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Trust In Scientists On Climate Change And Vaccines, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Joel N. Hartter, Kei Saito
Trust In Scientists On Climate Change And Vaccines, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Joel N. Hartter, Kei Saito
Sociology
On climate change and other topics, conservatives have taken positions at odds with a strong scientific consensus. Claims that this indicates a broad conservative distrust of science have been countered by assertions that while conservatives might oppose the scientific consensus on climate change or evolution, liberals oppose scientists on some other domains such as vaccines. Evidence for disproportionately liberal bias against science on vaccines has been largely anecdotal, however. Here, we test this proposition of opposite biases using 2014 survey data from Oregon and New Hampshire. Across vaccine as well as climate change questions on each of these two surveys, …
Market For Amazonian Açaí (Euterpe Oleraceae) Stimulates Pulp Production From Atlantic Forest Juçara Berries (Euterpe Edulis), Adriana Carla Dias Trevisan, Alfredo Celso Fantini, Abdon Luis Schmitt-Filho, Joshua Farley
Market For Amazonian Açaí (Euterpe Oleraceae) Stimulates Pulp Production From Atlantic Forest Juçara Berries (Euterpe Edulis), Adriana Carla Dias Trevisan, Alfredo Celso Fantini, Abdon Luis Schmitt-Filho, Joshua Farley
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Faculty Publications
Three important policy goals in Brazil are economic growth, forest conservation and poverty alleviation. Agricultural production makes a major contribution to economic growth while posing a major threat to forest conservation, while the conversion of farmland to forest necessary to protect the Atlantic Forest threatens to drive small family farmers into poverty. Development of commercially important non-timber forest products (NTFPs) can play an important role in alleviating this conflict. The Euterpe genus stands out among the Brazilian NTFP production chains, with Euterpe oleraceae in the Amazon Basin and Euterpe edulis in southern part of Atlantic Forest - one of the …
Droughts, Floods, And Wildfires: Paleo Perspectives On Disaster Law In The Anthropocene, Ryan Stoa
Droughts, Floods, And Wildfires: Paleo Perspectives On Disaster Law In The Anthropocene, Ryan Stoa
Faculty Publications
Humanity’s impact on the earth has become so pronounced that momentum is building toward adopting a new term for the modern geological age — the “Anthropocene.” The term signifies that human activity has reached a scale that it is now a planetary force capable of shaping ecosystems and natural processes. And yet, anthropocentric natural resources management and environmental lawmaking in the United States reveals a lack of control in managing natural systems and fostering resilience to extreme events. These systems do not easily conform to the whims of reactionary environmental policies. Droughts, floods, and wildfires, in particular, are often conceptualized …