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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"land health"”.
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The Commonweal of Life: Aldo Leopold and Land Health
"Aldo Leopold (1887--1948) is known for his ""land ethic,"" which presented land use as a matter of moral right and wrong, not merely of prudence. What Leopold meant by ""land ethic,"" however, is not well understood because few have appreciated its ecological, ethical, and aesthetic foundation. …
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Revisiting Aldo Leopold's "Perfect" Land Health: Conservation and Development in Mexico's Rio Gavilan
… Aldo Leopold thought it was the best picture of land health he had seen. His main indicators of healthy land were slow water runoff rates regulating erosion and historical predator-prey relationships. The visits confirmed Leopold's concept of land health, inspired many of his essays, and helped …
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Land Health as Culture and Law: A Challenge to the Contemporary Discourse on Private Property
… collective and individual interactions with the lands we inhabit, cultivate, and own. Today, there is a tension between contemporary American legal and cultural discourses of property and the way land functions ecologically in the real world of nature. In popular and legal culture a land parcel …
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Is hunting still healthy? strengths and limitations of dominant discourses used to examine contemporary indigenous land-health Interrelationships
… continue to experience some of the greatest health disadvantages. As the United Nations Second Decade of the World's Indigenous People's (2005-2014) draws to a close, questions are still being asked about how best to remedy this situation. One approach is research and policy responses focused …
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Is hunting still healthy? strengths and limitations of dominant discourses used to examine contemporary indigenous land-health Interrelationships
… continue to experience some of the greatest health disadvantages. As the United Nations Second Decade of the World's Indigenous People's (2005-2014) draws to a close, questions are still being asked about how best to remedy this situation. One approach is research and policy responses focused …
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Disability's Encounter with Legislation and Governance: Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario
This dissertation is a comprehensive study of the new legal framework for the long-term care (LTC) sector (also known as nursing homes) in Ontario, Canada. The research sought to answer the following question: What are the potential implications for persons with disabilities of the changes made by …