Policy Position Papers
Managing Water for People and Fish, Now and in a Changing Climate
Christina Swanson, Ph.D.
New policies are needed to reprioritize allocation of water resources to better protectaquatic ecosystems, accommodate the functional realities of our...
Systems Solutions to Global Food Security Challenges to Advance Human Health and Global Environment Based on Diverse Food Ecology
Kalidas Shetty, Ph.D.
On a global level, there is rapid emergence of diet-linked chronic diseases that represent a new reality of food security. This recent global increa...
The Coming Reality of Sea Level Rise Along the New Jersey Coast: Too Fast Too Soon
Harold R. Wanless, Ph.D.
The reality of accelerating rates of sea level rise as the result of human-induced global warming is becoming increasingly dire and urgently needs to ...
Adapting to Climate Change on the Coast: Changing Values, Behavior, and Policies
Karen M. O’Neill, Ph.D.
Coasts are experiencing the effects of climate change at the same time that coastal populations are growing. Even if we reduce carbon emissions, we ...
New Jersey Shore’s Future: Coping with Climate Change and Storm Risk
Thomas R. Knutson
Some observed climate changes and events are easier to link to human causes and make projections for the 21st century than others. Storm risk and se...
Shoreline Adaptation Land Trusts: Concept for Rising Sea Level
John Englander
Rising sea level is now unstoppable despite the important work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the international goals to limit warming. Fina...
Adapting to Sea Level Rise: the Tension Between Protection and Discontinuous Change
Andrew G. Keeler, Ph.D.
Communities and individuals can spend money and alter their environments to reduce risks they face from sea level rise and other climate-driven risks....
The Coming Reality of Sea Level Rise: Too Fast Too Soon
Harold R. Wanless, Ph.D.
The reality of accelerating rates of sea level rise as the result of human-induced global warming is becoming increasingly dire and urgently needs to ...
Building Local Food Capacity as a Food Security Strategy for Northern Indigenous Communities
Michael Robidoux, Ph.D.
Over the past several decades, Indigenous populations in Canada have undergone dietary and lifestyle transformations which have resulted in alarming r...
Diet and Colon Cancer Risk
Stephen J.D. O'Keefe, M.B.B.S., M.D., M.Sc., F.R.C.P.
Diseases prevalent in Western societies present the most serious threat to public health today. The rarity of these diseases in elderly members of l...