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Author : Roger L. Claassen
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781437988789
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89122326689
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Agricultural subsidies
ISBN : MINN:31951D02596660M
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Agricultural conservation
ISBN : MINN:31951D030011450
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000145425256
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015018226137
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Agricultural administration
ISBN : MINN:31951D035234283
Author : Dennis Ojima,Jean Steiner,Shannon McNeeley,Karen Cozzetto,Amber Childress
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610914352
Great Plains : social-ecological setting (climate-environment-society) natural resources and wildlife aspects --Characteristics of agricultural system and energy resources --Climate conditions and scenarios of change across the Great Plains --Water management --Ecosystem and biodiversity conservation issues --Energy considerations --Agriculture and land management --Great Plains societal considerations : impacts and consequences, vulnerability and risk, adaptive capacity, response options --Collaborative research and management interactions in response to climate change.
Author : Curtis H. Freese
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781496236630
Back from the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one of North America's most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems: the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called America's Serengeti in recognition of its historically extraordinary abundance of wildlife. Since Euro-American colonization, however, populations of at least twenty-four species of Great Plains wildlife have collapsed--from pallid sturgeon and burrowing owls to all major mammals, including bison and grizzly bears. In response to this incalculable loss, Curtis H. Freese and other conservationists founded American Prairie, a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting the region's native wildlife by establishing a 3.2-million-acre reserve on the plains of eastern Montana, one of the most intact and highest-priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Great Plains. In Back from the Collapse Freese explores the evolutionary history of the region's ecosystem over millions of years, as it transitioned from subtropical forests to the edge of an ice sheet to today's prairies. He details the eventual species collapse and American Prairie's work to restore the habitat and wildlife, efforts described by National Geographic as "one of the most ambitious conservation projects in American history."
Author : William F. Porter,Chad J. Parent,Rosemary A. Stewart,David M. Williams
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781421440194
"This edited collection considers how landscapes designed by humans contain multiple ecosystems for animals and plants. Using quantitative methods, the contributors explain how to model what components of a landscape are critical to species of interest"--
Author : Christopher E. Moorman,Steven M. Grodsky,Susan Rupp
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421432731
Brings together disparate conversations about wildlife conservation and renewable energy, suggesting ways these two critical fields can work hand in hand. Renewable energy is often termed simply "green energy," but its effects on wildlife and other forms of biodiversity can be quite complex. While capturing renewable resources like wind, solar, and energy from biomass can require more land than fossil fuel production, potentially displacing wildlife habitat, renewable energy infrastructure can also create habitat and promote species health when thoughtfully implemented. The authors of Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation argue that in order to achieve a balanced plan for addressing these two crucially important sustainability issues, our actions at the nexus of these fields must be directed by current scientific information related to the ecological effects of renewable energy production. Synthesizing an extensive, rapidly growing base of research and insights from practitioners into a single, comprehensive resource, contributors to this volume • describe processes to generate renewable energy, focusing on the Big Four renewables—wind, bioenergy, solar energy, and hydroelectric power • review the documented effects of renewable energy production on wildlife and wildlife habitats • consider current and future policy directives, suggesting ways industrial-scale renewables production can be developed to minimize harm to wildlife populations • explain recent advances in renewable power technologies • identify urgent research needs at the intersection of renewables and wildlife conservation Relevant to policy makers and industry professionals—many of whom believe renewables are the best path forward as the world seeks to meet its expanding energy needs—and wildlife conservationists—many of whom are alarmed at the rate of renewables-related habitat conversion—this detailed book culminates with a chapter underscoring emerging opportunities in renewable energy ecology. Contributors: Edward B. Arnett, Brian B. Boroski, Regan Dohm, David Drake, Sarah R. Fritts, Rachel Greene, Steven M. Grodsky, Amanda M. Hale, Cris D. Hein, Rebecca R. Hernandez, Jessica A. Homyack, Henriette I. Jager, Nicole M. Korfanta, James A. Martin, Christopher E. Moorman, Clint Otto, Christine A. Ribic, Susan P. Rupp, Jake Verschuyl, Lindsay M. Wickman, T. Bently Wigley, Victoria H. Zero
Author : Ralph E. Heimlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Cropland conversion program
ISBN : UIUC:30112020014632
Extract: This study examines a comprehensive sample of farm and ranch landowners in seven Western Great Plains States. The sample is classified by land conversion activity between 1975 and 1977. More than 40,000 landowners (18 percent) in this area added cropland. The Northern Plains accounted for two-thirds of owners adding cropland. Operations adding cropland were of two types: new, expanding operations owned by younger, better educated, full-time farmers and established, speculative operations owned by older, less educated operators with a variety of nonfarm occupations. Soil erosion on land owned by those who converted land is little different than erosion on all land.
Author : Zhangcai Qin,Umakant Mishra,Astley Hastings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119297352
Although bioenergy is a renewable energy source, it is not without impact on the environment. Both the cultivation of crops specifically for use as biofuels and the use of agricultural byproducts to generate energy changes the landscape, affects ecosystems, and impacts the climate. Bioenergy and Land Use Change focuses on regional and global assessments of land use change related to bioenergy and the environmental impacts. This interdisciplinary volume provides both high level reviews and in-depth analyses on specific topics. Volume highlights include: Land use change concepts, economics, and modeling Relationships between bioenergy and land use change Impacts on soil carbon, soil health, water quality, and the hydrologic cycle Impacts on natural capital and ecosystem services Effects of bioenergy on direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions Biogeochemical and biogeophysical climate regulation Uncertainties and challenges associated with land use change quantification and environmental impact assessments Bioenergy and Land Use Change is a valuable resource for professionals, researchers, and graduate students from a wide variety of fields including energy, economics, ecology, geography, agricultural science, geoscience, and environmental science. Read an interview with the editors to find out more: https://eos.org/editors-vox/bioenergys-impacts-on-the-landscape
Author : Ajay Kumar Bhardwaj,Terenzio Zenone,Jiquan Chen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783110275896
With oil resources approaching their limits, biofuels have become increasingly attractive. This book provides a detailed description of the ecological implications of second and third generation biofuel feedstock production systems, beginning with an introduction to the importance of ecological sustainability alongside economic viability. The book is divided into sections describing theoretical foundation and benefits of various biofuel cropping systems, and providing a description of practical ecological limitations to achieve those fundamental benefits. The book covers such critical issues as greenhouse gas emissions, carbon balance, water cycle components, other biogeochemical and socioeconomic interactions alongside life cycle analysis principals for achieving sustainability. These are some of the most important sustainability, environmental and economic issues which biofuel industry and scientific community is seeking answers to.
Author : Daniel G. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107011243
Comprehensive exploration of how land use interacts with the atmosphere and carbon cycle, for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.
