Volume 3 Number 4 2007
Global Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation: 267
The Role of Ecological Risk Assessment
Mark C. Andersen
The role of planted forests in sustainable development with an emphasis 277
on the situation in Colombia
Kevin Boston
Sustainable Development in the Columbia River Basin of the Northwestern 284
United States: A Question of River Management
Ralph Dawes
Cultivating Students Understanding of Environmental Sustainability Through 297
St. Francis's Greening of the Campus Project
Salim M. Diab
Potential Carbon Sequestration Opportunities and Issues for Bottomland 305
Hardwood Afforestation in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley
Grebner, D.L., Londo, A.J., Sun, C., Grado, S.C., Sumerall, D.C., Dewey, J.C.,
Nero, B.F., and R. Maiers
Affirmative Climate Action in the United States: Emerging Issues, Adaptation 313
And Mitigation Initiatives
Gauri-Shankar Guha
Global Warming and Overexploitation in the Northeastern Pacific: Challenges 325
that Drive the Need for Solutions to Achieve Sustainability
Michael H. Horn
Modern Adaptive Management: Adding Digital Opportunities towards a 337
Sustainable World with new values
Falk Huettmann
Broadening Education Toward Environmental Restoration, as Short-Term and 343
Cost-Effective Long-Term Solutions to Global Climate Disruption
Christopher Lee Kitting
Clouds in a Warmer Climate: Friend or Foe? 353
Sonia Lasher-Trapp
Global Environment Sustainability: from Developed to Developing Countries 369
Solomon W. Leung
“An Inconvenient Decision”: MASSACHUSETTS et al v. Environmental 361
Protection Agency
Sharlene A. McEvoy
Problems with Producing the Biofuel Ethanol Sustainably via 367
Large-Scale Corn Agriculture
Steven Don Mercurio
Climate Change and Its Impacts on the Coastal Ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico 371
Zhu Hua Ning, Eugene Turner, and Kamran K. Abdollahi
Assessing the Value of Polluted Groundwater: Toward a Rational Accounting 391
of Costs in Environmental Problems
Evangelos K. Paleologos
Setting the Balance for Global Climate Change: Scientific Evidence and the 401
Consequences for Society
Ruth A Reck
Protection or Survival? The Conflict Between Conservation And Exploitation 409
Of Tropical Rainforests
Dawn Roberts-Semple
Climate Change and the Challenge for Coastal Communities 417
Mary M. Snow and Richard K. Snow
Global Warming Risks to Sustainable Forests: Evidence, Impacts, and Intervention 423
Richard K. Snow and Mary M. Snow
Leveraging International Collaborations for Climate and Sustainability Education 429
Jeffrey I. Steinfeld and Amanda Graham
Sustainable Management of Natural Resources In An Era Of Global Climate Change 437
Aregai Tecle
The Failure Of The New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina 449
And Public Policy Needs For The Future
Ivor Ll. van Heerden
An Examination of the Relationship between Air Temperature 361
and Soil Temperatures in the United States Gulf Coast
Yvette Pearson Weatherton and Edith Womack-Richardson