This extensive resource list includes materials for teachers and students. Some of the initiatives proposed are emissions trading, user fees, and refundable deposits. Recycling is one of many strategies for changing how businesses create value from resources. A thoughtful look, presented in popular language, at the benefits of reducing waste rather than emphasizing recycling. This essay explains, in straightforward terms, how the economics and environmental impacts of recycling may be more complicated than we expect.
Risk management is one of the cornerstones of smart environmental decision-making.
Learn some important basics in this important science. The Department of Energy has collected links to a variety of background materials on risk management and risk assessment. Issues range from cost-benefit models for risk assessment to questions such as whether highly technical risk cases should be tried before juries. This Congressional Research Service report gives an overview of how risk analysis is used under current environmental laws. Today's environmental leaders don't wait for Superfund classifications to clean up land and put it back into productive use.