Officials’ and residents’ perceptions of risk can drive reactions

Human-wildlife conflict is a central issue in the conservation sciences.

Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center director talks about strategies for resilience and recovery.

When snow and ice melt, road salt goes with them, washing into lakes, streams, wetlands and groundwater.

These reports are a compilation of inputs from our own research and the work of many contributors from fishing, coastal and Alaska Native communities, academic institutions, the State of Alaska and other federal agencies.

A study of restored wetlands on the Danish island of Funen reveals that plant species richness remains extremely poor many years after wetlands restoration.

New research shows long-term benefits to species

An analysis of pledges made by many of the largest U.S. electric utilities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions suggests that pledged reductions could reduce power sector emissions by a third as compared to 2018 levels. 

When it comes to climate-friendly behaviour, there is often a gap between what we want and what we actually do. 

A simplified mathematical model of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and temperature found a “lag time” between human intervention and an actual decrease in CO2 levels.