforts. While most of the successes of the environmental movement have been enacted through the federal government, conservative and libertarian critiques of big-government environmentalism have increasingly resisted the idea that strengthening state power is the only way to protect the environment. Loving Nature, Fearing the State traces the influence of conservative environmental thought through the stories of important actors in postwar environmental movements. The book follows small-government pioneer Barry Goldwater as he tries to establish federally protected wilderness lands in the Arizona desert and shows how Goldwater's intellectual and ideological struggles with this effort provide a framework for understanding the dilemmas of an antistatist environmentalism. It links antigovernment activism with environmental public health concerns by analyzing opposition to government fluoridation campaigns and investigates environmentalism from a libertarian economic perspective through the work of free-market environmentalists. Drake also sees in the work of Edward Abbey an argument that reverence for nature can form the basis for resistance to state power. Each chapter highlights debates and tensions that are important to understanding environmental history and the challenges that face environmental protection efforts today.
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• Preface and acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction : the stories environmental networks tell us
• 2. A theory of "more than social" networks
• 3. The turn to narrative analysis
• 4. Narrative, network, and conservation on the Arizona-Sonora border
• 5. Narrating the ethical landscape of the Turtle Islands
• 6. Narratives of nature and science in alternative farming networks
• 7. Expanding the ecological imagination.

Theory and case studies demonstrate the analytic potential of mutually constitutive "narrative networks" in environmental governance. For as long has humans have lived in communities, storytelling has bound people to each other and to their environments. In recent times, scholars have noted how social networks arise around issues of resource and ecological management. In this book, Raul Lejano, Mrill Ingram, and Helen Ingram argue that stories, or narratives, play a key role in these networks-that environmental communities "narrate themselves into existence." The authors propose the notion of the narrative-network, and introduce innovative tools to analyze the plots, characters, and events that inform environmental action. Their analysis sheds light on how environmental networks can emerge in unlikely contexts and sustain themselves against great odds. The authors present three case studies that demonstrate the power of narrative and narratology in the analysis of environmental networks: a conservation network in the Sonoran Desert, which achieved some success despite U.S.-Mexico border issues; a narrative that bridged differences between community and scientists in the Turtle Islands; and networks of researchers and farmers who collaborated to develop and sustain alternative agriculture practice in the face of government inaction. These cases demonstrate that by paying attention to language and storytelling, we can improve our understanding of environmental behavior and even change it in positive ways.
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• Introduction: The Indomitable City and Its Environmental Context / Steven M. Avella
• Part I. Boomtown Sacramento
• John A. Sutter and the Indian Business / Albert L. Hurtado
• River City : Sacramento's Gold Rush Birth and Transfiguration / Kenneth N. Owens
• "We Must Give the World Confidence in the Stability and Permanence of the Place" : Planning Sacramento's Townsite, 1853-1870 / Nathan Hallam
• Railroads and the Urban Environment : Sacramento's Story / Richard J. Orsi
• Part II. Valley Reclamation
• The Perils of Agriculture in Sacramento's Untamed Hinterland / David Vaught
• Rivers of Gold, Valley of Conquest : The Business of Levees and Dams in the Capital City / Todd Holmes
• Forging Transcontinental Alliances : The Sacramento River Valley in National Drainage and Flood Control Politics, 1900-1917 / Anthony E. Carlson
• Both "Country Town" and "Bustling Metropolis" : How Boosterism, Suburbs, and Narrative Helped Shape Sacramento's Identity and Environmental Sensibilities / Paul J.P. Sandul
• Part III. Government Town
• Unseen Investment : New Deal Sacramento / Gray Brechin and Lee M.A. Simpson
• The Legacy of War : Sacramento's Military Bases / Rand Herbert
• Recalling Rancho Seco : Voicing a Nuclear Past / Christopher J. Castaneda
• Part IV. Reclaiming the Past
• Dreams, Realizations, and Nightmares : The American River Parkway's Tumultuous Life, 1915-2011 / Alfred E. Holland, Jr.
• Thunder over the Valley : Environmental Politics and Indian Gaming in California / Tanis C. Thorne
• The Invention of Old Sacramento : A Past for the Future / Lee M.A. Simpson and Lisa C. Prince
• Epilogue: Sacramento, Before and After the Gold Rush / Ty O. Smith.

Often referred to as "the Big Tomato, " Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican land grant into New Helvetia (or "New Switzerland"). It was at Sutter's sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold was first discovered, leading to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Nearly overnight, Sacramento became a boomtown, and cityhood followed in 1850. Ideally situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the city was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the surrounding region. Combined with the area's warm and sunny climate, the rivers provided the necessary water supply for agriculture to flourish. The devastation wrought by floods and cholera, however, took a huge toll on early populations and led to the construction of an extensive levee system that raised the downtown street level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when local entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in 1869 it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form the first transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became an industrial hub and major food-processing center. By 1879, it was named the state capital and seat of government. In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area benefitted from the federal government's major investment in the construction and operation of three military bases and other regional public works projects. Rapid suburbanization followed along with the building of highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would later shut down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts attract patrons to the area, while "Old Sacramento" revitalizes the original downtown as it celebrates Sacramento's pioneering past. This environmental history of Sacramento provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail yards, and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and green spaces created and expanded, Sacramento's identity continues to evolve. As it moves beyond its Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and government-town heritage, Sacramento remains a city and region deeply rooted in its natural environment.
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• Prologue
• 1. Stories of Origin
• 2. Abbey's Road, Black's Highway
• 3. Roadless in Negro Bill Canyon
• 4. Posturing on the Burr Trail
• 5. Abundance and Scarcity in the Book Cliffs
• 6. Heritage on the Grand Staircase-Escalante
• 7. Off-Roading in Arch Canyon
• 8. Making a Desert Landscape
• Epilogue.

The canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona-a celebrated desert of rock and sand punctuated by gorges and mesas-is a region hotly contested among vying and disparate interests, from industrial developers to wilderness preservation advocates. Roads are central to the conflicts raging in an area perceived as one of the last large road less places in the continental United States. The canyon country in fact contains an extensive network of dirt trails and roads, many originally constructed under the authority of a one-sentence statute in an 1866 mining law, later known as R.S. 2477. While well-groomed and paved roads came to signify the industrialization of the modern age, twentieth century conservationists have regarded roads as intrusive human imprints on the US's wild lands. Roads connect rural communities, spur economic growth, and in some cases blend harmoniously into the landscape, but they also fracture and divide, disturb wildlife and habitat, facilitate industrial development, and spoil wilderness. Rogers reflects on the meaning of roads amid environmental conflicts that continue to grip the canyon country. Transporting readers from road controversies like the infamous Burr Trail battle to the contentious web of roads in Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument to off-roading in Arch Canyon - Rogers demonstrates how the conflicts are deeply rooted in history and culture. The first permanent Anglo-American settlers in the region were Mormon pioneers and current views about land and resource use in southern Utah often derive from stories about how those pioneer ancestors defied wilderness to found their communities in the desert. Roads in the Wilderness will be of interest to environmentalists, historians, and those who live in the American West, challenging readers to think about the canyon country and the stories embedded in the land.
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• Introduction: why citizen science? / Janis L. Dickinson and Rick Bonney
• Overview of citizen science / Rick Bonney and Janis L. Dickinson
• Projects and possibilities: lessons from citizen science projects
• Using bioinformatics in citizen science / Steve Kelling
• Growing the base for citizen science: recruiting and engaging participants / Miyoko Chu, Patricia Leonard, and Flisa Stevenson
• What is our impact? Toward a unified framework for evaluating outcomes of citizen science participation / Tina Phillips, Rick Bonney, and Jennifer L. Shirk
• The opportunities and challenges of citizen science as a tool for ecological research / Caren B. Cooper, Wesley M. Hochachka, and André A. Dhondt
• Widening the circle of investigation: the interface between citizen science and landscape ecology / Benjamin Zuckerberg and Kevin McGarigal
• Using data mining to discover biological patterns in citizen science observations / Daniel Fink and Wesley M. Hochachka
• Developing a conservation research program with citizen science / Ralph S. Hames, James D. Lowe, and Kenneth V. Rosenberg
• Citizens, science, and environmental policy: a British perspective / Jeremy J.D. Greenwood
• Cognitive considerations in the development of citizen science projects / Rebecca C. Jordan [and others]
• Who poses the question? Using citizen science to help K-12 teachers meet the mandate for inquiry / Nancy M. Trautmann [and others]
• A gateway to science for all: celebrate urban birds / Karen Purcell, Cecilia Garibay, and Janis L. Dickinson
• Children and nature: following the trail to environmental attitudes and behavior / Nancy M. Wells and Kristi S. Lekies
• Internet-based social networking and collective action models of citizen science: theory meets possibility / Heather A. Triezenberg [and others]
• A role for citizen science in disaster and conflict recovery and resilience / Keith G. Tidball and Marianne E. Krasny.

Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project BudBurst collect valuable research data, which, when pooled together, create an enormous body of scientific data on a vast geographic scale. In return, such projects aim to increase participants' connections to science, place, and nature, while supporting science literacy and environmental stewardship. In Citizen Science, experts from a variety of disciplines-including scientists and education specialists working at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where many large citizen science programs use birds as proxies for biodiversity-share their experiences of creating and implementing successful citizen science projects, primarily those that use massive data sets gathered by citizen scientists to better understand the impact of environmental change. This first and foundational book for this developing field of inquiry addresses basic aspects of how to conduct citizen science projects, including goal-setting, program design, and evaluation, as well as the nuances of creating a robust digital infrastructure and recruiting a large participant base through communications and marketing. An overview of the types of research approaches and techniques demonstrates how to make use of large data sets arising from citizen science projects. A final section focuses on citizen science's impacts and its broad connections to understanding the human dimensions and educational aspects of participation. Citizen Science teaches teams of program developers and researchers how to cross the bridge from success at public engagement to using citizen science data to understand patterns and trends or to test hypotheses about how ecological processes respond to change at large geographic scales. Intended as a resource for a broad audience of experts and practitioners in natural sciences, information science, and social sciences, this book can be used to better understand how to improve existing programs, develop new ones, and make better use of the data resources that have accumulated from citizen science efforts. Its focus on harnessing the impact of "crowdsourcing" for scientific and educational endeavors is applicable to a wide range of fields, especially those that touch on the importance of massive collaboration aimed at understanding and conserving what we can of the natural world.
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• Preface-- Motivation-- Background: Society, Sustainability, Environment & Energy-- An Introduction to the Environment, Ecology & Exergy,
• History of Exergy & Environmental & Ecological Methods-- Exergy-- Suitable Reference Environments for Environmental & Ecological Assessments-- Exergy & the Environment-- Exergy & Ecology-- Correlations between Exergy & Other Indicators of Environmental Impact-- Exergy-Based Environmental & Ecological Methods-- Extending Exergy, Environment & Ecology Relations to Economics-- Exergy Applications-- Exergy & Environment Applications-- Exergy & Ecology Applications-- Assessing Earths Resources Using Exergy-- Assessing Polluted Materials-- Allocating Carbon Dioxide Emissions for Cogeneration Using Exergy-- Assessing Environmental Impacts of Aerospace Operations with Exergy.
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Growing concerns about the environmental and ecological implications of industrial and other systems, as well as the impact of energy resource utilisation, are fostering increasing interest in environmental and ecological protection. Such understanding is crucial to advancing the quest for a cleaner environment and sustainability. New approaches to ecology and the environment that provide an engineering perspective and a scientific basis to activities are of particular interest. The integration of the thermodynamic quantity exergy with the environment and ecology provides a novel approach that offers significant potential to improve environmental and ecological management. A brief summary is presented here of existing analysis techniques which integrate exergy with ecological and environmental factors.
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• Introduction
• 1. "Me" to "We" throughout history
• 2. The first commitment: See the systems you are part of
• 3. The second commitment: Be accountable for all the consequences of your actions
• 4. The third commitment: Abide by society's most deeply held universal principles of morality and justice
• 5. The fourth commitment: Acknowledge your trustee obligations and take responsibility for the continuation of all life
• 6. The fifth commitment: Choose your own destiny
• 7. Conclusion: It is up to you.
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In From Me to We: The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life, systems change expert Bob Doppelt reveals that most people today live a dream world, controlled by false perceptions and beliefs. The most deeply held illusion is that all organisms on Earth, including each of us, exist as independent entities. At the most fundamental level, the change needed to overcome our misperceptions is a shift from focusing only on "me" - our personal needs and wants - to also prioritizing the broader "we": the many ecological and social relationships each of us are part of, those that make life possible and worthwhile. Research shows that by using the techniques described in this book this shift is possible - and not that difficult to achieve. From Me to We offers five transformational "commitments" that can help you change your perspective and engage in activities that will help resolve today's environmental and social problems. Not coincidentally, making these commitments can improve the quality of your life as well. Bob Doppelt's latest book is a wake-up call to the creed of individualism. He calls for recognition of the laws of interdependence, cause and effect, moral justice, trusteeship, and free will. The book will be essential to all of those interested in how we can create and stimulate a sea change in how to enable the necessary behavioral change we need to deal with the myriad environmental and social pressures consuming the planet.
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• The Physical Character of the Hudson and Its Watershed
• Water, Circulation, and Salinity in the Hudson River
• A Brief Introduction to the Hudson's Water Chemistry
• Habitats, Biological Communities, and Biota
• Ecology of the Major Habitats in the Hudson River : The Freshwater Channel
• The Brackish-Water Channel
• The Vegetated Shallows
• Wetlands
• PCBs and Other Pollution in the Hudson
• Habitat Change and Restoration in the Hudson
• Hudson River Fisheries
• Nonnative Species and Their Ecological Effects
• Conclusion: A Few Parting Thoughts.

