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Library Impact Statement For Evs/Nrs/Eec 109 Introduction To Sustainable Energy Issues Nov 2009

Library Impact Statement For Evs/Nrs/Eec 109 Introduction To Sustainable Energy Issues

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for EVS/NRS/EEC 109 Introduction to Sustatinable Energy Issues. New course was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty member: Andrée J. Rathemacher. Requesting faculty member: Professor Marion Gold.


Minerals-Supply Security And Mineral-Use Efficiency: Some Observations From The 1970–2005 Interval, Ira Sohn Sep 2009

Minerals-Supply Security And Mineral-Use Efficiency: Some Observations From The 1970–2005 Interval, Ira Sohn

Department of Economics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

As a consequence of the powerful changes that have occurred over the last three decades in the principal 'drivers' of economic change, there have been significant realignments in the global patterns of production and consumption of natural resources, as well as in the intensity of their use, in the quest to raise the level of material wellbeing throughout the world. In this paper, three large minerals-consuming (and -producing) countries are examined - the USA, China and Russia - and the story of a generation's economic progress (or decline, as the case may be) is seen through the lens of resource …


Luck Or Skill? An Examination Of The Ehrlich - Simon Bet, Katherine A. Kiel, Victor Matheson, Kevin Golembiewski Jul 2009

Luck Or Skill? An Examination Of The Ehrlich - Simon Bet, Katherine A. Kiel, Victor Matheson, Kevin Golembiewski

Economics Department Working Papers

In 1980, Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon placed a famous bet on whether the prices of a bundle of natural resources would rise or fall over the ensuing decade. Simon won the bet as the real price of the bundle fell significantly, and the result of this bet has been taken as proof that technological progress is likely overcome any Neo-Malthusian concerns about natural resource scarcity. Contrary to the popular perception, however, an examination of the price history of the identical bundle of goods from 1900-2007 shows that Ehrlich and not Simon would have won a majority of the bets …


Slides: Integrated Policy, Planning, And Management Of Water Resources, Robert Wilkinson Jun 2009

Slides: Integrated Policy, Planning, And Management Of Water Resources, Robert Wilkinson

Western Water Law, Policy and Management: Ripples, Currents, and New Channels for Inquiry (Martz Summer Conference, June 3-5)

Presenter: Robert Wilkinson, Ph.D., Director of the Water Policy Program, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California-- Santa Barbara

60 slides


The Green Bean Coffee House: An Exploration Of The Specialty Coffee Industry And Sustainable Business Practices, Evan Hunt May 2009

The Green Bean Coffee House: An Exploration Of The Specialty Coffee Industry And Sustainable Business Practices, Evan Hunt

Senior Honors Projects

Many Americans are getting sick of the way things have become and the way things are, from the government to the quality of food we put into our bodies. We are upon a new frontier, people are changing the way they live and consume. The days of quantity over quality are fading. Many consumers are making purchases and consumption decisions based on more than a simple cost analysis. How and where a given product was produced, whether or not the trade involved of a given product was truly ethical, and what are the environmental implications of getting that product to …


Contesting Environmental Transformation: Political Ecologies And Environmentalisms In Latin America And The Caribbean, Anthony J. Bebbington Jan 2009

Contesting Environmental Transformation: Political Ecologies And Environmentalisms In Latin America And The Caribbean, Anthony J. Bebbington

Geography

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