16 results on '"*ENVIRONMENTAL policy"'
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2. Governing the Climate from Sacramento: Entrepreneurial Opportunity and Constraint and the Challenge of Network Governance.
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Rabe, Barry G.
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CLIMATE change , *GREENHOUSE gas mitigation , *COLLECTIVE action , *BUSINESSPEOPLE - Abstract
California has enacted a diverse range of policies intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, perhaps the most ambitious approach to climate change of any government on the globe. This paper will describe the evolving California approach to climate change, considering the underlying factors that have prompted such unilateral collective action and the range of entrepreneurs and institutions that are engaged on this issue. But its primary focus is an early analysis of the viability of a single state attempting so much policy essentially on its own. This will explore the significant governance challenges that include the capacity for reconciling divergent views of competing entrepreneurs, coordination across multiple departments and agencies, and the prospects for working cooperatively across jurisdictional boundaries. This will provide an overview of some of the opportunities for and constraints on climate policy entrepreneurs as well as early indications of the viability of the California model for climate governance. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
3. LANDFILL METHANE FUELS GREEN ENERGY PROGRAM.
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ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *METHANE , *SANITARY landfills , *WASTE management , *HAZARDOUS waste sites - Abstract
Focuses on the agreement between the Sacramento county-owned Kiefer Landfill and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to use methane in the SMUD Greenergy program. Comments of Jim Burke on the benefits of participating in the program; Green waster generated by the facility every year; Global warming impact of methane producing landfills.
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- 2004
4. Fixed or mixed? Farmer‐level heterogeneity in response to changes in salinity.
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Uz, Dilek, Buck, Steven, and Sunding, David
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SALINITY ,LOGISTIC regression analysis ,HETEROGENEITY ,PANEL analysis ,IRRIGATION water ,WATER shortages ,SUBSURFACE drainage - Abstract
We study supply response to irrigation water salinity—an important and ubiquitous environmental problem facing agriculture around the world. The geographical setting is the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, a main water hub in California, where salinity is a significant part of recent policy debates over water management and infrastructure. We use highly granular farm‐level panel data on Delta farming activity to estimate two sets of response parameters using (i) standard (fixed coefficients) logit model, and (ii) a mixed (random coefficient) logit model. The mixed logit results provide evidence for heterogeneity in supply response across farmers. To put these findings in a meaningful economic context, we use the results from both models to simulate estimates for aggregate acreage responses under two alternative salinity scenarios. We implement a method to simulate individual specific responses together with their confidence intervals, which provides additional insight into the composition of farmer heterogeneity. Based on these post‐regression simulation results, we find the mixed logit model predicts an elasticity of aggregate acreage for salt‐sensitive (hence higher value) crops that is an order of magnitude larger compared to that of the standard fixed coefficients logit method. This result sheds light on category of costs likely to increase in response to rising salinity in the Delta region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. Flood diversions and bypasses: Benefits and challenges.
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Serra‐Llobet, Anna, Kondolf, George Mathias, Magdaleno, Fernando, and Keenan‐Jones, Duncan
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FLOOD control ,LEVEES ,LAND subsidence ,WATER diversion ,FLOODS ,SUSTAINABLE engineering - Abstract
While levees are typically the focus of attention during floods, and higher levees are commonly demanded by the public for flood protection, levees alone cannot manage floods. Flood diversions take water from a flooding river to reduce stage in the main river, diverting excess flow to another location, often providing important ecological functions. Flood diversions are critically important complements to levees in managing floods on the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers, and elsewhere, with early examples going back 3000 years. Diversions range widely in design and function, so we propose a typology: flood bypasses, reconnected floodplains, compound channels, backwaters, distributaries, and inter‐basin transfers. Flood bypasses route floodwaters around critical reaches, rejoining the river downstream; they can be tunnels and hard‐engineered channels or wide areas of floodplain designated to convey flood flows, along a continuum of increasing residence time, greater potential for ecological benefit, but also greater land requirements. Managing the flow split (bifurcation) at the start of the flow diversion can be tricky. The flow split will depend on the angle and elevation difference between main channel and diversion, and can be affected by land subsidence, deposition of sediment, and accumulation of debris in either channel or control structures. One of the greatest challenges is keeping flow paths in the diversion free of development incompatible with inundation, but as these are often private lands and local governments are reluctant to withhold building permits, it has proved difficult to prevent such development, especially when the diversion is active only rarely. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Sustainable Engineering of WaterWater and Life > Conservation, Management, and AwarenessScience of Water > Water Extremes [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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6. Applying cumulative effects to strategically advance large‐scale ecosystem restoration.
