Regional, multi-actor environmental collaborations bring together diverse parties to achieve environmental protection and stewardship outcomes. Involving a range of participants helps involve alternative forms of knowledge, expertise, and perspectives; it may also present greater challenges in reaching agreements, particularly when both Indigenous and nonIndigenous parties are involved. The aut...

Among the top ten tourist activities in Taiwan, temple fairs attract millions of domestic and international visitors annually. However, numerous environmental problems are associated with such fairs. Although numerous environmental strategies have been developed for tourism destinations, few studies have focused on temple culture. This study determines whether environmental strategies can help ...

1. The financing of environmental protection is a key factor in solving pollution problems. The government of China has recognised the importance of improving environmental quality in concert with the economic modernisation process. In this context, funding of environmental protection has increased annually since the early 1980s and national investment in pollution control amounted to 82.32 bil...

Pingbian Miao Autonomous County is one of the poorest rural areas in China. Land-use changes, mainly driven by agricultural expansion and deforestation, may significantly impact ecosystem services and functions, but such effects are difficult to quantify. In the present study, Landsat image data were combined with the published coefficients about the world and China ecosystem to quantify land-u...

The Israel network of Healthy Cities has been operating since 1990, and the first evaluation of its performance was carried out in 2004. The objectives were to evaluate the level of implementation of the 'Healthy Cities' principles and strategies in each network city and to assess the contribution of the network to its member cities. Coordinators of 18 active healthy cities participated in the ...

Ecological economics arose in the final decades of the 20th century out of concerns for environmental protection and economic sustainability. It was largely a response to a real or perceived lack of physical and biological underpinnings in neoclassical economics. It was also intended to infuse economics with a moral philosophy, in contrast with the amoral implications of neoclassical models por...

WTO standard-setting and NGO labelling are promoted as alternative approaches to international environmental protection. This has been particularly true in the context of transboundary problems such as biodiversity protection. We develop a model with realistic features and to compare the two approaches, and observe the potential inter-play between them. In a world in which the WTO is subject to...

The environment and public health goals hold a common value of healthy populations. The threat of bioterrorism requires a partnership of both, building upon the long history of the link between public health and the environment. This existing relationship is key to an effective system of biodefense for the nation, because the use of biological weapons through every environmental pathway poses a...

A last word: in the 15th of February 2008 issue of the well-known magazine “Science” you can read a short position paper on “Transforming Environmental Health Protection”, by the Director of the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute, the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Associate Director of the U.S. ...

The Third International Symposium on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Research was organized by Jackson State University (JSU) from September 17 – 20, 2006 at the Marriott Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi. The Symposium was built upon the overwhelming success of the 2004 and 2005 symposia hosted by JSU and co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) RCMI-Center for Environmental...