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Monthly Bulletin Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Bermuda Vol7N April2000

...organized this event to coincide with the worldwide Earthday 2000 activities. In part, a strong commitment was made to design the conference as youth friendly. No attempt has been made to dictate to the young people the complexities of Bermuda's fragile environment; however, every effort has been made to find out what they know about Bermuda and where they see opportunities to make positive cha...

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USAID Evaluation News Vol9 No2 1997 Investments Agriculture Environment Forestry Performance Monitoring

...5b (PN-ABY-229) Managing for Results in a Regional Mission USAID/Central Asia’s Experience, 1996 #6 (PN-ABY-231) USAID Evaluation Highlights Forestry and the Environment: Costa Rica Case Study, 1996 #53 (PN-ABS-531) Privatizing Fertilizer Distribution: Bangladesh Case Study, 1996 #54 (PN-ABS-524) Agriculture and the Environment: In Jamaica, a Study in Contrasts, 1996 #55 (PN-ABS-545) Cons...

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ICLARM AnnualReport1998 Partnerships FishFarming Aquaculture ResearchHighlights

...principles of animal breeding theory to tropical aquaculture in developing countries. This could well lead to a ‘blue revolution’ which will provide significantly more fish to eat and better incomes for the people of Asia. new strain of the Nile tilapia has been developed through selective breeding. The strain has demonstrated 18-70% higher growth and a 20-30% lower cost of production in farm...

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ICLARM Integrated Aquaculture Agriculture Poverty Alleviation Asia Africa

...assets’ and a form of ‘security’ by rural households. They provide remunerative opportunities for women who can only work close to the household, and help improve their economic and social status. They can be an asset to the farm by improv- ing the catchment area for water, reducing soil erosion, im- proving soil structure and fertility, thereby raising the value of a farm. Even modest yields f...

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Wilken 1985 Role of Traditional Agriculture in Preserving Biological Diversity

T st E X ° X 2 T18 198 ROLE OF TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE IN PRESERVING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY by " Gene C. Wilken Department of Economics Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 e T — ROLE OF TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE IN FRESERVING RIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY e BeT 161 < 85 ARSTRACT n agriculture is characterized by small field size and reliance upon human or animal power o manage agricul- tu...

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St Christopher Heritage Society Institutional Development Plan 1997-2002

...need for a new organization. Early goals focused on the need to publish a heritage magazine and to establish a museum. A primary priority was to identify headquarters space for the new organization. The initial springboard for the Society’s development was its selection by the Caribbean Conservation Association as the facilitating non-governmental organization in St. Kitts for preparation of a...

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Potter Caribbean Environmental Perception Cognitive Perspective Barbados 1990s

...Lowenthal. But on the other hand, Lowenthal wrote of the ‘Readiness of individuals and overnments to sell and lease lands to foreign companies, ...(in) the easy faith that the ighest income per acre is the greatest nationa od.The accusing finger surely has to ¢ pointed at the lure of the fast buck, so tha. .iples of economic expediency have ontinued to rule. Hence, the uncritical adoption of t...

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grenada historic heritage natural resource conservation committee report and ordinances 1967

...speaking Caribbean, ce together and are now in the process of formalising the establishing of an association called, Museum Association of the Carribean, MAC. The main objectives of MAC are to develop and encourage linkages amongst sister organisations throughout the region; to act in advisory capacity. to governments, public and private institutions in matters relating to museum development;...

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WATER LOG 17-3 1997 Mississippi Alabama Coastal Legal Issues

...representing the United States, to meet at least once each year; Development of a formula to allocate the surface waters of the ACT basin between Georgia and Alabama with increases allowed under specific circumstances and with some allocation to federal water projects in the basin. Protection of water quality, ecology, and biodiversity of the ACT basin; Preservation of each stat...