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Diefenderfer, Heida L, Steyer, Gregory D, Harwell, Matthew C, LoSchiavo, Andrew J, Neckles, Hilary A, Burdick, David M, Johnson, Gary E, Buenau, Kate E, Trujillo, Elene, Callaway, John C, Thom, Ronald M, Ganju, Neil K, and Twilley, Robert R
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RESTORATION ecology ,ESTUARIES - Abstract
International efforts to restore degraded ecosystems will continue to expand over the coming decades, yet the factors contributing to the effectiveness of long‐term restoration across large areas remain largely unexplored. At large scales, outcomes are more complex and synergistic than the additive impacts of individual restoration projects. Here, we propose a cumulative‐effects conceptual framework to inform restoration design and implementation and to comprehensively measure ecological outcomes. To evaluate and illustrate this approach, we reviewed long‐term restoration in several large coastal and riverine areas across the US: the greater Florida Everglades; Gulf of Mexico coast; lower Columbia River and estuary; Puget Sound; San Francisco Bay and Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta; Missouri River; and northeastern coastal states. Evidence supported eight modes of cumulative effects of interacting restoration projects, which improved outcomes for species and ecosystems at landscape and regional scales. We conclude that cumulative effects, usually measured for ecosystem degradation, are also measurable for ecosystem restoration. The consideration of evidence‐based cumulative effects will help managers of large‐scale restoration capitalize on positive feedback and reduce countervailing effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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7. The Hidden Success of a Conspicuous Law: Proposition 65 and the Reduction of Toxic Chemical Exposures.
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Polsky, Claudia and Schwarzman, Megan
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TOXIC substance exposure ,WARNING labels ,CANCER risk factors ,DISCLOSURE laws - Abstract
Newcomers to California could be forgiven for thinking they have crossed into treacherous terrain. By virtue of the state's Proposition 65 right-to-know law, store shelves and public garages everywhere announce, -WARNING: This Iproduct/food/jacilityl contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer For reproductive harml." The proliferation of consumer warnings about toxic exposures in everyday lijZ has made Prop 65 highly controversial, as has the degree to which the law incentivizes citizens to sue businesses for failure to warn. Both features make the law recurrently vulnerable to weakening in Sacramento and preemption in Washington, D.C. Against this backdrop-and at a time when Prop 65 faces a live preemption threat in Congress-this Article tells a new story about the law's considerable benefits in reducing exposure to toxic chemicals. Looking beyond Prop 65's known direct effects in prompting warnings and enforcement suits, we use original archival research and qualitative interview data to identify hidden modes by which the law reduces toxic exposures in California and nationwide. This Article presents evidence of three previously unexplored or underexplained mechanisms of salutary Prop 65 action, in: (1) spurring direct regulation of specific toxic chemicals; (2) seeding broad supplemental chemical regulatory regimes: and (3) disseminating information about toxic chemicals in previously information-poor business-to-business and consumer marketplaces, with transformative effects on commerce. We conclude that assessing these modes of action is necessary to any fair evaluation of the merits of Prop 65. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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8. Affective ecologies, adaptive management and restoration efforts in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
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Kraus-Polk, Alejo and Milligan, Brett
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DELTAS ,ECOLOGY ,RESTORATION ecology - Abstract
In this article, we describe ecological recovery efforts – restoration – as a crucial component of strategic delta planning. We present restoration as a design process at once biogeophysical and territorial that entails socioecological uncertainties. Adaptive management is an approach to dealing with uncertainties through active monitoring and recalibration of actions taken. We have developed a 'socioecological monitoring' program that uses existing biophysical monitoring protocols to collect data on human use. Beyond provisioning demographic and use data, this program also helps to change the relationship between the monitors and managers involved in adaptive management and diverse non-scientific publics, who have thus far been removed from the process. Our approach highlights the importance of user experiences and affective labor to bring people into the design of restoration areas, both as actors to be managed for, as well as agents whose values and desires can help guide landscape evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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9. The Bateson Building, Sacramento, California, 1977-81, and the Design of a New Age State.
