Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental Change Globally [PDF]
Despite the decades-long efforts of sustainability science and related policy and action programs, humanity has not gotten closer to global sustainability. With its focus on the natural sciences, sustainability science is not able to contribute sufficiently to the global transition to sustainability.
Shrivastava, Paul +3 more
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How new generation techniques are shaping the future of environmental sciences
This perspective highlights the role of new-generation analytical techniques in future applications in environmental sciences since the shift to the One Health research paradigm. It reviews the interactions between the compartments of One Health and indicates the current challenges in traditional environmental research.
Agnieszka Gruszecka-Kosowska +4 more
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SPR perspectives: Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program: overcoming challenges to generate engaged, multidisciplinary science [PDF]
The US National Institutes of Health-funded Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program brings together 69 cohorts and over 57,000 children from across the nation to address five key pediatric outcome areas with high public health impact: pre-, peri-, and postnatal outcomes; upper and lower airway health; obesity; neurodevelopment;
Kaja Z. LeWinn +4 more
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Risk, precaution and science: towards a more constructive policy debate. Talking point on the precautionary principle [PDF]
Few issues in contemporary risk policy are as momentous or contentious as the precautionary principle. Since it first emerged in German environmental policy, it has been championed by environmentalists and consumer protection groups, and resisted by the ...
Andrew Stirling +18 more
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Configured, Not Coded; Rethinking How the General Public Discovers Environmental Science
To better serve the public, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Environmental Studies Program (ESP) is rebuilding its science dissemination tool, the Environmental Studies Program Information System (ESPIS). The target audience for this tool are users with little knowledge of ocean science and the engaged government agencies.
Blythe, Jonathan, Sandrowicz, Emily
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There has been a proliferation of studies that have examined the impacts of public participation in Citizen Science (CS) that respond to environmental challenges and the recovery of ecosystems, endangered species or other important natural assets. However, comparatively few studies have explored how tourists may play a critical role in the generation ...
Gareth Butler +5 more
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Crossing the death valley to transfer environmental decision support systems to the water market [PDF]
Environmental decision support systems (EDSSs) are attractive tools to cope with the complexity of environmental global challenges. Several thoughtful reviews have analyzed EDSSs to identify the key challenges and best practices for their development ...
Comas Matas, Joaquim +4 more
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Ten principles for generating accessible and useable COVID‐19 environmental science and a fit‐for‐purpose evidence base [PDF]
Abstract 1. The ‘anthropause’, a period of unusually reduced human activity and mobility due to COVID‐19 restrictions, has serendipitously opened up unique opportunities for research on how human activities impact the environment. 2.
Kadykalo, Andrew N. +3 more
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Understanding pro-environmental attitudes is critical to encouraging pollution-minimizing behaviors. Therefore, identifying associated factors is essential for understanding different types of pro-environmental attitudes. We aimed to investigate the associations among individuals' college-level science course enrollment and their perceptions of the ...
Ahamad, Mazbahul G, Tanin, Fahian
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Integrating Environmental Engineering and Sustainability into Engineering Science and General Engineering Programs [PDF]
Integrating Environmental Engineering into General Engineering Programs as a Means of Enhancing Curriculum in Sustainability A growing number of general engineering and engineering science programs offer environmental engineering concentrations with many others integrating sustainability into their curriculums.
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