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Coomans 1970 Volksnamen voor Weekdieren Nederlandse Antillen IRF

VOLKSNAMEN VOOR WEEKDIEREN OP DE NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN DOOR H. E. COOMANS NTN WERKGROEP NEDERLANDSE ima ANTILLEN & ; » ov o Saanca UITGAVEN VAN DE »NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJKE WERKGROEP NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN” CURACAO No. 19, mei 1970 i W CAR. MARBIOL INST. A NETH A, o P 7 H. E. COOMANS VOLKSNAMEN VOOR WEEKDIEREN OP DE NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN l Uit de aanwezigheid van veel Indiaanse schelpenhopen die o...

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1997-10-23 Nesophontes Sightings StThomas Cryptozoological Account Nellis Report

- Cryptozoological Accounts of Caribbean Flora and Fauna 1997, October 23 Reported to Kevel Lindsay by David Nellis at his office at Red Hook, USFWS, St. Thomas The Nesophontes of St. Thomas David Nellis related a story on the possible existence of the St. Thomas Nesophontes sp. up until 1977. As told by David, he overheard Richard Dewey, a field biologist on his staff, conversing on the tel...

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McCabe 1992 Caribbean Heritage Conservation and Identity

N E— = S l Throughout the West Indies, Carol McCabe reports, an exciting new movement is under way to protect the region’s past, present, and future, ON A SUNDAY MORNING IN SANTO DOMINGO, ish colonizers of this island of Hispaniola. This music with a salsa beat pours from amplifiers at was the church of Christopher Columbus’s son, Café Tio Juan (“Chinese-Italian-Criolla”) and Diego, who was vicero...

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Reid Trexler 1991 Climate Change US Coastal Biodiversity WRI IRF

...live, among other places, in coastal wetlands. Florida contains the overwhelming majority of the rare species restricted to the coastal fringe. Forty-five of the 80 species (56 percent) classified by TNC as rare, imperiled, or critically imperiled in this zone are found in the contiguous United States only in Florida. The preponderance of spe- cies in Florida reflects both the low elevation of...

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Tiempo Issue22 1996-12 RenewableEnergy GHG Poland AlJ RegionalClimate Biodiversity Desertification

...BIOTROP in Indonesia. While START Regional Research Networks function as non-governmental organizations, START maintains strong ties with governments and intergovernmental organizations. Partnerships with three complementary organizations allow START to influence regional cooperation on critical issues of global environmental change and to promote the implementation of a world-wide structure t...

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TIEMPO Issue4 1992 Climate Research Vietnam AOSIS GEF Development Impacts

Issue 4 February 1992 Climate research in Vietnam AOSIS Insurance Pool Criticism of GEF l N The cost of growth Latest news from the INC O FIE el EN GLOBAL WARMING AND THE THIRD WORLD N B S R o) R I [ X3 N N fn R N & N > (P w \ Wi, £ ) N " e L\ A id AR 5| L3 N N N o % N in this issue Editorial feature: Vietnam looks to the future Climate change and biodiversity Climate influence...

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Action Programme Sustainable Development Small Island Developing States Basic Elements

7 015 ) — P BASIC ELEMENTS FOR AN ACTION PROGRAMME FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES Contents I. Climate change and sea level rise II Natural and environmental disasters III. Management of wastes IV, Coastal and marine resources Freshwater resources VI. Land resources VII. Energy resources VIIT Tourism resources IX. Bio-diversity resources X. Na...

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Ragster CSA PresidentialAddress SustainableDevelopment Caribbean 1996

...sustainable growth” is an oxymoron, then why do so many individuals and institutions spend so much time trying to achieve 1R The answer to this question is not the topic of this address. The human species is one of millions that inhabit planet Earth. It has been calculated that humans use approximately 40% of the earth’s net terrestrial primary production to support their existence (Vitousek,...

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UN A CONF 167 PC 10 1993 Sustainable Development SIDS Report of SG

...areas. 41. Over time, as necessitated by population growth in predominantly agrarian SIDS, agricultural expansion has made the greates t claim to land resources. n into Low-technology, low-yield agriculture has carried agricultural expansio marginal land. In some SIDS, subsistence farming is still extensive. By and large, however, ommercial or cash-crop farming aimed at the export market has b...

