Community-based Strategies for Protecting Fleming Creek
Author : Christy Halvorson
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Environmental protection
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Author : Christy Halvorson
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Environmental protection
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Page : 147 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Land use
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Author : Heather Glock
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Pesticide residues in food
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Author : Carolyn Kousky
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1642831395
Tens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation identifies a bold new research and policy agenda and provides implementable options for coastal communities responding to these threats. In this book, coastal adaptation experts present a range of climate adaptation policies that could protect coastal communities against increasing risk, including concrete financing recommendations. Coastal adaptation will not be easy, but it is achievable using varied approaches. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation will inspire innovative and cross-disciplinary thinking about coastal policy at the state and local level while providing actionable, realistic policy and planning options for adaptation professionals and policymakers.
Author : Theodore Alter
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1486308899
Invasive species are among the greatest challenges to environmental sustainability and agricultural productivity in the world. One of the most promising approaches to managing invasive species is voluntary citizen stewardship. However, in order for control measures to be effective, private citizens often need to make sustained and sometimes burdensome commitments. Community-Based Control of Invasive Species is based on five years of research by leading scholars in natural resource and human behavioural sciences, which involved government and citizen groups in Australia and the United States. It examines questions including, 'how can citizens be engaged in voluntarily managing invasive species?', 'what communication strategies will ensure good motivation and coordination?' and 'how can governing bodies support citizens in their efforts?'. With chapters on institutional frameworks, changing governance, systems thinking, organisational learning, engagement, communication and behavioural change, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners involved in natural resources management.
Author : Abigail V. Fateman
Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Watershed management
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Watershed management
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Sewage
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"This manual contains overview information on treatment technologies, installation practices, and past performance."--Introduction.
Author : Saeid Eslamian
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0429872283
Floods are difficult to prevent but can be managed in order to reduce their environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts. Flooding poses a serious threat to life and property, and therefore it’s very important that flood risks be taken into account during any planning process. This handbook presents different aspects of flooding in the context of a changing climate and across various geographical locations. Written by experts from around the world, it examines flooding in various climates and landscapes, taking into account environmental, ecological, hydrological, and geomorphic factors, and considers urban, agriculture, rangeland, forest, coastal, and desert areas. Features Presents the main principles and applications of the science of floods, including engineering and technology, natural science, as well as sociological implications. Examines flooding in various climates and diverse landscapes, taking into account environmental, ecological, hydrological, and geomorphic factors. Considers floods in urban, agriculture, rangeland, forest, coastal, and desert areas Covers flood control structures as well as preparedness and response methods. Written in a global context, by contributors from around the world.
Author : Anna J. Willow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000852695
This book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore optimism’s origins and implications, its conceptual and practical value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary anthropological aims. In an era of extensive ecological disruption and social distress, this volume contemplates how an optimistic anthropology can energize the discipline while also contributing to bettering the lives, communities, and environments of those we study. It brings together scholars diverse in background, career stage, and theoretical approach in a collective attempt to comprehend the myriad intersections of anthropology and optimism. The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently underscored the larger, longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecosystemic collapse, social injustice, and antipathy toward scientific knowledge and those who produce it. In this context, exceedingly few anthropologists feel comfortable observing and documenting passively while their research communities face unrelenting waves of (un)natural disasters. We need to act. But we also need to hope. Discontent with the state of the world and cultural anthropology’s turn to increasingly positive, future-oriented, and engaged work have converged to unleash a courageously optimistic anthropology. This book is a timely springboard for this impactful and emergent approach.