Macroeconomic models, essential for decision making and federal budget planning, may not appropriately consider the wide breadth of climate-related impacts that potentially have large macroeconomic significance.
Experiencing a single disaster - a hurricane, tornado, flood, severe winter storm, or a global pandemic - can wreak havoc on the lives and livelihoods of individuals, families, communities and entire regions.
The Routledge Handbook of Arctic Governance edited by Elena Conde and Corine Wood-Donnelly, is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted issues surrounding governance in the Arctic region.
The border region shared by the United States and Mexico is currently experiencing multiple crises on both sides that present challenges to safeguarding the region's sustainable natural resources and to ensuring the livelihoods of its residents.
New York Times BestsellerIn the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty.
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where about two-thirds of the nation's weapons plutonium was produced from 1944 to 1987, is the site of the largest and most complex nuclear cleanup challenge in the United States.
This is a retrospective on the five plus years I spent working at a high level in the North Carolina state government, my service as chairman of a congressionally established committee responsible for the development of a set of national forest planning regulations, and my thirteen years of service in North Carolinas coastal management commission.
An examination of Social Awakenment, History-Long Vision,Holistic Social Understanding & Strategies of TransformationAs viewed by five United States Citizens in 2011Lead author Gene Marshall with coauthors, Ben Ball, Marsha Buck, Ken Kreutziger, and Alan RichardThough vast changes are necessary, we believe humanity can find a vision and plan of action that is both satisfying and realistic.
Esta obra se estructura en seis lineas y parte de una conceptualizacion en la tematica de los residuos, reconociendo sus definiciones y clasificaciones, enmarcadas en cuatro grandes grupos: residuos solidos, peligrosos, de atencion en salud y otras actividades y de aparatos electricos y electronicos.
Recientemente se comprobó que el hielo del Ártico podría llegar a desaparecer mucho antes de la mitad de este siglo por el aumento de la temperatura de la tierra.
"Sobre la base de un razonamiento lógico, en el que el daño ambiental debe ser ante todo prevenido, las normas ambientales en Colombia se han centrado en atender a ese propósito y poco han hecho para garantizar una reparación efectiva de un gran número de daños que no logran prevenirse.
Gemeinsam mit Expertinnen und Experten haben wir, Abgeordnete der CDU-Landtagsfraktion in Rheinland-Pfalz, auch im Jahr 2023 wieder 20 Plädoyers für einen nachhaltigen und sozialen Markt zusammengestellt.
"Esta obra se estructura en seis líneas y parte de una conceptualización en la temática de los residuos, reconociendo sus definiciones y clasificaciones, enmarcadas en cuatro grandes grupos: residuos sólidos, peligrosos, de atención en salud y otras actividades y de aparatos eléctricos y electrónicos.
The Golden Age of nuclear energy in the United States has passed, and the accidents, if not disasters, at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima have damaged nuclear power's rise in some parts of the world.
The Golden Age of nuclear energy in the United States has passed, and the accidents, if not disasters, at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima have damaged nuclear power's rise in some parts of the world.
Bevor die Corona-Pandemie zu Beginn des Jahres fast alle Länder rund um den Erdball paralysierte, feierte die Weltgemeinschaft das "Greta-Jahr": Die schwedische Jugendliche hatte nicht nur die Fridays for Future ins Leben gerufen und damit den Beginn einer Klimaschutzdemonstrationswelle losgetreten, die für die Politik nicht mehr zu ignorieren war, sie wurde auch zur gefeierten Rednerin auf allen Wirtschafts- und Politikgipfeln, zur Ikone, die den politischen Weltmächten gegenüber trat.
Rio de Janeiro, Kyoto, Paris: An den unterschiedlichsten Orten der Erde kommt die Weltgemeinschaft regelmäßig zu den UN-Klimagipfeln zusammen – und entscheidet an deren Ende meist mit viel Mühe und nur unter Zähneknirschen eine schmale Protokollerklärung als kleinsten gemeinsamen und völkerrechtlich nur mittelbar bindenden Nenner.
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which todays industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which todays industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.
In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural, and economic implications of peak oil and climate change, and the generations-long era of energy descent that faces us.
