Environment back issues from January 1999:
Exploring environment-security connections.(World Wide Web sites on the relationship between environment and security)
Jan 01, 1999; ... Web surfers looking for information on the connections between the environment and security will quickly find out how many different ways these terms can be used. Asking the search engine Alta Vista to find all the documents containing both words, for example, yields more than half a ...
Environmental education in business school.(Column)
Jan 01, 1999; ... Are business schools training managers to tackle the tough environmental issues that they will face in the future? Is environmental education an integral part of the MBA curriculum? Unfortunately, the answer to both questions is "no." Environmental issues remain a tough sell at today's ...
Biomass energy versus carbon sinks: trees and the Kyoto protocol.(Column)
Jan 01, 1999; ... At first reading, the Kyoto protocol appears only to advocate planting and conserving trees (afforestation and reforestation) to create carbon sinks both in the trees themselves and in soils. Little is said about using trees and other biomass as an energy source in place of carbon ...
Glazed over: Canada copes with the ice storm of 1998.
Jan 01, 1999; ... Last January, a massive ice storm created a major disaster in eastern Ontario, southern Quebec, and parts of the maritime provinces, along with portions of New York and New England. At its heart was a power failure that affected 3.6 million people - more than 10 percent of the entire ...
Endangered species: endangered act?(includes related articles)(effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act)
Jan 01, 1999; ... On the 25th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, continued protection of plants and animals is itself threatened by legislative impasse. Last August, the staff at the 10,500-foot high Land's End Visitor Center on Colorado's Grand Mesa was startled by three visitors ....
Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... By Robert Kelly; University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1998; xxvii + 395 pp., $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-520-21428-5) Under natural conditions, the Sacramento River and its tributaries would annually create a huge "inland sea" covering hundreds of square miles of some of ...
Third World Political Ecology.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... By Raymond L. Bryant and Sinead Bailey; Routledge Press, New York and London, 1997; xii + 237pp., $65.00 cloth (ISBN 041-512743-2) The various academic and policy positions that currently give shape to the emerging field of political ecology share an underlying acknowledgment of ...
Greening transportation.(Transportation Research Board report entitled 'Toward a Sustainable Future: Addressing the Long-Term Effects of Motor Vehicle Transportation on Climate and Ecology')
Jan 01, 1999; ... Toward a Sustainable Future: Addressing the Long-Term Effects of Motor Vehicle Transportation on Climate and Ecology Reviewed by Malcolm Fergusson and Ian Skinner There is growing concern at the local, national, and global levels about the adverse environmental effects of ...
Exploring environment-security connections.
Jan 01, 1999; ... Web surfers looking for information on the connections between the environment and security will quickly find out how many different ways these terms can be used. Asking the search engine Alta Vista to find all the documents containing both words, for example, yields more than half a ...
Environmental education in business school.
Jan 01, 1999; ... Are business schools training managers to tackle the tough environmental issues that they will face in the future? Is environmental education an integral part of the MBA curriculum? Unfortunately, the answer to both questions is "no." Environmental issues remain a tough sell at today's ...
Biomass energy versus carbon sinks: trees and the Kyoto Protocol.
Jan 01, 1999; ... At first reading, the Kyoto protocol appears only to advocate planting and conserving trees (afforestation and reforestation) to create carbon sinks both in the trees themselves and in soils. Little is said about using trees and other biomass as an energy source in place of carbon ...
Glazed over: Canada copes with the ice storm of 1998.
Jan 01, 1999; ... Last January, a massive ice storm created a major disaster in eastern Ontario, southern Quebec, and parts of the maritime provinces, along with portions of New York and New England. At its heart was a power failure that affected 3.6 million people - more than 10 percent of the entire ...
Endangered species, endangered act?(includes related articles)(the future of the Endangered Species Act)
Jan 01, 1999; ... On the 25th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, continued protection of plants and animals is itself threatened by legislative impasse. Last August, the staff at the 10,500-foot high Land's End Visitor Center on Colorado's Grand Mesa was startled by three visitors ....
Greening transportation.(Transportation Research Board report)
Jan 01, 1999; ... Toward a Sustainable Future: Addressing the Long-Term Effects of Motor Vehicle Transportation on Climate and Ecology Reviewed by Malcolm Fergusson and Ian Skinner There is growing concern at the local, national, and global levels about the adverse environmental ...