This succinct book gives an intimate view of the day-to-day functioning of a remarkable river that has figured prominently in history and culture - the Hudson, a main artery connecting New York, America, and the world. Writing for a wide audience, David Strayer distills the large body of scientific information about the river into a non-technical overview of its ecology. Strayer describes the geography and geology of the Hudson and its basin, the properties of water and its movements in the river, water chemistry, and the river's plants and animals. He then takes a more detailed look at the Hudson's ecosystems and each of its major habitats. Strayer also discusses important management challenges facing the river today, including pollution, habitat destruction, overfishing, invasive species, and ecological restoration.
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• Chapter 1: Introduction by Jason Scott Johnston PART I. Institutions for Climate Science Assessment
• Chapter 2: The Cost of Cartelization: The IPCC Process and the Crisis of Credibility in Climate Science
• by Jason Scott Johnson
• Chapter 3: Adversarial versus consensus Processes for assessing scientific evidence: Should the IPCC operate more like a courtroom? by Ross McKitrick Part II. Taxonomy and Endangered Species Regulation
• Chapter 4: On The Origin Of Specious Species by Rob Roy Ramey II
• Chapter 5: Politics and Science in Endangered Species by Katrina Miriam Wyman Part III. Reforming the Role of Science in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation
• Chapter 6: Reconciling the Scientific & Regulatory Timetables by James W. Conrad, Jr.
• Chapter 7: Improving the Use of Science to Inform Environmental Regulation by Susan E. Dudley & George M. Gray
• Chapter 8: A Return to Expertise?: A Proposal for an Institute of Scientific Assessments by Gary E. Marchant.
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Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change to endangered species protection and traditional health-based environmental regulation. Regulatory laws and institutions themselves strongly influence the direction of scientific research by creating a system of rewards and penalties for science. As a consequence, regulatory laws or institutions that are designed naively end up incentivizing scientists to generate and then publish only those results that further the substantive regulatory goals preferred by the scientists. By relying so heavily on science to dictate policy, regulatory laws and institutions encourage scientists to use their assessment of the state of the science to further their own preferred scientific and regulatory policy agendas. Additionally, many environmental and natural resource regulatory agencies have been instructed by legislatures to rely heavily upon science in their rulemaking. In areas of rapidly evolving science, regulatory agencies are inevitably looking for scientific consensus prematurely, before the scientific process has worked through competing hypotheses and evidence. The contributors in this volume address how institutions for regulatory science should be designed in light of the inevitable misfit between the political or legal demand for regulatory action and the actual state of evolving scientific knowledge.
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• Attitudes, rivers, and environmental fixes
• Reading water and minds
• Attitude change: Aldo Leopold meets the Bennington women
• Attitudes are not everything
• Educating the public ... and other disasters
• NORMS
• Aldo Leopold and the flying horse
• Avoiding the cognitive fix keeper hole
• Going with the flow
• Increasing the flow: activating and creating norms
• Thinking beyond the rim.

Solving environmental problems requires a scientific understanding of public attitudes. Bringing together theory and practice, 'Navigating Environmental Attitudes' provides a realistic understanding of why and how attitudes matter when it comes to environmental problems; and how, by balancing natural with social science, we can step back from false assumptions and unproductive, frustrating programs to work toward fostering successful, effective environmental action.