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SADLER, SIMON
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SUSTAINABLE building design & construction ,SUSTAINABLE architecture ,SUSTAINABILITY ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses the history of the Bateson Building of Sacramento, California. Topics discussed include the building being named after the anthropologist and cyberneticist, Gregory Bateson, the building being the first large scale construction to embody sustainable architecture, and the origins of sustainability.
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- 2016
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10. Informality as a Planning Strategy.
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Innes, Judith E., Connick, Sarah, and Booher, David
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WATER management ,WATER quality management ,WATER supply ,WATER conservation ,LEVEES ,DIKES (Engineering) ,WATER distribution ,STAKEHOLDERS - Abstract
The article offers a look on the significance of CALFED Bay-Delta Program (CALFED), a collaborative water management effort to manage the highly contested and interconnected system of waters, levees and habitat in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and Sacramento in California. The program engaged different agencies and stakeholders in a joint search for solutions to Bay-Delta problems. It changed how water was managed and produced new practices that persisted until 2005. According to the author, the formation of CALFED illustrates how formal and informal systems are interdependent across planning, participation and decision-making.
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- 2007
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11. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAND-USE AND EMISSION OF AUTOMOTIVE AIR POLLUTION.
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Myrup, L.O. and Rogers, D.L.
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AUTOMOBILES & the environment ,AIR pollution ,POLLUTANTS - Abstract
A methodology is presented whereby automotive air pollution areal emission factors may be determined by land-use category. The technique is applied to the City of Sacramento for the year 1971. It is found that the air quality of this particular city is dominated by pollutants emitted from arterial streets, as contrasted with residential streets and freeways. It is suggested that since many physical and cultural factors are strongly correlated with land-use, the planning of future environments of man could be done most conveniently in terms of land-use categories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1976
12. ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SCHOOLS PAYOFF.
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LaFee, Scott
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HIGH schools , *GREEN movement , *ENVIRONMENTAL engineering of buildings , *GEOTHERMAL space heating , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy - Abstract
The article refers to a report called "Greening America's Schools" and focuses on how the green movement has affected the Inderkum High School in Sacramento, California. Inderkum has wells under the school's parking lot that are part of the heating and cooling system--a geothermal arrangement that is energy efficient, according to school board president Ron Dwyer-Voss. Comments on public awareness concerning ecologically friendly, green schools are provided by the Good Energies venture-capital firm's managing director Gregory Kats and the Collaborative for High Performance Schools' assistant director Kristen Heinen. California's Green Schools Initiative and air quality are mentioned.
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- 2008
13. Kathryn Phillips, Julia Wilson.
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MARRIAGE - Abstract
Kathryn Ruth Phillips and Julia Christina Wilson were married at their home in Sacramento on Saturday. Laurie McBride, a friend who received permission from Sacramento County to perform the ceremony, officiated. Ms. Phillips, 52, is an environmental policy advocate at the Environmental Defense Fund's Sacramento office, where she manages a program to reduce air pollution. She is the author of ''Tracking the Vanishing Frogs'' (St. Martin's Press, 1994) and of ''Paradise by Design'' (North Point Press, 1998). She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in public policy from the University of California, Los Angeles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2008
14. Endangered and Threatened Species; Take of Anadromous Fish.
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Meadows, Dwayne
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GREEN sturgeon ,CHINOOK salmon ,PUBLIC opinion - Abstract
The article informs about a notice issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NMFS received an application for scientific research and enhancement on anadromous species including steelhead, green sturgeon and Chinook salmon listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Written comments on this application should be submitted to the Protected Resources Division, NMFS, Sacramento, California.
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- 2012
15. Celebrating WRAP Awards.
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O'Connell, Kim A.
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BUSINESS enterprises ,WASTE minimization - Abstract
Focuses on the annual Waste Reduction Awards Program sponsored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board in Sacramento, California. Recognition of efforts of businesses to reduce nonhazardous wastes; Award winners; Criteria in judging award nominees.
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- 2002
16. Notice of Intent To Prepare a Joint Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report for the Folsom Dam Water Control Manual Update.
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Bowen, Brenda S.
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ENVIRONMENTAL impact statements ,FOLSOM Dam (Calif.) ,FLOOD control ,PUBLIC opinion - Abstract
The article informs about a notice issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The notice informs that the USACE is preparing a joint Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) along with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for the Folsom Dam Water Control Manual (WCM) Update to reduce flood risk in Sacramento District, California. The notice invites public comments on the proposed project which are to be submitted to the USACE in California.
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- 2012
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