SESYNC has launched a new open-access collection of sustainability-related resources available to the public. Ranging from videos, to articles, to lesson plans, to audio interviews, the resources aim to engage more people from all backgrounds in the conversation about sustainability and to consider the environmental impact of humans’ beliefs, interactions, and behaviors.
Background: The combined effects of multiple environmental toxicants and social stressor exposures are widely recognized as important public health problems, likely contributing to health inequities. However cumulative environmental health risk and impacts have received little attention by US policy
This presentation reviews key concepts in sustainability and asks deep questions about why there are so many symptoms of environmental crises present in the world today (climate disruption, mass species extinctions, nitrogen cycle disruption, ocean acidification, crises with food, energy, and water
The human dimensions of natural resource management examine how humans interact with the natural environment—for example through decision making, behaviors, and policies. Mixed methods research involves using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to answer complex questions related to people
Rapid Talks by Environmental Policy Immersion Scholars:Doug Lipton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries; Laurie Alexander, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Joanna Goger, University of Maryland.
During her talk, Milagros will introduce and elaborate on her research topic, research approach, and main findings. This research documents, as well as questions, how the presence of large mining operations in the Andean regions of Peru alters social and natural landscapes. Taking conflicts over
This thematic workshop invites scholars and professionals analyzing, evaluating, and/or synthesizing the natural, social, or actionable elements associated with watershed management and governance.
“Weather whiplash” is a colloquial phrase for describing an extreme event that features shifts between two opposing weather conditions. Past media coverage and research on such extreme occurrences have largely ignored winter weather events. Yet rapid swings in winter weather can include the abrupt
Millions globally look to National Geographic for its long history of telling impactful stories. Founded in 1888 “for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge,” the organization’s original journal has evolved over the years. Vanessa Serrao is Executive Producer of National Geographic
This presentation examines the uneven distribution of costs and benefits involved in snow leopard conservation and shows that in order for the conservation of nature to be successful, the vision, interests, and priorities of those most affected by conservation policies―in this case, local farmers
Microbes control planet Earth. Yet, integrating microbial information into large scale-perspectives and models remains difficult. Classical biogeochemical models assume that microbes are in equilibrium with their environment; hence as long as conditions remain “quasi-steady state” such models work
In the fall of 1576, an unlikely group of indigenous and European collaborators undertook a prolonged writing retreat in the Franciscan College of Tlatelolco, in today’s Mexico City. The task at hand was the production of a natural history of New Spain, as Mexico was called then, based on the model