Humans Versus Nature : A Global Environmental History
Daniel R. Headrick;Daniel R. Headrick
Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago,...
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Humans Versus Nature : A Global Environmental History
2020
Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained largely unchecked, exponentially accelerating the human impact on the environment. Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Nature is cast as an active protagonist, rather than a mere backdrop or victim of human malfeasance. Daniel R . Headrick shows how environmental changes--epidemics, climate shocks, and volcanic eruptions--have molded human societies and cultures, sometimes overwhelming them. At the same time , he traces the history of anthropogenic changes in the environment--species extinctions, global warming, deforestation, and resource depletion--back to the age of hunters and gatherers and the first farmers and herders. He shows how human interventions such as irrigation systems, over-fishing, and the Industrial Revolution have in turn harmed the very societies that initiated them. Throughout, Headrick examines how human-driven environmental changes are interwoven with larger global systems, dramatically reshaping the complex relationship between people and the natural world. In doing so, he roots the current environmental crisis in the deep past.
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Global environmental change--History - Nature--Effect of human beings onContent provider:
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Michael Bollig;Alfons Wabahe Mosimane;Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa;Selma Meko...
Focuses on a much discussed and controversial aspect of conservation: the commodificat...
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2023; Vol. 00003
Focuses on a much discussed and controversial aspect of conservation : the commodification of nature . Can the successful marketization of what is generally perceived as wilderness help to provide for biodiversity conservation , economic development and social emancipation? At a time of profound anxiety about the impact of human activity on nature and the catastrophic effects of climate change, the'sixth mass extinction', invasive species and rapidly expanding zoonotic diseases, this volume engages with the practices, discourses, and materialities surrounding the commodification of'the wild'. Focusing on the relationship between commodification and wilderness, the contributors pay particular attention to commodification's newer iterations in which human management plays a significant role, such as wildlife-park tourism, trophy-hunting, and trade in herbal medicines, perfumes and luxury exotic food items. Dominant neoliberal approaches have aimed to address global environmental challenges through the commodification and marketization of nature : by valorizing nature , they claim, biodiversity can be safeguarded and'wild'landscapes protected. This, it is thought, will not only open up a new frontier of sustainable, non-exploitative, participatory capitalist expansion, but invigorate rural livelihoods, reduce poverty, and add important assets to otherwise vulnerable rural economies. This important book challenges this future trajectory. Investigating a broad range of cases across southern and eastern Africa, from the illegal sandalwood trade to legal trade in devil's claw and honeybush, to trophy-hunting and wilderness safaris, the contributors reveal the pitfalls and challenges of commodification, what this means for the continent and beyond. OPEN ACCESS: This title is freely available in digital format under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND
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Religious Environmental Activism : Emerging Conflicts and Tensions in Earth Stewardship
Jens Köhrsen;Julia Blanc;Fabian Huber;Jens Köhrsen;Julia Blanc;Fabian Huber
This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental prote...
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Religious Environmental Activism : Emerging Conflicts and Tensions in Earth Stewardship
2023
This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual groups. Different faith traditions have developed'green'theologies, launched environmental protection projects and issued public statements on climate change. Against this background, academic scholarship has raised optimistic claims about the strong potentials of religions to address environmental challenges. Taking a critical stance with regard to these claims, the chapters in this volume show that religious environmentalism is an embattled terrain. Tensions are an inherent part of religious environmentalism. These do not necessarily manifest themselves in open clashes between different parties but in different actions, views, theologies, ambivalences, misunderstandings, and sometimes mistrust. Keeping below the surface, these tensions can create effective barriers for religious environmentalism. The chapters examine how tensions are manifested and dealt with through a range of empirical case studies in various world regions. Covering different religious and spiritual traditions, they reflect on intradenominational, interdenominational, interreligious, and religious-societal tensions. Thereby, this volume sheds new light on the problems that religions face when they seek to take an active role in today's societal challenges. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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Environmental protection--Religious aspects - Environmentalism--Religious aspectsContent provider:
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Migrant Ecologies : Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
James Beattie;Ryan Tucker Jones;Edward Dallam Melillo;James Beattie;Ryan Tu...
Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume ex...
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Migrant Ecologies : Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
2023
Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth's largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet, the Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their astounding long-distance migrations over time , and their profound influences on other parts of the world. This book creates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals, plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific. It effectively argues for the existence of an interconnected Pacific World environmental history, as well as for the Pacific Ocean as a necessary framework for understanding that history.The fifteen chapters in this comprehensive collection, written by leading experts from across the globe, span a vast array of topics, from disease ecology and coffee cultivation to nuclear testing and whaling practices. They explore regions stretching from the Tuamotu Archipelago in the south Pacific to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far north, resisting the depiction of the Pacific as isolated and uninhabited. What unites these diverse contributions is a concern for how the people, places, and non-human beings of the Pacific World have been shaped by, and have in turn modified, their oceanic realm. Building on a recent renaissance in Pacific history, these chapters make a powerful argument for the importance of the Pacific World as a coherent unit of analysis and a valuable lens through which to examine past, ongoing, and emerging environmental issues. By showcasing surprising and innovative perspectives on the environmental histories of the peoples and ecosystems in and around the Pacific Ocean, this work adds to current conversations and debates about the Pacific World and offers myriad opportunities for further discussions, both inside and outside of the classroom.
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Ecology--Pacific Area--History--Congresses - Human ecology--Pacific Area--History--CongressesContent provider:
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DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LAW: COURT REFORM.
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English Urban Commons : The Past, Present and Future of Green Spaces
Christopher Rodgers;Rachel Hammersley;Alessandro Zambelli;Emma Cheatle;John...
This book presents a novel examination of urban commons which provides a robust base f...
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English Urban Commons : The Past, Present and Future of Green Spaces
2023
This book presents a novel examination of urban commons which provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as invaluable urban green spaces that offer a diverse cultural and ecological resource for future communities. This book's central argument is that only through a deep understanding of the past and a rigorous engagement with present users can we devise new futures or imaginaries of culture, well-being and diversity for the urban commons. It argues that understanding the genesis of, and interactions between, the different pressures on urban green space has important policy implications for the delivery of nature conservation , recreational access and other land use priorities. The stakeholders in today's urban commons, whether land users, policy makers or the public, are the inheritors of a complex cultural legacy and must negotiate diverse and sometimes conflicting objectives in their pursuit of a potentially unifying goal: a secure future for our urban commons. This book offers a unique and strongly interdisciplinary study of urban commons, one that brings together original historical investigation, contemporary legal scholarship, extensive oral history research with user groups and research examining the imagined futures for the urban common in modern society. It explores the complex social and political history of the urban common, as well as its legal and cultural status today, using four diverse case studies from within England as exemplars of the distinctively urban common. These are Town Moor in Newcastle, Mousehold Heath in Norwich, Clifton and Durdham Downs in Bristol and Valley Gardens in Brighton. This book concludes by looking forward and considering new tools and methods of negotiation, inclusivity and creativity to inform the future of these case studies, and of urban commons more widely. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the commons, green spaces, urban planning, environmental and urban geography, environmental studies and natural resource management. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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The Lure of the Beach : A Global History
Robert C. Ritchie;Robert C. Ritchie
A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted...
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The Lure of the Beach : A Global History
2021
A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations of the beach, that environment that has drawn humans to its life-sustaining shores for millennia. And while the gull's cry and the cove's splendor have remained constant throughout time , our relationship with the beach has been as fluid as the runnels left behind by the tide's turning.The Lure of the Beach is a chronicle of humanity's history with the coast, taking us from the seaside pleasure palaces of Roman elites and the aquatic rituals of medieval pilgrims, to the venues of modern resort towns and beyond. Robert C. Ritchie traces the contours of the material and social economies of the beach throughout time , covering changes in the social status of beach goers, the technology of transport, and the development of fashion (from nudity to Victorianism and back again), as well as the geographic spread of modern beach-going from England to France, across the Mediterranean, and from nineteenth-century America to the world. And as climate change and rising sea levels erode the familiar faces of our coasts, we are poised for a contemporary reckoning with our relationship—and responsibilities—to our beaches and their ecosystems. The Lure of the Beach demonstrates that whether as a commodified pastoral destination, a site of ecological resplendency, or a flashpoint between private ownership and public access, the history of the beach is a human one that deserves to be told now more than ever before.
