Empowering Environmental Justice Decision Makers: Increasing Educational Resources for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Mapping Tools

Educational need assessment for empowering health and environmental specialists

Background and Objective: By accurately identifying environmental issues, individuals can acquire skills to better solve environmental problems. To this end, the most appropriate method is to assess the educational needs of individuals to pave the way for the promotion of environmental knowledge. The present study aims to assess the need for training courses to empower professionals to increase...

Towards an Intelligent Tutoring System for Environmental Decision Makers

The paper presents a novel approach which aims to support the training of decision makers in maritime environmental pollution policies via an intelligent tutoring system that focuses on the automatic generation of self-assessment material. More specifically, the paper reports on the automatic construction of multiple-choice question tests from knowledge bases i.e. domain ontologies, instances, ...

"Environmental Justice"

Environmental Justice

Nature is reacting to the activities of modern society in unique and largely unexpected ways. The spread of acidified rain to every continent, a worldwide decline of forested lands, and the ubiquitous presence of persistent organic pollutants due to industrial experiments in biochemistry suggest that the contemporary naturesociety relation includes phenomena unlike any that were previously know...

Vector Control Tools and Resources for Environmental Health Professionals.

I n 2015 alone, 2,060 West Nile virus cases were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2016). In addition, more than 300,000 estimated hu­ man illnesses were caused by Lyme disease in the U.S. each year (CDC, 2014). Vectorborne illnesses are impacting public health, yet recent surveys have shown state and local vector control programs experienced budget cuts and reduc...