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Between preservation and exploitation :transnational advocacy networks and co…
"In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally harmful economic development activities -- bauxite mining in Jamaica and large-scale tourism and overfishing on the eastern coast of the Yucat?an Peninsula. In each case, the catalyst for the campaign was information gathered and disseminated by transnational advocacy…
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- 9780262333924
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- 1 online resource (xl, 301 pages).
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Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands
This open access book presents a comprehensive synthesis of the biodiversity of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea, a biodiversity hotspot off the west coast of Central Africa. Written by experts, the book compiles data from a plethora of sources – archives, museums, bibliography, official reports and previously unpublished data – to provide readers with the most updated information …
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- 978-3-031-06153-0
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- 20 b/w illustrations, 81 illustrations in colour
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- XXV, 694
Ecosystem Restoration through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes…
This open access book is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the relevance of social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) to ecosystem restoration. Building on the concept of SEPLS, the Satoyama Initiative promotes landscape approaches as integrat…
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- 978-981-99-1291-9
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- XXII, 288
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Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Transnational Relations and…
The first in-depth study of the politics of environmental policy reform in developing countries, with emphasis on Costa Rica and Bolivia.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284271
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- 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Forgotten values :the World Bank and environmental partnerships
An examination of the conflict between values and bureaucracy in World Bank biodiversity partnerships that sheds light on this model of global environmental governance. Multi-stakeholder partnerships have become an increasingly common form of global governance. Partnerships, usually between international organizations (IOs) or state agencies and such private actors as NGOs, businesses, and acad…
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- 9780262359054
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Power of position :classification and the biodiversity sciences
How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies. The idea that species live in nature as pure and clear-cut named individuals is a fiction, as scientists well know. According to Robert D. Montoya, classifications are powerful mechanisms and we must better attend to the machinations o…
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- 9780262369961
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- 1 online resource (272 pages).
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Bureaucratic landscapes :interagency cooperation and the preservation of biod…
Political scientists have long been concerned about the tension between institutional fragmentation and policy coordination in the U.S. bureaucracy. The literature is rife with examples of agencies competing with each other or asserting their independence, while cooperation is relatively rare. This is of particular importance in policy areas such as biodiversity, where species, habitats, and ec…
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- 9780262284882
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 353 pages).
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The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
In 1995, John Maynard Smith and E?ors Szathm?ary published their influential book 'The Major Transitions in Evolution'. In this volume, scholars reconsider and extend the earlier book's themes in light of recent developments in evolutionary biology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295703
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- 1 online resource (x, 319 pages) :illustrations.
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Our ancient lakes :a natural history
The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes -- some millions of years old -- and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity. Most lakes are less than 10,000 years old and short-lived, but there is a much smaller number of ancient lakes, tectonic in origin and often millions of years old, that are scattered across every continen…
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- 0262373521
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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Agrobiodiversity :integrating knowledge for a sustainable future
Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science. Wide-ranging environmental phenomena -- including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability -- combine with such socioeconomic factors as food policies, dietary preferences, and market f…
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- 9780262348805
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