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Across Species and Cultures : Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds
Ryan Tucker Jones;Angela Wanhalla;Ryan Tucker Jones;Angela Wanhalla
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between human...
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Across Species and Cultures : Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds
2022
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship between these two species has been central to the ocean's history. Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors, providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.
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Responding to Environmental Issues Through Adaptive Collaborative Management : From Forest Communities to Global Actors
Carol J. Pierce Colfer;Ravi Prabhu;Carol J. Pierce Colfer;Ravi Prabhu
Focused on forest management and governance, this book examines two decades of experie...
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Responding to Environmental Issues Through Adaptive Collaborative Management : From Forest Communities to Global Actors
2023
Focused on forest management and governance, this book examines two decades of experience with Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM), assessing both its uses and improvements needed to address global environmental issues. The volume argues that the activation and the empowerment of local peoples are critical to addressing current environmental challenges and that this must be enhanced by linking and extending such stewardship to global and national policymakers and actors on a broader scale. This can be achieved by employing ACM's participatory approach, characterized by conscious efforts among stakeholders to communicate, collaborate, negotiate and seek out opportunities to learn collectively about the impacts of their action. The case studies presented here reflect decades of experience working with forest communities in three Indonesian Islands and four African countries. Researchers and practitioners who participated in CIFOR's early ACM work had the rare opportunity to return to their research sites decades later to see what has happened. These authors reflect critically on their own experience and local site conditions to glean insights that guide us in more effectively addressing climate change and other forest-related challenges. They showcase how global and regional actors will have to work more closely with smallholders, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, recognizing the key local roles in forest stewardship. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the fields of conservation , forest management, community development, natural resource management and development studies more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Landscape protection - Forest landscape management - Forestry and communityContent provider:
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Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry
Janette Bulkan;John Palmer;Anne M. Larson;Mary Hobley;Janette Bulkan;John P...
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of communi...
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Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry
2022
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of community forestry. Containing contributions from academics, practitioners, and professionals, the Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry presents a truly global overview with case studies drawn from across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The Handbook begins with an overview of the chapters and a discussion of the concept of community forestry and the key issues. Topics as wide-ranging as Indigenous forestry, conservation and ecosystem management, relationships with industrial forestry, trade and supply systems, land tenure and land grabbing, and climate change are addressed. The Handbook also focuses on governance, looking at the range of approaches employed, including multi-level governance and rights-based approaches, and the principal actors involved from local communities and Indigenous Peoples to governments and national and international non-governmental organisations. The Handbook reveals the importance of the historical context to community forestry and the effects of power and politics. Importantly, the Handbook not only focuses on successful examples of community forestry, but also addresses failures in order to highlight the key challenges we are still facing and potential solutions. The Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry is essential reading for academics, professionals, and practitioners interested in forestry, natural resource management, conservation , and sustainable development.
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Forest policy - Sustainable development - Community forestry--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Forest managementContent provider:
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Sterile Insect Technique : Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management
Victor A. Dyck;Jorge Hendrichs;A.S. Robinson;Victor A. Dyck;Jorge Hendrichs...
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control t...
