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A game-theoretic model developed based on an argument that national forest policy making is a game between the U.S. National Forest Service and Environmentalists and that the game is not zero-sum is discussed. The results and analysis show that some changes will have little to no effect on outcomes, while others have a significant potential to do so.

WHEN COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT SUSAN NALL BALES talks to environmental groups, she tells them that they can't fix government policies until they first fix themselves. For Bales, that means these groups […]

Campaign contributions from environmental political action committees to Senate candidates are analyzed. A two-staged model of candidate donations and the likelihood of winning the election, developed to allow for endogeneity between donations and the expected election outcome, is analyzed.

The People and Planet Green League 2008 reveals that, while universities all over the U.K. are issuing guidelines on sustainability and reducing energy consumptions, the progress in the higher education has not been as rapid or widespread as expected. Universities' rankings on the Green League's assessment criteria are presented.

Environmentalists and law-enforcement agencies want to provide military-style training to rangers and wardens to defend themselves against increasing violence from poachers. The article explores the ethical and practical aspects of using armed force to tackle conflicts over the environment and the illegal trade in natural resources.

Environmentalism in the U.S. that is dynamic, fast changing, vibrant and its distinctive features are discussed. The U.S. institutions helped in shaping and constraining environmental action and have empowered different forms of environmental activism.

The article shows how one can look to innovative intersectional politics that is shaped by host of environmental justice and rights organization of women to find the environmental awareness and action are alive. The way in which diverse women activists link environmental justice and reproductive rights issues conceptually in their communities' struggles in order to sustain everyday life is discussed.

The various central political issues raised by scientism, legalism and resentment in the American environmentalism are described. It is felt that an in-depth discussion of environmental politics is necessary in spite of the urgency of environmental concerns.

Byline: Anthony Patt Numerous articles and studies have pointed to a divergence of opinion between economists and ecologists on environmental matters. This paper examines these differences as they apply to the debate over climate change. In particular, the paper examines the models that economists use for making decisions regarding climate change policy: costbenefit analysis; utility theory; time-discounting; and integrated computer models. For each of these types of model, the paper examines how ecologists might criticise the model structure, or its assumptions, or its results. The paper concludes that, although economic models are of great use in guiding decision-makers on some aspects of the problem, they provide an incomplete picture of the fundamental decision of when and how much to act to avoid climate change.

A number of conservation groups like a Native American tribe, government agencies and a major producer of hydroelectricity have signed an agreement, which aims at removing two dams from the Penobscot River. The parties to the agreement aim to revamp the waterway and restore populations of fish and other forms of wildlife that is in decline for some time.

The article discusses work of many celebrities who became activists for climatic changes like the warming of the Artic.