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19 produkter
Conservation
Replacing Quantity with Quality as a Goal for Global Management
Häftad, 1995
2608 kr
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Conservation is evolving into an exciting new field, much broader and more relevant than in past decades. Traditional conservation, focusing on resource management and population biology cannot alone solve the problem of environmental deterioration, now help us achieve a more sustainable approach …
Working With Nature
E-bok, 2013
813 kr
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First Published in 1998. This important work looks at an alternative approach to resource production systems, taking the view that many environmental problems associated withconventional resource management are avoidable if we work with nature, instead of trying to dominate it. Jordan argues that …
Working With Nature
E-bok, 2013
831 kr
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First Published in 1998. This important work looks at an alternative approach to resource production systems, taking the view that many environmental problems associated withconventional resource management are avoidable if we work with nature, instead of trying to dominate it. Jordan argues that …
Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management
A Critque of the Method Based on Five Years'' Experience in the Transamozonica Region of Brazil
Av Carl F. Jordan, Christian Castellanet
E-bok, 2004
661 kr
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This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an approach to resource management that strives to link researchers with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by long-range conservation programmes. …
Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management
A Critque of the Method Based on Five Years'' Experience in the Transamozonica Region of Brazil
Av Carl F. Jordan, Christian Castellanet
E-bok, 2004
661 kr
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This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an approach to resource management that strives to link researchers with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by long-range conservation programmes. …
Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management
A Critque of the Method Based on Five Years' Experience in the Transamozonica Region of Brazil
Av Christian Castellanet, Carl F. Jordan
Häftad, 2020
570 kr
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This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an approach to resource management that strives to link researchers with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by long-range conservation programmes. …
Amazonian Rain Forests
Ecosystem Disturbance and Recovery
E-bok, 2012
1459 kr
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DEVELOPMENT AND DISTURBANCE IN AMAZON FORESTS Contrasting Impressions 6 2 The rain forests of the Amazon Basin cover approximately 5.8 x 10 km (Salati and Vose 1984). Flying over even just part of this basin, one gazes hour after hour upon this seemingly infinite blanket of green. The impression of …
Amazonian Rain Forests
Ecosystem Disturbance and Recovery
Häftad, 2011
1084 kr
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DEVELOPMENT AND DISTURBANCE IN AMAZON FORESTS Contrasting Impressions 6 2 The rain forests of the Amazon Basin cover approximately 5.8 x 10 km (Salati and Vose 1984). Flying over even just part of this basin, one gazes hour after hour upon this seemingly infinite blanket of green. The impression of …
Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management
A Critque of the Method Based on Five Years' Experience in the Transamozonica Region of Brazil
Av Christian Castellanet, Carl F. Jordan
Inbunden, 2002
2501 kr
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This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an approach to resource management that strives to link researchers with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by long-range conservation programmes. …
Evolution from a Thermodynamic Perspective
Implications for Species Conservation and Agricultural Sustainability
Inbunden, 2021
1752 kr
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Survival of the fittest” is a tautology, because those that are “fit” are the ones that survive, but to survive, a species must be “fit”. Modern evolutionary theory avoids the problem by defining fitness as reproductive success, but the complexity of life that we see today could not have evolved …
Evolution from a Thermodynamic Perspective
Implications for Species Conservation and Agricultural Sustainability
E-bok, 2021
2224 kr
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Survival of the fittest” is a tautology, because those that are “fit” are the ones that survive, but to survive, a species must be “fit”. Modern evolutionary theory avoids the problem by defining fitness as reproductive success, but the complexity of life that we see today could not have evolved …
Evolution from a Thermodynamic Perspective
Implications for Species Conservation and Agricultural Sustainability
Häftad, 2022
1752 kr
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Survival of the fittest” is a tautology, because those that are “fit” are the ones that survive, but to survive, a species must be “fit”. Modern evolutionary theory avoids the problem by defining fitness as reproductive success, but the complexity of life that we see today could not have evolved …
Tropical Forest Ecology
The Basis for Conservation and Management
Av Florencia Montagnini, Carl F. Jordan
Inbunden, 2005
2406 kr
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Research in tropical forestry is confronted with the task of finding strategies to alleviate pressure on remaining forests, and techniques to enhance forest regeneration and restore abandoned lands, using productive alternatives that can be attractive to local human populations. In addition, …
Tropical Forest Ecology
The Basis for Conservation and Management
Av Carl F. Jordan, Florencia Montagnini
E-bok, 2005
3145 kr
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Research in tropical forestry is confronted with the task of finding strategies to alleviate pressure on remaining forests, and techniques to enhance forest regeneration and restore abandoned lands, using productive alternatives that can be attractive to local human populations. In addition, …
Tropical Forest Ecology
The Basis for Conservation and Management
Av Florencia Montagnini, Carl F. Jordan
Häftad, 2010
2401 kr
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Research in tropical forestry is confronted with the task of finding strategies to alleviate pressure on remaining forests, and techniques to enhance forest regeneration and restore abandoned lands, using productive alternatives that can be attractive to local human populations. In addition, …
Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
Energy Use Efficiency in the American South
Inbunden, 2013
1098 kr
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Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum products such as fertilizers and pesticides. A systems analysis of farming suggests that agriculture will …
Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
Energy Use Efficiency in the American South
E-bok, 2013
1459 kr
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Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum products such as fertilizers and pesticides. A systems analysis of farming suggests that agriculture will …
Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
Energy Use Efficiency in the American South
Häftad, 2015
1098 kr
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Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum products such as fertilizers and pesticides. A systems analysis of farming suggests that agriculture will …
Working With Nature
Inbunden, 1998
1459 kr
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First Published in 1998. This important work looks at an alternative approach to resource production systems, taking the view that many environmental problems associated withconventional resource management are avoidable if we work with nature, instead of trying to dominate it. Jordan argues that …
