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POPSMass Extinction Event On the Horizon? Mass Extinction Event On the Horizon? Nope, were in it now. Any scientist studying some aspect of the environment will tell you that humans are having a massive impact and that the Earth's ecosystem will not tolerate this forever.
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POPSThe Environment and Well-Being in Urban China Well sort of a "no duh" moment. My problem (having read the abstract only) is that the authors did not deconvolve sulfur dioxide emissions from environmental disasters from traffic congestion. Perhaps a full reading is in order before that criticism is fully lodged.
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POPSNatrual Resources: Going Beyond Panaceas
Many scholars have mapped Hardin's ideas onto a range of human–environment systems and have predicted dire consequences for their long-term viability unless his first solution, government ownership, is imposed. Even though >100,000 areas around the world are formally protected, and the effectiveness of many of these areas is unknown, some advocates still call for further efforts to create protected areas as the only way to protect biodiversity (11, 12). Others argue that "the only way to avoid the tragedy of the commons in natural resources and wildlife is ... by creating a system of private property rights" (ref. 13, p. 467). Marketable permits continue to be presented as the optimal method for solving free-rider problems and for providing effective common-pool resource management (14–16).** Furthermore, collaborative approaches involving community participation are frequently "portrayed as a cure-all," to the distress of researchers who work in the field (ref. 26, p. 382).
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POPSCoupled Human-Environment System & Vulnerability Analysis: Case Studies Illustrating the Coupled Human-Environment System for Vulnerability Analysis: Three Case Studies B. L. Turner II, Pamela A. Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Grete K. Hovelsrud-Broda, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth L. Martello, Svein Mathiesen, Rosamond Naylor, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, Andrew Schiller, Henrik Selin and Nicholas Tyler Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 100, No. 14 (Jul. 8, 2003), pp. 8080-8085 (article consists of 6 pages)
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POPSThe World without America I found this paragraph of particular interest: The United States created an environment in which inventive minds had access to easy credit, a willing market and the freedom to dream and create without fear of prosecution or recrimination. Is this still true? And what s missing form this description? The openness to outsiders that also made America attractive. This, we know has changed.
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POPSHealth and the Built Environment Interesting take on the impact of the modern social/built environment, how they are interrelated, and the impact that their current structure has on health.
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