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Sterile Insect Technique : Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management
2021
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is applicable to some major pests of plant-, animal-, and human-health importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for the SIT. In the second edition, all aspects of the SIT have been updated and the content considerably expanded. A great variety of subjects is covered, from the history of the SIT to improved prospects for its future application. The major chapters discuss the principles and technical components of applying sterile insects. The four main strategic options in using the SIT — suppression, containment, prevention, and eradication — with examples of each option are described in detail. Other chapters deal with supportive technologies, economic, environmental, and management considerations, and the socio-economic impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate the SIT. In addition, this second edition includes six new chapters covering the latest developments in the technology: managing pathogens in insect mass-rearing, using symbionts and modern molecular technologies in support of the SIT, applying post-factory nutritional, hormonal, and semiochemical treatments, applying the SIT to eradicate outbreaks of invasive pests, and using the SIT against mosquito vectors of disease. This book will be useful reading for students in animal-, human-, and plant-health courses. The in-depth reviews of all aspects of the SIT and its integration into AW-IPM programmes, complete with extensive lists of scientific references, will be of great value to researchers, teachers, animal-, human-, and plant-health practitioners, and policy makers.
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Insect pests--Integrated control - Insect sterilization - Insect pests--Biological controlContent provider:
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The Fluvial Imagination : On Lesotho's Water-Export Economy
Colin Hoag;Colin Hoag
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.or...
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The Fluvial Imagination : On Lesotho's Water-Export Economy
2022; Vol. 00012
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world's first'water-exporting country'when it signed a 1986 treaty with its powerful neighbor. An elaborate network of dams and tunnels now carries water to Johannesburg, the subcontinent's water-stressed economic epicenter. Hopes that receipts from water sales could improve Lesotho's fortunes, however, have clashed with fears that soil erosion from overgrazing livestock could fill its reservoirs with sediment. In this wide-ranging and deeply researched book, Colin Hoag shows how producing water commodities incites a fluvial imagination. Engineering water security for urban South Africa draws attention ever further into Lesotho's rural upstream catchments: from reservoirs to the soils and vegetation above them, and even to the social lives of herders at remote livestock posts. As we enter our planet's water-export era, Lesotho exposes the possibilities and perils ahead.
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Water resources development--Environmental aspects--Lesotho - Water transfer--Lesotho - Water-supply--LesothoContent provider:
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Making Climate Change History : Documents From Global Warming's Past
Joshua P. Howe;Joshua P. Howe
This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history...
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Making Climate Change History : Documents From Global Warming's Past
2017
This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations. Far more than just a compendium of source materials, the book uses these documents as a way to think about history, while at the same time using history as a way to approach the politics of climate change from a new perspective. Making Climate Change History provides the necessary background to give readers the opportunity to pose critical questions and create plausible answers to help them understand climate change in its historical context; it also illustrates the relevance of history to building effective strategies for dealing with the climatic challenges of the future.
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Climatic changes--History--Sources - Global warming--History--Sources - Nature--Effect of human beings on--History--Sources - Climate change mitigation--History--SourcesContent provider:
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Water Is for Fighting Over : And Other Myths About Water in the West
John Fleck;John Fleck
'Illuminating.'—New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of ...
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Water Is for Fighting Over : And Other Myths About Water in the West
2016
'Illuminating.'—New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper headlines have screamed, “Scarce water and the death of California farms,” “The Dust Bowl returns,” “A ‘megadrought'will grip U.S. in the coming decades.” Yet similar stories have been appearing for decades and the taps continue to flow. John Fleck argues that the talk of impending doom is not only untrue, but dangerous. When people get scared, they fight for the last drop of water; but when they actually have less, they use less. Having covered environmental issues in the West for a quarter century, Fleck would be the last writer to discount the serious problems posed by a dwindling Colorado River. But in that time , Fleck has also seen people in the Colorado River Basin come together, conserve, and share the water that is available. Western communities, whether farmers and city-dwellers or US environmentalists and Mexican water managers, have a promising record of cooperation, a record often obscured by the crisis narrative. In this fresh take on western water, Fleck brings to light the true history of collaboration and examines the bonds currently being forged to solve the Basin's most dire threats. Rather than perpetuate the myth “Whiskey's for drinkin', water's for fightin'over,'Fleck urges readers to embrace a new, more optimistic narrative—a future where the Colorado continues to flow.
