Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2018.1533348
J. Cadorette, R. Savitz, Kristan Cockerill
ABSTRACT Despite the consensus that exists in scientific literature on the reality of anthropogenic climate change, the American public still has doubts. Research shows that mass media play a role in how this gap developed and why it persists. We assessed cable news coverage from 2013 to ascertain if and how it covered climate science and compared this to a similar study using coverage from 2007 and 2008. We further compared the percentage of coverage affirming climate change in the scientific community to the percentage of coverage affirming climate change in cable news coverage to see if there is a statistically significant difference between the two groups. For the news data we used a Union of Concerned Scientists dataset on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News. Our results reveal good and bad news regarding cable news coverage of climate science. We found that while the overall level of affirmation was higher in the scientific community than it was in cable news coverage, MSNBC offered the highest number of media segments and all of them affirmed climate science. Fox News featured segments that challenge climate science, but the overall number of Fox News segments discussing climate science declined compared to 2007–2008 data.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-24DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2018.1507363
C. Battisti
Corrado Battisti is an environmental manager working in a Public Agency (Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale Park Service) and an invited Professor in Applied Ecology (Department of Biology, University of Rome III, Italy). Corrado has written approximately 130 scientific papers in peerreviewed scientific journals and a Springer book on Disturbance Ecology. His research focuses on community ecology, trophic systems, biogeography (peninsula effect, island biogeography applied to the mainland), and applied ecology (landscape planning and coastal wildlife management). In landscape planning he has developed a conceptual framework for ecological network planning in fragmented landscapes aimed at selecting fragmentation-sensitive species useful as focal-indicator species.
Corrado Battisti是公共机构(citt Metropolitana di Roma capital Park Service)的环境经理，也是意大利罗马第三大学生物系应用生态学特邀教授。Corrado在同行评议的科学期刊上发表了大约130篇科学论文，并在Springer出版了一本关于干扰生态学的书。主要研究方向为群落生态学、营养系统、生物地理学(半岛效应、岛屿生物地理学在大陆的应用)、应用生态学(景观规划和沿海野生动物管理)。在景观规划方面，他开发了一个破碎景观生态网络规划的概念框架，旨在选择破碎敏感物种作为焦点指示物种。
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Pub Date : 2018-09-24DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2018.1508945
Marie C. Campbell
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Pub Date : 2018-09-24DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2018.1507362
Frank J. Dirrigl Jr., R. Gaulke
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Pub Date : 2018-09-21DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2018.1507366
Mahbubur Meenar, Richard K. Fromuth, Manahel Soro
ABSTRACT This article describes how a sustainable watershed-level planning approach is used to develop a flood-mitigation and stormwater management plan for an 11 km2 watershed in southeastern Pennsylvania, USA. West Ambler is an Environmental Justice (EJ) community located in the downstream portion of the watershed with socioeconomically vulnerable residents facing unequal distribution of environmental risks. This study uses a methodological framework based on the three dimensions of EJ (i.e., Distribution, Procedure/Participation, and Recognition) to address watershed concerns while managing risks within the EJ community. Although the project is scientifically grounded by a GIS-based watershed assessment and hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, all project components are influenced by one or more EJ dimensions, with an emphasis on community engagement and multi-municipal collaboration. Flood-mitigation suggestions are based on the evaluation of hundreds of stormwater management facilities throughout the watershed. This article explains the process of using an EJ framework in watershed-wide planning and management.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-26DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2018.1491754
Harold Draper
This profusely illustrated volume contains hundreds of high quality photos and covers the basic impact assessment topics as well as non-traditional chapter topics like human disease, animal health, ethnobotany, and wildlife stress. A quick read shows not only are these additional topics relevant, but they are crucial to understanding the impact of building a road through one of the world’s most important wildlife preserves.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2018.1489185
C. Battisti
ABSTRACT The application of the linear accident causation model (“Swiss Cheese” theory) to environmental management could facilitate the communication of complex concepts by a general public. Metaphors are considered the only way to understand abstract issues: in this regard, this model could help the learning of project-based concepts in the environmental management arena using an accessible language. The further Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) integration allows moving from a schematic approach where conditioning factors are represented in cold matrices to a more appealing design suitable to communicate the project to a non-technical public. Through this approach, environmental practitioners could explore a number of conceptual tools used in project management, thereby increasing a trans-disciplinary process. Two examples of applications of this metaphor to real practices (and a framework of tools largely used in general management) are reported here.
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Pub Date : 2018-03-30DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2018.1444875
Jonah J. Ralston, Jason A. Kalmbach
ABSTRACT Uncertainty and risk can often characterize the conditions under which new policy is developed. This has been particularly true in the case of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and its regulation within America’s federal system of governance. During the George W. Bush administration, the federal government intentionally limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s legal authority to regulate processes associated with fracking. This decision shifted the primary responsibility for the regulation of fracking to the states. Some states, in the interest of economic development, were quick to adopt policies that promoted the use of fracking despite environmental concerns regarding the risks. Other states were more cautious, instituting moratoriums on its use. In this study, we develop a typology that can explain the actions of states in response to uncertainty. We also provide seven lessons that can be learned from the regulation of hydraulic fracturing in the United States.
不确定性和风险往往是制定新政策的条件特征。这一点在水力压裂(“水力压裂法”)及其在美国联邦治理体系中的监管方面尤其如此。在乔治·w·布什(George W. Bush)执政期间，联邦政府有意限制了环境保护局(Environmental Protection Agency)监管与水力压裂有关的过程的法律权力。这一决定将监管水力压裂的主要责任转移到了各州。出于经济发展的考虑，一些州迅速采取了促进水力压裂技术使用的政策，尽管存在对环境风险的担忧。其他州则更为谨慎，暂停了它的使用。在这项研究中，我们发展了一种类型学，可以解释国家对不确定性的反应。我们还提供了美国水力压裂监管中可以借鉴的七条经验。
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Pub Date : 2018-03-26DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2018.1407615
C. D. De Sousa, T. Spiess
ABSTRACT Brownfields remediation and redevelopment continues to be an important issue for policy makers and planners seeking to unlock its many socio-economic and environmental benefits. While technical approaches to assessment and remediation have become rather standardized and governments have largely embraced voluntary programs to oversee their application, the degree of regulatory oversight continues to differ among jurisdictions. This article examines the scale and character of remediation activity in Ontario, Canada over the last decade using records submitted by qualified persons from the private sector. It finds that Ontario’s approach has been quite successful in scale and character in stronger urban real estate markets despite most matters related to cleanup and reuse escaping the direct oversight of provincial regulators. The province’s less-interventionist approach may need some review to address the nature of cleanup techniques being applied and the recent slowdown in cleanup and reuse activity, especially given the growing push toward regional growth management and more effective use of brownfield land resources in both larger urban areas, and smaller ones where greenfields are plentiful and brownfields are less competitive.
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