Lands Of The Future

Author : Echi Christina Gabbert,Fana Gebresenbet,John G. Galaty,Günther Schlee
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805393788

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Lands of the Future by Echi Christina Gabbert,Fana Gebresenbet,John G. Galaty,Günther Schlee Pdf

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and ‘primitiveness’.

Author : Echi Christina Gabbert,Fana Gebresenbet,John G. Galaty,Günther Schlee
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789209914

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Lands of the Future by Echi Christina Gabbert,Fana Gebresenbet,John G. Galaty,Günther Schlee Pdf

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and ‘primitiveness’.

Author : William R. Lowry
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589013956

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Preserving Public Lands for the Future by William R. Lowry Pdf

Comparing national efforts to preserve public lands, William R. Lowry investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide goods for future generations. Providing intergenerational goods, ranging from balanced budgets to space programs and natural environments, is particularly challenging because most political incentives reward short-term behavior. Lowry examines the effect of institutional structure on the public delivery of these goods. He offers a theoretical framework accounting for both the necessary conditions — public demand, political stability, and official commitment to long-term delivery — and constraining factors — the tensions between public agencies and politicians as well as between different levels of government — that determine the ability of a nation to achieve long-term goals. In support of this argument, Lowry evaluates data on park systems from more than one hundred countries and provides in-depth case studies of four — he United States, Australia, Canada, and Costa Rica — to show how and why the delivery of intergenerational goods can vary. For each of the cases, he reviews background information, discusses constraints on agency behavior, and assesses expansion of the park systems and restoration of natural conditions at specific locations. This extensive comparative analysis of the preservation of public lands offers new insights into the capability of nations to pursue long-term goals.

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815726906

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The Future of Land Warfare by Michael E. O'Hanlon Pdf

What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense? In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the army and ground forces: this, after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seems like an appealing idea. No one really wants American boots on the ground in bloody conflicts abroad. But it is not so easy to simply declare an end to messy land wars. A survey of the world's trouble spots suggests that land warfare has more of a future than many now seem to believe. In The Future of Land Warfare, Michael O'Hanlon offers an analysis of the future of the world's ground forces: Where are large-scale conflicts or other catastrophes most plausible? Which of these could be important enough to require the option of a U.S. military response? And which of these could in turn demand significant numbers of American ground forces in their resolution? O'Hanlon is not predicting or advocating big American roles in such operations—only cautioning against overconfidence that we can and will avoid them. O'Hanlon considers a number of illustrative scenarios in which large conventional forces may be necessary: discouraging Russia from even contemplating attacks against the Baltic states; discouraging China from considering an unfriendly future role on the Korean peninsula; handling an asymmetric threat in the South China Sea with the construction and protection of a number of bases in the Philippines and elsewhere; managing the aftermath of a major and complex humanitarian disaster superimposed on a security crisis—perhaps in South Asia; coping with a severe Ebola outbreak not in the small states of West Africa but in Nigeria, at the same time that country falls further into violence; addressing a further meltdown in security conditions in Central America.

Author : Letizia Bindi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800734753

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Grazing Communities by Letizia Bindi Pdf

Pastoralism is a diffused and ancient form of human subsistence and probably one of the most studied by anthropologists at the crossroads between continuities and transformations. The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. Transhumance and extensive breeding are revitalized as a potential resource for inner and rural areas of Europe against depopulation and as an efficient form of farming deeply influencing landscape and functioning as a perfect eco-system service. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.

Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board. Committee on Highway Laws,National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Highway Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044031747058

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Acquisition of Land for Future Highway Use by National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board. Committee on Highway Laws,National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Highway Laws Pdf

A study was made of the legal aspects of acquiring property for future highway use. Existing statutes and court decisions involving acquisition of land were analyzed to isolate the important principles which should be considered in drafting legislation authorizing the acquisition of land for future use. 15 states specifically authorize future use acquisition by statute, and 6 by judicial decision.

