POLS 346, Environmental
Politics and Policy
Links
organized into the following categories:
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access.washingtonÕs index to
environmental and natural resources sites |
Environmental News and Information
The Encyclopedia
of Earth and their Ocean-Oil
project (about The Oil Spill), supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation DUE
program.
Check Earth Portal.
The Yale
Center for Environmental Law and and
Policy publishes a sustainability index and an environmental
performance index.
The Sustainable
Aviation Fuels Users Group
Every wondered where the money you
spend on gasoline goes? Check this. Here is an argument about what we really pay for gasoline.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran a
series, in November of 2002, on Our
Troubled (Puget) Sound
The NCSE also
links Congressional
Research Service Reports.
CEWEP is about waste to energy
projects, in Europe
The Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative
UNT's CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
PHILOSOPHY
National
Center for Environmental Decision-making Research. The mission of NCEDR
is to improve environmental decision making at the subnational
level. NCEDR conducts research and outreach programs
intended to put better tools and information in the hands of public- and
private-sector environmental decision makers at regional, state, tribal, and
local levels. NCEDR was created in 1995 with a grant
from the National Science Foundation.
A useful web page from professor Ron Epstein at San
Francisco State University
Ethics
Updates, from the
Values Institute as UC San Diego
An interview on "Darwinian
Left" with Peter Singer, from Reason magazine.
The California Department of Toxic Substances Control, the
lead agency in that stateÕs Green
Chemistry Initiative, and a letter from the
industry-sponsored Green Chemical Alliance. The new initiative is somewhat modeled after REACH.
Those of us who like Michael Pollan on food, check where he got many of his ideas &
much of his inspration: Joan Gussow.
The online journal, Solutions.
Kenneth Arrow, et. al., ÒAre We Consuming
Too Much?Ó
Kahneman &n Krueger, ÒDevelopments
in the measurement of subjective well-beingÓ
The New Economic Foundation, with their
work on national accounts
of well-being, on natural economies,
and on well-being.
Links about activism, organizing, and
tactics in environmental
politics are available from enviroweb.
What about drilling for oil and gas in
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? See http://www.anwr.org/
National Academy Press, from the
National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council, has many online
titles about environmental and related issues. Browse their
categories and titles here.
The
Role of Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Environmental Protection
The Pace
Virtual Environmental Law Library contains many sources, but might
need updating.
Policy.com's issue links
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was an influential book in
the modern environmental movement. See the Rachel Carson
Homestead Association website.
International
Organizations and Issues
.
Environmental Treaties and Resource
Indicators (ENTRI) contains
many things about the topic; see their subject
index here.
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The International
Institute for Sustainable Development has many sources on their
site.
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The OECD has many documents available about
environmental and food/ag/fisheries issues.
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The United NationsÕ Framework Convention
on Climate Change.
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The United NationsÕ World Energy Assessment, linking
sustainability & humanitarian issues
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The United NationsÕEnvironment Programme
.
For other climate information, try the Carbon Dioxide
Information Analysis Center at Oak RidgeÉ.
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The World Trade Organization maintains a page on
its environmental issues.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) Secretariat was created to deal with
dispute resolution. The NAFTA-related North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
is found here.
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European Environmental
Law homepage
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International Whaling Commission, and the World Council of Whalers
©Sid Olufs, 2010.