Recently added articles from Environment:
Journeys toward solutions.(EDITORIAL)
Jul 01, 2009; DeFries, Ruth S. ... In an ideal world, environmental problems move seamlessly to solutions. Scientists, laboring in their ivory towers, uncover an unforeseen threat to humanity. The word gets out, the public agitates, and policymakers implement incentives and regulations. The technology sector responds, ...
Can we grow sustainably?(EDITOR'S PICKS)
Jul 01, 2009; O'Riordan, Timothy ... Tim Jackson, Prosperity without Growth? The Transition to a Sustainable Economy (London: The UK Sustainable Development Commission, 2009) The UK Sustainable Development Commission provides an independent sustainability perspective on all matters of government policy and action ....
Conservation medicine.(BYTES OF NOTE)(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; Alders, Robyn G. ... Conservation medicine, an interdisciplinary field concentrating on the nexus of human and animal health and environmental conditions, has emerged in the last two decades in response to complex health issues as varied as highly pathogenic avian influenza, which connects humans, poultry ...
Stimulating a revolution in sustainable energy technology.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; Weiss, Charles ... A consensus is growing that the environmental, economic, and geopolitical costs of the world's addiction to fossil fuels justify a major U.S. federal program to stimulate technological innovation in energy. President Obama and Congress made a down payment on such a program in the February ...
Community-based adaptation to climate change: strengthening resilience through development.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; Ayers, Jessica ... International efforts to reduce and sequester carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are not yet slowing the rate of global warming. Indeed, the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) anticipates rapid changes in climate even if greenhouse gas ...
From red to green? Environmental attitudes and behavior in urban China.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; Liu, John Chung-En ... The People's Republic of China approaches its 60th anniversary on I October with much to celebrate, but the road ahead for the world's most populous nation is uncertain. Since the 1979 economic reforms ended collective agriculture, opened foreign trade, and began to give more autonomy to ...
The humane megacity: transforming New York's Waterfront.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; Platt, Rutherford H. ... Metropolitan New York is not the world's largest megacity--an urban region exceeding 10 million inhabitants--but it is the most experienced in the art of coping with being huge. In 1900, the newly consolidated Greater New York of 4.2 million inhabitants ranked second only to Greater London ...