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Water-supply--West (U.S.) - Water-supply--Colorado River Valley (Colo.-Mexico) - Water resources development--West (U.S.)Content provider:
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Protected Area Governance and Management
Graeme Worboys;Michael Lockwood;Ashish Kothari;Ian Pulsford;Graeme Worboys;...
Protected Area Governance and Management presents a compendium of original text, case ...
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Protected Area Governance and Management
2015
Protected Area Governance and Management presents a compendium of original text, case studies and examples from across the world, by drawing on the literature, and on the knowledge and experience of those involved in protected areas. The book synthesises current knowledge and cutting-edge thinking from the diverse branches of practice and learning relevant to protected area governance and management. It is intended as an investment in the skills and competencies of people and consequently, the effective governance and management of protected areas for which they are responsible, now and into the future.The global success of the protected area concept lies in its shared vision to protect natural and cultural heritage for the long term, and organisations such as International Union for the Conservation of Nature are a unifying force in this regard. Nonetheless, protected areas are a socio-political phenomenon and the ways that nations understand, govern and manage them is always open to contest and debate. The book aims to enlighten, educate and above all to challenge readers to think deeply about protected areas—their future and their past, as well as their present.The book has been compiled by 169 authors and deals with all aspects of protected area governance and management. It provides information to support capacity development training of protected area field officers, managers in charge and executive level managers.
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Conservation of natural resources--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Protected areas--Management--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Natural resources management areas--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Nature conservation--Handbooks, manuals, etcContent provider:
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The Unconstitutional Conditions Vacuum in Criminal Procedure.
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Yale Law Journal. Mar2024, Vol. 133 Issue 5, p1401-1486. 86p.
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LEVINE, KAY L.;NASH, JONATHAN REMY;SCHAPIRO, ROBERT A.
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Yale Law Journal. Mar2024, Vol. 133 Issue 5, p1401-1486. 86p.
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BECOMING THE ADMINISTRATOR-IN-CHIEF: MYERS AND THE PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENCY.
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Columbia Law Review. Dec2023, Vol. 123 Issue 8, p2153-2247. 95p.
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Katz, Andrea Scoseria;Rosenblum, Noah A.
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Columbia Law Review. Dec2023, Vol. 123 Issue 8, p2153-2247. 95p.
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Last of the Giants : The Rise and Fall of Earth's Most Dominant Species
Jeff Campbell;Jeff Campbell
Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. ...
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Last of the Giants : The Rise and Fall of Earth's Most Dominant Species
2016
Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, and there is only one likely reason for that: the evolution and arrival of the earth's only tool-wielding hunter, the wildly adaptive, comparatively pint-sized human species. Many more of the world's biggest and baddest creatures—including the black rhino, the dodo, giant tortoises, and the great auk—have vanished since our world became truly global. Last of the Giants chronicles those giant animals and apex predators pushed to extinction in the modern era. The book also highlights those giant species that remain—even though many barely survive, living in such low numbers that they are on the brink of leaving this world within the next few decades. However, there is hope, for many endangered species can still be saved. As it profiles each extinct and endangered animal, Last of the Giants focuses on the conservation efforts that are trying to preserve the world's remaining charismatic species before they are lost forever.
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Extinction (Biology) - Endangered species - Nature--Effect of human beings onContent provider:
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Fish, Eric S.
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Iowa Law Review. Mar2022, Vol. 107 Issue 3, p1051-1106. 56p.
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Energy Without Conscience : Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity
David McDermott Hughes;David McDermott Hughes
In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change ha...
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Energy Without Conscience : Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity
2017
In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. Hughes centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the world's oldest petro-state, having drilled the first continuously producing oil well in 1866. Marrying historical research with interviews with Trinidadian petroleum scientists, policymakers, technicians, and managers, he draws parallels between Trinidad's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century slave labor energy economy and its contemporary oil industry. Hughes shows how both forms of energy rely upon a complicity that absolves producers and consumers from acknowledging the immoral nature of each. He passionately argues that like slavery, producing oil is a moral choice and that oil is at its most dangerous when it is accepted as an ordinary part of everyday life. Only by rejecting arguments that oil is economically, politically, and technologically necessary, and by acknowledging our complicity in an immoral system, can we stem the damage being done to the planet.
