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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"conservation policy"”.
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Have the National Resources Inventories advanced conservation policy?
… Over the last three decades, the USDA's conservation policy has changed dramatically. Not only has the number of programs multiplied and the scope of issues expanded, but a once-casual link between commodity programs and conservation activities has been formalized. One reason for the …
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Three essays on conservation: policy design, risk management and impact evaluation
… issues associated with designing and managing conservation programs and evaluating the effectiveness of those programs. In the first essay, I derive the levels of policy instruments such as lump sum payments and annual subsidies that are sufficient to forestall conversion of private land to …
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Technical and experimental design for electricity conservation policy : continuous information feedback
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1986
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The Role of Scientific Uncertainty in Polar Bear Conservation Policy: A Descriptive Analysis
… an integral component of both the scientific and policy processes. However, its misapplication can often compromise effective policy outcomes, as evidenced by polar bear conservation policy. An analysis of the US Endangered Species Act and The Convention on International Trade in Endangered …
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Evaluating Recruitment Seasonality of Red Abalone (<i>Haliotis Rufescens</i>) to Inform Fisheries Management and Conservation Policy
<p>Recruitment, the addition of new individuals to a population, must be understood to make predictions about population growth of marine invertebrates. Red abalone (<em>Haliotis rufescens</em>) represent a former important commercial fishery in California, and until recently, supported a major …
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Change begets change: employing a change perspective to inform South Africa's coastal community conservation policy-praxis disjuncture
Contemporary biodiversity conservation is ‘wickedly complex'. This complexity stems from the need to address the diverse objectives of protecting biodiversity and enhancing social wellbeing. However, centralized and exclusionary conservation approaches are often ill-suited to tackling these coupled …
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Housing decline indicators: the identification of indicators to physical deterioration of housing and their application to housing conservation policy.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. M.C.P.
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The social and political determinants in the formation and implementation of habitat conservation policy : the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
… is disproved. Hypothesis 5 is that Thatcherite policy was a determinant. This shows a negative proof. Hypothesis 6 is that trends in governmental implementation mechanisms were a determinant in the adoption of the voluntary approach. This shows both positive and negative proofs. The determinants …
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Climate change and conservation policy: developing adaptation strategies to minimise climate change impacts to the conservation interest of Scotland’s standing freshwaters
… of what and where that resource is, what the conservation priorities currently are and where threats to these priorities are likely to emerge. Therefore, the overall aim of this thesis was to develop adaptation strategies to minimise climate change impacts on the conservation interests of …
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Adjustments in a farm business in response to an energy crisis
… were faced w~th the choice of an energy conservation policy based on large energy price increases, or an energy conservation policy based on a strict rationing of energy inputs, the strict rationing policy would probably cause greater reductions in livestock farmer's income.
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A genetic perspective on leopard (Panthera pardus) conservation units across southern Africa
Conservation units are a tool to guide policy such that conservation goals can be achieved. These units should ideally synthesise a wide array of data – genetic, ecological, demographic – to identify the appropriate scales at which conservation actions can then be directed. Despite being the most …
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RESOURCE USE RATES: ESTIMATION OF TIME INVARIANT DECISION RULES (EROSION)
<p>As interest in soil conservation has increased, understanding the soil management decision rule used by farmers has become more important. The model developed to analyze the optimal decision rule for soil use rates is essentially a supply response model which assumes rational expectations. It …
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Regolith Erosion at Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park
… faster pace than previously published rates. Conservation policy within the park should be adjusted to reflect this information and additional research should be conducted to determine if the sediment being eroded is affecting other aspects of the park.</p>
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Nanjing City Wall: embodied heritage in wallscape
… the government is implementing its preservation policy to sanitize the surrounding neighborhoods which are in poor condition. The preservation plan puts too much emphasis on picturesque landscapes. As such, by reviewing the history and representations of the City Wall, the thesis studies the …
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Ecosystem service provision in dynamic heath landscapes.
Conservation policy and management is undergoing a step-change, moving from focusing conservation resources on individual sites such as protected areas, to include the wider landscape. Landscape-scale initiatives may focus on either managing the entire landscape or they may focus on managing …
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Exploring the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN's) National Program Development in Biodiversity Conservation: A Comparative Study of India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh
… investigates IUCN's role in global biodiversity conservation policy as well as in national program development in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. It explores how nature protection priorities and approaches are promoted or addressed by IUCN, an international organization, and how …
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Land use change and natural Araucaria forest degradation : northeastern misiones - Argentina
… depends on an urgent revision of the conservation policy as well as the regional agricultural and forest policies. Likewise, in the face of the ignorance observed in the rural population about management techniques and resource conservation, it is also indispensable to generate better …
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Targeting of Ecosystem Goods and Services:Directing Agri-Environmental Policy Innovation
… nature of agricultural landscapes, makes policy efficiency an important consideration. Incorporating targeting mechanisms in the design of agri-environmental policy instruments could improve the efficiency of such policies. This thesis illustrates the efficiency gains from policy …
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Sustainable development of maritime cultural heritage in the Gulf of Maine
… management are applied to develop a conservation policy for maritime cultural heritage in the Gulf of Maine. This dissertation first examines the effectiveness of existing laws, policies and preservation programs available for the protection and conservation of maritime historical and …
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Taiwan's industrial structural change and its implication on energy intensity
… intensity. Taiwan needs a more aggressive energy conservation policy to improve its energy efficiency; otherwise, any international regulation would be a serious threat to Taiwan's economic development.
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