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Human Dimensions and Sustainability

brick kiln interior
August 14, 2017

Reducing brick kiln pollution

Woods Institute for the Environment

A Stanford team is now combining satellite data and political persuasion to track kilns and incentivize kiln owners to use cleaner technologies.

Human Dimensions and Sustainability
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August 14, 2017
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Stanford News Service

Stanford Earth researchers analyzed a pioneering California program to sell carbon offsets and found it has surprising environmental benefits — including providing habitat for endangered species — and provides lessons for initiatives under development in other states and countries.

Climate Change, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
chimpanzee eating in tree
July 21, 2017

Paying Farmers Not to Cut Down Trees in Uganda Helps Fight Climate Change, New Study Shows

Innovations for Poverty Action

A new study co-authored by Stanford Earth researchers demonstrates a cost-effective strategy to combat climate change by paying farmers in Uganda to conserve and plant trees.

Climate Change, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
thermometer with bright sun and skyline in background
June 1, 2017
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Stanford News Service

The president announced that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. Four Stanford scholars discuss the implications of this decision.

Climate Change, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
Dean Pamela Matson
April 7, 2017

What is sustainability? A conversation with Stanford Earth Dean Pamela Matson

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

Sustainability efforts today are critical to meet the needs of people now and over the long term, and Stanford has a leadership role.

Human Dimensions and Sustainability
Cars plugged into a charging station
April 6, 2017

Stanford scientist’s new approach may accelerate design of high-power batteries

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

New Stanford study describes a model for designing novel materials used in electrical storage devices, such as car batteries and capacitors. This approach may dramatically accelerate discovery of new materials that provide cheap and efficient ways to store energy.

Energy, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
rows of oil palm plants
April 4, 2017

Stanford study explores risk of deforestation as agriculture expands in Africa

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Multinational companies are increasingly looking to Africa to expand production of in-demand commodity crops such as soy and oil palm. A first-of-its-kind study highlights the real and potential impacts on the continent’s valuable tropical forests.

Food and Agriculture, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
A housing development outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
March 2, 2017
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The Bill Lane Center for the American West

Stanford Earth's Rob Jackson has teamed up with two law professors to propose conservation easements for subsurface areas.

Human Dimensions and Sustainability
Child wears mouth mask in Beijing with air pollution in background.
February 28, 2017

Stanford Earth’s Rob Jackson urges community to convey the multiple benefits of climate action

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

Rather than talk about the negative things, point to the co-benefits of finding climate solutions – from economics and jobs to water and the air we breathe.

Climate Change, Energy, Human Dimensions and Sustainability, Natural Hazards
Stanford fossil collection
February 9, 2017

Stanford researchers among those discussing the future of conservation

Stanford News Service

The world is changing too fast for nature to keep up. Conservation scholars, including those at Stanford, agree that strategies need to evolve to consider not only how ecosystems operated in past decades and centuries, but also thousands and millions of years ago.

Human Dimensions and Sustainability
closeup of mosquito
February 8, 2017

Drought identified as key to severity of West Nile virus epidemics

UC Santa Cruz

Stanford Earth's Noah Diffenbaugh and Dan Horton are coauthors on a new study that finds transmission of West Nile virus is higher in drought years, but after large outbreaks acquired immunity limits the size of subsequent epidemics.

 

Climate Change, Fresh Water Resources, Human Dimensions and Sustainability

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