Corporate Use of Environmental Marketplace Advocacy: A Case Study of GE's...
By Kristi Lee Jacobsen - Scholars have determined that corporations' motivations behind these campaigns are primarily driven by extrinsic goals, such as political favor, financial gain and risk...
View ArticleSouth Korea's Sustainable Urban Planning and Environmental Technology
By Lorna Kang - In the process of rapid urbanization spurred on by an increasingly globalizing world, the inhabitants of mega-cities make an important tradeoff between improved quality of life and the...
View ArticleThe Chinese Pollution Problem and the Politics of "Airpocalypse"
By Vikrant Bhatnagar - In 1992 during his famed Southern Trip, Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of the Communist Party of China, proclaimed that "To Get Rich Is Glorious[1]." This slogan ignited the...
View ArticleWater Pollution Control Policy: Addressing Non-Point Source Pollution
By Adib J. Rahman - Non-point source (NPS) pollution occurs when pollutants from many different and often difficult to track sources have a negative impact on air or water quality. Even though this...
View ArticleHumanity and Its Place in Nature: Rethinking the Reality of 'Wilderness'
By Thomas R. Smith - The Western concept of wilderness encompasses pristine, untrammeled land viewed as “the last remaining place where civilization…has not fully infected the earth” (Cronon, 1995, p....
View ArticleRachel Carson: Humanizing Nature
By Mikayla Stewart - Rachel Carson was instrumental in changing the way the world viewed conservation. Her initial written works demonstrated the idea that humans were not the center of the earth’s...
View ArticleAn Investigation into the Impact of Children's Literature Through a Review of...
By A. Rachelle Foss - This article is a brief overview of The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss, the story of a repentant ex-industrialist who tells a tale of environmental degradation in the name of industrialism,...
View ArticleMIT's Stata Center: The Static Soul of a Dynamic Body
By Parham Karimi - Princeton’s 19th century Gothic Revival and Stanford’s California Mission style (with local sandstone and red-tile roofs) were among the many standouts of this era.[1] But as...
View ArticleEnvironmental Problems and American Politics: Why is Protecting the...
By Dustin R. Turin - This paper therefore approaches the politics of the environment in the U.S. from three perspectives: first, the environment is described as a problem of collective action writ...
View ArticleThe Right and the Good: Communicating Environmental Issues
By Goldwin McEwen - What we see is partially dependent on what we are shown. As communicators, we have a duty to inform and educate and lead. As environmental communicators we have the privilege of...
View ArticleHistory and Management of Public Rangelands in the United States: A Case...
By Alexandra Heller - Public rangelands are typically managed by a multiple-use policy that seeks to balance economic, conservation, and recreation objectives. The often semi-arid and arid public...
View ArticleFire for Well-Being: Use of Prescribed Burning in the Northern Boreal Forest
By Chantal Roy-Denis - Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Alberta Boreal Forest have used fire knowledge and burning practices to maintain their environment for generations. Prescribed burning is vital...
View ArticleBreaking the Cycle: Changing Alberta in the Present to Save the Future
By A. Rachelle Foss - Alberta's resource power lies within the energy sector; in particular, the oil and gas industry. However, this same energy sector is contributing heavily to the destruction of the...
View ArticleMedia Initiation in Environmental Education: An Indian Model of Environmental...
By Nithin Kalorth - Environmental communication is now an emerging and a significant curriculum from schools to research centers. The effective and efficient environmental communication occurs when...
View ArticleDoes Trade Liberalization Lead to Declining Fish Stock Health? Analyzing the...
By Erin K. Glenn - This paper explores whether or not the level of international trade openness affects the health of fish stocks in national exclusive economic zones (EEZ). I look for an answer to the...
View ArticleEcosystems as Stakeholders to Urban Air Pollution Mitigation Decisions in...
By Conner Tidd - This paper explores the role that ecosystems can have in the decision making framework for urban air pollution mitigation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The focus is on management...
View ArticleCosts and Benefits of Nitrogen and Phosphate Fertilizer Use In the Lake Erie...
By David C. Harary - This paper explores both the positive and negative externalities associated with nitrogen and phosphate-based fertilizer use. Using 57 scholarly journal articles, government...
View ArticleClear-Cutting of the Coastal Temperate Rainforest: A Brief Analysis of...
By Claire Brownlie - Using Clayoquot Sound as a reference, the consequences clear-cut logging has on the coastal temperate rainforest ecosystems was examined. Social and political outcomes from...
View ArticleEnvironmental Decisions in the Context of War: Bombing ISIL's Oil
By David C. Harary - This paper evaluates the ethical dilemma coalition forces had to face when deciding to target and take out ISIL's primary source of revenue – oil. By gathering the impacts ISIL has...
View ArticleAn Analysis of the Threat of Ontario's Hydroelectric Dams on its River...
By Nicholas Scrivens - Dams have been used for centuries to assist with the development of human civilization. Access to drinking water, flood control and agricultural irrigation are historical reasons...
View ArticleJoint-Value Creation Between Marine Protected Areas and the Private Sector
By David C. Harary - Officially, the primary objective of the sanctuary system is to protect marine resources, such as coral reefs, sunken historical vessels, or unique habitats (Office of National...
View ArticleCommercialization of Biochar and the Benefits for Climate Change and Agriculture
By Nate D. Van Beilen - Biochar is biomass that has been converted into charcoal through the pyrolysis process. Biochar is applied into soils for carbon sequestration or for improving soil fertility....
View ArticleOMEGA: Playing for Change
By A. Rachelle Foss - But Verdigo, a social enterprise comprised of a group of volunteers, all with full-time careers, has created OMEGA with change in mind. Utilizing the smaller community model,...
View ArticleThe Technological Abyss: Heideggerian Ontology and Climate Change
By Aaron Mazo - Whenever a decision is made in a social, political, or economic context, it is implicitly grounded in an ethical outlook. But where do these outlooks come from? To investigate this...
View ArticleSpecies Conservation in a Globalized World
By Sharlene Engel - "The fundamental purpose of the US Endangered Species Act (ESA)," Wolf, Hartl, Carroll, Neel, and Greenwald (2015) say, "is not only to prevent extinction, but also to recover...
View ArticleResponding to Environmental Challenges in Alberta
By Peter Brown - Climate change and the myriad of challenges that come with it are a reality the entire world must face. However, for Canadian province, Alberta, the stakes are especially high. Oil and...
View ArticleSweden, the World's Most Sustainable Country: Political Statements and Goals...
By Maria Mänsson - Sweden, a small country with almost 10 million inhabitants, is the world's most sustainable country according to some reports that compare environmental, social, and governance...
View ArticleTheoretical Utilisation of Biological Warfare from Aquatic Invasive Species
By Richard J. Neale - The Peruvian population became infected from eating shellfish that had ingested plankton, and from drinking or bathing in water supplies drawn directly out of the rivers which at...
View ArticleNarratives, Binaries, and Framing in the Cultural Contest Over Climate Change
By Scott B. Remer - The above texts have been selected because they are iconic and authoritative. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is authorized by the United Nations and is the...
View ArticleWind Energy Legislation Strategies for the Lone Star State
By Elizabeth A. Weis - Texas introduced Senate Bill 277 as its first wind energy siting law during the 2017 Legislature. The bill combats radar interference between wind and military equipment by...
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