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Implementing efficient conservation portfolio design
Mallory, Mindy L.; Ando, Amy Whritenour - In: Resource and energy economics 38 (2014), pp. 1-18
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Congress Must Protect Innocent Property Owners from Section 404 Civil and Criminal Penalties
Bakst, Daren; Francois, Tony - 2022
For decades, property owners across the United States have struggled to comply with the Clean Water Act, in large part because they do not know which “waters” are regulated. Vague definitions, inconsistent enforcement, and changing rules contribute to this ongoing problem. Despite the...
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SAGA GIS for Computing Multispectral Vegetation Indices by Landsat TM for Mapping Vegetation Greenness
Lemenkova, Polina - 2021
The study presents a comparative analysis of eight Vegetation Indices (VIs) used to examine vegetation greenness over the northern coasts of Iceland. The geographical extent of the study area is set by the coordinates of the two fjords, Eyjafjörður and Skagafjörður, notable for their...
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Natural Resource Restoration
Kanner, Allan - 2017
Public trustees at the state, federal, and tribal level are tasked with ensuring that those responsible for destroying or damaging natural resources sufficiently compensate the public for its loss. Those trustees have the fiduciary duty to maintain and restore the natural resources within the...
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Nachhaltiges Landmanagement vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels als Aufgabe der räumlichen Planung : eine Evaluation im planerischen Mehrebenensystem an den Beispielen der Altmark...
Hellmich, Meike - 2018
. The starting point of the dissertation is that spatial planning can play a key role by observing sustainable land …, it is first necessary to highlight the regional governance of spatial planning as regards land management on the … defines spatial planning as formal regional planning and informal spatial developments. Spatial planning therefore also …
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Flooding and Resilience : Valuing Conservation Investments in a World with Climate Change
Kousky, Carolyn; Walls, Margaret; Chu, Ziyan - 2014
severe, investments in the conservation of natural areas should become more valuable. But how much more valuable is an open …-cost analysis of the Greenway conducted by the authors but evaluates the additional benefits of floodplain conservation that might … conservation investment but is not the main story …
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The Dynamics of Man's History and Economic Development : A Refocus on Ecological Disturbance and Climate Change
CHIRWA, MULULU - 2023
Man’s history and developmental endeavour have been advancing alongside a trail of ecological ramifications and climate change. Since prehistoric times, scientists have not recorded an accelerated shift in ecology during any other epoch beside that of modern man on the planet. The paper seeks...
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An economic assessment of soil carbon sequestration with biochar in Germany
Teichmann, Isabel - 2015
Biochar is a carbon-rich solid obtained from the heating of biomass in the (near) absence of oxygen in a process called pyrolysis. Its soil incorporation is increasingly discussed as a means to sequester carbon in soils and, thus, to help mitigate climate change. When deployed in agricultural...
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Technical Greenhouse-Gas mitigation potentials of biochar soil incorporation in Germany
Teichmann, Isabel - 2014
Biochar is a carbon-rich solid obtained from the heating of biomass in the (near) absence of oxygen in a process called pyrolysis. Its deployment in soils is increasingly discussed as a promising means to sequester carbon in soils and, thus, to help mitigate climate change. For a wide range of...
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Ethiopia - land, energy, climate change, and agricultural development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Assefa Admassie; Abebaw, Degnet - 2021
Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of more than 110 million. With over 10 percent growth rate, the Ethiopian economy has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the last one and half decades. By any measure agriculture is the...
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