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Book Integrated Landscape Buffer Planning Model

Download or read book Integrated Landscape Buffer Planning Model written by Ann Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Integrated Buffer Planning

Download or read book Integrated Buffer Planning written by Jerzy Kozlowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005, this book examines the contribution of planning and integrated landscape management to the process of reversing the continuing deterioration of our natural environment. Planning for integrated buffer zones is important to conserve national parks, nature reserves, threatened habitats, other ecologically sensitive areas and heritage sites. This book begins with an examination of the role and nature of planning. It identifies the main types of planning problems and details a 'model' planning process that can be usefully applied to resolve them. Several theoretical and practical approaches to buffering environmentally sensitive areas are evaluated and a classification of existing approaches is detailed. Case studies are included to illustrate and test some of these approaches. The book concludes by recommending that integrated buffer zone planning should become a standard tool in real-life environmental planning and management. To facilitate this, an innovative approach to the design and implementation of integrated buffers is offered, including a step-by-step planning guide.

Book Landscape Bionomics Biological Integrated Landscape Ecology

Download or read book Landscape Bionomics Biological Integrated Landscape Ecology written by Vittorio Ingegnoli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Landscape Bionomics,” or “Bio-integrated Landscape Ecology,” radically transforms the main principles of traditional Landscape Ecology by recognizing the landscape as a living entity rather than merely the spatial distribution of species and communities on the territory, often analysed in separate themes (water, species, pollution, etc.). To be more exact, the landscape is identified as the "life organization integrating a set of plants, animals and human communities and its system of natural, semi-natural, and human cultural ecosystems in a certain spatial configuration." This new perspective inevitably leads to significant changes in how to assess and manage the environment. This book represents the culmination of an endeavor begun by the author, with the support of Richard Forman and Zev Naveh, more than a dozen years ago. It builds on the author’s previous successful publication, Landscape Ecology, A Widening Foundation, by addressing a range of additional topics and discussing the new theoretical and methodological concepts that have emerged during the past decade of research. Particular attention is paid to the fact that interventions in the landscape can be made with the best intentions yet cause serious damage! Against this background, the author explains the need to study "landscape units" by applying methods comparable to those used in clinical diagnosis – hence ecologists can be viewed as the “physicians” of ecological systems.

Book Landscape ecological Planning LANDEP

Download or read book Landscape ecological Planning LANDEP written by László Miklós and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive description of the landscape-ecological planning system LANDEP, and introduces the methodical procedure. LANDEP was developed at the Institute of Landscape Ecology of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and has been applied in various planning processes at home and abroad. Despite the fact that the LANDEP methodology was defined in 1979, the methodological content, sequence of procedures and the application of concept in practice are still valid. The first two steps – analyses and syntheses – have the nature of fundamental research and result in the design and characteristics of complex landscape-ecological-spatial units. The final two steps – evaluations and proposals – address the needs of planning practice. The intermediate step – interpretations – has the character of applied research and forms the arguments and criteria for the assessment of landscape for its utilisation by humans.

Book From Landscape Research to Landscape Planning

Download or read book From Landscape Research to Landscape Planning written by Bärbel Tress and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides guidelines for those pursuing landscape projects based on integrative concepts – interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity – whether they are members of an integrative research team or individuals working on a problem that demands integration. They must define terminology, choose appropriate methodologies, overcome epistemological barriers and cope with the high expectations of some stakeholders while encouraging others to participate at all.

Book Advances in Groundwater Governance

Download or read book Advances in Groundwater Governance written by Karen G. Villholth and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses groundwater governance, a subject internationally recognized as crucial and topical for enhancing and safeguarding the benefits of groundwater and groundwater-dependent ecosystems to humanity, while ensuring water and food security under global change. The multiple and complex dimensions of groundwater governance are captured in 28 chapters, written by a team of leading experts from different parts of the world and with a variety of relevant professional backgrounds. The book aims to describe the state-of-the-art and latest developments regarding each of the themes addressed, paying attention to the wide variation of conditions observed around the globe. The book consists of four parts. The first part sets the stage by defining groundwater governance, exploring its emergence and evolution, framing it through a socio-ecological lens and describing groundwater policy and planning approaches. The second part discusses selected key aspects of groundwater governance. The third part zooms in on the increasingly important linkages between groundwater and other resources or sectors, and between local groundwater systems and phenomena or actions at the international or even global level. The fourth part, finally, presents a number of interesting case studies that illustrate contemporary practice in groundwater governance. In one volume, this highly accessible text not only familiarizes water professionals, decision-makers and local stakeholders with groundwater governance, but also provides them with ideas and inspiration for improving groundwater governance in their own environment.

Book Toward Agroforestry Design

Download or read book Toward Agroforestry Design written by Shibu Jose and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important reference for anyone interested in exploring or managing the physiological and ecological processes which underlie resource allocation and plant growth in agroforestry systems. The book highlights how recent developments in agroforestry research can contribute to understanding agroforestry system function, and discusses the potential application of agroforestry in addressing a range of land use challenges in both tropical and temperate regions of the world.

Book Agriculture  Rural Development  Food and Drug Administration  and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2015

Download or read book Agriculture Rural Development Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2015 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment

Download or read book Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Willapa National Wildlife Refuge  N W R    Comprehensive Conservation Plan

Download or read book Willapa National Wildlife Refuge N W R Comprehensive Conservation Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment  Appendices

Download or read book Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment Appendices written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Map packet : Modified Alternative 8 -- Series normalized Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project late seral old growth ranks by forest type -- Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group land allocations.

Book Pacific Conservation Biology

Download or read book Pacific Conservation Biology written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asia Pacific roadmap for primary forest conservation

Download or read book Asia Pacific roadmap for primary forest conservation written by Laumonier, Y. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project  TRTP

Download or read book Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project TRTP written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northwest Forest Plan Research Synthesis

Download or read book Northwest Forest Plan Research Synthesis written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 5 10

Download or read book Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 5 10 written by Robin Kundis Craig and published by Berkshire Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecosystem Management and Sustainability analyzes myriad human-initiated processes and tools developed to foster sustainable natural resource use, preservation, and restoration. It also examines how humans interact with plant, marine, and animal life in both natural and human-altered environments. Experts explain the complex ecosystem relationships that result from invasive species, roads, fencing, and even our homes by addressing topics such as fire and groundwater management, disturbance, and ecosystem resilience. Because most people in the 21st century live in urban environments, the volume pays special attention to the ecology of cities, with detailed coverage on topics ranging from urban agriculture to landscape architecture. The volume focuses on how ecosystems across the world can be restored, maintained, and used productively and sustainably.