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Restoring mental vitality in an endangered world: Reflections on the benefits of walking.
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2010-03)
Coping with the challenges of global climate disruption and the peaking of the rate of fossil fuel production will require behavioral change on a massive scale. There are many skills that will help individuals deal with ...
A Fuel Efficiency Horizon for U.S. Automobiles
(2010-09)
Improving the fuel efficiency of automobiles (cars and light trucks) is an important means of addressing transportation oil demand and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This report examines the efficiency attainable through ...
Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) habitat and population models in Michigan river networks: Understanding geomorphic context and boundaries.
(2010)
Rivers are hierarchical, heterogeneous products of climate and the landscapes through which they flow. This nature motivates two interesting and practical questions in river ecology: how are populations of riverine organisms ...
Toward Rational Management of GHG Emissions from Biofuels
(2010-07)
Public policy supports biofuels for their benefits to agricultural economies, energy security and the environment. The last rationale is premised on greenhouse gas (GHG, "carbon") emissions reduction, which is a matter of ...
Vehicle Standards in a Climate Policy Framework
(2010-01-01)
Policy makers have long turned to vehicle regulation for addressing public concerns about transportation's energy and environmental impacts. This paradigm is ratified in recent action to raise Corporate Average Fuel Economy ...
Landscape based assessment of human disturbance for Michigan lakes
(2010)
Abstract Assessment of lake impairment status and identification of threats’ type and source is essential for protection of intact, enhancement of modified, and estoration of impaired lakes. For regions in which large ...
Keeping waters clean: Environmental Licensing in Rond
(2010)
In the Amazonian agricultural frontier, pasture for cattle is an important and potentially damaging form of land use due to erosion as pastures degrade. This dissertation presents three approaches to understanding policy ...
Ethnography of a Post-Soviet Landscape: Exploring the Dynamics among Forests, People, and Resource Use in Central Kamchatka.
(2010)
To understand natural resource use patterns in central Kamchatka (in the Russian Far East) I used an integrated geographical approach in which I wove historical, ecological, ethnographic, and spatial strands into an ...
Life-cycle Water Use, Nutrient Cycling and Solid Waste Generation of a Large-Scale Organic Dairy
(2010-09-22)
Aurora Organic Dairy (AOD) is a leading U.S. provider of private-label organic milk and butter, managing over 12,000 milking cows and processing over 84 million liters of milk annually. Building on a previous life-cycle ...