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Insights for Critical Alarm-Based Warning Systems from a Risk Analysis of Commercial Aviation Passenger Screening

Dr. Robin Dillon-Merrill, a member of GEI's Faculty Advisory Committee, examines risk analysis efforts in airline screening in this 2018. …

May 25, 2018

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Coping with collapse: a stock-flow consistent monetary macrodynamics of global warming

Dr. Gaël Giraud, who serves on the GEI Faculty Advisory Committee, estimates the impact of climate change on the global economy in this 2018. …

May 9, 2018

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Handing Out Beauty: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Ritual Squanderers

Dr. Nicolette Pireddu, member of GEI's faculty advisory committee, analyzes the writings of Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio on beauty, exchange, and. …

August 8, 2017

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Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market

This paper investigates the impact of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on technological change, exploiting installations level inclusion criteria to estimate…

March 1, 2016

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Are monarch butterflies really being massacred? A new study says it’s a lot more complicated than it seems

Thanks to pesticide use, habitat loss and climate change, Monarch butterflies are in mortal peril. Or so we have always.…

August 5, 2015

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Monarch butterfly studies tell a perplexing tale

The confusing picture emerges from seven monarch studies published this week in the Annals of the Entomological Society of. …

August 5, 2015

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A call for full annual cycle research in animal ecology

For vertebrates, annual cycles are organized into a series of breeding and non-breeding periods that vary in duration and location but are inextricably linked biologically. Here,…

August 1, 2015

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Is the Anthropocene Upon Us?

We are in a new geological age, denoted by human beings’ impact on the earth. Does framing our present in this way demonstrate fatalist acceptance or mark us with remarkable…

March 5, 2015

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The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States

2013 Loss, Will, and Marra study suggests that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source…

January 29, 2013

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Georgetown University Receives $20 Million Gift for Environment Initiative

Georgetown University has announced an anonymous $20 million gift to launch the Georgetown Environment Initiative, a multi-campus effort to advance the interdisciplinary study of…

November 7, 2012