Pub Date : 2017-08-30DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1364081
D. Berry
ABSTRACT Information sharing can be an important tool for accelerating the diffusion of clean energy in buildings. Clean energy measures include improved energy efficiency and applications of wind and solar energy. These measures reduce retail electricity sales, thereby reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides from burning fossil fuels in power plants. Trends in information sharing strategies encompass interactive approaches that create confidence in clean energy markets, accelerate peer effects, and stimulate creation of imaginative energy solutions. Information sharing usually takes place within and across networks of architects and others who design buildings, suppliers of clean energy measures, consumers, and others. It may involve: working with and through respected organizations, providing personalized assistance to customers, increasing the visibility of clean energy through demonstration projects, establishing social norms about energy use, and working collaboratively to surpass current best practices.
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Pub Date : 2017-08-28DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1364096
Chad J. McGuire, Devon Lynch
ABSTRACT Communicating climate change presents unique problems from a public policy standpoint. Specifically, the public narrative about climate change can act to reinforce existing worldviews or, in the alternative, aid in moving worldviews in new directions. Existing policies can help or hinder this process. For example, a long-standing policy can engender an acceptance of a narrative supporting climate change as a phenomenon. Alternatively, existing policies can reinforce an antagonistic or even fatalistic narrative of climate change. This article explores existing literature on categorical narratives associated with climate change, including emerging support for those narratives. The goal is to highlight the importance of narrative in both communicating climate change and formulating public policy responses.
{"title":"Competing narratives of climate change","authors":"Chad J. McGuire, Devon Lynch","doi":"10.1080/14660466.2017.1364096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660466.2017.1364096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Communicating climate change presents unique problems from a public policy standpoint. Specifically, the public narrative about climate change can act to reinforce existing worldviews or, in the alternative, aid in moving worldviews in new directions. Existing policies can help or hinder this process. For example, a long-standing policy can engender an acceptance of a narrative supporting climate change as a phenomenon. Alternatively, existing policies can reinforce an antagonistic or even fatalistic narrative of climate change. This article explores existing literature on categorical narratives associated with climate change, including emerging support for those narratives. The goal is to highlight the importance of narrative in both communicating climate change and formulating public policy responses.","PeriodicalId":45250,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Practice","volume":"91 1","pages":"218 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84030454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-08-11DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1357390
Lorna C. Withrow
ABSTRACT More than half of North Carolina’s population utilizes groundwater as a drinking water source. Efforts to protect water sources include groundwater monitoring around some of the larger wastewater systems. Samples collected from system monitoring wells are analyzed for selected contaminants, typically outlined in wastewater systems’ operation permits. Detection of targeted parameters can result in early intervention of contamination identified through parameter correlation. This investigation focused on wells located around the Corolla Light #1 WWTF in the Corolla, NC. The WWTF has seven system monitoring wells for which sample analyses results were assessed for discernable correlations between parameters. The On-Site Water Protection (OSWP) system is monitored by wells MW-4, MW-5, and MW-6. The Division of Water Resources (DWR) system is monitored by wells MW-1, MW-2, MW-3, and MW-7. The OSWP system utilizes subsurface dispersal and the DWR system utilizes surface dispersal. Monitoring conducted around the areas is reported to OSWP and DWR. Results for samples collected November 2006–2016 were compiled and results for pH, TDS, Cl-, and NO3- examined. Evaluation by regression analyses appeared to indicate no correlation between concentrations of NO3- and the other three parameters. There did appear to be a significant relationship between TDS and Cl- in five of seven wells sampled. Only two wells (MW-1 and MW-7) appeared to have a relationship between pH and both TDS and Cl-.
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Pub Date : 2017-08-11DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1356669
Marie C. Campbell, Carrie Chasteen, A. Madsen, Clint Helton, Ansley Davies
ABSTRACT This article was presented at the 2017 Annual Conference of the National Association of Environmental Professionals, in Durham, North Carolina. The presentation described case studies for public properties being managed at the federal and state level, where significant historical resources and unique archeological resources are known to be present or have a high probability to be present. This article focuses on the exemplary and proactive investigation undertaken by the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation to complete evaluations and prepare an inventory of structures, buildings, objects, and sites to assess their eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, the California Register of Historical Resources, and/or the County of Los Angeles Register of Landmarks and Historic Districts. The County of Los Angeles park system is in one of the nation’s largest municipal park systems, serving 10.02 million residents. The inventory was undertaken to identify those structures, buildings, objects, and sites that are eligible individually or as a historic district and provide guidelines for management consistent with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties and the National Park Service’s Preservation Briefs. In addition to the inventory and evaluation, the project led to development of a Worker Education and Awareness Program (WEAP) and a Cultural Resource Management Plan (CRMP). The case study and management approach will be outlined in a manner that would be suitable for application to federal, state, or local park systems or individual properties.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1338874
W. Kramer
ABSTRACT Although exploitation of outer space resources is still considered science fiction by many, spacefaring nations as well as private entrepreneurs such as SpaceX and Deep Space Industries are planning ventures to mine asteroids, the Moon and Mars. They are proposing to construct permanent human habitations and begin a variety of extraterrestrial industries within the next few decades. They are failing, however, to identify and assess the potential environmental impacts of these near-future actions. Without formal analyses of extraterrestrial environmental impacts, space projects may produce the unintended consequences of environmental degradation, lost opportunity, and the inefficiencies experienced here on Earth. Rather than calling for legislated requirements for assessment, industry-developed, -administered, and -enforced standards and practices are suggested. The extraterrestrial action area presents a potentially lucrative opportunity for professionals who are skilled in environmental impact assessment. This article discusses why impacts are to be expected, their nature, who is likely to initiate them, and how they may adversely affect the success of other future actions.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1343030
Marie C. Campbell
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1359012
Kelly Lyles
ABSTRACT Developing efficient and effective tools for navigating the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process is becoming increasingly important as Federal and State agencies have limited resources (staff and funding) and are required to review and process documents in an expedited fashion. To carry a project through the NEPA process, a skilled team with tools to streamline the interagency review process as well as community input process is highly beneficial. There are numerous approaches to streamlining the NEPA process. This article highlights two potential transformative tools. The tools have not been proven for NEPA application, but they have been successful in other industries. In Fall 2017, the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is launching a pilot study to test the tool’s effectiveness with respect to NEPA. The first tool is a Document Management System for agency coordination and comment periods to expedite the review and approval time. The second tool is the development of a Virtual NEPA GIS-Based Platform to reduce the number of pages in an Environmental Assessment (EA) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) document and improve the transparency of the NEPA process. Too often projects are delayed or over budget as a result of poor coordination processes and lack of transparency during the public review process. This article discusses the importance of and tools to improve project communication, both internally and externally, and the public involvement process.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1349530
B. Orland
Seeing the results of renewable energy development, of a roadway beautification project, or of an environmental catastrophe, is an experience shared by the widest range of people—local citizens, elected officials, privileged beneficiaries, the disenfranchised disadvantaged, etc., and scenic preservation experts. The inclination of all of these constituencies at the inception of a project, no matter how well intentioned and promising in its benefits, is to be skeptical of the outcomes. Even the outcome of the beautification project is initially no more than a promise and speculation on the accuracy of experts’ projections. This book provides comprehensive guidelines for accurately depicting the visual implications of planned change to reduce uncertainty in the decision-making for renewable energy installations.
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