The spectrum of environmental policy challenges—from climate change to nuclear waste storage to coastal shoreline erosion—depend on sophisticated forecasting and modeling techniques. How sound and reliable are our environmental models? What are the inherent limits of environmental science when attempting to forecast the future under different policy regimes? Are there...

Recent years have seen a rise in information-based environmental policies. This report focuses on a type of voluntary, information-based environmental policy – air quality alerts – by summarizing the recent research and contributing new findings.

A new generation of environmental assessment and forecasting tools has begun to emerge, replacing the sensational Malthusian gloom-and-doom reports of the 1970s that were mostly proven wrong. Panelists at this event will examine several of these efforts, including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Pilot Environmental Performance Index, the State of...

High gas prices are inducing consumers to tighten their belts and politicians to call for taxes on oil companies. This Outlook explores the true causes of oil price fluctuation and explains how policymakers can help lower gasoline prices.

Current climate policy is in a fairly strong state of confusion, as is the climate science underlying the debate of that policy.

How can we best build U.S. resilience to the impact of global warming?

Instead of seeking greenhouse gas reductions, we need to foster resilience: the ability to withstand changes and bounce back from them.