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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Ecological Sustainability"”.
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The economic and ecological sustainability of the Amazonian timber industry
Abstract Selective logging of tropical forests, particularly reduced impact logging (RIL), has long been suggested as a benign compromise between profitable land-use and biodiversity conservation. Throughout human history, slow-renewal biological resource populations have been predictably …
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Eating (Meat) ethically: The convergence of Human Health, ecological sustainability
… are human wellbeing, animal wellbeing, and ecological sustainability. I take this to be relatively uncontroversial. My contribution to this discussion is to note the manner in which questions relating to human health and ecology are often not discussed with sufficient precision and detail by …
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Increasing ecological sustainability through land justice and environmental protection for indigenous people
… unsustainable and require an urgent change for ecological sustainability. To this end, Agenda 21 is the international action plan for an ecologically sustainable globe. It provides the scienta and ethics of the modern environmental age, from which praxis must be determined. A key factor, which …
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Cutting up the high country: the social construction of tenure review and ecological sustainability
… s24(a)(i) that required tenure review 'promotes ecologically sustainable management' of the lands in question. The tenure review process has been accompanied by an intense contest between some stakeholders that has created polarised support for either production or conservation and their …
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The social and management factors that contribute to the ecological sustainability of oil palm plantations
… to do so. In this thesis, I conducted social, ecological, and interdisciplinary studies of both smallholder and industrial plantations in two key oil palm countries, aiming to provide a more holistic understanding of the social factors influencing plantation management, and the ecological …
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The impact of global climate change on the runoff and ecological sustainability of the Breede River
… this it is determined whether the river will be ecologically sustainable under climate change.
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An empirical investigation: How small to mid-sized enterprises use innovation on the path toward ecological sustainability
… is redefining the business relationship between ecological, economic, and social systems. In addition, the major market forces of diminishing natural resources, extreme transparency, and increasing social expectations are reshaping a new sustainability path for companies. This empirical …
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Exploring the Links between Communality, the Metabolic Relationship, and Ecological Sustainability: A Case Study of a North-West of Ireland Community (c. 1930s-50s)
… communality, the metabolic relationship, and ecological sustainability. It does so through case study research of a rundale system of production context (because rundale was a communal mode of production) in North-West Mayo in Ireland (c. 1930s-50s). The aim of my research is to contribute to …
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Ecological Sustainability of Winter Harvesting in the Duck Mountain Provincial Park, SK: The Effects of Skidder Traffic, Slash Loading, and Cumulative Effects on Soils and Aspen Regeneration
… the old growth aspen forests in the park is an ecologically sustainable practice for successful aspen regeneration. Skidder traffic intensity, slash coverage, and vegetation indices were calculated for six harvested blocks using Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) …
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Integrating water resources management : analysis of the St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, water market
… efficiency in water use, environmental and ecological sustainability, and equity in the access to water for all the population. The study includes the assessment of available water supply and water demand by use, and the evaluation of alternative and feasible supply options to augment …
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The use of education for sustainability websites for community education in Chile
… oriented attention to the role of education for sustainability (EfS) as a means to create more ecologically literate and sustainable societies. One premise is that socio-ecological sustainability issues and challenges are immediate and locally rooted. This calls for educational interventions that …
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Influences of customary and statutory governance on sustainable use and livelihoods: The case of baobab, Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe
… with the link between customary practices and ecological conservation in Africa as part of a broader debate on governance approaches for natural resource management. To a large extent, this is in response to a growing voice articulating the need to integrate traditional institutions and …
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TO THRIVE, WORK, AND LIVE: PROGRESS TOWARD AND CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINABILITY ON THE FREI GONDIM SETTLEMENT, PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL
… is limited creates challenges for economic and ecological sustainability. I submitted ethnographic data I collected on the settlement to the Netting Model, a test of family farmer success. An important part of my data was derived from an ethnobotanical study of native Atlantic Rainforest …
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Community Resilience: A Meta-Study of International Development Rhetoric in Emerging Economies
… 2004). The core of this definition relates to sustainability and the capability of socio-ecological systems and communities to adapt and transform to both day to day fluctuations and stressors as well as major disasters (Milman & Short, 2008; Walker et al., 2004). This meta-study seeks to shed …
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Sustainable and Environmentally Responsible Future for Businesses and Society
… knowledge capital, governance and resource sustainability for knowledge synthesis in the domain of responsible management. This study synthesises 11 interrelated studies, utilising rich cross-country and firm-level econometric investigations to examine how financial development, FinTech, …
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An environmental impact assessment for the access road to the Mohale dam, Lesotho : a comparative analysis of the Western access road and the least cost alternative route
… should be made, focussing on concepts of sustainability (including ecological sustainability), provision of basic human needs, equity and social justice, and cultural diversity and self-realisation. Within the context framed by the limitations of this EIA, the report then compares the LCAR …
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Creating Belonging and Community on a Multisite Blended Field Course
… blended field courses that balance ecological sustainability with pedagogical effectiveness.
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Cultural Sustainability through Architecture
… is dealing with the broad topic of cultural sustainability. I began my thesis thinking about a project dealing with ecological sustainability, but not long after starting to research, I gained the knowledge that the cultural aspect is often forgotten or minor. Thus the design got inspired …
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Mapping Connectivity: Integrating Ecological Landscape Analysis into Urban Planning in the City of Nanaimo
… habitats and disrupts ecosystem functionality. Ecological networks, including corridors and green spaces, are critical for maintaining biodiversity, yet connectivity planning must balance ecological sustainability with urban growth and socio-economic considerations. This study had two main …
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Institutions and social-ecological synergies in Indian agriculture
… synergizing livelihood enhancement and agro-ecological sustainability. Systematic knowledge of synergies and causal pathways through which they are generated remains limited. This study addresses this gap by examining the role of institutions as drivers of synergies and tradeoffs between …
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