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Scales Over Shale: How Pennsylvania Got Fracked, Carlo E. Sica

Geography and the Environment - Theses

Shale gas has become one of Pennsylvania's major resources in recent years and the gas boom has proceeded in spite of uncertainty over the environmental risks of its production process. This thesis argues that location alone cannot explain why shale gas boomed in Pennsylvania. Using interviews with corporate and state executives, I argue that the scalar dimensions of the neoliberal environmental governance of shale gas were critical to understanding why shale gas boomed in Pennsylvania. These actors supported the preemption of local scales of governance by the state as a scalar fix for capital accumulation from shale gas development. They …

Socioeconomic Benefits Of Adding Nasa Satellite Data To Airnow, Sharon S. Dawes, G. Brian Burke, Adam N. Pasch, Timothy S. Dye

Center for Technology in Government

This report presents the results from a study that evaluated the socio-economic and financial benefits of adding NASA satellite data to AirNow. The benefits were evaluated using two approaches: 1) Face-to-face interviews in three case study locations (Denver, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; and Kansas City, Missouri) to assess the public value or community-level benefits and 2) Analysis of cost savings of using satellite data instead of installing new monitors to provide air quality information for public health decisions to populations in currently unmonitored locations. This report was prepared by CTG and STI for the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air …

Air Quality Data Use, Issues, And Value In Missouri, Sharon S. Dawes, G. Brian Burke, Ashley Davis-Alteri

Center for Technology in Government

This case describes the air quality conditions and related programs and issues centered in the area around Kansas City, Missouri. It is part of a larger study to understand how air quality information is currently used at the community level and to assess the potential benefits of enhancing air quality monitoring data from ground sensor networks with data gathered by satellites.

2013-14 Series Brochure - Changing Climates, University Center For The Humanities

University Center for the Humanities Events

In our 2013-14 series, “Changing Climates,” the Center for the Humanities brings together scientists and humanists to consider how our climate is changing and what we need to know and do in response. Scientific research is defining issues that concern everybody, including the warming of the globe, the toxicity of our environment, and the fundamental changes we are making to the natural world. Scientists are giving us an opportunity, even a necessity, to talk across the usual boundaries within the University and throughout the community.

The Challenges Of Adapting To Climate Change In San Francisco Bay, Tim Eichenberg

UC Law Environmental Journal

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Urban Forest Justice And The Rights To Wild Foods, Medicines, And Materials In The City, Melissa R. Poe, Rebecca J. Mclain, Marla R. Emery, Patrick T. Hurley

Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations

Urban forests are multifunctional socio-ecological landscapes, yet some of their social benefits remain poorly understood. This paper draws on ethnographic evidence from Seattle, Washington to demonstrate that urban forests contain nontimber forest products that contribute a variety of wild foods, medicines, and materials for the wellbeing of urban residents. We show that gathering wild plants and fungi in urban forests is a persistent subsistence and livelihood practice that provides sociocultural and material benefits to city residents, and creates opportunities for connecting with nature and enhancing social ties. We suggest that an orientation toward human-nature interactions in cities that conceptualizes the …

Intervening At The Right Point In The Causal Pathways: Law, Policy, And The Devastating Impact Of Pain Across The Globe, Daniel S. Goldberg

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Third Annual Environmental Law And Justice Symposium Issue: Introduction, Randall S. Abate, Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg Iii

Florida A & M University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ua12/13 Big Red, Small Planet, Christian Ryan-Downing , Editor, Leslie North , Editor

Sustainability Publications and Resources

At WKU, “The Spirit Makes the Master”. Our commitment to continuous improvement is clearly reflected in our sustainability efforts. WKU’s commitment to sustainability, whether demonstrated in campus operations or in educational programs, helps to ensure that our graduates are prepared to address the complicated environmental, social and economic issues we face today. They will be able to think critically, solve problems creatively and be engaged citizens. If that’s all we accomplish then we will have achieved great success. But our sustainability commitment pays dividends, as it also leads us to reduce our environmental footprint, practice social responsibility, and conserve natural …

Research Week 2013, Linda Gardiner

Office of Research Institutional Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Sandy And The City: The Need For Coastal Policy Reform, Jonathan Hilburg

Student Theses 2001-2013

After tropical storm Sandy battered the East Coast in October 2012, New York City was damaged extensively by flooding, high-intensity winds and the resultant flames. The resultant flooding rendered many underground subway lines unusable along the southern coasts for an extended period of time, as well as damaging buried electrical wiring. These outages were compounded by the hi-strength winds in the upper areas that also brought down above ground wiring. The lack of electricity for use in traffic lights, care facilities, emergency services and mass transit had a staggeringly adverse impact on public health.

