World Student Community for Sustainable Development

With Conservation and Commitment: The 3rd World Conservation Congress

by Jovin Hurry, Singapore; originally from Mauritius More than 4800 participants met in Bangkok, Thailand, from 17-25 November 2004 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, for the 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC). The Congress convened under the theme of “People and Nature: Only One World in three parts: the Commissions at Work to assess [...]

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Cooperative Environmental Management: A Network Approach for Environmental Ventures

by Ricardo Jimenez Cooperative environmental management (CEM) supports a policy approach in which government, businesses, and civic groups discuss environmental, economic, and social concerns, cooperating to resolve their differences [1] while merging central competencies in reciprocally underpinning ways. Moreover, this approach sets a strategy by which society as a whole is integrated to share responsibilities to [...]

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Urban Sprawl

A developing country approach by Neha Menon Urban sprawl has been recognized as a problem that faces the developed world. There has been a growing concern about this issue among planners, policy makers, environmentalists, citizen groups, etc. As the developing world urbanizes, more often than not, the model of development chosen is the Western one. Most [...]

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The Place of the Command and Control Paradigm in US Environmental Policy

by Teresa Zhang In the face of new environmental regulation, companies have three possible courses of action. The most damaging yet most common response has been to oppose regulation, as epitomized by the automobile industry in the US. Whether by litigation or by legislative lobbying, many industries see this option in their best economic interest. This [...]

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Global Warming As Risk: Probabilistic Climate Forecasts

by Philip Michael Sheehy Debates on global warming are often framed as uncertain vs. certain climate science. The critics of climate science refer to existing uncertainties as the basis for their rejection of aggressive climate policy. On the other hand, environmentalists consider available scientific knowledge sufficient to call for immediate reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. However, [...]

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