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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
For twenty-five years, the Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada was designated as the sole destination for disposal of the nation's accumulated stockpiles of highly radioactive nuclear power and weapons wastes.
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.
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.
'Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts' seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities.