In the upcoming effort to rebuild …

Hurricane Sandy: Using Environmental History, Economics, Politics And Urban Planning To Prepare For The Next One, Julia Maguire

Student Theses 2001-2013

Hurricane Sandy, a category 1 storm by the time it reached the North East coast of the United States, was a disaster that devastated all of those in its path. The physical effects of the hurricane, which hit the East coast of the United States on October 29, 2012, were felt by 15 states. The most devastating outcome in the aftermath of the storm was the death toll that numbered over 100 people. The shock from the disturbing effects of this storm was extremely unsettling, and unfortunately those who were affected by it will continue to suffer from these consequences …

Overweight, Obesity, And Neighborhood Characteristics Among Postpartum Latinas, Colleen Keller, Michael Todd, Barbara Ainsworth, Kathryn Records, Sonia Vega-Lopez, Paska Permana, Dean Coonrod, Allison Williams

Nursing Faculty Works

Background. Weight gain during the childbearing years and failure to lose pregnancy weight after birth contribute to the development of obesity in Latinas. Design and Methods. Madres para la Salud (Mothers for Health) is a 12-month prospective, randomized controlled trial exploring a social support intervention with moderate-intensity physical activity to effect changes in body fat, systemic and fat tissue inflammation, and depression symptoms in sedentary postpartum Latinas. This paper describes the initial body composition of the sample, social support, and neighborhood contextual correlations of overweight and obese Latina mothers within the first 6 months after birth. Results. The mean body …

Imaginenative 2012: Ecocinema And The Indigenous Film Festival, Salma Monani, Miranda Brady

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Much scholarship points to how ecological concerns are never far from Indigenous struggles for political sovereignty and public participation. In this paper we turn to the Indigenous film festival as a relatively understudied yet rich site to explore such ecological concerns. Specifically, we highlight the ImagineNATIVE 2012 film festival based in Toronto, Canada.

From Shanghai To Huangbaiyu: Eco-Cities As An Alternative Modernity, Jared Flanery

Gaines Fellow Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

A New And Improved Energy Reality—It's No Pipedream: Streamlining Permitting Procedures For Certain Classes Of Natural Resource Projects: The Canada-United States Keystone Xl Pipeline, Daniel Hare

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

In this paper I propose an original policy solution to the complicated issue of permitting and regulatory review for cross-border natural resource projects to allow for a smoother quicker approval process for certain types of projects. I have specifically designed this new procedure so as to focus on political compromise and minimize political partisanship, while instead concentrating on achieving results. By modi ing the current regulatory standard to a more streamlined model, deserving cross-border natural resource projects can swiftly gain approval, yet environmental, economic, foreign policy, national securit), and other significant concerns will still receive the attention and thorough evaluation …

New York Neighborhoods Fight Land Grabs: Public Parks Going To Professional Teams, Donovan Finn

School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Faculty Publications

In the diverse New York City borough of Queens, local activists banded together in the early 2000's to fight back against a trio of city-led urban development projects intended to provide public parkland to private real estate developers.

[Review] Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics In A New Key. Larry Rasmussen, Laura Stivers

Collected Faculty Scholarship

Larry Rasmussen’s new book, Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key, like his last environmental ethics masterpiece Earth Community Earth Ethics (won the 1997 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion), is eloquently written and incorporates a multitude of interdisciplinary sources to argue for Creation justice.

Could You Repeat That Please? Forty-Five Years Of Pesticide Experiments On People, Barbara Leiterman

UC Law Environmental Journal

No abstract provided.

Multiple Environmental Chemical Exposures To Lead, Mercury And Polychlorinated Biphenyls Among Childbearing-Aged Women (Nhanes 1999–2004): Body Burden And Risk Factors, Marcella Remer Thompson, Kim Boekelheide

College of Nursing Faculty Publications

Background: Lead, mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are neurotoxicants with intergenerational health consequences from maternal body burden and gestational exposures. Little is known about multiple chemical exposures among childbearing-aged women.

Objectives: To determine the percentage of women aged 16–49 of diverse races and ethnicities whose body burdens for all three xenobiotics were at or above the median; to identify mixed exposures; and to describe those women disproportionately burdened by two or more of these chemicals based on susceptibility- and exposure-related attributes, socioeconomic factors and race-ethnicity.

Methods: Secondary data analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999–2004).

Results: The best-fit …

Enst 594.03: The Greening Of Religion, Daniel T. Spencer

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Pubh 560.50: Environmental And Rural Health, Tony Ward

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Active Living Collaboratives In The United States: Understanding Characteristics, Activities, And Achievement Of Environmental And Policy Change, Jill S. Litt, Hannah L. Reed, Rachel G. Tabak, Susan G. Zieff, Amy A. Eyler, Rodney Lyn, Karin Valentine Goins, Jeanine Gustat, Nancy O'Hara Tompkins

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Inclusion And Exclusion In Some Feminist Utopian Fictions, Karen F. Stein

English and Creative Writing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

"The Black Hills Are Not For Sale" Environmental Justice In Lakota Country, Olivia Brockmeier

Theses & ETDs

From the beginnings of what has been defined as the Environmental Justice Movement in the United States, public attention has been primarily focused on injustices based on race and class involving exposure to polluted air, water, toxic wastes, and dangerous working conditions. Since the 1800's, the Black Hills have been at the center of a bitter dispute between the United States federal government and Native inhabitants of the region. The history of the Black Hills land dispute is intertwined with a history of land dispossession, marginalization, and discriminatory federal policies. For the Lakota and other Native communities to whom the …

Suffolk Alumni Magazine, Spring/Summer, 2013, Suffolk University

Suffolk University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Center News And Faculty Updates, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

A Decent Proposal: How Animal Welfare Organizations Have Utilized Shareholder Proposals To Achieve Greater Protection For Animals,47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 795 (2013), Summer Hallaj

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Regulatory Capacity And State Environmental Leadership: California's Climate Policy, Ann E. Carlson

Fordham Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Learning To Think About Complex Environmental Systems In Environmental And Natural Resource Law And Legal Scholarship: A Twenty-Year Retrospective

Fordham Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.