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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015010055278
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D00409896J
Author : Shafqat Hussain
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295746586
Following the downgrading of the snow leopard’s status from “endangered” to “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2017, debate has renewed about the actual number of snow leopards in the wild and the most effective strategies for coexisting with these enigmatic animals. Evidence from Pakistan and other countries in the snow leopard’s home range shows that they rely heavily on human society—domestic livestock accounts for as much as 70 percent of their diet. Maintaining that the snow leopard is a “wild” animal, conservation NGOs and state agencies have enacted laws that punish farmers for attacking these predators, while avoiding engaging with efforts to mitigate the harms suffered by farmers whose herds are reduced by snow leopards. This ethnography examines the uneven distribution of costs and benefits involved in snow leopard conservation and shows that for the conservation of nature to be successful, the vision, interests, and priorities of those most affected by conservation policies—in this case, local farmers—must be addressed. A case history of Project Snow Leopard in the mountains of northern Pakistan, which inspired similar programs in India, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, describes how the animal’s food habits are studied, how elusive individuals are counted, and how a novel kind of “snow leopard insurance” has protected the species by compensating farmers for livestock losses. The Snow Leopard and the Goat demonstrates that characterizing this conflict as one between humans (farmers) and wildlife (snow leopards) is misleading, as the real conflict is between two human groups—farmers and conservationists—who see the snow leopard differently.
Author : Susan G. Clark,David J. Mattson,Rebecca Watters,Avery C. Anderson,Douglas Clark,Linaya Workman,D. Scott Slocombe,William M. Pym,Micheal L. Gibeau,Seth M. Wilson,Gregory A. Neudecker,James J. Jonkel,J. Daniel Oppenheimer,Lauren Richie,David N. Cherney,Christina Milloy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226107547
Strategies for protecting wolves, mountain lions, and more—by taking the human species into account as well: “Very valuable.”—Journal of Wildlife Management Drawing on six case studies of wolf, grizzly bear, and mountain lion conservation in habitats stretching from the Yukon to Arizona, Large Carnivore Conservation argues that conserving and coexisting with large carnivores is as much a problem of people and governance—of reconciling diverse and sometimes conflicting values, perspectives, and organizations, and of effective decision making in the public sphere—as it is a problem of animal ecology and behavior. By adopting an integrative approach, editors Susan G. Clark and Murray B. Rutherford seek to examine and understand the interrelated development of conservation science, law, and policy, as well as how these forces play out in courts, other public institutions, and the field. In combining real-world examples with discussions of conservation and policy theory, Large Carnivore Conservation not only explains how traditional management approaches have failed to meet the needs of all parties, but also highlights examples of innovative, successful strategies and provides practical recommendations for improving future conservation efforts. “Building on decades of work, this book integrates biological knowledge with human dimensions study and charts a course for coexistence with large carnivores.”—Douglas W. Smith, Senior Wildlife Biologist, Yellowstone National Park
Author : David E. Naugle
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610910224
Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America offers a road map for securing our energy future while safeguarding our heritage. Contributors show how science can help craft solutions to conflicts between wildlife and energy development by delineating core areas, identifying landscapes that support viable populations, and forecasting future development scenarios to aid in conservation design. The book frames the issue and introduces readers to major types of extraction quantifies the pace and extent of current and future energy development provides an ecological foundation for understanding cumulative impacts on wildlife species synthesizes information on the biological response of wildlife to development discusses energy infrastructure as a conduit for the spread of invasive species compares impacts of alternative energy to those of conventional development The final section calls for a shift away from site-level management that has failed to mitigate cumulative impacts on wildlife populations toward broad-scale planning and implementation of conservation in priority landscapes. The book concludes by identifying ways that decision makers can remove roadblocks to conservation, and provides a blueprint for implementing conservation plans. Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America is a must-have volume for elected officials, industry representatives, natural resource managers, conservation groups, and the public seeking to promote energy independence while at the same time protecting wildlife.
Author : Paige West
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822388067
A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project implemented between 1994 and 1999. She describes the interactions between those who ran the program—mostly ngo workers—and the Gimi people who live in the forests surrounding Crater Mountain. West shows that throughout the project there was a profound disconnect between the goals of the two groups. The ngo workers thought that they would encourage conservation and cultivate development by teaching Gimi to value biodiversity as an economic resource. The villagers expected that in exchange for the land, labor, food, and friendship they offered the conservation workers, they would receive benefits, such as medicine and technology. In the end, the divergent nature of each group’s expectations led to disappointment for both. West reveals how every aspect of the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area—including ideas of space, place, environment, and society—was socially produced, created by changing configurations of ideas, actions, and material relations not only in Papua New Guinea but also in other locations around the world. Complicating many of the assumptions about nature, culture, and development underlying contemporary conservation efforts, Conservation Is Our Government Now demonstrates the unique capacity of ethnography to illuminate the relationship between the global and the local, between transnational processes and individual lives.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Grassland ecology
ISBN : SRLF:D0008185282
Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210270877
Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Library Systems Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Environmental libraries
ISBN : IND:30000090194766
Represents the holdings of all EPA libraries and the Library, Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Disturbance (Ecological disturbances)
ISBN : MINN:31951D03001087O
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015034637531
Author : United States. Agricultural Research Service. Soil and Water Conservation Research Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Soil conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015017878110
Abstracts for Dec. 1954- issued in the Agricultural Research Service's series ARS-41.
Author : Michelle Nijhuis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781324001690
Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson Award One of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021 Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian Magazine "At once thoughtful and thought-provoking,” Beloved Beasts tells the story of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people who built it, making “a crucial addition to the literature of our troubled time" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the history of the movement to protect and conserve other forms of life. From early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today’s global effort to defend life on a larger scale, Nijhuis’s “spirited and engaging” account documents “the changes of heart that changed history” (Dan Cryer, Boston Globe). With “urgency, passion, and wit” (Michael Berry, Christian Science Monitor), she describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund, explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros, and confronts the darker side of modern conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism. As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change wreak havoc on our world, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species including our own.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Floods
ISBN : UCSD:31822016487571
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : UCR:31210024968032