• Rachel Carson: Challenging Authors
• DEDICATION
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• RACHEL CARSON, ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND THE WEB OF LIFE
• CHAPTER 1: BIOGRAPHY1: Rachel Carson: The Poet Laureate of the Sea (Ballard)
• CHILDHOOD
• EDUCATION
• CAREER AT THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, AND EARLY PUBLICATIONS
• CAREER AFTER LEAVING THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
• POLITICAL ACTIVITY
• HONORS, AWARDS AND PUBLIC SPEAKING
• CARSON'S LAST YEARS
• NOTES
• CHAPTER 2: NATURE WRITING: A WHIRLWIND TOUR
• CHAPTER 3: BOOKS ABOUT THE SEA: Who has known the Ocean?
• UNDER THE SEA WIND
• Writing the Book
• Summary of the Book
• Responses to the Book
• Reviews of the Book
• THE SEA AROUND US
• Writing the Book
• Summary of the Book
• Part I. Mother Sea?
• Part II. The Restless Sea
• Part III. Man and the Sea about Him
• Responses to the Book
• THE EDGE OF THE SEA
• Writing the Book
• Summary of the book
• Responses to the Book
• CHAPTER 4: WORDS TO LIVE BY: CARSON'S OTHER WRITING: Field Notes, Essays, Reviews, and Government Brochures
• GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
• ESSAYS IN NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
• Undersea
• SPEECHES
• Honorary Degree Scripps College June 1962 Of Man and the Stream of Time
• National Council of Women of the U.S. Oct 11, 1962
• National Womena's Press Club speech Dec 5, 1962
• Cullum medal of the American Geographic Society December 5, 1963
• TV SCRIPT CLOUDS
• THE SENSE OF WONDER
• LETTERS TO DOROTHY FREEMAN
• CHAPTER 5: SILENT SPRING (1962)
• BACKGROUND ON PESTICIDES BEFORE DDT
• Pest Control in Agriculture
• Early U.S. Government Regulation of Pesticides
• DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF DDT(DICHLORO-DIPHENYL-TRICHLOROETHANE)
• Use of DDT in World War II
• DDT in the Cold War
• Early Challenges to DDT U
• CARSON TAKES ON THE CHALLENGE
• SILENT SPRING: SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION OF THE BOOK
• 1. A Fable for Tomorrow
• 2. The Obligation to endure
• 3. Elixirs of Death
• 4. Surface Waters and Underground Seas
• 5. Realms of the Soil
• 6. Earth's Green Mantle
• 7. Needless Havoc
• 8. And No Birds Sing
• 9. Rivers of Death
• 10. Indiscriminately from the Skies
• 11. Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias
• 12. The Human Price
• 13. Through a Narrow Window
• 14. One in Every Four
• 15. Nature Fights Back
• 15. The Rumblings of an Avalanche
• 17. The Other Road
• TIMELINESS OF THE BOOK
• REASONS FOR THE BOOK'S POPULARITY
• CHEMICAL COMPANY REACTIONS
• REVIEWS OF THE BOOK
• Negative Reviews
• Positive reviews
• CBS REPORTS
• CARSON'S TESTIMONY IN CONGRESS.

Karen F. Stein University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA Rachel Carson is the twentieth century's most significant environmentalist. Her books about the sea blend science and poetry as they invite readers to share her celebration of the ocean's wonders. Silent Spring, her graphic and compelling exposé of the damage caused by the widespread aerial spraying of persistent organic pesticides such as DDT, opened our eyes to the interconnectedness of all living beings and the ecological systems we inhabit. Carson's work challenges our belief that science and technology can control the natural world, asks us to recognize our place in the world around us, and inspires us to treat the earth respectfully. She calls us to rekindle our sense of wonder at nature's power and beauty, and to tread lightly on the earth so that it will continue to sustain us and our descendants. This book guides readers on a journey through Carson's life and work, considers Carson's legacies, and points to some of the continuing challenges to sustainability. It provides a listing of resources for reading, learning, or teaching about the environment, about nature writing, and about Carson and the crucial issues she addressed.

• Living in a sacrifice zone: gender, the political economy of coal, and anti/mountaintop removal activism
• Gender and anti/mountaintop removal activism: expanding the environmental justice framework
• Remembering the past, working for the future: West Virginia women fight for sustainable communities and environmental heritage
• Saving the endangered hillbilly: Appalachian stereotypes and cultural identity in the anti/mountaintop removal movement
• Situating the particular and the universal: gender, environmental justice, and mountaintop removal in a global context.

Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced. The Appalachian women featured in Barry's book have firsthand experience with the negative impacts of Big Coal in West Virginia. Through their work in organizations such as the Coal River Mountain Watch and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, they fight to save their mountain communities by promoting the development of alternative energy resources. Barry's engaging and original work reveals how women's tireless organizing efforts have made mountaintop removal a global political and environmental issue and laid the groundwork for a robust environmental justice movement in central Appalachia.
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• Introduction: Sustainability in higher education / Kelly A. Parker
• Sustainability for everyone: trespassing disciplinary boundaries / Douglas Klahr
• Sustainability as a core issue in diversity and critical thinking education / Danielle Lake
• Sustainable happiness and education: educating teachers and students in the 21st century / Catherine O'Brien
• A Christian contribution to sustainability / Chris Doran
• The hungry text: toward a sustainable literary food pedagogy / Tom Hertweck and Kyle Bladow
• The rhetoric of sustainability: ecocomposition and environmental pragmatism / Kimberly R. Moekle
• Writing banana republics and guano bonanzas: consumerism and globalization in the composition classroom / George English Brooks
• Sustainably growing farmers of the future: undergraduate curriculum in sustainable agriculture at the University of Kentucky / Keiko Tanaka [and others]
• Using a multilevel approach to teach sustainability to undergraduates / Stacey A. Hawkey, Valdeen Nelsen, and Bruce I. Dvorak
• Growing sustainability in health-care management education / Carrie R. Rich, J. Knox Singleton, and Seema Wadhwa
• Teaching ecotourism in the backyard of Waikiki, Hawai'i / John Cusick
• Who will teach the teachers?: Reorienting teacher education for the values of sustainability / Patrick Howard
• E-portfolios in a liberal studies program: an experiment in sustainability / P. Sven Arvidson
• The paperless classroom / Justin Pettibone and Kirsten Allen Bartels
• Communicating sustainability: teaching sustainable media practice / Alex Lockwood, Caroline Mitchell, and Evi Karathanasopoulou
• Roadblocks to applied sustainability / Bart A. Bartels
• Teaching sustainability leadership / Courtney Quinn and Gina Matkin
• Teaching sustainability to future museum professionals / Sarah S. Brophy
• Escaping the structural trap of sustainability in academia through global learning environments / Tamara Savelyeva
• Making sustainability a core value / Christine Drewel.

