At the end of the winter semester last year, students in the Environmental Policy & Planning (EPP) Working Group held a visioning session to determine how to improve the EPP track in SNRE. The end product of the session was an action plan that outlines planned activities for the EPP Working Group for this academic year and goals for the longer term.
De Young, R. and T. Princen (2012) The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
De Young, R., A. Dotzour, C. Houston, G. Manubay, C. Saunders, K. & Schulz, J. C. Smith (2011) Some immediate and longer-term effects of a zoo exhibit. Journal of Environmental Systems. 33, 19-28.
De Young, R. (2011) Slow wins: Patience, perseverance and behavior change. Carbon Management, 2, 607-611
De Young, R. (2010) Restoring mental vitality in an endangered world: Reflections on the benefits of walking. EcoPsychology, 2, 13-22.
Kaplan, R., J. E. Ivancich & R. De Young (2007) Nearby nature in the city: Enhancing and preserving livability. Ann Arbor, MI 48109: School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan. Retrievable from DeepBlue: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/48784
We have arrived in Doha, Qatar—a city rising from the desert and, rather ironically, from oil revenue—for the 18th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP18). While expectations for an international climate change agreement are tempered this COP, 2012 is significant in that two of the negotiating tracts—the Kyoto (KP) Track for signatories of that protocol and the Long-term Cooperative Action (LCA) Track for developed countries taking “mitigation actions” outside of Kyoto—are expected to close this year.
This past summer, a group of University of Michigan graduate students from the College of Engineering and the School of Natural Resources and Environment traveled to Liberia, West Africa as members of the student organization Sustainability Without Borders. Sustainability Without Borders (SWB) is an interdisciplinary organization whose objective is to create a network of sustainability practitioners who develop and implement sustainability projects in rural areas of developing countries.