State Of The Wild 2010 2011

Author : Eva Fearn
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 161091158X

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State of the Wild 2010-2011 by Eva Fearn Pdf

State of the Wild is a biennial series that brings together international conservation experts and writers to discuss emerging issues in the conservation of wildlife and wild places. Each volume in the series combines evocative writings with a fascinating tour of conservation news highlights and vital statistics from around the world. One-third of each volume focuses on a topic of particular concern to conservationists. This 2010–2011 edition considers how destabilization and war affect wildlife and wild places. Only recently has the international community begun to appreciate the cost of conflict—simmering tension, war, and reconstruction—on the natural world. This special section examines the role that conservation plays in the context of human conflict considering issues such as, Can the work of saving wildlife and wild places help ameliorate tensions? Can conservation deepen political understanding? Can conservation help in post-conflict situations? The book’s twenty essays are intermixed with poetry and beautiful photos that capture our connection to the wild. State of the Wild’s accessible approach educates a wide range of audiences while at the same time presenting leading-edge scientific overviews of hot topics in conservation. Uniquely structured with magazine-like features up front, conservation news in the middle, and essays from eminent authors and experienced scientists throughout, this landmark series is an essential addition to any environmental bookshelf.

Author : Timothy Neale
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780824873196

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Wild Articulations by Timothy Neale Pdf

Beginning with the nineteenth-century expeditions, Northern Australia has been both a fascination and concern to the administrators of settler governance in Australia. With Southeast Asia and Melanesia as neighbors, the region's expansive and relatively undeveloped tropical savanna lands are alternately framed as a market opportunity, an ecological prize, a threat to national sovereignty, and a social welfare problem. Over the last several decades, while developers have eagerly promoted the mineral and agricultural potential of its monsoonal catchments, conservationists speak of these same sites as rare biodiverse habitats, and settler governments focus on the “social dysfunction” of its Indigenous communities. Meanwhile, across the north, Indigenous people have sought to wrest greater equity in the management of their lives and the use of their country. In Wild Articulations, Timothy Neale examines environmentalism, indigeneity, and development in Northern Australia through the controversy surrounding the Wild Rivers Act 2005 (Qld) in Cape York Peninsula, an event that drew together a diverse cast of actors—traditional owners, prime ministers, politicians, environmentalists, mining companies, the late Steve Irwin, crocodiles, and river systems—to contest the future of the north. With a population of fewer than 18,000 people spread over a landmass of over 50,000 square miles, Cape York Peninsula remains a “frontier” in many senses. Long constructed as a wild space—whether as terra nullius, a zone of legal exception, or a biodiverse wilderness region in need of conservation—Australia’s north has seen two fundamental political changes over the past two decades. The first is the legal recognition of Indigenous land rights, reaching over a majority of its area. The second is that the region has been the center of national debates regarding the market integration and social normalization of Indigenous people, attracting the attention of federal and state governments and becoming a site for intensive neoliberal reforms. Drawing connections with other settler colonial nations such as Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand, Wild Articulations examines how indigenous lands continue to be imagined and governed as “wild.”

Author : A.K. Jain
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789386102126

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Indian Ethnobotany: Emerging Trends by A.K. Jain Pdf

Currently ethnobotany has been a subject of wide interest for research in developing and developed countries. The book has been dedicated to the doyen of Indian ethnobiology, Dr. S.K. Jain, FNA, popularly known as 'Father of Indian Ethnobotany'. The book comprises very important articles written by notable ethnobiologists/ botanists on different aspects of ethnobotany. The book would certainly be useful to the students, researchers and teachers working on various aspects of ethnobotany and helpful to various pharmaceutical industries in exploring plants for preparation of new drugs.

Author : James McGraw
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780820368801

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Wild American Ginseng by James McGraw Pdf

Author : Jean-Luc E. Cartron,Jennifer K. Frey
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 1145 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780826351531

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Wild Carnivores of New Mexico by Jean-Luc E. Cartron,Jennifer K. Frey Pdf

In this first-ever landmark study of New Mexico's wild carnivores, Jean-Luc E. Cartron and Jennifer K. Frey have assembled a team of leading southwestern biologists to explore the animals and the major issues that shape their continued presence in the state and region. The book includes discussions on habitat, evolving or altered ecosystems, and new discoveries about animal behavior and range, and it also provides details on the distribution, habitat associations, life history, population status, management, and conservation needs of individual carnivore species in New Mexico. Like Cartron's award-winning Raptors of New Mexico, Wild Carnivores of New Mexico shares the same emphasis on scientific rigor and thoroughness, high readability, and visual appeal. Each chapter is illustrated with numerous color photographs to help readers visualize unique morphological or life-history traits, habitat, research techniques, and management and conservation issues.

