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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"land stewardship"”.
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Towards sustainable land stewardship : reframing development in Wisconsin's dairy gateway
… both economically and ecologically sustainable land stewardship.
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Paying for Nature: Incentives and the Future of Private Land Stewardship
Privately owned lands provide a number of benefits to humans, including food, clean air and water, and building materials. Private lands are also home to a host of wildlife species and the habitats that they rely upon for survival. As such, balancing human and ecological needs on private lands is …
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Group Analysis of Collaborative Conservation Partnerships
… the United States. These groups seek to address land stewardship through cooperative, communicative, bottom-up approaches that engage local stakeholders. A better understanding of member characteristics and successful group characteristics may enhance collaborative conservation partnership …
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Vegetative filter strip assessment in the state of Iowa
… about effective management practices and good land stewardship values.</p>
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Reducing future bushfire risk : optimal strategies for fuel load reduction
… due to climate change, urban expansion, and land-use change, there is an urgent need for integrated and sustainable management approaches. In this study, we developed a Decision Support System (DSS) that integrates Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) to evaluate three …
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The Significance of ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa
… significance of ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa (Ktunaxa Homelands) into the organization. An Indigenous Research Methodology was utilized, which included a focus group and a kitchen table conversation as methods. Ktunaxa Elders and Knowledge Holders participated in the research as subject experts on Ktunaxa …
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Communication Challenges Associated With Voyageurs National Park: A Discourse Analysis
… in management decisions as part of the public land stewardship but engaging public involvement proved to be complex. After the park was established a rift developed between local community members and those supporting Voyageurs National Park. Research conducted before this dissertation …
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Sustainable economic development : the case of implementing industrial ecology
… the EIP model. The taxonomy includes practice in land stewardship, green building design, individual firm environmental practices, and byproduct exchange. Each of the four areas of practice have characteristics with implications for how implementation should occur through an EIP. EIP planners and …
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Organizing Rural Communities for Effective Citizen Science Programs
… about conservation issues, and promoting land stewardship. Currently, many citizen monitoring organizations are based in urban areas, whereas their projects are located near more rural towns. Research shows that demographics such as area of residence can be a factor in the public’s …
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Organizing Rural Communities for Effective Citizen Science Programs
… about conservation issues, and promoting land stewardship. Currently, many citizen monitoring organizations are based in urban areas, whereas their projects are located near more rural towns. Research shows that demographics such as area of residence can be a factor in the public’s …
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Coping With Neighbors & other entanglements
This thesis explores how two ways of "seeing" landscape might be integrated through a set of design interventions for the Kooyooe fish and the people from the Paiute nation. Situated in the state currently known as Nevada, where the Paiute people have lived for over 9,000 years, Pyramid Lake is the …
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How rewilding impacts ecosystem health in a semi-arid region
… can indeed assist in restoring degraded landscapes. This, in turn, reaffirms the crucial role of nature-based solutions in biodiversity conservation and highlights the importance of positive land stewardship and management. These findings underscore the importance and viability of …
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Social Aesthetics: Affecting Change in Food Provisioning
… equity - barriers exist. Rooted in indigenous land stewardship and food provisioning practices, permaculture (permanent agriculture) offers strategies and tactics to overcome those barriers. Despite mounting evidence that permaculture will result in more sustainable food systems, adoption is …
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Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship
… form of environmental activism and land stewardship. At the same time, the number, scope, complexity, and diversity of restoration projects has expanded, and restoration is now being practiced in every corner of the globe. Witnessing this surge of activity and interest, many …
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Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship
… form of environmental activism and land stewardship. At the same time, the number, scope, complexity, and diversity of restoration projects has expanded, and restoration is now being practiced in every corner of the globe. Witnessing this surge of activity and interest, many …
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Conservation Behavior Outcomes and Drivers of Participation in a Conservation Research Program on Private Lands
Private lands encompass over half of the continental United States and serve as critical habitat for the majority of federally threatened and endangered species. Despite the importance of private lands for conservation, they remain understudied by conservation scientists. Conservation research …
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Wendell Berry’s Cyclic Vision: Traditional Farming as Metaphor
… of man’s use of and relationship to the land.</p> <p>Arguing that the health of a culture is linked to the health of its land, Berry focuses on agriculture, particularly the growing conflict between traditional farming (which espouses a harmonious cyclic vision) and modern agribusiness …
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Networks in nature: applying cultural ecology for stewardship
… and conserved natural resources. In part 1, landholders are identified as a point of leverage in the agrarian system. Part 2 goes over the historical development of the Western estate and state traditions, which support landholders by having instituted land administration and information …
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Does the contaminated land regime impose stewardship obligations on owners of land?
This thesis attempts to examine one element of land regulation, the regulation of contaminated land, to determine whether stewardship can, and does, form the basis of this regulation and what this can tell us about the place of stewardship as a legal principle. The thesis then examines the nature …