Recently added articles from Environment:
A sustainability renaissance through the depression.(Editorial)
May 01, 2009; ... Well into the current global economic crisis, it is clear the adversity we face is unprecedented. The Great Depression of the 1930s took place in a world with some 2.5 billion people, undiscovered natural resources, and reasonably healthy ecosystems. But the Grand Depression we are ...
Water use: local, regional, and global considerations.(EDITOR'S PICKS)
May 01, 2009; ... Joanna Endter-Wada, Judith Kurtzman, Sean P. Keenan, Roger K. Kjelgren, and Christopher M. U. Neale, "Situational Waste in Landscape Watering: Residential and Business Water Use in an Urban Utah Community'' Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44, no. 4 (2008): 902-20; Paul ...
Academic geography for sustainability.(BYTES OF NOTE)
May 01, 2009; ... Sustainability science reaches across many different disciplines, encompassing natural sciences, social sciences, and policy research--but the discipline of geography comes closest to Eying it all together. Geography is a core discipline of sustainability science. Five of the 23 eminent ...
In search of effective and viable policies to reduce greenhouse gases.
May 01, 2009; ... The start of the Obama administration in 2009, following the return of Democratic party majorities in both houses of U.S. Congress in 2007, could mark a new chapter in the United States to reduce carbon dioxide ([CO.sub.2]) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With GHG control policy ...
Glacier retreat: reviewing the limits of human adaptation to climate change.
May 01, 2009; ... The world's mountains bear many glaciers, somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 by current estimates. (1) Nearly all are shrinking. (2) As temperatures increase, the massive banks of ice on mountain summits melt much faster than they did in the past. The fresh snows that fall each year ...
The sea around the Philippines: governance and management for a complex coastal ecosystem.
May 01, 2009; ... Spin a globe and plant a finger on it, and it will likely land in an ocean--no area of which remains entirely unaffected by human influence. Indeed, recent research has found that multiple anthropogenic drivers of generally damaging change strongly affect 41 percent of the world's oceans ....
A Point of Departure in Muddy Waters: Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for Business and Human Rights.(REPORT ON REPORTS)
May 01, 2009; ... The popular demand for corporate responsibility in the wave of the recent economic downturn has focused largely on business ethics, although other strands--corporate social responsibility, corporate environmentalism, and sustainable development--have also figured strongly in discussions on ...
Blue-Green coalitions: fighting for safe workplaces and healthy communities.(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... by Brian Mayer; ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2008; 232 pp., $55.00 hardcover (ISBN 978-0-8014-4722-8), $19.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8014-7463-7) Thoughtful environmentalists and community activists have long expressed concern about the lack of meaningful collaboration between the labor ...
Communicating science in the information age.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The public's understanding of science and technology becomes more and more important as each year goes by. Whether it be issues of global climate change, which this magazine has covered extensively, or questions about stem cell research, nuclear waste, or nanotechnology--the list goes on ...
Catalyzing the solar revolution.(EDITOR'S PICKS)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Matthew W. Kanan and Daniel G. Nocera, "In Situ Formation of an Oxygen-Evolving Catalyst in Neutral Water Containing Phosphate and [Co.sup.2]+," Science 321, no. 5892 (22 August 2008): 1072-75 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Putting solar power on the market as a competitive ...
Open and shut case studies.(EDITORS' PICKS)(Mechanisms to Improve Integrative Research at the Science-Policy Interface for Sustainable Catchment Management)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Christopher (Kit) Macleod, Kirsty L. Blackstock, and Phil M. Haygarth, "Mechanisms to Improve Integrative Research at the Science-Policy Interface for Sustainable Catchment Management," Ecology and Society 13, no. 2 (2008): article 48 Sustainability fundamentally depends on ...
Climate change and the cryosphere.(BYTES OF NOTE)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The cryosphere is the frozen-water component of the Earth system, comprising snow, ice, and permafrost. It sculpts the Earth's surface, leaving distinctive landforms as evidence of past glacial conditions. It also affects and is affected by a range of atmospheric processes: a blanket of ...
Education for sustainable development.(EDUCATION)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... In its seminal 1987 report, the Brundtland Commission defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs." (1) However, as media representatives at the 2002 UN World Summit of ...
Communicating climate change: why frames matter for public engagement.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Optimists hope that the time has finally arrived in the United States for major policy action on climate change. Fueling expectations, U.S. President Barack Obama has assembled a team of climate experts who are working with Congress, states, and foreign governments to propose legislation ...
Fleeing from the hurricane's wrath: evacuation and the two Americas.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was another one for the record books. In addition to its firsts--listed in the box below--the season tied with 2003 for fourth place in the number of named storms, and fifth for the number of hurricanes in a season, a ranking it shares with seven other ...
On the politics of sustainability a long way ahead: Sustaining Europe for a Long Way Ahead: Making Long-Term Sustainable Development Policies Work.(REPORT SYNOPSIS)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... We as humans love to forecast, but we seldom get our predictions right. Even when we feel we have explored all possible scenarios, some events still surprise us. Oil price rises, food shortages caused in part by diversion to biofuels, terrorist events, and the possible demise of the ...
Global Catastrophes And Trends: The Next Fifty Years.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... by Vaclav Smil; MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008; 320 pp., $29.95 hardcover (978-0-262-19586-7) On my refrigerator is a cartoon of a couple reading a newspaper with the caption, "If you use up your worry today, what will you have tomorrow?" To worry may be distinctively human, but ...
Water, Place, And Equity.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... edited by John M. Whiteley, Helen Ingram, and Richard Warren Perry; MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008; 318 pp., $25.00 paperback (ISBN 978-0-262-73191-1) Water, Place, and Equity, edited by three political scientists with extensive experience in natural resources management and ...
Global Environmental History.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... by I. G. Simmons; University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2008; 288 pp., $49.00 hardcover (ISBN 978-0-226-75810-7) With the publication of Global Environmental History, pioneering environmental historian I. G. Simmons offers a capstone treatise, the final installment in a ...
The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution And The Environment.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich; Island Press, Washington, DC, 2008; 428 pp., $35.00 hardcover (ISBN 978-1-597-26090-6) In The Dominant Animal, biologist Paul Ehrlich and conservationist Anne Ehrlich weave the threads of a sweeping range of scientific and economic ...