Over the coming decades, every academic discipline will have to respond to the paradigm of more sustainable life practices because students will be living in a world challenged by competition for resources and climate change, and will demand that every academic discipline demonstrate substantial and corresponding relevance. This book takes as its point of departure that integrating a component of sustainability into a discipline-specific course arises from an educator asking a simple question: in the coming decades, as humanity faces unprecedented challenges, what can my discipline or area of.

• Acknowledgments A Note on Names
• 1. "That Dose of Unreality": An Introduction to Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary
• 2. "Dream Flowers": Fiction and Utopian Imagination in Neo-Paganism and Alternative Communities
• 3. Faerie and Avalon: Reimagining Nature
• 4. "A Loose-Knit Anarchy": Reimagining Organization
• 5. "The Land of Misfit Toys": Reimagining Community and Freedom
• 6. "Something Mystical and Fine": Reimagining Ritual and Spiritual Experience
• 7. "A Gypsy Community": Cycling, Learning, and Moving On
• 8. "A Spontaneous Social Experiment" Notes Bibliography Index.
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In An Unreal Estate, Lucinda Carspecken takes an in-depth look at Lothlorien, a Southern Indiana nature sanctuary, sustainable camping ground, festival site, collective residence, and experiment in ecological building, stewardship, and organization. Carspecken notes the way fiction and reality intertwine on this piece of land and argues that examples such as Lothlorien have the power to be a force for social change. Lothlorien's organization and social norms are in sharp contrast with its surrounding communities. As a unique enclave within a larger society, it offers to the latter both an implicit critique and a cluster of alternative values and lifestyles. In addition, it has created a niche where some participants change, grow, and find empowerment in an environment that is accepting of difference-particularly in areas of religion and sexual orientation.
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• Foreword-- Preface
• Antarctica: Continent Dedicated to Science-- An Insight Into The Ocean-Ice-Air Interactions Over The East Antarctic Marine Boundary Layer: Unique Phenomena-- Land-Ice-Air-Ocean Interactions In The Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica-- Effects of UV-B radiations on Terrestrial Ecosystem of Antarctica & their defense mechanisms-- Ultraviolet Radiation Stress: Response & Protective Strategies of Antarctic Flora-- Antarctic mosses, limiting factors & their distribution-- Affinities of lichen flora of Indian subcontinent vis-a-vis Antarctic & Schirmacher Oasis-- Water relation of some common lichens occurring in Schirmacher Oasis, E. Antarctica-- Solar wind influence on atmospheric processes in winter Antarctica-- Atmospheric Observations at Dome C, Antarctic Plateau, one of the Coldest Place in the World-- Impact Of Individual Responsibility In Changing Global Warming?-- Navigation with Global Positioning System in Antarctic Circle-- Index.
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Antarctica is a magnificent display of interaction between air and the various phases of water in a pristine environment. This interaction has led to the formation of many unique features over the Antarctic continent. Antarctica is now emerging as an important key in the understanding of global and environmental concerns. Its unique features have provided scientists with special opportunities to investigate the origin of the continents, pollution at the global level, ozone hole healing and changes in the global climate. However, lack of scientific data remains a major problem for researchers in many areas of Antarctic science. This book fills the gaps in the process of understanding Antarctic science.
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• Information disclosure and environmental performance
• How does information disclosure work?
• Reducing toxic releases and community risks
• States of green : regional variations in environmental performance
• Facility-level perspectives on the TRI and environmental performance
• Environmental leaders and laggards : explaining performance
• Conclusions and policy implications.

An investigation into the policy effects of requiring firms to disclose information about their environmental performance. Coming Clean is the first book to investigate the process of information disclosure as a policy strategy for environmental protection. This process, which requires that firms disclose information about their environmental performance, is part of an approach to environmental protection that eschews the conventional command-and-control regulatory apparatus, which sometimes leads government and industry to focus on meeting only minimal standards. The authors of Coming Clean examine the effectiveness of information disclosure in achieving actual improvements in corporate environmental performance by analyzing data from the federal government's Toxics Release Inventory, or TRI, and drawing on an original set of survey data from corporations and federal, state, and local officials, among other sources. The authors find that TRI-probably the best-known example of information disclosure-has had a substantial effect over time on the environmental performance of industry. But, drawing on case studies from across the nation, they show that the improvement is not uniform: some facilities have been leaders while others have been laggards. The authors argue that information disclosure has an important role to play in environmental policy-but only as part of an integrated set of policy tools that includes conventional regulation.
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• Preface-- Environmental Considerations into Strategic & Tactical Planning of Supply Chains-- The Links between Environmental Regulation & Competitiveness: The Case of the Agriculture Sector in Andalucia-- Enhancing Environmental Planning through the Use of the Thermodynamic Quantity Exergy-- Environmental Planning Inputs by the Forest Sector: The Scale Factor, the Connection Planning-Management & the Relations with other Planning Sectors in Italy-- Operations Research Methods in Production Management with Environmental Constraints-- Policy Analytical Capacity in the Environmental Sector: Survey Results from Canada-- Governance & Public Participation in the Network Society-- Industrial Ecology in the Planning & Management of Industrial Parks-- Developing a Drought Planning Evaluation System in the United States-- Incorporating Environmental Hazards Mitigation into Local Land Use Planning-- Index.
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Environmental and ecological impacts are important considerations in environmental planning. This book presents current research data in the field of environmental planning including the strategic and tactical planning of supply chains; the links between environmental regulation and competitiveness; industrial ecology in the planning and management of industrial parks; developing a drought planning evaluation system in the United States; and incorporating environmental hazards mitigation into local land use planning.
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• pt.
• 1. Framework for environmental management
• pt.
• 2. Selected tools for environmental management
• pt.
• 3. Emerging environmental issues.

