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Book Riparian Management in BC   Does Provincial Policy Protect Riparian Areas

Download or read book Riparian Management in BC Does Provincial Policy Protect Riparian Areas written by Drew A. Hart and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Riparian Management in British Columbia

Download or read book Riparian Management in British Columbia written by Victoria Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document explores the importance of riparian ecosystems to the broader landscape, including their value as habitat and as filters and storage areas for water and nutrients. It also reviews the types of disturbances that can affect riparian areas, including natural disturbances such as fires and floods as well as human disturbances from logging, mining, recreational activity, agriculture, urban development, and hydropower generation. Finally, the document reviews the legal protection provided for riparian areas in British Columbia outlining a management strategy to sustain the biological functioning of riparian areas while still providing for other essential human needs.

Book Riparian Areas

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  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2002-10-10
  • ISBN : 0309082951
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Riparian Areas written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.

Book Canadian Forest Policy

Download or read book Canadian Forest Policy written by Michael Howlett and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the complexity of policy-making in the forest sector has led many analysts to focus exclusively on specific sectoral activities or jurisdictions, this collection of essays offers a simplifying framework of analysis.

Book Riparian Adaptive Management Symposium  A Conservation between Scientists and Management

Download or read book Riparian Adaptive Management Symposium A Conservation between Scientists and Management written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Riparian Rights and Public Foreshore Use in the Administration of Aquatic Crown Land

Download or read book Riparian Rights and Public Foreshore Use in the Administration of Aquatic Crown Land written by British Columbia. Land Policy Branch and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Riparian Adaptive Management Symposium

Download or read book Riparian Adaptive Management Symposium written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists, land managers and policy makers discussed whether riparian (stream side) forest management and policy for state, federal and private lands in western Washington are consistent with current science. Answers were mixed: some aspects of riparian policy and management have a strong basis in current science, while other aspects may not. Participants agreed that the same body of science, originally synthesized by the Forest Ecosystem Management Team (FEMAT) report in 1993, underlies most current federal, state and private land policy and management of riparian areas. With some exceptions, that underlying science base has been supported by most recent research. However, some riparian forest policy and management in western Washington have been implemented in ways that may drive riparian areas toward static and uniform conditions over large areas, an outcome that may not be consistent with current science consensus. Current thinking in the scientific community is that sustaining high aquatic productivity at the scale of large landscapes or river basins probably depends on maintaining dynamic and heterogeneous riparian conditions driven by disturbance processes that operate over large spatial and temporal scales. Recognition of this inconsistency of policy and management with current science appeared to be new, especially for the management and policy communities. Participants suggested steps to address the identified science-policy gap, including analyses to identify specifically what policies are and are not consistent with current science and landscape-scale experiments to test the effectiveness of management alternatives that apply current science.

Book Environmental Governance and Common Pool Resources

Download or read book Environmental Governance and Common Pool Resources written by Michael Faure and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the drivers of specific common pool resource problems, particularly in fisheries and forestry, examining the way in which private and public regulation have intervened to fight the common pool resource problem by contributing to the establishment and maintenance of property rights. It focuses on the various forms of regulation that have been put in place to protect fisheries and forestry over the past decades – both from a theoretical as well as from a policy perspective – comparing the concrete interaction of legal and policy instruments in eight separate jurisdictions.

Book Riparian Management Area Guidebook

Download or read book Riparian Management Area Guidebook written by BC Environment and published by Forest Service British Columbia. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps managers, planners and field staff set and comply with Forest Practices Code standards for management of riparian management areas (RMAs).

Book Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities

Download or read book Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities written by Patrick M. Condon and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of how the design of cities can respond to the challenge of climate change dominate the thoughts of urban planners and designers across the U.S. and Canada. With admirable clarity, Patrick Condon responds to these questions. He addresses transportation, housing equity, job distribution, economic development, and ecological systems issues and synthesizes his knowledge and research into a simple-to-understand set of urban design recommendations. No other book so clearly connects the form of our cities to their ecological, economic, and social consequences. No other book takes on this breadth of complex and contentious issues and distills them down to such convincing and practical solutions.

Book Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada   s Forests

Download or read book Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada s Forests written by Martin K. Luckert and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than three quarters of Canada's forests under provincial control, provincial forest policies are crucial for encouraging the sustainable management of the nation's forests. Forest tenures, which allow private companies to manage public forest resources, are the key policy tool that provinces use to balance the requirements of sustainable management with the economic concerns of the forest industry. By offering an up-to-date comparative examination of contemporary provincial forestry policies, this book provides forest managers, policy-makers, scholars, and students with the information and concepts to critically examine Canada’s complex forest tenure systems. The authors look at tenure, stumpage fees, and other forest practices to assess how well different provincial schemes achieve the goals of sustainable forest management. They identify a number of essential policy attributes that could be used to guide tenure reform, consider potential barriers that could prevent meaningful change, and offer much-needed practical guidance on overcoming these obstacles.

Book Proceedings of the Symposium on Riparian Zone Management

Download or read book Proceedings of the Symposium on Riparian Zone Management written by Julie Singleton and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Canadian Forest Service, Maritimes Region. This book was released on 1994 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the symposium, covering the role of the riparian zone, legislation, in-stream management techniques, wildlife management, recreation, silviculture, and harvesting.

Book Riparian Ecosystems and Their Management

Download or read book Riparian Ecosystems and Their Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Where Land and Waters Meet

Download or read book Where Land and Waters Meet written by Aran O'Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global Environmental Forest Policies

Download or read book Global Environmental Forest Policies written by Constance McDermott and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a uniquely detailed and systematic comparison of environmental forest policies and enforcement in twenty countries worldwide, covering developed, transition and developing economies. The goal is to enhance global policy learning and promote well-informed and precisely-tuned policy solutions.