Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1017/s1466046616000405
R. Gaulke
This issue of Environmental Practice is devoted to water resources. Water issues, including water quality and supply, are projected to be the global geopolitical hot button issues of the twenty-first century. While much media attention has been paid to water shortages in states like California and Arizona, the Great Lakes, representing 20% of the world’s fresh water supply, are also under threat. Peter Annin’s 2006 book, The Great Lakes Water Wars, provides a cogent discussion of how competition for Great Lakes water resources is likely to play out. He notes that at the time of the writing of the book, water quality and invasive species including the zebra mussel had been the chief concern in the Great Lakes. Invasive species is still of great concern, as witnessed by the attempts to prevent invasive Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan via the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS). However, attention has shifted from invasive species to the issue of water supply and quality. Annin states: “Water scarcity throughout the world—and even in parts of the Great Lakes region—will put mounting pressure on one of the most abundant freshwater ecosystems on earth.... The lakes are the region’s most important and precious natural resource—they define the area’s economy, culture and environment.” The debate and tension among waterparched states over access to Great Lakes water resources will no doubt provide some great political theater in the coming decades and could ultimately lead to major changes in water resource policy at the local, state, and federal levels. Stay tuned! Water resources and Great Lakes issues will be two of many exciting tracks at the 2016 NAEP annual conference, April 11-14 in Chicago. We hope you will be able to attend.
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Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S1466046616000466
Marisa A. Desautel, J. A. Langlois
The beneficial reuse of environmentally contaminated properties in Rhode Island remains a vast opportunity for practitioners to consider grant applications, creative financing, transactional cleanups, and/or Court-supervised cleanups. There are hundreds of re-developed, formerly contaminated sites all over the state of Rhode Island, which can be remediated under the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management's Brownfields program. In September of 2015, the RIDEM's Brownfields program was significantly enhanced by state administration, providing for grants to conduct investigation and cleanup of contaminated sites. Funds are and will be available for pre-development planning, remedial investigation, redevelopment and marketing plans, remedial design, construction of remedies, and associated work. The trigger for any Brownfields remediation, and in turn, eligibility for funding, continues to be notification of a release of hazardous materials. Once under RIDEM's jurisdiction, any responsible party must adhere to the site remediation site management process. The grant money may be applied to investigation of soil, groundwater, soil gas, indoor air and infrastructure/building materials. Funds are also available for site assessment, remediation, hazardous material abatement, waste disposal, long term monitoring, institutional controls, environmental consulting costs, and marketing. The Brownfields grant program provides new and diverse opportunities for environmental professionals to assist their clients in the Brownfields process.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1466046616000351
C. Nissley
Cultural impact assessments (CIAs) are rare in environmental practice in the United States. This paper explores the use and integration of CIAs into environmental assessments with respect to cultural resources of communities and American Indian tribes. It notes the shortcomings of consultation under Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act and public comment under the National Environmental Policy Act and recommends employing CIAs to fill the gaps, decrease time and costs, and possibly limit lawsuits.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1466046616000247
V. Gedzi, Y. Dumbe, G. Eshun
This article analyzes the environmental crisis in Ghana and what contributions religious resources from the intellectual traditions of African Traditional Religion can make towards addressing it. This study was based on an extensive review and interpretation of existing textual materials on the subject matter, supplemented by general field observations. It identified the following: the environmental problem in Ghana has national and international root causes; the modern environmental management model employed in Ghana lacks resources, in terms of finance, personnel, and other associated logistics, rendering it inefficient. This article warns that the cumulative effect of environmental degradation is a boomerang, and suggests that the modern and traditional methods of environmental conservation be merged to form a more efficient system. This research is important because its findings may contribute to the development of a more efficient model for conserving and protecting Ghana's environment. It also contributes to local and global cultural theories on the conservation and protection of the environment.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1466046616000363
Kathleen Hayden
I am not a professional “environmental practitioner.” I am a member of the public, a citizen of the United States of America, whose land, environment, and way of life are affected profoundly by wha...
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1466046616000259
P. McCormack
This article is about socio-cultural expertise and knowledge in the context of environmental hearings in Alberta, Canada, to determine whether or not new oil sands projects should be approved. It identifies serious problems with cultural assessments about potential impacts on Aboriginal peoples done by consultants for oil sands hearings in Alberta and proposes that consultants doing cultural assessments should have qualifications equivalent to those of expert witnesses for the courts. It also raises the concern that the review panel members who preside over such hearings and their staffs may also lack expertise in socio-cultural matters concerning Aboriginal people. Both gaps impact directly on the recommendations made by review panels to the governments that make final decisions.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S146604661600034X
N. Kaufman
“T here is a danger,” write some wise Australian conservationists, “that as time goes by the ship of practice will have sailed so far from the ship of knowledge that there will be almost no way back and they will each have gone beyond the range of communication” (Byrne, Brayshaw, and Ireland, 2001). We would then be left, they warn, with “a cultural heritage field insulated against new thinking... and insulated from change” (Byrne, Brayshaw, and Ireland, 2001, p. 44). This is already happening in the United States (US). A symptom of this problem is the failure to update our definition of cultural resources to keep pace with the social (and other) sciences. Half a century ago, psychiatrists documented the health costs of disrupting people’s environment, yet we still haven’t acknowledged human habitat stability as a cultural resource. A quarter of a century ago, climate scientists documented the environmental costs of emitting carbon dioxide, yet we still haven’t recognized embodied carbon as a cultural resource. Environmental practice has lost touch with knowledge.
“这是一种危险，”一些明智的澳大利亚自然资源保护主义者写道，“随着时间的推移，实践之船将驶离知识之船，几乎没有回头路，它们将各自超出沟通的范围”(Byrne, Brayshaw, and Ireland, 2001)。他们警告说，这样一来，我们就会留下“一个与新思想隔绝的文化遗产领域……与变化隔绝”(Byrne, Brayshaw, and Ireland, 2001年，第44页)。这已经在美国发生了。这个问题的一个症状是，我们未能更新我们对文化资源的定义，以跟上社会(和其他)科学的步伐。半个世纪前，精神病学家记录了破坏人类环境的健康成本，但我们仍然没有承认人类栖息地的稳定是一种文化资源。四分之一个世纪前，气候科学家记录了排放二氧化碳的环境成本，但我们仍然没有认识到隐含碳是一种文化资源。环保实践已经与知识脱节。
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s1466046616000211
R. Gaulke
Drones: They’re everywhere! Actually, the preferred name for drones is Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs). Most notoriously, UASs have played a significant role in our military operations in the Middle East, particularly on the front lines of the battle with ISIS and al Qaeda forces. The use of UASs to collect various forms of remotely sensed information and data has increased dramatically in recent years, giving rise to a serious ethical debate concerning potential breaches of personal privacy and potential nefarious uses of this technology.
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