The 21st century qualifies as one in which humanity raised environmental decay, especially climate change, as a key global concern requiring urgent political attention. The book Framework and Tools for Environmental Management in Africa is written from this perspective. It provides researchers from different disciplines including environmental sciences, engineering, commerce, planning, education, agriculture and law, as well as NGOs, government officials, policy makers and researchers, with a platform to engage with concerns relating to sustainable environmental management in this epoch. Topics covered include global landmarks for environmental governance, environmental management on African agenda, sustainability reporting, environmental impact assessment and public participation as well as environmental education. These remain viable in the African set-up where major development projects in mining and agriculture require greater scrutiny. With a collection of both revision and critical reflection questions, carefully constructed by authors with significant experiences from institutions of higher learning across Africa, readers will find this publication a valuable addition to their shelves.

• Foreword / Donald Edward Davis
• Introduction Environmental Justice and Appalachia / Michele Morrone and Geoffrey L. Buckley
• pt. 1: Perspectives
• The Theoretical Roots and Sociology of Environmental Justice in Appalachia / Stephen J. Scanlan
• A Legacy of Extraction Ethics in the Energy Landscape of Appalachia / Brian Black
• Pollution or Poverty The Dilemma of Industry in Appalachia / Nancy Irwin Maxwell
• pt. 2: Citizen Action
• "We Mean to Stop Them, One Way or Another" : Coal, Power, and the Fight against Strip Mining in Appalachia / Chad Montrie
• Commons Environmentalism Mobilized : The Western North Carolina Alliance and the Cut the Clearcutting! Campaign / Kathryn Newfont
• Injustice in the Handling of Nuclear Weapons Waste The Case of David Witherspoon, Inc. / John Nolt
• 3: In Their Own Words
• Housewives from Hell Perspectives on Environmental Justice and Facility Siting / Michele Morrone and Wren Kruse
• Stories about Mountaintop Removal in the Appalachian Coalfields / Geoffrey L. Buckley and Laura Allen
• Afterword: An American Sacrifice Zone / Jebediah S. Purdy.

Research in environmental justice reveals that low-income and minority neighborhoods in our nation's cities are often the preferred sites for landfills, power plants, and polluting factories. Those who live in these sacrifice zones are forced to shoulder the burden of harmful environmental effects so that others can prosper. Mountains of Injustice broadens the discussion from the city to the country by focusing on the legacy of disproportionate environmental health impacts on communities in the Appalachian region, where the costs of cheap energy and cheap goods are actually quite high. Through compelling stories and interviews with people who are fighting for environmental justice, Mountains of Injustice contributes to the ongoing debate over how to equitably distribute the long-term environmental costs and consequences of economic development. Contributors: Laura Allen, Brian Black, Geoffrey L. Buckley, Donald Edward Davis, Wren Kruse, Nancy Irwin Maxwell, Chad Montrie, Michele Morrone, Kathryn Newfont, John Nolt, Jedediah S. Purdy, and Stephen J. Scanlan.
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Although most people prefer not to think about them, hazardous wastes, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and a variety of other issues affect the quality of land, water, and air in the Land of Enchantment, as they do all over the world. In this book, veteran New Mexico journalist V. B. Price assembles a vast amount of information on more than fifty years of deterioration of the state's environment, most of it hitherto available only in scattered newspaper articles and government reports. Viewing New Mexico as a microcosm of global ecological degradation, Price's is the first book to give the general public a realistic perspective on the problems surrounding New Mexico's environmental health and resources.
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• Chapter 1 Enviromnental Data, Information and Indicators for Natural Resources Management / Nilgun B. Harmancioglu Harmancioglu, Nilgun B., Cem Polat Cetinkaya Cetinkaya, Cem Polat, Filiz Barbaros Barbaros, Filiz 1
• 1.1 Introduction 2
• 1.2 Data versus information 6
• 1.3 Environmental data analysis 15
• 1.4 Decision making for environmental management 34
• 1.5 SMART and OPTIMA projects: Gediz case study 41
• 1.6 Concluding remarks 58
• References 63
• Chapter 2 Application of Statistics in Earthquake Hazard Prediction / Endi Zhai Zhai, Endi 67
• 2.1 Introduction 67
• 2.2 Mathematical formulation 68
• 2.3 Earthquake intensity attenuation relations 74
• 2.4 An example of earthquake hazard prediction using historical seismicity data 74
• 2.5 Summary 78
• References 79
• Chapter 3 Adaptive Sampling of Ecological Populations / Jennifer A. Brown Brown, Jennifer A. 81
• 3.1 Introduction 81
• 3.2 Adaptive cluster sampling 82
• 3.3 Adaptive allocation for stratified and two-stage sampling 87
• 3.4 Discussion 92
• Acknowledgements 93
• References 93
• Chapter 4 Statistics in Environmental Policy Making and Compliance in Surface Water Quality in California, USA / Jian Peng Peng, Jian 97
• 4.1 Introduction 97
• 4.2 Clean Water Act and Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act 98
• 4.3 Statistics in environmental standards and water quality criteria 99
• 4.4 Statistics in environmental sampling design 103
• 4.5 California State 303(d) listing policy 104
• 4.6 Total maximum daily loads 108
• 4.7 Implementation of environmental regulations 110
• Acknowledgements 112
• References 113
• Chapter 5 Solving Complex Environmental Problems Using Stochastic Data Analysis: Characterisation of a HydrothermaI Aquifer Influenced by a Karst, Example of Rennes les Bains, France / Alain Mangin Mangin, Alain, Farid Achour Achour, Farid 117
• 5.1 Introduction 117
• 5.2 Presentation of the Rennes les Bains site and water geochemistry 118
• 5.3 Analysis of piezometric time series 120
• 5.4 Evidence of the presence of a thermal convection 134
• 5.5 Conclusion 135
• References 136
• Chapter 6 Application of Statistics in the Evaluation and Optimisation of Environmental Sampling Plans / Meng Ling Ling, Meng, Jeff Kao Kao, Jeff 141
• 6.1 Introduction 141
• 6.2 Approach 142
• 6.3 Site applications 151
• 6.4 Summary 160
• References 161
• Chapter 7 Statistical Accounting for Uncertainty in Modelling Transport in Environmental Systems / James Weaver Weaver, James, Jordan Ferguson Ferguson, Jordan, Matthew Small Small, Matthew, Biplab Mukherjee Mukherjee, Biplab, Fred Tillman Tillman, Fred 163
• 7.1 Introduction 163
• 7.2 Model background 166
• 7.3 Parameter data 168
• 7.4 Transport in uniform aquifers 171
• 7.5 Vapour intrusion of hazardous compounds into indoor air 173
• 7.6 Contamination of municipal well fields 175
• 7.7 One source simulation 180
• 7.8 Two, four and six source simulations 184
• 7.9 Conclusion 190
• Acknowledgement 191
• References 191
• Chapter 8 Petroleum Hydrocarbon Forensic Data and Cluster Analysis / Jun Lu Lu, Jun 195
• 8.1 Introduction 195
• 8.2 Cluster analysis 196
• 8.3 Types of petroleum hydrocarbons or related data for forensic analysis 198
• 8.4 Examples 204
• 8.5 Concluding remarks 214
• Acknowledgements 214
• References 215
• Chapter 9 Anomaly Detection Methods for Hydrologists, Hydrogeologists and Environmental Engineers / Farid Achour Achour, Farid, Jean-Pierre Laborde Laborde, Jean-Pierre, Lynda Bouali Bouali, Lynda 217
• 9.1 Introduction 217
• 9.2 Different types of errors 219
• 9.3 Anomaly detection methods 219
• 9.4 Construction of a virtual time series of reference 227
• 9.5 Case study 234
• 9.6 Conclusion 237
• References 240
• Chapter 10 Statistical Methods and Pitfalls in Environmental Data Analysis / Yue Rong Rong, Yue 243
• 10.1 Introduction 243
• 10.2 Estimation of percentile and confidence interval 244
• 10.3 Correlation coefficient 247
• 10.4 Regression 249
• 10.5 Analysis of variance 252
• 10.6 Data trend analysis 256
• 10.7 Summary and conclusions 258
• Acknowledgement 258
• References 259.

