It is appropriate that Elouise Cobell be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but it would be better yet if the federal government would grant all Native Americans the freedom suggested by the awardβs title – especially when it comes to energy development.
[…] the bison into a Northern herd and a Southern herd. Beginning in 1849, a steady stream of settlers and hunters along the trail west created a bison- free corridor. When innovations in leather tanning spiked European demand for bison hides in the 1870s, the Southern herd was wiped out to satisfy the European market. […]
Thursday, November 3rd at Montana State University: Rancher, author, and professor P.J. Hill will explore different economic systems, examining,the opportunities, limits, and moral implications of different forms of governance.
If decoupling trends continue, it is possible that human impacts on the environment will peak and decline this century, even as the global population approaches 10 billion
[…] us to forgo alternative uses of the areas that provide them? Despite the accumulation of writing on the topic, there continues to be a surprising dearth of reliable evidence on the value of ecosystem services. If compelling cases have not yet been made for their values, one might reasonably ask whether there ever will […]
A cattle rancher surveys his land, gazing across a vast expanse of the western range. The land surges and rolls, lifting sharply in waves of stone, and receding softly onto the open plains. Before him is a living seaβa Sagebrush Sea, as vast and as variable as any ocean.
Accounting for dynamic nature requires revisiting the underpinnings of environmental law and management.
The implications of a dynamic, co-evolutionary perspective for the institutional management of the relationship between cities and ecology.
[…] change. We argue that the optimal degree of centralization/decentralization will depend, in part, on (i) whether new information regarding the effects of climate change will be more easily observed at the central level or the local level and (ii) what types of institutions will be most effective in keeping the incentives of decision-makers aligned […]
[…] further human disruptions of nature or reverse the consequences of past disruptions.Β As Emma Marris has explained recently, this balance of nature paradigm leads virtually every scientific study of environmental change to use or assume a baseline.Β The baseline, Marris writes, is usually assumed to be the condition of nature before being exposed to detrimental […]