Author : Katherine Graham,David Newhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0887559174

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Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future by Katherine Graham,David Newhouse Pdf

Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future looks to both the past and the future as it examines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. It assesses the Commission's influence on subsequent milestones in Indigenous-Canada relations and considers our prospects for a constructive future. RCAP's five-year examination of the relationships of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples to Canada and to non-Indigenous Canadians resulted in a new vision for Canada and provided 440 specific recommendations, many of which informed the subsequent work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Considered too radical and difficult to implement, RCAP's recommendations were largely ignored, but the TRC reiterates that longstanding inequalities and imbalances in Canada's relationship with Indigenous peoples remain and quite literally calls us to action. With reflections on RCAP's legacy by its co-chairs, leaders of national Indigenous organizations and the Minister of Indigenous Crown Relations, and leading academics and activists, this collection refocuses our attention on the groundbreaking work already performed by RCAP. Organized thematically, it explores avenues by which we may establish a new relationship, build healthy and powerful communities, engage citizens, and move to action.

Author : Charles F. Hutchinson,Stefanie M. Herrmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402066894

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The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited by Charles F. Hutchinson,Stefanie M. Herrmann Pdf

The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in 1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. At these meetings, experts considered the major issues then confronting the world’s arid lands and developed a research agenda to address these issues. This book reexamines this earlier work and explores changes in the science and management of arid lands over the past 50 years within their historical contexts.

Author : Eric F. Lambin,Helmut J. Geist
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540322023

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Land-Use and Land-Cover Change by Eric F. Lambin,Helmut J. Geist Pdf

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of Earth System functioning. The book offers innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction. Conclusions are also drawn about the most pressing implications for the design of appropriate intervention policies.

Author : Stephen M. Gavazzi,E. Gordon Gee
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421426853

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Land-Grant Universities for the Future by Stephen M. Gavazzi,E. Gordon Gee Pdf

This book should be of great interest to faculty members and students, as well as those parents, legislators, policymakers, and other area stakeholders who have a vested interest in the well-being of America’s original public universities.

Author : Harold E. Dregne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : UIUC:30112018979341

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Impact of Land Degradation on Future World Food Production by Harold E. Dregne Pdf

Author : Katherine Graham,David Newhouse
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780887558696

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Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future by Katherine Graham,David Newhouse Pdf

"Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future" looks to both the past and the future as it examines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. It assesses the Commission’s influence on subsequent milestones in Indigenous-Canada relations and considers our prospects for a constructive future. RCAP’s five-year examination of the relationships of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples to Canada and to non-Indigenous Canadians resulted in a new vision for Canada and provided 440 specific recommendations, many of which informed the subsequent work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Considered too radical and difficult to implement, RCAP’s recommendations were largely ignored, but the TRC reiterates that longstanding inequalities and imbalances in Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples remain and quite literally calls us to action. With reflections on RCAP’s legacy by its co-chairs, leaders of national Indigenous organizations and the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, and leading academics and activists, this collection refocuses our attention on the groundbreaking work already performed by RCAP. Organized thematically, it explores avenues by which we may establish a new relationship, build healthy and powerful communities, engage citizens, and move to action.

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : UOM:35112104665684

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Land and Water Potentials, and Future Requirements for Water by United States. Department of Agriculture Pdf

Author : Lowdon Wingo Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134000586

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Cities and Space by Lowdon Wingo Jr. Pdf

Discusses aims of urban planning and ways to achieve improved city living. Originally published in 1963

Author : Charles F. Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992-09
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015028486291

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Crossing the Next Meridian by Charles F. Wilkinson Pdf

In Crossing the Next Meridian, Wilkinson explains to a general audience some of the core problems that face the American West, both now and in the years to come. An expert on federal public lands, Native American issues, and the West's arcane water laws, Wilkinson looks at the outmoded ideas that pervade land use and resource allocation. He argues that significant reform of Western law is needed to combat environmental decline and heal splintered communities. Interweaving legal history with examples of present-day consequences, both intended and unintended, Wilkinson traces the origins and development of Western laws and regulations. He relates stories of Westerners who face these issues on a day-to-day basis and discusses what can and should be done to bring government policies in line with the reality of twentieth-century American life. His examination seeks a middle ground between those who champion unrestricted growth and those who advocate complete preservation.