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USAID Strategies for Sustainable Development Protecting the Environment 1994

...communities and undermine food production, cause malnutrition, and impel migration. Water shortages cause con- flicts among industrial, agricultural, and household users within countries and among nations. The impact on developing nations can be mea- sured in graphic human and economic terms. Widespread soil degradation is reducing the capaci- ty of many countries, particularly in the tropics...

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The Network Newsletter Issue30 Sep1993 Earth Summit FollowUp

...The International University, DPCSD (UN) Department of Policy IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Leningradsky prospekt, 17, 125 040 Coordination and Sustainable Climate Change Moscow, Russia; Tel: (7095) 250 45 42; Development Fax: (7502) 250 45 42 ECOSOC (UN) Economic and Social Council GO Non-Governmental Organization IDS Regional Environmental Center GEF Global Environment Facility Small Island...

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1993-09-09 ActionProgramme SustainableDevelopment SIDS G77AOSIS WorkingText

...however, have peculiar vulnerabilities and characteristics. These two sets of circumstances often combine to compound the difficulties of SIDS in the pursuit of sustainable development. EC: SIDS have valuable development resources, such as in the field of oceans, coastal environments and biodiversity. Their potential should be recognized, but used in a sustainable way in order to...

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UN GA A CONF167 PC6 1993 SIDS Sustainable Development UN System Activities

...General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/CONF.167/PC/6 28 July 1993 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR THE GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES First session 30 August-10 September 1993 Item 2 (a) of the provisional agenda* PREPARATIONS FOR THE FIRST GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES ON THE BAS...

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1993 IISD EarthNegotiationsBulletin Vol8 GlobalConference SustainableDevelopment SIDS PrepCom Report

...in New York. The two-week session will focus on preparations for the Conference and consideration of plans an am! S mes to support the sustainable development of marine and coastal resources. island developing States and the utilization of their The Conference, which is scheduled for 4-15 April 1994 in Barbados, has its roots in the pre ratory process of the UN Conference on Environment and en...

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1994 UN Global Conference SIDS Barbados Declaration Programme of Action

N N EARTH SUMMIT PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR SMALL ISLAND STATES Global Conference on the Sustainable Small Island Development of Developing State Barbado: Bridgetown 26 April - 6 May 1994 UNITED NATIONS CONTENTS INTRODUCTION DECLARATION OF BARBADOS PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES PREAMBLE CLIMATE CHANGE AND SEALEVEL RISE 10 Il NATURAL AND ENVIRO...

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Gow 1988 Development of Fragile Lands Theory and Practice DESFIL ConferencePaper

...H. J. 1984 "Socio-Economic Aspects of Natural Resource Management: A Framework In Priorities for Rural Development Research, edited by for Policy Research." M. S. Grindle and S. T. Walker, pp. 42-96. Cambridge: Harvard Institute for International Development. Pierce, T., and A. Tremblay DESFIL Newsletter 1988 "Watershed Management in Haiti A Final Report." 1(2)7-9. 21 o Little, P. D., M....

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IGBP Newsletter September 1992 UNCED Global Change Science

...impor- tance, attracting top world-wide participa- tionand intense world news coverage. And UNCED succeeded in moving the con- cept of environment linked with sustaina- ble development into public conscious- ness and on to political agendas. The Rio Declaration ‘Twenty seven principles that form o a basis for an Earth Charter to be presented at the 50th anniversary o of the UN in 1995 - 3 b Ag...

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Nurse McLean Suarez 1998 IPCC Small Island States Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

C r vl s ISLAND RESOURCES FOUNDATION 6296 ESTATE NAZARETH #11 ST. THOMAS, VI 00802-1104 TELEPHONE 809/775-6225 FAX 809/779-2022 9 Small Island States LEONARD A. NURSE (BARBADOS), ROGER F. McLEAN (AUSTRALIA) AND AVELINO G. SUAREZ (CUBA) Contributors M. Ali (Maldives), J. Hay (New Zealand), G. Maul (USA), G. Sem (Papua New Guinea) THE REGIONAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE An Assessment of Vulnerability...