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Petroleum industry and trade--Great Britain--Colonies - Petroleum industry and trade--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad - Slavery--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--History - Energy industries--Environmental aspects - Energy industries--Moral and ethical aspectsContent provider:
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Disrupting Dominance.
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Connecticut Law Review. Dec2023, Vol. 56 Issue 1, p133-200. 68p.
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CARLARNE, CINNAMON P.;HIROKAWA, KEITH H.
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Connecticut Law Review. Dec2023, Vol. 56 Issue 1, p133-200. 68p.
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The Republic of Nature : An Environmental History of the United States
Mark Fiege;Mark Fiege
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes t...
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The Republic of Nature : An Environmental History of the United States
2012
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature , Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light.Among the historical moments revisited here, a revolutionary nation arises from its environment and struggles to reconcile the diversity of its people with the claim that nature is the source of liberty. Abraham Lincoln, an unlettered citizen from the countryside, steers the Union through a moment of extreme peril, guided by his clear-eyed vision of nature's capacity for improvement. In Topeka, Kansas, transformations of land and life prompt a lawsuit that culminates in the momentous civil rights case of Brown v. Board of Education.By focusing on materials and processes intrinsic to all things and by highlighting the nature of the United States, Fiege recovers the forgotten and overlooked ground on which so much history has unfolded. In these pages, the nation's birth and development, pain and sorrow, ideals and enduring promise come to life as never before, making a once-familiar past seem new. The Republic of Nature points to a startlingly different version of history that calls on readers to reconnect with fundamental forces that shaped the American experience.For more information, visit the author's website: http://republicofnature.com/
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Nature--Effect of human beings on--United States--History - Human ecology--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Trout Culture : How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
Jen Corrinne Brown;Jen Corrinne Brown
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a...
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Trout Culture : How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
2015
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, the popular conception of Rocky Mountain trout fishing as a quintessential experience of communion with nature belies the sport's long history of environmental manipulation, engineering, and, ultimately, transformation. A fly-fishing enthusiast herself, Brown places the rise of recreational trout fishing in a local and global context. Globally, she shows how the European sport of fly-fishing came to be a defining, tourist-attracting feature of the expanding 19th-century American West. Locally, she traces the way that the burgeoning fly-fishing tourist industry shaped the environmental, economic, and social development of the Western United States: introducing and stocking favored fish species, eradicating the less favored native “trash fish,” changing the courses of waterways, and leading to conflicts with Native Americans'fishing and territorial rights. Through this analysis, Brown demonstrates that the majestic trout streams often considered a timeless feature of the American West are in fact the product of countless human interventions adding up to a profound manipulation of the Rocky Mountain environment.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKMwEkKj9jg
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Trout fishing--West (U.S.) - Fishing--West (U.S.)--History - Fishing--Social aspects--West (U.S.) - Fly fishing--West (U.S.)Content provider:
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Design with the Desert : Conservation and Sustainable Development
Richard Malloy;John Brock;Anthony Floyd;Margaret Livingston;Robert H. Webb;...
Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert la...
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Design with the Desert : Conservation and Sustainable Development
2013
Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more sustainable way. It offers valuable insights to help promote ecological balance between nature and the built environment in the American Southwest-and in other ecologically fragile regions around the world.
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Sustainable development--West (U.S.) - Sustainable development--Southwestern States - Desert ecology--Southwestern States - Desert ecology - Sustainable development - Desert ecology--West (U.S.)Content provider:
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Who Owns Our Dead Bodies: A Critical Socio-Legal Study.
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Texas International Law Journal. Fall2023, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p1-40. 40p.
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Texas International Law Journal. Fall2023, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p1-40. 40p.
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