Extreme Conservation

Author : Joel Berger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226366432

Get Book

Extreme Conservation by Joel Berger Pdf

"Extraordinary. . . . Berger is a hero of biology who deserves the highest honors that science can bestow."—Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than those of horses’ by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive at 40 below zero and in the lowest oxygen levels of the mountaintops. But climate change is causing the snow patterns here to shift, and with the snows, the entire ecosystem. Food and water are vaporizing in this warming environment, and these beasts of ice and thin air are extraordinarily ill-equipped for the change. A journey into some of the most forbidding landscapes on earth, Joel Berger’s Extreme Conservation is an eye-opening, steely look at what it takes for animals like these to live at the edges of existence. But more than this, it is a revealing exploration of how climate change and people are affecting even the most far-flung niches of our planet. Berger’s quest to understand these creatures’ struggles takes him to some of the most remote corners and peaks of the globe: across Arctic tundra and the frozen Chukchi Sea to study muskoxen, into the Bhutanese Himalayas to follow the rarely sighted takin, and through the Gobi Desert to track the proboscis-swinging saiga. Known as much for his rigorous, scientific methods of developing solutions to conservation challenges as for his penchant for donning moose and polar bear costumes to understand the mindsets of his subjects more closely, Berger is a guide par excellence. He is a scientist and storyteller who has made his life working with desert nomads, in zones that typically require Sherpas and oxygen canisters. Recounting animals as charismatic as their landscapes are extreme, Berger’s unforgettable tale carries us with humor and expertise to the ends of the earth and back. But as his adventures show, the more adapted a species has become to its particular ecological niche, the more devastating climate change can be. Life at the extremes is more challenging than ever, and the need for action, for solutions, has never been greater.

Author : A. Alonso Aguirre,Raman Sukumar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199766987

Get Book

Tropical Conservation by A. Alonso Aguirre,Raman Sukumar Pdf

The tropics and subtropics are home to about 75% of the global human population. Cultural, economic, and political circumstances vary enormously across this vast geography of some 170 countries and territories. The regions not only harbor the world's poorest countries but their human populations are growing disproportionally faster than in temperate zones. Some countries are developing rapidly -- Brazil, China, India, and Mexico being obvious examples, while others still remain in the poverty trap. This region contains an astonishing proportion of global biodiversity; some 90% of plant and animal species by some measures. Its contribution to human well-being is astounding. It was the birthplace for our species; and it hosts a myriad of plant and animal species which products feed us, keep us healthy, and supply us with a variety of material goods. The tropics and subtropics are also a natural laboratory where some of humanity's most important scientific discoveries have been made. Such biodiversity has enormous implications for research priorities, capacity building, and policy to address the challenges of conserving this region. Tropical Conservation: Perspectives on Local and Global Priorities drew the majority of its contributors from this growing pool of scientists and practitioners working in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. It introduces important conservation concepts and illustrates their application as the authors directly capture real world experiences in their home countries in preventing biodiversity loss and sustaining ecological health. Today, no part of the world can be viewed in isolation, and we further codify and integrate a range of approaches for addressing global threats to nature and environmental sustainability, including climate change and emerging diseases. Five sections structure the major themes.

Author : Colin Luoma
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912938506

Get Book

Fortress Conservation and International Accountability for Human Rights Violations against Batwa in Kahuzi-Biega National Park by Colin Luoma Pdf

The Kahuzi-Biega National Park (‘PNKB’) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo presents an existential threat to the indigenous Batwa people. For millennia, Batwa occupied the forests surrounding Mount Kahuzi and Mount Biega, utilizing traditional ecological knowledge and sustainable practices to foster one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. The creation of the PNKB in the 1970s forced Batwa from their ancestral lands, rendering them deeply impoverished, landless, dependent and culturally disconnected. When they seek to return home and access their lands and resources, they are subjected to extreme violence by park authorities who treat them as trespassers, poachers and enemies of conservation. This report situates the serious human rights violations suffered by Batwa in the PNKB within the broader global phenomenon of ‘fortress conservation’ and analyses the respective roles and accountability of the park’s core international partners. Ongoing violence against Batwa in the PNKB is a stark reminder of the immense human and environmental costs associated with pursuing conservation policies that prevent indigenous peoples from owning, governing, accessing and benefiting from their territories and resources. These policies are bolstered by donors, global NGOs and international organizations which enable and tacitly uphold a violent and anti-indigenous status quo in the PNKB and other protected areas. Donors, conservation organizations and other international partners of the PNKB have failed to adequately ensure that their support did not contribute to human rights violations committed against Batwa. These international partners had explicit knowledge of unresolved human rights abuses committed by ecoguards, as well as threats of imminent violence against Batwa communities living inside the park. Yet, they continued to equip, fund and train ecoguards and actively promoted the increasing militarization of the PNKB. This militarization has resulted in overly aggressive policing and military-style actions by ecoguards (often jointly with the Congolese Army) who explicitly target, criminalize and brutalize Batwa. At the same time, the park consistently fails to meet environmental expectations and objectives. Thus, the PNKB represents a clear case of how fortress conservation fails both people and the environment. Regrettably, it is not an isolated example of flawed conservation policy. Instead, it is indicative of the institutional shortcomings and systemic failures inherent in the dominant ways in which conservation is pursued by states and promoted by international conservation actors in the Congo Basin and in other parts of the world.

