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Library Impact Statement For Evs/Nrs/Eec 109 Introduction To Sustainable Energy Issues
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
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
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
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
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
Contesting Environmental Transformation: Political Ecologies And Environmentalisms In Latin America And The Caribbean, Anthony J. Bebbington
Geography
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