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Meincke 1994 SIDSNET Networking Sustainable Development SIDS ISISA Okinawa

...Peter Meincke, Wilma Primus and Sam Sesega. The team is to be supported by a number of people around the globe. One of the most important aspects of any feasibility study is clearly identifying the needs. Since time is so limited and potential users may not yet have enough experience with networking to identify their needs clearly, the team has decided to produce a discussion paper based on th...

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IRF NGO News No19 1993-11 Small Islands Big Issues UN SIDS NGO Role

...go unanswered, and, subsequent to the Rio Summit, the UN General Assembly resolved to convene the April 25 - May 6, 1994, meeting in Barbados, the first post-Rio global conference on sustainable development. Through the efforts of AOSIS, in particular the Pacific island countries, Agenda 21 -- the action program adopted at Rio -- addresses issues of concern to small islands (discussed in Chapt...

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tiempo issue2 1991 small island states climate change aosis youth perspectives global warming

...sea level rise, United Nations charter all independent they are likely to be among the first to be states are equal. island countries in Melanesia. Each Such an argument falls, however, when archipelago is home to unique groups of affected and potentially the most people with their own language, culture, devastated. Despite the strong advocacy human suffering is measured in numbers of island le...

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UN Regional Technical Meeting Report SIDS Atlantic Caribbean Mediterranean Port of Spain 1993

...L. Bassier Scientific Officer 41, Avenue Giuseppe-Motta Case Postale No. 2300 CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland Tel.: (+41 22) 730-8354 Fax.: (+41 22) 734-2326 eo -25- Appendix II AGENDA AGENDA NO. ADOPTION OF AGENDA OVERVIEW OF THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE ISLANDS OF THE CARIBBEAN, ATLANTIC AND MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS Current Trend...

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CDB Caribbean Regional Workshop Sustainable Development Indicators Report 1998

...and Europe. These initiatives are ongoing until the year 2000 and will provide valuable lessons in the process of deriving SDI based on the UNCSD framework. The group of pilot projects also provides an important forum for countries to discuss, debate and share experiences. Interim reports have already been provided by a number of countries, and the lessons learned so far suggest the need for:...

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Oksanen 1997 Moral Value of Biodiversity Environmental Ethics Anthropocentrism Biocentrism Ecocentrism

...in early Soviet socialism nature was considered a mere resource. But it has been claimed that in capitalism accelerat- ing velocity of economic growth is inherent o the system, whilst in the centralized Soviet economy the growth policy was rather a decided goal. McLaughlin, A. 1993. Regarding Nature. Industrialism and Deep Ecology. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, p. 56. . Swan...

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NGO News 18 1993 Biodiversity Conservation and NGO Development IRF

...mark symposium on biodiversity focused on the marine ratio is even higher than 30:1. For example: environment in their presentations or research. o A renowned conservation biologist drew Genetic Diversity on his expertise in ant taxonomy to dramatically illustrate this point; his One million, 30 million or even 100 million careful study of onme tropical tree re- species -- what dif...

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workshop participants geographic biodiversity conservation investment priorities latin america caribbean miami 1994

...1-288-0946 Fax: 57-1-245-5031 Richard Howard Arnold Arboretum Harvard University 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Tel: 617-496-8923 (personal line) Tel: 617-495-2365 (for messages) Fax: 617-495-9484 m:\...\priority\attendee. Ist Otto Huber Otto Huber Fundacidén Botéanico Apartado 80-405 Caracas 1080-A VENEZUELA 58-2-977-2528 Tel/Fax: email: ohuber@dino.conicit.ve Augustin Iriart...

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1994-09-13 LAC Biodiversity Conservation Investment Priorities Workshop Products Process

...habitat degradation and dynamic change over time. The analysis of dynamic threat can be characterized with the help of experts for variables such as colonization (planned and unplanned); large investment projects (eg greater than $100 million); oil exploration; roads; natural disasters. This information allows for the current status of the landscape--degree of fragmentation, amount of original...

