Download or read book Analyses des peuplements d oiseaux partir de donn es atlas written by Christophe Reboud and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analyse des peuplements d oiseaux partir de donn es atlas written by Christophe Reboud and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La distribution géographique des populations d'oiseaux est un paramètre très souvent étudié lors de suivis réalisés dans le cadre de recherches en écologie, de gestion d'habitats, ou de conservation. Les nombreux atlas ornithologiques produits durant ces 30 dernières années constituent une des bases les plus fréquentes des suivis ornithologiques. Ce travail a pour objectif d'analyser et d'interpréter les données du nouvel atlas des oiseaux nicheurs de Rhône-Alpes. Cette région compte 228 espèces réparties parmi 491 mailles régulières de 10 km de côté. Les principaux résultats concernent : I - L'évaluation de l'inégalité d'échantillonnage. Cette approche méthodologique est basée sur la comparaison des observations avec une probabilité de présence des espèces estimée d'après les relations existant entre leur répartition et des caractéristiques environnementales. II - L'organisation spatiale des peuplements. L'avifaune de Rhône-Alpes est particulièrement diversifiée, sa localisation géographique étant située à l'intersection de trois principales zone biogéographiques. La composition et la structure des peuplements sont principalement liées à des composantes climatiques exprimées au travers de gradients d'altitude et de latitude. Une composante hydrologique caractérise une avifaune de milieux humides. Puis interviennent les activités humaines. III - La localisation de secteurs remarquables sur le plan de la conservation de la biodiversité. Les méthodes de localisation par la technique des hotspots et celle des ''Aires Complémentaires'' sont comparées et discutées. IV - L'évaluation des tendances de répartition de l'avifaune régionale sur 20 ans. Malgré des difficultés d'ordre méthodologique, les résultats obtenus sont assez semblables aux tendances observées dans d'autres secteurs géographiques. Nous comparons différentes méthodes d'échantillonnages, pour localiser un réseau de mailles dans le but d'un suivi en Rhône-Alpes, pour l'interprétation de tendances futures.
Download or read book Biodiversity and Sustainable Development written by Rabindra Nath Pati and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the First Global Summit on Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, held at Raipur during 7-9 February 2009.
Download or read book Amphibians of North Africa written by Daniel Escoriza and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amphibians of North Africa is a comprehensive compilation of available data on the amphibians and reptiles found in various ecosystems across North West Africa and parts of the Mediterranean region. It is essential to identifying and understanding the ecological role of regional herpetofauna and its conservational importance. It examines the biological origins and diversity of amphibians in North Africa, along with their diverse ecosystems, including deserts, grasslands and subtropical forests. The book features detailed descriptions of the adult and larvae stages of species, such as the North African fire salamander, the common painted frog, Brongersma's toad and the Mediterranean tree frog. This book is a vital resource for herpetology and ecology students and researchers, helping them identify, understand and conserve these amphibians and reptiles in their various habitats across the North African and Mediterranean regions. - Presents the only book on research and species recognition of North West African and Mediterranean amphibians and reptiles in all life phases - Provides novel, iconographic material about little-known species - Features helpful visuals, including ink-drawings, photographs of adult and larvae stages, habitat photographs and distributional maps
Download or read book The European Landscape Convention written by Michael Jones and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important and insightful book provides, for the first time, a broad presentation of ongoing research into public participation in landscape conservation, management and planning, following the 2000 European Landscape Convention which came into force in 2004. The book examines both the theory of participation and what lessons can be learnt from specific European examples. It explores in what manner and to what extent the provisions for participation in the European Landscape Convention have been followed up and implemented. It also presents and compares different experiences of participation in selected countries from northern, southern, eastern and western Europe, and provides a critical examination of public participation in practice. However, while the book’s focus is necessarily on Europe, many of the conclusions drawn are of global relevance. The book provides a valuable reference for researchers and advanced students in landscape policies and management, as well as for professionals and others interested in land-use planning and environmental management.
Download or read book CBM written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2nd Pan African Symposium on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in Africa written by Bihini won wa Musiti and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bilingual publication results from a four-day symposium aimed at capturing the general directions and analytical issues that characterize approaches to sustainable use in Africa. The papers included in this work are organized under four major headings: modes of use, devolution, scale issues and external issues. Authors explore these themes through the use of case studies and the description of specific regional experiences. External issues are further explored in a series of commissioned policy papers which have also been included.
