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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Environmental Regimes"”.
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The Politics of Choice and Institutional Development in Global Environmental Regimes
… of hypotheses through cross-case analysis of the regimes constructed to address ozone depletion, the overfishing of global stocks, and climate change. Across the cases, I find that dissatisfied actors continuously contest the status quo institutional arrangements to gain distributive advantages. …
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Integrating ecological impacts into evaluations of the effectiveness of environmental regimes: the example of CITES
The proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements has resulted in an increased interest, from academics and others, in questions regarding the effectiveness of such agreements. Much if not all attention has focused on the institutional aspects of regime functioning, specifically behaviour …
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The eco-physiology of macroalgae from a temperate marine embayment in southern Australia
… Ulva sp. (Chlorophyta) in response to a range of environmental regimes.
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The Role of Social, Economic, and Political Factors in the Design and Establishment of Antarctic Marine Protected Areas
… in global marine biodiversity. This global environmental crisis has inspired international environmental regimes, such as the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), to manage human activity and ensure the long-term persistence of biodiversity by …
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Linking Prey to Predator: Scale Dependence and Oceanographic Influence in Marine Food Webs
… The effect of geostrophic currents and environmental regimes on the deep scattering layers of the central tropical pacific were examined relative to sightings of marine mammals in the area. Analyses across trophic levels and at multiple scales is an important step towards understanding …
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Balancing the need for investment and environmental protection : a case study of The Gambia
… conflict has been exacerbated by the numerous environmental violations committed by investors and their investments in the country. There has been a collective outcry from the communities affected by these violations and The Gambian government seems to find some difficulty in attending to the …
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Grains of truth : science and the evolution of international desertification policymaking
… knowledge with the formation of international environmental institutions. The study identifies four discrete periods of international desertification politics: colonial, modernist, internationalist and pluralist, and undertakes a comparison of expert advisory processes, quantification, and …
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Population structure, biochemical adaptation and systematics in temperate marine fishes of the genera Arripis and Chrysophrys (Pisces: Perciformes)
… by the organisms to cope with contrasting environmental regimes. The results generally agreed with predictions, although some alternative explanations for observed gene distributions could not be eliminated. Electrophoretic data were also analysed using kinship and genetic distance …
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Population structure, biochemical adaptation and systematics in temperate marine fishes of the genera Arripis and Chrysophrys (Pisces: Perciformes)
… by the organisms to cope with contrasting environmental regimes. The results generally agreed with predictions, although some alternative explanations for observed gene distributions could not be eliminated. Electrophoretic data were also analysed using kinship and genetic distance …
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Community composition in relation to substrate, elevation, and topography in the Salt Pond Mountain area in Giles County, Virginia
… strata were collected from 25 forest stands. Environmental variables measured or determined at each site included elevation, aspect, slope inclination, underlying geological formation, and soil physical and chemical characteristics. In addition, exposure-induced differences in vegetation, …
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From micro to macro: the benefits and pitfalls of environmental generalism on coral reefs in the Anthropocene
… temperate, and deep-water reefs, a shift in environmental norms across marine ecosystems is causing species to expand into otherwise marginal environments. This widespread ecosystem restructuring raises the questions of which coral species in which locations will persevere under changing …
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Multiproxy Analyses of Past Vegetation, Climate, and Sediment Dynamics in Hudson River Wetlands
… heavily urbanized estuary with a long history of environmental impacts from anthropogenic activities for hundreds of years. The estuary is intensely utilized, serving over ten million people throughout New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. The portion of the Hudson River from Troy, NY to New York …
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The influence of the Paris Agreement on mitigation actions toward the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions post 2015: A comparative study of Nordic, Asian and African regions
… by reducing emissions and does the international environmental regime (IER) have anything to do with their emissions-reductions efforts since 2015? To answer these questions, this thesis tracks the emissions reductions efforts of eight countries to determine whether the IER vis-à-vis the Paris …
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Globale Waldpolitik in Deutschland : eine Untersuchung über die Wirkung internationaler Regime in föderalen Strukturen
Im Zuge der Konferenz über Umwelt und Entwicklung (UNCED) der Vereinten Nationen 1992 wurden verschiedene politische Prozesse in Gang gesetzt, die sich auch mit dem Schutz der Wälder befassen und Deutschland zur Umsetzung einer globalen Waldpolitik auf nationaler Ebene verpflichten. Die vorliegende …
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The Frozen Commons: Possibilities and Limitations in International Environmental Development in the Russian Arctic
… of capacity improvement to assess multilateral, environmental interventions in the Russian Arctic. The case studies reveal the occasions wherein target linking, commitment making, behavioral influence, and knowledge production played significant roles in influencing Russian institutions to take …
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Physiological effects of climate change and estimations of carbon standing stock of southern Salish Sea kelps
… proximate but genetically distinct and environmentally contrasting populations in Puget Sound, Washington, were collected and exposed for 1-3 hours to a range of temperatures (8, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 C) and pH treatments (8, 7.7, 7.4). Following exposure, photosynthetic and fluorescence …
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Development of national extent terrain attributes (TANZ), soil water balance surfaces (SWatBal), and environmental surfaces, and their application for spatial modelling of Pinus radiata productivity across New Zealand
… including climate, landuse, terrain, and their environmental surfaces. Best models explained 58% and 67 % of the variance for 300 Index and Site Index, respectively. The PLS models were also used to develop quantitative productivity maps across the national extent of New Zealand. In addition, a …