More than a decade after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Gulf Research Program convened a diverse group of 60 experts in a virtual event to inform its efforts to enhance resilience to future offshore oil disasters in the Gulf of Mexico region.
Radiation exposure at low doses (below 100 milligray) or low-dose rates (less than 5 milligray per hour) occurs in a wide range of medical, industrial, military, and commercial settings.
Whether the result of an oil well blowout, vessel collision or grounding, leaking pipeline, or other incident at sea, each marine oil spill will present unique circumstances and challenges.
To help prioritize among possible investments to improve the resilience of built infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico region, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a diverse group of experts for a 3-day interactive workshop on November 15, 16, and 18, 2021.
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.
Formaldehyde is widely present in the environment and is one of the highest production chemicals by volume, used in manufactured goods including wood products, permanent press fabrics, and household products.
Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed generation energy technologies such as rooftop solar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Empfehlung in der Kategorie »Das politische Buch 2020« der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung»Wer wirklich wissen will, warum das alles nicht so läuft mit Energiewende und Klimaschutz, der kaufe und lese dieses Buch.
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.
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.
Urban Sustainability and Justice presents an innovative yet practical approach to incorporate equity and social justice into sustainable development in urban areas, in line with the commitments of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda.
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 powers rise in some parts of the world.
Urban Sustainability and Justice presents an innovative yet practical approach to incorporate equity and social justice into sustainable development in urban areas, in line with the commitments of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda.
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 powers rise in some parts of the world.
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.
United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling ';optimistic view on why collective action is still possibleand how it can be realized' (The New York Times).
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.
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.
ACRLs Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2021Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence.
ACRLs Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2021Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence.
Honorable Mention, Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies, Latin American Studies AssociationVisual Culture Studies Section, 2023 Extractivism has increasingly become the ground on which activists and scholars in Latin America frame the dynamics of ecological devastation, accumulation of wealth, and erosion of rights.
An essential reference for journalists, activists, and students, this book presents scientifically accurate and accessible overviews of 24 of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including: health effects, nuclear safety and engineering, TMI and Chernobyl, nuclear medicine, food irradiation, transport of nuclear materials, spent fuel, nuclear weapons, global warming.
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.
Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert.
