HotEarth.net:
Harmful Effects
This site is by a coalition of national environmental groups that launched an $11
million campaign starting on October 6, 1999, to educate the public about global warming.
The campaign includes $8 million for television advertising, the largest ad campaign in
the coalition’s history. The TV spots, sponsored by the National Environmental Trust
(NET), the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), and Physicians for Social Responsibility,
will
air on more than 200 stations.
Florida Division of Forestry,
Forest Protection Bureau Home Page / Flame Report
Links to resource sites.
Ecological
and Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management
Simulation models were developed to explore and illustrate dynamics of
socioecological systems. The ecosystem is a lake subject to phosphorus pollution.
Phosphorus flows from agriculture to upland soils, to surface waters, where it cycles
between water and sediments. The ecosystem is multistable, and moves among domains of
attraction depending on the history of pollutant inputs. The alternative states yield
different economic benefits. Agents form expectations about ecosystem dynamics, markets,
and/or the actions of managers, and choose levels of pollutant inputs accordingly. Agents
have heterogeneous beliefs and/or access to information. Their aggregate behavior
determines the total rate of pollutant input. As the ecosystem changes, agents update
their beliefs and expectations about the world they co-create, and modify their actions
accordingly. For a wide range of scenarios, we observe irregular oscillations among
ecosystem states and patterns of agent behavior. These oscillations resemble some features
of the adaptive cycle of panarchy theory.
© 1999 by the Ecological Society of America
Ecology
WWW Page
As a volunteer service to students, teachers, researchers, and others
interested in the science of ecology, this list was compiled by Anthony R. Brach (Missouri
Botanical Garden & Harvard University Herbaria, U.S.A.), and was originally posted on
ECOLOG-L in March 1995. This page is regularly updated.
03-April-01
Ecology (Advocacy) links
The
Last Noah’s Ark
What is it?
The environmental
program The Last Noah’s Ark is result of years of studies of his
idealizer Antonio Silveira Ribeiro dos Santos in natural history and
environmental area. Created in August 1995 and registered at 7th notary
public office of São Paulo (n0 249.836). Author rights register n0
106.123, book 158, pages 418.
The Purposes
• Conscious about the necessity
of nature’s preservation and conservation;
• Development of studies for an
effective protection of species and main ecosystern;
• Promoting environmental
education at all levels;
• Improving the quality of global
life;
• Supplying subvention for the
improvement of Environment’s Rights.
What makes the
difference?
It is a program created and
developed by a person who puts together concerned people with the same
idea and an equal participation, without obedience. It is not an ONG.
The program does not accept any
direct monetary help. Eventually the interested people may collaborate by
lending goods to the program.
http://www.aultimaarcadenoe.com/indexingles.htm
