Land Use Analysis
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 36
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The North American Mosaic
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Tapirs
Author: Daniel M. Brooks
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9782831704227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescended from a long and ancient lineage, tapirs are important tropical forest seed dispersers. However, today, all species of tapirs are threatened to various degrees by habitat destruction and hunting. This action plan was written with wildlife biologists, ecologists, administrators, educators and local conservation officials in mind and is aimed at those countries with tapir populations. It provides a brief natural history of each species and its objective is to aid in their conservation by catalyzing conservation action. In addition, it is hoped that the contents of the plan will stimulate further research into this fascinating group of animals.
Pulping the South
Author: Ricardo Carriere
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 1996-08-15
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781856494380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe expansion of the pulp and paper industry is one of the most important causes of land and water conflicts in the South. This book examines the threat to livelihood, soil and biodiversity generated by large-scale pulpwood plantations in the South.
The Green Web
Author: Martin Holdgate
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1134189370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the IUCN and its achievements in, and influence on, conservation and environmental policy worldwide - establishing national parks and protected areas and defending threatened species.
Evaluacion de la Sostenibilidad Para El Manejo Forestal. Determinacion de Un Estandar Integrado Y Adaptivo Para la Evaluacion de la Sostenibilidad Ecologica Del Manejo Forestal en Costa Rica
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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9789977573830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental Governance in Latin America
Author: Fabio De Castro
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-03-24
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1137505729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals have led to a myriad of contrasting initiatives that are reshaping social relations and rural territories. This edited collection addresses these tensions by unpacking environmental governance as a complex process of formulating and contesting values, procedures and practices shaping the access, control and use of natural resources. Contributors from various fields address the challenges, limitations, and possibilities for a more sustainable, equal, and fair development. In this book, environmental governance is seen as an overarching concept defining the dynamic and multi-layered repertoire of society-nature interactions, where images of nature and discourses on the use of natural resources are mediated by contextual processes at multiple scales.
Public Policies and the Misuse of Forest Resources
Author: World Resources Institute
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-09-30
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780521335744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix contributors explore the role of governments in accelerating the rate of forest destruction by providing direct and indirect subsidies to support what would otherwise be non-commercial logging operations. Without these financial incentives, most timber operations in the tropics would cease. In a series of country-by-country investigations, including examples from the developed and developing worlds, this book documents the government policies that are leading to the misuse of forest resources. Each is written by an authority on the county, and each contains descriptive, analytical and empirical material on key policies and their effects. The final country analysis focuses on the United States, where the consequences of the subsidized timber sales by the US Forest Service from most of the national forests are discussed. The book concludes with an overview of the impact of forest policies and the role of bilateral and multilateral agencies in their formulation. By directing attention toward the political dimension involved in forest clearance, this book will provide a clearer insight into the basic reasons why forests continue to be destroyed despite the outcry raised by conservationists.
Herramientas para la evaluación de la sostenibilidad del manejo forestal comunitario en Guerrero, México
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Publisher: CATIE
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9789977574202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Politics of Decentralization
Author: Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1849773211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDecentralization is sweeping the world and having dramatic and far-reaching impacts on resource management and livelihoods, particularly in forestry. This book is the most up-to-date examination of the themes, experiences and lessons learned from decentralization worldwide. Drawing on research and support from all of the major international forestry and conservation organizations, the book provides a balanced account that covers the impact of decentralization on resource management worldwide, and provides comparative global insights with wide implications for policy, management, conservation and resource use and planning. Topics covered include forest governance in federal systems, democratic decentralization of forests and natural resources, paths and pitfalls in decentralization and biodiversity conservation in decentralized forests. The book provides in-depth case studies of decentralization from Bolivia, Ghana, Indonesia, Russia, Scotland, Switzerland, Uganda and the US, as well as highlights from federal countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, India and Malaysia. It also addresses the critical links between the state, forests, communities and power relations in a range of regions and circumstances, and provides case examples of how decentralization has been viewed and experienced by communities in Guatemala, Philippines and Zimbabwe. The Politics of Decentralization is state-of-the-art coverage of decentralization and is essential for practitioners, academics and policy-makers across forestry and the full spectrum of natural resource management.
