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Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability

Lessons across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014

Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved understanding is also essential to promote governance...
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Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building

Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development

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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016

This book is the outcome of two International Conferences held at the ISEC in Bangalore, India: the international conference on “Climate Change and Social-Ecological-Economical Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood...
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A Movement of the People

The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama

by Katie Lamar Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

How a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama’s environmental consciousness. A Movement of the People: The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama is a detailed history of the Alabama Environmental Quality Association (AEQA). The AEQA helped to establish...
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by Steven Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2001

The most significant shift in environmental governance over the last thirty years has been the convergence of environmental and liberal economic norms toward "liberal environmentalism"—which predicates environmental protection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order....
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies

Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South

by Paul S. Sutter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known...
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Second Nature

Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals

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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012

Growing recognition of the complexity of animals' physical, social, and psychological lives in the wild has led both zookeepers and the zoo-going public to call for higher environmental standards for animals in captivity. Bringing together the work of animal behaviorists, zoo biologists, and...
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Shifting Ground

People, Animals, and Mobility in India’s Environmental History

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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014

Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction - those between geographical spaces (forest, rivers, farms), people (herders,...
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The Great Barrier Reef

An Environmental History

by Ben Daley
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate change, and is now protected as a marine...
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Conscious Conservation

Less Doing, More Being

by Hayley R Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

Conscious Conservation is an antidote to the "doom & gloom" so pervasive in modern conservation! *Are you feeling disillusioned, frustrated, or angry about the state of our planet today? Do you feel overwhelmed and unsure how to meaningfully contribute given the magnitude of the challenges...
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Cultivating Nature

The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape

by Sarah R. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

The watery terrain of the Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long been prized by residents and visitors alike. Since the twentieth century, the disparate visions of city dwellers, farmers, fishermen, scientists,...
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A Fierce Green Fire

Aldo Leopold's Life and Legacy

by Marybeth Lorbiecki
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016

For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up. Since first publication, Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire has remained the classic short, inspiring biography of Leopold--the perfect...
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Air Pollution

Assessment Methodology and Modeling

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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established the "Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society" (CCMS) at the November 1969 meeting of the North Atlantic Council. The CCMS was charged with developing meaningful environmen­ tal and social programs that complement other international...
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Conservation and Biodiversity Banking

A Guide to Setting Up and Running Biodiversity Credit Trading Systems

by Ricardo Bayon, Nathaniel Carroll, Jessica Fox
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012

The conservation of biodiversity is now big business. Whether called conservation banking, species banking, habitat banking, biodiversity banking, biodiversity offsets, compensatory mitigation or ecological footprint offsetting, the idea of financially valuing biodiversity and using the market and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

Genetic erosion is the loss of genetic diversity within a species. It can happen very quickly, due to catastrophic events, or changes in land use leading to habitat loss. But it can also occur more gradually and remain unnoticed for a long time. One of the main causes of genetic erosion is the replacement...
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