Author : India. Parliament. Lok Sabha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : India
ISBN : UCBK:C103062979

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Parliamentary Debates, House of the People by India. Parliament. Lok Sabha Pdf

Author : Chris A. Wozniak,Alan McHughen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400721562

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Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnology: The United States and Canada by Chris A. Wozniak,Alan McHughen Pdf

Agricultural biotechnology takes many forms and applications, with the number and diversity of products ever increasing. With this rapid development, regulatory authorities have sought to keep pace through regulatory adjustments and advances to ensure the safe and beneficial use of this critical technology. The regulatory systems for the U.S. and Canada are not static and must evolve in order to maintain relevance, efficiency and applicability to the challenges encountered. The diverse authors, drawn from the biotechnology industry, academia, government research and regulatory agencies, offer their perspectives of the historical and current system and suggest where it can be improved in the future. Based upon vast experience interacting with the regulatory system, the editors and authors offer demystifying views of the US and Canadian regulatory structures and how they came to be. We know of no other effort to present the biotechnology regulatory systems of the US and Canada in an open forum which will benefit those in the regulated community as well as those charged with oversight of the products of biotechnology, and ultimately the consumer!

Author : Pedram Faghfouri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783658005962

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The Role of Governance Structure in the Context of Crisis Management by Pedram Faghfouri Pdf

​ Both practitioners and scholars agree that organizations that are ready to cope with crisis should be better able to manage it than organizations which are not prepared. As, due to their company characteristics, family businesses are exposed to additional causes of crisis beyond the usual causes all companies face, preparing for crisis is of specific importance to them. Based on empirical investigations, Pedram Faghfouri shows that non-family businesses are more likely to prepare for crisis when compared to family businesses. The author’s findings let further suggest that the existence of a supervisory board has a positive effect on the degree of crisis readiness of a family business. Moreover, in family businesses with supervisory boards, the involvement of family members in the top management team seems to have a negative effect on the degree of crisis readiness.

Author : Committee to Review the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Management Program,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309264952

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Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program by Committee to Review the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Management Program,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council Pdf

Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the western United States, concluding that constructive changes could be implemented. The Wild Horse and Burro Program has not used scientifically rigorous methods to estimate the population sizes of horses and burros, to model the effects of management actions on the animals, or to assess the availability and use of forage on rangelands. Evidence suggests that horse populations are growing by 15 to 20 percent each year, a level that is unsustainable for maintaining healthy horse populations as well as healthy ecosystems. Promising fertility-control methods are available to help limit this population growth, however. In addition, science-based methods exist for improving population estimates, predicting the effects of management practices in order to maintain genetically diverse, healthy populations, and estimating the productivity of rangelands. Greater transparency in how science-based methods are used to inform management decisions may help increase public confidence in the Wild Horse and Burro Program.

Author : Laura Mars-Proietti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133171012

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The Environmental Resource Handbook 2010/11 by Laura Mars-Proietti Pdf

This edition is the most up-to-date and comprehensive source for Environmental Resources and Statistics. Section I: Resources, provides detailed contact information for thousands of information sources, including Associations & Organizations, Awards & Honors, Conferences, Foundations & Grants, Environmental Health, Government Agencies, National Parks & Wildlife Refuges, Publications, Research Centers, Educational Programs, Green Product Catalogs, Consultants and much more. Section II: Statistics, provides statistics on hundreds of important topics, including Children's Environmental Index, Municipal Finances, Toxic Chemicals, Recycling, Climate, Air & Water Quality and more. This kind of up-to-date environmental data, all in one place, is not available anywhere else on the market place today. This new edition is a must-have for all public and academic libraries as well as any organization with a primary focus on the environment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : UOM:39015077152315

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Legal Compilation; Statutes and Legislative History, Executive Orders, Regulations, Guidelines and Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Diseases
ISBN : MINN:31951P011532798

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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556039331079

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Combined Licences (COLs) for South Texas Project Electric Generating Station Units 3 and 4 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wenhua Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783662483763

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Contemporary Ecology Research in China by Wenhua Li Pdf

The Chinese government is increasingly focusing on ecological construction and has subscribed to a national “Ecological Civilization Construction”. Ecological research and protection practice develop so fast and achieve a lot at the national agenda.This book is a synthesis of five most exciting and dominant themes in contemporary ecological research in China: biodiversity, ecosystem management, degraded ecosystem restoration, global change and sustainable development.This book spans all the Earth's major ecosystems, such as forests, oceans, grasslands, wetlands, lakes, rivers, farmland and cities.This book provides a platform for scientific research across a variety of disciplines. It will be invaluable to experts, policymakers and local officers and will also be a highly useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students.This book will allow researchers, students and policymakers outside China to learn about the significant achievements and applications of ecological research within China.

Author : Thomas J. Ryder
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781421424460

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State Wildlife Management and Conservation by Thomas J. Ryder Pdf

Bryant White, Steven A. Williams--Kyle D. Johnson, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation "Journal of Wildlife Management"