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Human Dimensions and Sustainability

brick kiln interior
August 14, 2017
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.

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August 14, 2017

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.

two rhinos
July 27, 2016

Stanford researchers are urging action toward the conservation of large mammals that provide substantial biologic and economic values.

prawn
July 22, 2016

A new study shows that the spread of the parasitic disease schistosomiasis is more effectively curbed with ecological intervention than with drug treatment alone.

illustration of catastrophic and healthy Earth
April 14, 2016

Targeting aspects of human psychology that can create barriers to effective climate change action may be the key to promoting environmentally friendly choices in both individual practices and national policies, Stanford scientists say.

 

new fossils define the age of humans
April 5, 2016

We are living in the Anthropocene age, in which human influence on the planet is so profound, it will leave its legacy for millennia. How are writers and artists responding along side scientists, politicians, and engineers?

two kids holding the Earth in their hands
March 21, 2016
How do we achieve sustainability? In her book "Pursuing Sustainability", Pamela Matson, Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, suggests that the ultimate determinants of intergenerational well-being should be thought of as the stocks of assets on which people now draw and will draw upon in the future to subsist and improve their lives – stocks that include natural, social, manufactured, human and knowledge capital.
nighttime lights in Africa
March 17, 2016

An interdisciplinary team of Stanford scientists is identifying global poverty zones by comparing daytime and nighttime satellite images in a novel way.

Deforested hill
March 2, 2016

Collaborative efforts to reduce deforestation were more than twice as effective as "confrontational" programs developed by either industry or nongovernmental organizations, according to a first-of-its kind study.

American Indian ruins
January 25, 2016

A new paper that finds New Mexico's American Indian population crashed 100 years after Europeans arrived uses an "amazing approach," says Stanford Earth's Richard Nevle.