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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"landscape conservation"”.
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Conservation priorities and collaboration in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative
… change, and human land use, are prompting conservation planning and action at a landscape or regional scale. Historically, natural resource agencies worked within individual jurisdictional boundaries – both geographical boundaries and those boundaries created by differing missions. Yet the …
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The role of alternative food networks in agricultural landscape conservation: some evidences from Italy and Spain
… The aim is to discover if, and to what extent, landscape and environmental protection goals are embedded in individual AFN and conventional practices, and how practices are promoted in spatial planning projects regarding alternative forms of production. The case studies are based on the …
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FACTORING CULTURE AND DISCOURSE INTO AN APPRAISAL OF THE NEOLIBERAL SYNTHESIS OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
… Africa. CWM, which aims to integrate large-landscape conservation and rural development, is a programme full of neoliberal aspirations, particularly in its call to decentralize decision-making and encourage African communities to engage in a market for wildlife. Its general failure to live …
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Vision, movement and landscape experience in Princely Town Amber, India
Cultural landscapes are a part of a nation’s heritage and are narratives of the by-gone era. These landscapes exhibit our culture and history and it is equally important to conserve them, along with built monuments, to truly protect and represent them as sites of the past. This study focuses upon …
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Conserving Montana's sagebrush highway: long distance migration in sage-grouse
Landscape conservation is the mechanism for conserving migratory wildlife in sagebrush ecosystems. We study further a greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter ‘sage-grouse’) population with the longest-known annual migration, a 240-km journey between summer range in north central …
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Conserving Montana's sagebrush highway: long distance migration in sage-grouse
Landscape conservation is the mechanism for conserving migratory wildlife in sagebrush ecosystems. We study further a greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter ‘sage-grouse’) population with the longest-known annual migration, a 240-km journey between summer range in north central …
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Luoghi e identità: ricostruzione storica dello spazio agrario, sociale e politico della baronia di Monreale nella Sardegna dell’età moderna
… effects that human intervention had on the rural landscape. Land use, the testamentary dispositions, the conflicts between barons and communities have produced far-‐‐reaching effects overtime, which have profoundly transformed the modern and contemporary landscape. The main objective of the study …
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Le infrastrutture verdi nei paesaggi del vino: Linee guida alla pianificazione
… A significant driver of this depletion is landscape fragmentation, whose solution has been envisaged by European policies through strategies including the adoption of the so-called green infrastructures, i.e. ensembles of green areas and nature-based solutions capable of delivering benefits …
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Social-ecological systems resilience in changing rural landscapes of the Midwestern United States
Regional conservation planning is challenged by the complexity of cross-scalar interactions and the limited sphere of influence to deliberately affect social-ecological systems. Human and natural processes are interlinked, non-linear, and emergent. This dissertation has explored the application of …
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Vishram ghat, Mathura, India: a conservation model for ghat restoration in India
… visual and performing arts of Braj, a cultural landscape associated with the life of young Krishna, the Hindu god. This cultural heritage is sustained by ritual behaviors that commemorate her mythic role in bathing, worshipping, and circumambulating the land-water interface of steps known as …
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Technology in ecology: determining the location, behaviour, and energy expenditure of free-ranging carnivores
… how animals survive in changing, anthropogenic landscapes.<br/><br/>In this thesis, I test the methodologies used when deploying biologgers and processing the data to improve accuracy when monitoring free-roaming animals. Furthermore, I examine how urban environments and seasons influence the …
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Boundaries of absolute protection: distribution of benefit and harm to birds through law and planning in New Zealand
… depend, will benefit birds. It concludes that conservation status, as opposed to habitat or sectoral dispensation, is an important determinant for application of the standard, as this provides the most consistently protective approach. In addition, it is demonstrated that where uncertainty or …