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Showing 1 to 20 of 177 for “"Biodiversity-conservation"”.
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Including biodiversity conservation in climate change decision making
… challenges of our time are climate change and biodiversity conservation. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), bioenergy is expected to play a major role as a mitigation strategy for climate change. The projected scale of the deployment of bioenergy is big, …
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Biodiversity, conservation and mimicry rings of Appalachian millipedes
The Appalachian Mountains contain some of the highest millipede diversity on the planet, including many endemic and range-restricted species. Millipedes have extremely low dispersal capacity, strict environmental requirements for survival and, in the case of the family Xystodesmidae, are completely …
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International free trade and biodiversity conservation : towards 'sustainable trade'
… state of South African legislation addressing biodiversity and international trade therein. Some international and domestic legal instruments promote free trade (including free trade of biodiversity resources), while environmental legal instruments promote the conservation of biodiversity and …
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Biodiversity conservation and brownfield sites: a scalar political ecology?
… develops a multi-scalar political ecology of biodiversity conservation on brownfield sites in Birmingham, U.K. While urban brownfield biodiversity is increasingly recognised as a valuable resource, political pressure to develop such spaces is also growing. Forty-five interviews were conducted …
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Mapping the funding landscape for biodiversity conservation in Peru
Financial resources are crucial to effective biodiversity conservation. Globally, research shows that conservation-related expenditures are directed towards countries of high biodiversity importance, even as funding flows are well below estimates of financial need. The absence of sufficient funding …
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Understanding and improving the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation
Biodiversity conservation is currently facing extraordinary challenges but remains severely limited by funding. Thus, the importance of cost-effective conservation is being increasingly realised – requiring information on both the effects and costs of actions taken to conserve biodiversity. Yet, …
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Using environmental DNA to inform biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Maple Sugar Bush Management and Biodiversity Conservation in Eastern Ontario, Canada
… in Eastern Ontario might contribute to biodiversity maintenance and conservation and therefore be promoted as a form of rural sustainable development. Ontario government policy seeks to actively promote actions that strengthen the province’s rural communities and protect biodiversity. …
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The potential of restored landfill sites for biodiversity conservation in the UK
Loss of biodiversity has been in the forefront of conservation issues worldwide since the last century. Biodiversity conservation through restoring degraded habitats or creating new habitats is advocated in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. Newly created grasslands on restored landfill sites are …
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Using a practice lens to explore the social dimensions of biodiversity conservation
… is increasingly gaining currency within the conservation community. A growing body of literature indicates the importance and influence people and societal practices have on the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation. As such, conservationists and their organisations are being urged to …
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Regulatory opportunities and constraints facing private sector biodiversity conservation outside protected areas
Biodiversity2 comprises the variation of living species on earth upon which its human population depends for survival.3 This is so because diversity maintains biospheric conditions without which human life, integrally tied up with all other forms of life on earth, would become extinct. Related to …
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Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico
… not considered in the developmental agendas. If biodiversity and climate change are not included in policy domains other than the environmental, many negative effects will not be adequately mitigated or minimised. Addressing these multidimensional problems requires policy coherence for improving …
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Distributional Modeling Of Rare Fishes And Mussels: From Ecological Theory To Biodiversity Conservation
… an integral tool in ecological research and conservation planning. SDMs are reliant upon occurrence datasets for the taxa of concern and museum-based information has become a popular source for such data. In the first stage of my research, I developed a centralized database for Kentucky …
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Understanding biodiversity conservation funding and the diffusion of transnational gender norms in Bhutan
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-08-01
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Why should wild nature be preserved? A dialogue between biblical theology and biodiversity conservation.
… a rapid acceleration in global anthropogenic biodiversity loss, despite massively increased conservation effort and knowledge. Consequently, there are wide-ranging debates around whether economic and instrumental valuations of wild nature assist in its preservation, or whether they commodify …
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Efficacy of agroecological approaches to ameliorate trade-offs between food production and biodiversity conservation
… efforts will be critical to revert global biodiversity loss. Concurrently, the nutrition needs of a growing human population must be met, which necessitates increasing, or at the very least maintaining, current agricultural productivity. However, conventional agricultural intensification …
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Fishing and hunting in the Amazon floodplain : linkages among biodiversity conservation, rural livelihoods and food security
… the potential importance of these changes for biodiversity and human well-being, our understanding of how these changes are impacting the dynamics of harvesting systems is poor. In this thesis I engage with four major knowledge gaps, in particular. The first is that we know almost nothing about …
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Money for something? Investigating the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation interventions in the Northern Plains of Cambodia
Despite substantial investments in biodiversity conservation interventions over the past two decades there is relatively little evidence about whether interventions work, and how they work. Whether an intervention is deemed to “work” depends upon how goals are defined and then measured, which is …
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Reconciling biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the context of international and domestic law in Rwanda
This thesis explores the tensions between biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in a legal context in Rwanda, a small and poor African developing country. It does so against the backdrop of relevant international conventions, the relatively recent constitutional dispensation in the …
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