"Describes the application of statistical methods in different environmental fields, with an emphasis on how to solve real-world problems in complex systems"--Provided by publisher.

• Introduction-- Water-- Energy-- Health-- Agriculture-- Biodiversity-- Other issues-- IGAC/DEBITS-AFRICA (IDAF)-- Africa Environmental Outlook-- Conclusions-- Index.
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A booming economy, high population, land-locked location, remote separated and poorly accessible rural areas, large reserves of oil, large mining sector and cattle farming on a large scale, are all factors which are most influential to the total water scene in Africa. It is expected that the pace of implementation of water infrastructure will increase and the quality of work will improve in addition to building the capacity of the private and district staff in contracting procedures. This book discusses the urgent need to study possible rehabilitation measures in order to ensure a sustainable and excellent water quality and improved sanitation for African citizens.
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• A place created by change
• Change by nature
• Change by humankind
• Understanding the "sea of troubles" facing coastal communities
• Attempts at controlling change by nature
• Living with change in coastal communities
• Time and change
• An apprenticeship with change.

The constant assault of natural forces make fragile barrier islands some of the most rapidly changing locations in the world, but human activities have had enormous impact on these islands as well. In Altered Environments, Jeffrey and Kathleen Pompe explore the complex interactions between nature and human habitation on the resilient Outer Banks of North Carolina. The Pompes employ modern and historical photographs and maps to illustrate the geographic and ecologic changes that have taken place on the Outer Banks, evaluating efforts to preserve these lands and also meet the evolving needs of a growing population.The Pompes examine the various forces that have created an environment so very different from the Outer Banks of only a few decades ago. The defining event in the reshaping of the islands for expanded development was the dune-construction project of the 1930s, when the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed a wall of self-sustaining dunes along 125 miles of Outer Banks shoreline in an effort to stave off beach erosion. This event created a historical demarcation in conservation efforts and heralded the beginning of a period of rapid economic development for the Outer Banks. The construction project reshaped the islands' geography to accomplish perceived economic advantages and prepared the Outer Banks for the last half of the twentieth century, when tourists increasingly visited this shore, bringing corresponding developments in their wake. The dune-restoration project is just one of the Pompes' examples of how human actions have altered the islands to meet the demands of a growing number of visitors and residents. Using the Outer Banks as a case study to frame a host of environmental challenges faced along the Atlantic seaboard today, the Pompes provide a valuable commentary on the historical context of these concerns and offer some insightful solutions that allow for sustainable communities.
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• Introduction
• Voluntary environmental programs
• An overview of performance track
• Methodology
• Assessment of performance track's concept and design phases
• Assessment of performance track's implementation phase
• Cooperation with other state and EPA programs
• The role of voluntary and regulatory programs in accelerating environmental improvements
• Findings, conclusions, and lessons learned for moving forward with voluntary programs at EPA
• Appendix A: Semistructured interview questions
• Appendix B: Discussion guide for focus groups with performance track members
• Appendix C: Discussion guide for focus group with EPA regional coordinators.