Download or read book Traditional Forest related Knowledge and Sustainable Forest Management in Africa written by John A. Parrotta and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Shooting Up written by Vanda Felbab-Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most policymakers see counterinsurgency and counternarcotics policy as two sides of the same coin. Stop the flow of drug money, the logic goes, and the insurgency will wither away. But the conventional wisdom is dangerously wrongheaded, as Vanda Felbab-Brown argues in Shooting Up. Counternarcotics campaigns, particularly those focused on eradication, typically fail to bankrupt belligerent groups that rely on the drug trade for financing. Worse, they actually strengthen insurgents by increasing their legitimacy and popular support. Felbab-Brown, a leading expert on drug interdiction efforts and counterinsurgency, draws on interviews and fieldwork in some of the world's most dangerous regions to explain how belligerent groups have become involved in drug trafficking and related activities, including kidnapping, extortion, and smuggling. Shooting Up shows vividly how powerful guerrilla and terrorist organizations — including Peru's Shining Path, the FARC and the paramilitaries in Colombia, and the Taliban in Afghanistan — have learned to exploit illicit markets. In addition, the author explores the interaction between insurgent groups and illicit economies in frequently overlooked settings, such as Northern Ireland, Turkey, and Burma. While aggressive efforts to suppress the drug trade typically backfire, Shooting Up shows that a laissez-faire policy toward illicit crop cultivation can reduce support for the belligerents and, critically, increase cooperation with government intelligence gathering. When combined with interdiction targeting major traffickers, this strategy gives policymakers a better chance of winning both the war against the insurgents and the war on drugs.
Download or read book The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks written by Michele Walters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide desire to upgrade our monitoring systems, but little clarity on what is actually needed and how it can be assembled from the elements which are already present. This book intends to provide practical guidance to broadly-defined biodiversity observation networks at all scales, but predominantly the national scale and higher. This is a practical how-to book with substantial policy relevance. It will mostly be used by technical specialists with a responsibility for biodiversity monitoring to establish and refine their systems. It is written at a technical level, but one that is not discipline-bound: it should be intelligible to anyone in the broad field with a tertiary education.
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Movement written by Camilla Damkjær and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book UNESCO General History of Africa Vol I Abridged Edition written by Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Download or read book Lapita written by Christophe Sand and published by Art Stock Books Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lapita : au coeur du Pacifique, ce nom insolite et méconnu est celui d'une civilisation vieille de plus de 3 000 ans. En moins de quatre siècles, cette culture, sa langue et ses traditions se sont disséminées sur 4 500 km à travers le Pacifique Sud-Ouest, jusqu'en Polynésie occidentale. Caractérisée par deux éléments marquants - l'introduction par les explorateurs de langues austronésiennes dans cette région du monde et une tradition très spécifique de poteries aux décors pointillés, cet ensemble culturel Lapita a fasciné plusieurs générations de chercheurs. Environ 250 sites identifiés à ce jour ont révélé une production de poteries aux décors caractérisés par des motifs géométriques et anthropomorphes. Cet ensemble cohérent constitue un véritable marqueur archéologique de la progression des peuples de langues austronésiennes dans le Pacifique Sud-Ouest. Cet ouvrage nous conduit à la découverte de cette civilisation du Pacifique qui, par l'extraordinaire qualité de sa production, captive encore et a laissé son empreinte dans le graphisme traditionnel océanien. Ouvrage collectif coordonné par Christophe Sand, directeur de l'Institut d'archéologie de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et du Pacifique, et Stuart Bedford, chercheur au Département d'archéologie et d'histoire naturelle de l'Australian University.
Download or read book Beyond Convergence written by National Defense University (US) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world order built upon the Peace of Westphalia is faltering. State fragility or failure are endemic, with no fewer than one-third of the states in the United Nations earning a "high warning"-or worse-in the Fragile States Index, and an equal number suffering a decline in sustainability over the past decade.1 State weakness invites a range of illicit actors, including international terrorists, globally networked insurgents, and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). The presence and operations of these entities keep states weak and incapable of effective governance, and limit the possibility of fruitful partnerships with the United States and its allies. Illicit organizations and their networks fuel corruption, eroding state legitimacy among the governed, and sowing doubt that the state is a genuine guardian of the public interest. These networks can penetrate the state, leading to state capture, and even criminal sovereignty.2 A growing number of weak and corrupt states is creating gaping holes in the global rule-based system of states that we depend on for our security and prosperity. Indeed, the chapters of this book suggest the emergence of a highly adaptive and parasitic alternative ecosystem, based on criminal commerce and extreme violence, with little regard for what we commonly conceive of as the public interest or the public good. The last 10 years have seen unprecedented growth in interactivity between and among a wide range of illicit networks, as well as the emergence of hybrid organizations that use methods characteristic of both terrorist and criminal groups. In a convergence of interests, terrorist organizations collaborate with cartels, and trafficking organizations collude with insurgents. International terrorist organizations, such as al-Qaeda and Hezbollah, engage energetically in transnational crime to raise funds for their operations. Prominent criminal organizations like Los Zetas in Mexico and D-Company in Pakistan have adopted the symbolic violence of terrorists-the propaganda of the deed-to secure their "turf." And networked insurgents, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have adopted the techniques of both crime and terror.
Download or read book Saints of the Atlas written by Ernest Gellner and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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