Pub Date : 2017-06-26DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1338449
I. Thomas
ABSTRACT There have been strong indications of growing demand for environmental professionals. Indications are that there may not be a sufficient number of suitably qualified people for the future environment and sustainability profession. Understanding what influences people about their future careers could assist to attract people to the environmental profession. Literature and research on the topic of career choice indicates that a range of influences may be important, including an individual’s demographic and social situation, and their parents, teachers/professors, and work experiences. Additional influences are information about profession/career, representations of professions on television, individual values about economic security/status, and their interest in social and/or environmental enhancement. Doing good for society or the environment has been associated with those interested in the environmental profession, and a small pilot survey of Australian undergraduate students highlighted “doing good” as the most important influence on their career decisions. These findings provide directions for how the environmental profession, and higher education programs, could be represented.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-15DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1330506
Janet Roberts
ABSTRACT Our ecosystem and economy operate interdependently and are irretrievably linked. Therefore, any measure to improve and safeguard our ecosystem must include the restructuring of our economy. A New Economy is emerging through new economic institutions and approaches that are being developed in communities across this country and around the world. These new models and strategies that assure the wellbeing of humanity and the planet have within them kernels for systemic change. Two critical aspects of the New Economy are new economic performance metrics that go beyond the Gross Domestic Product and large-scale worker-owned cooperatives that provide vibrant and comfortable livelihoods while also restoring community prosperity.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1309884
D. Evensen
ABSTRACT A simple explanation for why another’s perspectives on unconventional gas development via hydraulic fracturing differ from one’s own is that people are uninformed. Such an answer employs the deficit model of communication and understanding—shown for a quarter century to be inadequate for explaining public perceptions and behaviors. A more likely explanation, but far more challenging for an easy “fix”, is that values fundamentally shape views. In autumn 2014, I taught an undergraduate course entirely on unconventional gas development (UGD) via hydraulic fracturing (often called “fracking”). I evaluated the effects of intensive education on attitudes about UGD by presenting my students with the same survey on the first and penultimate days of class. Overall attitudes changed little, despite substantial increases in self-reported knowledge and changes in beliefs about impacts associated with UGD. This poses a challenge for energy policies and regulation built off the assumption that additional education can readily change attitudes. I consider ways of approaching policy that respond to education’s limited effects on attitudes about UGD.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1309908
S. Dwyer
ABSTRACT New toxicity criteria published by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for benzo(a)pyrene yield higher environmental screening levels (e.g., RSLs) and remediation goals than in the past. As a result, fewer hazardous material release sites may need remediation and for those that do, the magnitude of the remediation should be reduced.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1320189
Marie C. Campbell
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Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1309885
C. Nissley, T. King
ABSTRACT Compliance with Section 106 of the U.S. National Historic Preservation Act is often and understandably seen as an unduly complicated, expensive, and unproductive part of environmental impact assessment. Past efforts to “streamline” review have often made it more complicated and less effective. We propose a simple amendment to the statute, eliminating reliance on the National Register of Historic Places and clarifying the purposes of review.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1309881
R. Gaulke
As I write this, Pope Francis is visiting the United States, particularly New York City and Philadelphia, and has addressed the US Congress as well as delegates to the United Nations General Assembly. In his various addresses, he has exhorted all of us to take better care of creation and the environment. As I contemplated his words and their meaning, I was reminded of the work of the National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) and its members. I know that many of you have been involved in projects assessing the various shortand long-term impacts of proposed actions and other projects on communities, cultures, and economies. I also suspect that you have devised ways to mitigate these impacts that focused on the needs of real people, rather than merely being another box to check on a required checklist. NAEP members can be proud of their service to their clients and of their attention to the needs of those impacted by a project. This is how we demonstrate our care for creation and the environment.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1309887
D. Ross
ABSTRACT Despite great success in coping with point-source pollution, over 55% of our waterways remain impaired; and are likely to remain that way so long as we continue to use point-source permitting strategies to address nonpoint source stormwater flows. Practitioners need to take the lead in making the case that watershed-wide restoration plans are justified as a matter of public policy and are far more likely to succeed than adherence to a regulatory regime based on a model of harm no longer relevant to our impaired water bodies.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1309892
A. Squitieri
ABSTRACT Historic bridges make up an estimated 60% or more of a state transportation agency’s Section 106 compliance projects. With this sheer volume in mind, this article examines different approaches to navigating historic bridge projects that can yield significant time and cost savings for bridge owners. On a national level, the Program Comment for Common Post-1945 Concrete and Steel Bridges has helped streamline Section 106 for an estimated 200,000 bridges by exempting all but those exceptional bridges identified by states. The 11 states that have not yet reported their exceptions are not eligible for the Program Comment at this time and must continue to address 106 individually for bridge projects. Additionally, this article focuses on five states that have worked proactively to manage their historic bridge populations: Minnesota, Louisiana, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Utah. In addressing the non-standardized historic bridge types that are outside the scope of the Program Comment, each state has approached their pool somewhat differently and may focus on all historic bridges or in some cases a subset of structures. In each case, the goal of the state transportation agency has been to manage projects affecting historic bridges more efficiently than past practices. The approaches taken in these five states offer possible models for finding efficiency and savings on historic bridge projects nationwide.
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