This report addresses the conceptual basis of the National Environmental Performance Track program, a voluntary program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency between 2000 and 2009; its program design; and its implementation. Performance Track sought to improve the quality of the environment by encouraging facilities to recognize and improve all aspects of their environmental performance and by providing a range of benefits, including broad-based recognition, regulatory benefits, and a more open and collaborative relationship between facilities and their regulators. While Performance Track's concepts, design, and implementation had mixed success, the significant environmental challenges that the United States faces require that EPA continue to seek out new approaches that can complement and enhance traditional regulatory approaches. The authors recommend that EPA continue to experiment with voluntary programs, designing tightly focused ones; promote information sharing and networking among regulated entities; strive for complete, clear, and understandable program concepts, designs, and expectations; protect the EPA brand; independently evaluate key program elements; continue to try to change corporate culture to benefit the environment; and identify new ways to independently validate environmental performance.

• Preface-- Changes in the Arctic: Background & Issues for Congress-- Arctic Report Card: Update for 2009-- Polar Bears: Listing under the Endangered Species Act-- Pacific Walrus Response to Arctic Sea Ice Losses (U.S. Geological Survey)-- Possible Federal Revenue from Oil Development of ANWR & Nearby Areas-- U.S. Arctic Research Commission Recommends Steps to Expanded U.S. Funding for Arctic/Subarctic Oil Spill Research-- Retrospective Analysis of Sea Surface Temperature in the Northern Bering & Chukchi Seas-- Opening Statement of Chairman Berman, Hearing on "Climate Change & the Arctic: New Frontiers of National Security"-- Statement of Scott G Borgerson, Visiting Fellow for Ocean Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations, before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives-- Statement of Dr Robert W Corell, Vice President for Programs & Policy, The H John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics & the Environment & Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, before the Committee on Foreign Relations, Hearing on "Climate Change & the Arctic: New Frontiers of National Security"-- Testimony of Mead Treadwell, Chair, U.S. Arctic Research Commission & Senior Fellow, Institute of the North, before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Hearing on "Climate Change & the Arctic: New Frontiers of National Security"-- Index.
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The loss of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the Arctic, and has heightened concerns about the region's future. Issues such as Arctic sovereignty claims; commercial shipping through the Arctic; Arctic oil, gas, and mineral exploration; endangered Arctic species; and increased military operations in the Arctic could cause the region in coming years to become an arena of international co-operation, competition, or conflict. The United States, by virtue of Alaska, is an Arctic country and has substantial political, economic, energy, environmental, and other interests in the region. Decisions that Congress, the executive branch, foreign governments, international organisations, and commercial firms make on Arctic-related issues could affect these interests. This book provides an overview of Arctic-related background information and issues.
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• Power to the public hearing : the importance of citizenship to the environmental movement
• The smoky city : public involvement in controlling air pollution in Pittsburgh
• "I belong here!" : citizens environmentalism in Pittsburgh and the United States
• Mother of urban skies : environmental education and the rhetoric of women's activism
• "Where the rubber meets the road" : implementation and the rhetoric scientific expertise of the Variance Board, 1970-1975
• Citizens and the courts : United States Steel, Jones & Laughlin, and the limits of local control.

Using a case study of environmental debates about air pollution in Pittsburgh during the late 1960s and early 1970s, James Longhurst examines larger trends in citizen activism outside party politics, linking those trends with the rights revolution of the late twentieth century. He draws upon journalistic accounts, archival documents, legal records, and interviews to explore the actions and arguments of GASP (Group Against Smog and Pollution). This group of environmental activists gained access to political power through claims to citizenship and scientific expertise, supported by the organizational skills, social capital, and maternal rhetoric of middle-class women. Once they gained entry to a newly confrontational policy process, the group engaged in furious public debates over implementation, enforcement, and employment, all amid the decline of Pittsburgh's industrial economy. The grassroots actions of GASP, and many other groups like it across the nation, show that new developments in policy-making, concepts of citizenship, and the long-standing tradition of middle-class women's civic activism did more to drive the creation of the modern environmental movement than did changes in environmental philosophy.--From publisher description.

• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS-- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS-- PREFACE-- A. OVERVIEW-- B. THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM-- C: GLOBAL JUSTICE AND FUTURE GENERATIONS-- D: POLICY RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE-- E. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY-- REFERENCES-- INDEX.
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This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of broad interest to all those concerned with global justice, environmental science and policy, and the future of humanity.
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• Preface-- Developments in Applying Biotechnology Tools in Environmental Engineering-- Energy Master Planning: The Case of New Jersey-- Removal of Hazardous Materials from Aqueous Waste Streams Using Biomass & Enzymes With Reference to Environmental Control: Review-- Integrating Environmental Strategies into Industrial Production & Sustainable Development-- Studying Motor Development: A Biological & Environmental Perspective-- Phyto-Bioremediation of Polluted Marine Sediments: The Need of a Bio-Physical Approach-- Examination of University Students' Attitudes towards Environmental Problems: A Turkish Example-- Influence of Forest Disturbance on Water Discharge-- Are Environmental Factors Capitalized into the Nominal Median Price of Single-Family Homes?-- The Demographic Dimension of Climate Change-- Index.
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Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment. This book puts forward some key strategies for promoting Cleaner Production in China, for instance, integrating CP into sustainability strategies, technology innovations and industrial ecology. Furthermore, the authors examine the Energy Masting Planning, a comprehensive plan that addresses energy supply and consumption through 2020. The plan includes energy efficiency, renewable energy and infrastructure and land use policies and emphasises both the benefits and the limits of the approach. Furthermore, removal of toxic and heavy metal contaminants from aqueous environments is one of the most important environmental issues to face the world. In this book, aerobic degradation through bioaccumulation by bacteria and microalgae and enzyme-catalysed reduction-based remediation of toxicants from waste waters are discussed. Other chapters in this book examine the attitudes of university students towards the environment and environmental problems, the influence on the causes of forest decline and an analysis of specific factors that influence the nominal median price of single-family homes across states, with a particular emphasis placed on the capitalisation of environmental factors such as environmental pollution in the form of toxic chemical releases.
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