The purpose of this white paper is to propose a process for identifying common needs for cyberinfrastructure (CI) across the major NSF environmental observatories (NEON, OOI, WATERS Network, LTER, AON, Earth Scope) and the barriers that could prevent construction of shared infrastructure to address those needs. While there are numerous other observatory projects, most notably in the physics and...

To achieve environmentally sound manufacturing processes, environmental management (EM) and operations management (OM) need to be implemented in an integrated manner. The literature characterizing the relationship between EM and OM has broadly investigated the positive effects of environmental practices on plant performance, but has paid little attention to their implementation. However, there ...

Background: Education For Environmental Public Scholarship Public scholarship is scholarship that is used to inform public debate of the issues we face as a society. Likewise, education for public scholarship connects classroom concepts to societal issues and helps students act as educated citizens within a democracy. This is especially important for environmental issues given the urgent and co...

In this economic evaluation of environmental epidemiological monitoring projects, we analyzed the economic feasibility of these projects by determining the social cost and benefit of these projects and conducting a cost/benefit analysis. Here, the social cost was evaluated by converting annual budgets for these research and survey projects into present values. Meanwhile, the societal benefit of...

the proposition that natural areas need protection from the destructive actions of people iswidely accepted. this paper examines iran’s e-society attitudes and capital towards biodiversity conservationand evaluates economically iran’s national parks (nps). 2,121 respondents answered an online questionnaire conducted in summer 2012. the majority of respondents had visited one of iran’s nps. almo...

The tropical forests of Africa are experiencing unprecedented changes as a result of a rapid proliferation of roads and other infrastructure. These projects are dramatically increasing access to relatively unexploited regions, particularly in the greater Congo Basin. We highlight some of the most important new projects and describe in detail an ongoing debate about a particular proposed develop...

The Thiosalts Consortium is an industry and government group, formed in 1995, to provide a forum for participants to fund projects aimed at reducing the environmental effect of thiosaltcontaminated mining effluents. The goals of the Consortium are as follows: • Fund research into practical solutions to environmental problems related to thiosalts; • Provide a forum for technology exchange and tr...

Studies have documented cumulative health effects of chemical and nonchemical exposures, particularly chronic environmental and social stressors. Environmental justice groups have advocated for community participation in research that assesses how these interactions contribute to health disparities experienced by low-income and communities of color. In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Ag...