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Showing 1 to 20 of 405 for “"Land Management"”.
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Optimising carbon storage by land-management
As the UK’s largest non-government land-owner, the National Trust is committed to reducing its impact on climate change, recognising the importance of soil organic carbon (SOC), and its need for preservation. To establish if land-management could be optimised to increase carbon storage, ‘The …
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Rural Land Management Impacts on Catchment Scale Flood Risk
… thesis examines the relationship between rural land management and downstream flood risk. The recent increase in flood frequency and magnitude has been hypothesised to have been caused by either climate change or land management. The theoretical basis for why these factors might increase flood …
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Government land management and the free market in southern Nevada
About 93.4 percent of the land area of southern Nevada is controlled by government agencies. The control of such a great amount of land may represent an impediment to the action of a free market in southern Nevada; The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is the largest of several government land …
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Assessing belowground biomass changes following land management and vehicle disturbance
… of military training on vegetation into their land carrying capacity models. An understanding of the impacts and methods to reduce impacts would increase training throughput, minimize costs, and improve training realism. This study is the beginning of an effort to understand the otherwise …
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Little Sac Woods Metro Forest, a Land Management Methodology and Plan
… The urban forest designation provides land use to be based on a wide variety of outdoor experiences. The purpose of this thesis was two-fold: 1) to develop a methodology to evaluate the natural resources of the area as to their suitability for various land uses and 2) to utilize the …
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Evaluation of Bureau of Land Management Protocols for Monitoring Stream Condition
The goal of the Aquatic Indicators of Land Condition (AILC) project is to develop analytical tools that integrate land condition information with stream condition for improved watershed management within the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Based on the goal of the AILC, two …
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A systems approach to evaluate water quality oriented land management plans
… was developed to evaluate and optimize cropland Best Management Practices (BMPs). The approach consisted of using the Finite Element Storm Hydrograph Model (FESHM) to simulate runoff and sediment yield from a series of design storms with known return periods. The design storm simulations …
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Land management reform in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : implmentating a public leasehold system
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Some wood-transportation modeling problems associated with Quebec's new land-management system
… methods is weighed, and its future under the New Land-Management System proposed by the Department of Lands and Forests is assessed. This New Land-Management System is analyzed, primarily from the viewpoint of wood transportation. The base of a transportation model using linear programming is …
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Soil microbial response to land management practices and wildfire in Appalachian ecosystems
… communities change as a result of different land management practices or natural disturbances can provide insight into the effects of these perturbations on ecosystem health, such as water quality and organismal growth. The studies presented in this thesis address how relevant land management …
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Mapping Soil and Plant Communities: Shifting Western Culture’s Perspectives of Ecological Land Management
… Qualitative interviews and analyses of three land management industry discussion groups, using Grounded Theory methodology, affirmed a variable understanding of a SMC-plant eco-context, and identified challenges and leverage potentials for industry eco-regeneration focused on land management …
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Mapping Soil and Plant Communities: Shifting Western Culture’s Perspectives of Ecological Land Management
… Qualitative interviews and analyses of three land management industry discussion groups, using Grounded Theory methodology, affirmed a variable understanding of a SMC-plant eco-context, and identified challenges and leverage potentials for industry eco-regeneration focused on land management …
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Wild horses and the Bureau of Land Management: A policy review and critique
… and Burro Act (PL 92-195) charged the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) with the management and protection of wild horses and burros on public lands. The implementation of the Act was remiss in failing to recognize the limitation of expertise within the Bureau in carrying out its new …
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Utilizing Remotely Piloted Air Systems in the Delineation of Functional Land Management Zones
… the intensification of agriculture to keep with land resource constraints. Meanwhile, climate change is occurring, and these two factors are exerting pressure on the medium through which food production occurs: the soil. Soil provides many of the ecosystem services provided by farmland and is …
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Rainfall trends in India and their impact on soil erosion and land management
… in India and examined the potential for top soil management practices to improve or maintain soil quality. Historical rainfall data from 50-135 years and extreme temperature data for 103 years were analysed and long term trends were assessed for various aspects of Indian climates using suitable …
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The Equal Access to Justice Act and Federal Land Management: Incentives to Litigate?
… use of litigation as a tool to influence land management decisions has been documented within the Forest Service. The Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), which allows successful litigants to recover attorney fees and other legal expenses from the federal government, has come under much …
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Land Cover Change During a Transition in Land Management at Valles Caldera 1989-2013
This study examines how land-use policies can play a role in manifesting physical landscape changes. In 2000, Congress enacted a unique experiment in public lands management by creating the Valles Caldera National Preserve and its governing body, the Valles Caldera Trust (VCT). The management …
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Geodatabase Design for Resource and Land Management GIS: Missoula Field Office BLM Case Study
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in the process of improving their geographic information system (GIS). The main intention is to upgrade their data and present their employees with the geospatial means necessary to accomplish their resource and land management responsibilities. Environmental …
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Geodatabase Design for Resource and Land Management GIS: Missoula Field Office BLM Case Study
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in the process of improving their geographic information system (GIS). The main intention is to upgrade their data and present their employees with the geospatial means necessary to accomplish their resource and land management responsibilities. Environmental …
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