... waste incineration.Solutions to waste-generation problems include innovative uses of waste, improved waste management systems, increases in recycling, advances in landfill safety, and reductions ... increasingly pristine wilderness areas, displacing more bears and requiring more labor and capital to clear trails and install infrastructure. Likewise, additional bear habitat comes at an increasing ... wife Donna and my children Austin and Alexandra are to thank for providing inspiration and practicing patience. For thoughtful comments and checks of accuracy I am grateful to the following reviewers:...
... suggested guidelines forestablishing and managing a program to encourage research on sustainability,agriculture, andnatural resources in U.S. institutions and their developing countrycounterparts.The ... associated with maintaining current production levels,including the mining of trace nutrients, declining incremental response to increasedfertilizer use, pest resistance, and reduced returns ... design and field test systems ofsustainable agriculture andnaturalresource management. Research, thus, mustilluminate the principles and theory that underlie sustainability. Those general principlesand...
... Gumucio10COMMUNICATION ANDNATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ã EXPERIENCE/THEORY IntroductionUSING THIS BOOK This book has been written as a tool for people involved or interested in communica-tion andnaturalresource ... Ndangang, in the Co -management of Natural Resources: Organizing, Negotiating and Learning-by-Doing: In the past, many traditional societies formed relatively closed systems in which nat-ural resources ... social change, and a commitment to enhance rural people’s capac-ities in managing communication processes. FAO is interested in exploring this in therealm of naturalresourcemanagementand rural...
... emphasis on estuarine, intertidal harvesting of salmon. Beginning in 1973, I began inves-tigating a related set of questions pertaining to the process whereby the Kla-wock Tlingit had transitioned ... North Carolina, New England, and Newfoundland. In all of these cases the fundamental point of similar-ity lies in the close connection between local resources users and the envi-ronment in which ... to contribute to more effective and sustain-able approaches to forest managementin particular andnaturalresource management in general. A central strength (and weakness) to tek is the fact...
... hoes and other “grubbing”20 WEEDS AND INVASIVE PLANTS Weeds in Rangelands, 26Original Vegetation and Early Land Use History ofGreat Basin, 28Introduction of Cheatgrass and Fire, 28Invasive ... believed then and continue to believe thatbetter management results from the understanding of how plants interact wit heach other and their environment andmanagement to create and maintain weedpopulations.We ... completely in the seedling stage. Mowingor grazing in early spring makes little difference since developing seed ofthe species are readily viable and capable of germinating the following autumn.Even...
... arresting and reversing deforestation,controlling erosion and managing soil,managing soil moisture and water,halting the degradation of pastures,recovering and conserving marine resources and ... objective.Projectcomponents emphasize the sustainable management of natural resources in increasedagricultural production,including soil and water conservation, land reclamation ,and irrigation. In Jordan,the first generation ... committedtheir resources and knowledge to combatting desertification.These and other initiativeswill be explored in the following pages.IFAD’s Mandate andEnvironmental IssuesIndiaPanama Sustaining...
... plays in generating net benefits in the sink, and net costs in the source. Ceteris paribus, optimal management of a sink/source system calls for relatively more biomass in the sink and less in the ... 184 1Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
... Evolution of EnvironmentalandNaturalResource Governance: Land, Water, and Forests 30CHAPTER 3Aligning Institutional Characteristics: Implementing Innovation in Land Protection 70CHAPTER 4Intermittent ... with environmentalandnaturalresource governance and management. Initially air and water pollution were dened as point sources coming from smokestacks or pipes into waterways. Now the dominant ... and failure in implementing innovation are also possible. Even with these shortcomings, this study is oered in the spirit of moving our understanding of environmentaland natural resource governance...
... chain in differentways, and often at different times and places.’ In summary, integrating SAGA into research is important in de-veloping a better understanding and awareness of the social and ... integrate social and gender analysisinto naturalresourcemanagement research. They point to the im-portance of ‘local’ history and context, and to the increasingly inter-locking ‘local’ and ... commonissues; writing studies/stories; and planning.KEY COMMON ISSUES In reviewing individual case studies and synthesizing the most strikingthings and the missing or underemphasized elements, nine commonissues...
... acquisition module for integrating other expertknowledge, a case base for capitalizing cases and reusing them during a newmodeling, and a reference models base containing models according to differenttypes ... Supply Chain in sustainability.Keywords SustainabilityÁSupply chainÁSustainable supply chainsÁStructuralself-interaction matrixÁISM methodology1 IntroductionA supply chain is a network ... Table 1 Sustainability in the supply chain—enablers (Svensson 2007; Min and Galle 1997a;Zsidisin and Siferd 2001; Zhu et al. 2007; Min and Galle 1997b)No. Enablers1 Commitment from top management Buyer...
... makers, and academia. Topics addressed in this series will include environmental health, natural resources management, strategic environmental assessment, policy instruments, andenvironmental institutions, ... decision making 2 STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT IN POLICY AND SECTOR REFORMAcknowledging the intrinsically political nature of sector reform, andin response to a mandate for strengthening strategic ... Change Environmental Flows in Water Resources Policies, Plans, and Projects: Findings and Recommendations Environmental Health and Child Survival: Epidemiology, Economics, and ExperiencesInternational...
... Liu(1992), and Jiggins and Roling (1997) have noted that all types of actionresearch promote individual and collective learning and increase individualautonomy and problem-solving capacity in a durable ... and so on. The natural resource management analysis takes as basic elements the natural resources at stake and the stakeholders who have some interest—directly or indirectly in the use or maintenance ... claim on the natural resources and that shouldalso be heard in any planning exercise. In short, conflicts do exist and arethe rule rather than the exception in terms of naturalresource management. If...
... a~alysls. In short, we believe in using as much evidence from formal systemn a~ seems understandable and reasonable, to constrain what the system should be doing. The Interaetlons Finally, ... Report 3878, Bolt Beranek and Rewman Inc., 1978. 2. Bobrow, R. J. & Webber, B. L. PSI-ELONE- Parsing and Semantic Interpretation in the BBN Natural Language Understanding System. CSCSI/C~EI0 ... snggests two things for parsing natural language: I. There is a level of evidence and a process for using it that is worEing to suggest groups. 2. There is another filtering, inferenclng mechanism...
... required for many respects, including separating and preparing toxic pulses and gaining insight into biological fertilizers and the energy cycle involved in mixed farming sys-tems (Mithen, 2006).(5) ... guidelines for overcoming the dramatic wood shortage for “housing, brewing, mining, and smelting”. Thus, rules for preventing the overuse of natural resources and for efficiently utilizing the ... disciplinary and policy approaches for linking theory and practice.”Braden Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics and Professor of Law, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,...