Author : Arcus Foundation
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107067493

Get Book

Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation by Arcus Foundation Pdf

Rigorously and objectively examines the evolving context within which great ape and gibbon habitats are increasingly interfacing with extractive industries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : UIUC:30112033628865

Get Book

Conservation Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arcus Foundation
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781316513071

Get Book

Disease, Health and Ape Conservation by Arcus Foundation Pdf

This fifth volume of State of the Apes brings together original research and analysis with topical case studies and emerging best practice to further the ape conservation agenda around disease and health. It provides an overview of relevant disease and health issues and explores factors such as the ethics of intervening in and managing ape health; the impact of research and tourism on apes; the One Health approach; and disaster management and the protection of apes. It shows how the welfare of apes is interrelated with that of the people who share their habitats, while also demonstrating the benefits of integrating ape conservation in health, socioeconomic activities (such as in the extractive industries, industrial agriculture and infrastructure development), and regulatory policy and practice at all levels, from the local to the international. This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Columbia River
ISBN : LOC:00184304387

Get Book

Pacific Northwest Electric Power Supply and Conservation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : LOC:0009108532A

Get Book

Energy Conservation and Conversion Act of 1975: July 10, 11, and 14, 1975 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : UCAL:$B1716

Get Book

Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources by Anonim Pdf

Author : S.V.S. Deo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789819955367

Get Book

Breast Oncoplasty and Reconstruction by S.V.S. Deo Pdf

The book covers the concepts, techniques and strategies of oncoplastic breast surgery and reconstruction for breast cancer patients. It includes contemporary surgical procedures with step-by-step illustrations, pre-operative and post-operative considerations, pearls and pitfalls shared from the personal experiences and surgical practices of the individual authors. Experienced authors with diverse backgrounds and an in-depth understanding of the domains are involved in curating the content of the book. This book mainly focuses on practical tips and surgical techniques to reach a broad spectrum of surgeons practicing breast surgery from low and middle-income countries. It provides both the scientific basis and practical tips from experienced surgeons in the field. Breast cancer is an emerging major public health problem in low and middle-income countries. While the surgical approach to breast cancer has witnessed a major shift from mastectomy to breast conservation, oncoplasty and reconstruction in western countries, the field of breast surgery is still evolving in low and middle-income countries. Barriers to adopting newer surgical approaches include socio-cultural factors, disease-related factors, resource-related factors and availability of expertise. This book fills the gap and helps surgeons in low and middle-income countries in adapting contemporary breast surgical techniques into their day-to-day practice. This book will be relevant for surgical oncologists, breast and endocrine surgeons, general surgeons practicing breast surgery and plastic surgeons. Additionally, it will serve as a resource book for residents and fellows from general surgery, surgical oncology, breast surgery and plastic surgery streams.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Power resources
ISBN : UOM:39015081180005

Get Book

Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1980 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556033435389

Get Book

Implementation Aggrement (IA), Inadvertent Overrun and Payback Policy (IOP) and Related Federal Actions, Lower Colorado River by Anonim Pdf

Author : Guido di Prisco,Howell G. M. Edwards,Josef Elster,Ad H. L. Huiskes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108498562

Get Book

Life in Extreme Environments by Guido di Prisco,Howell G. M. Edwards,Josef Elster,Ad H. L. Huiskes Pdf

A diverse account of how life exists in extreme environments and these systems' susceptibility and resilience to climate change.

Author : Maartje Roelofsen,Claudio Minca
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031463990

Get Book

Tourism and Biopolitics in Pandemic Times by Maartje Roelofsen,Claudio Minca Pdf

This edited collection brings together interventions on the geographies of tourism in pandemic times approached from a biopolitical perspective. Whilst the “management of bodies” has always been a constitutive part of tourism and its spatialities, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the emergence of entirely new “states of exception” and emergency regimes, geared towards tight restrictions and control over the mobility and embodied practices of millions of travelers and tourists. Debates in tourism over the “politics of life”, now more than ever, ought to concern health and wellbeing for both individuals and selected populations, not in the least because tourism has provided in many instances the socio-spatial conditions for the virus to spread. This book intends to show how a biopolitical analytical framework may provide a set of insights and critical perspectives that are key to the understanding of contemporary tourism practices and regimes of mobility, security, and in/exclusion – particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781464993183

Get Book

Sulfhydryl Compounds—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Sulfhydryl Compounds—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Sulfhydryl Compounds. The editors have built Sulfhydryl Compounds—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Sulfhydryl Compounds in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Sulfhydryl Compounds—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.