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Companies make significant investments in environmental impacts assessments, biodiversity action plans, life … biodiversity information. To address this shortcoming, we analyzed nine publicly available environmental datasets, and created five … globally-relevant metrics associated with biodiversity: habitat intactness, habitat protection, species richness (globally and …
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In this paper we are concerned with what explains public acceptance and support of environmental taxes. We examine findings in environmental psychology emphasizing that people’s (environmental) value-orientation is the dominant driver determining individuals’ support for pro-environmental...
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Currently, politicians, university representatives, scholars and leading NGOs share a strong belief in the ability of educational systems to generate positive attitudes to sustainable development (SD) among citizens, with the idea of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as perhaps the...
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development within the context of an increasingly globalizing economy. The economic development, environment, and employment …
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This is an historic overview of conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa from pre-colonial times through the present. It … demonstrates that Africans practiced conservation that was ignored by the colonial powers. The colonial market economy combined … attempts at sharing benefits from conservation with rural communities will fail due to the low rural resource to population …
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all levels in this area, from designers to masons, as well as problems of how to carry out compatible conservation works … sustainable conservation. …
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critical for conservation of biodiversity in the region. … also contains significant biodiversity including several endangered species. The habitats in the bays and estuaries of MACR … change in the MACR from 1990 to 2010 and its implications for coastal vulnerability of the built environment and for the …
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assure the conservation and rehabilitation of their ecosystems. …
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There are many opportunities for biodiversity conservation in organic farm systems. Successful and sustainable … conservation efforts in organic systems, however, need to measure appropriate outcomes. In particular, data are needed on the … land use and land cover patterns that optimize conservation of birds in organic farm systems. The percentage of a crop in …
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