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1996 BurgessRahbek Mapping African Biodiversity Invitation IRF

...have species >distribution information that we might use in this project. If you are >interested I could also send you a copy of the gridded map that we are >using for this project, with the 1 degree scale grid already marked on it. > >We would be delighted with any help you could provide, and can provide >further information if requested. > >We would also be very interested to know of any o...

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WCMC UNEP IRF 1994 Features of Biodiversity in Small Island Developing States Grenada

...Small Island Developing States (SIDS), protected areas meeting these criteria are relatively uncommen - sites are frequently small, and areas under consideration frequently require different management regimes. More recently however, a considerable amount of further data for non-UN List sites has been gathered, including full site lists for many countries and proposed and recommended sites for...

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1993 PeopleAndThePlanet V2N3 BirdLifeInternational EndemicBirdAreas BiodiversityHotspots

World map shows Endemic Bird Areas (EBAs). Some are more important than others in terms of their biological value and the threats they face. Central American maps show areas of endemism with their own unique complement of species found nowhere else in the world. ots How birds hel map hot P T e T e ~ = ks 2 = y 7S N - A fe g P Y y & Coe 4 g .7 ( 54 e In a pioneering study, BirdLife Internationa...

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Antigua-Barbuda-Redonda Biodiversity Profile Horwith Lindsay IRF ECBP 1997

...or subtropical mixed evergreen-deciduous closed tree canopy. Concept: Two storied forest: canopy to 15m, understory of varying heights and not dense. Characterized by presence of alkaline standing freshwater or soil that is saturated much of the year. The water movement is slow and could be considered part of a stream system (other than during floods) and the ground is seldom dry. Location: No...

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1989 NRC Evaluation of Biodiversity Projects Criteria Guidelines

...pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the respon- sibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, upon its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Samuel O. Their is president of the Institute of Medicine. The National Research Council was organize...

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WCMC UNEP 1994 Features of Biodiversity in Small Island Developing States Haiti

...Small Island Developing States (SIDS), protected areas meeting these criteria are relatively uncommon - sites are frequently small, and areas under consideration frequently require different management regimes. More recently however, a considerable amount of further data for non-UN List sites has been gathered, including full site lists for many countries and proposed and recommended sites for...

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1989 NRC Evaluation Criteria Biodiversity Projects AID

...health of the public. The Institute acts under the respon- sibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, upon its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Samuel O. Their is president of the Institute of Medicine. The National Research Council was organized by the National...

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WCMC UNEP 1994 Features of Biodiversity in SIDS Barbados

...Small Island Developing States (SIDS), protected areas meeting these criteria are relatively uncommon - sites are frequently small, and areas under consideration frequently require different management regimes. More recently however, a considerable amount of further data for non-UN List sites has been gathered, including full site lists for many countries and proposed and recommended sites for...

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Reassessment of Biodiversity Importance Ecosystem Function Science Studies CRLSUYOON

...Dr. Phil Grime, an ecologist at the University of Sheffield in England, said, “There are often just a few animals and a few plants that are really running the show, and what happens to them is really crucial’ As a result Dr SONY. zl Digital Mavica 0 o/ ” Flop py Disc Camera k | | B COMPUTER OPEN WEEKDAYS 96 FRL 92:00, SUN. 10-5 FREE SUN. PARKING UTHORIZED SERVICE CENTER FOR CANON, EPSON, ONC,...

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Krattiger et al 1994 Widening Perspectives on Biodiversity IUCN IAE

Wideniug Perspectives on Biodiversity Anatole F. Krattiger Jeffrey A. McNeely William H. Lesser Kenton R. Miller Yvonne St. Hill T N Ranil Senanayake Editors With a Foreword by Angela Cropper UCN - The World Conservation Union and The International Academy of the Environment 1994 The designations of geographical entities in this book and the presentation of the material do not imply...

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RIVM 402001014 Biodiversity Indicators OECD Environmental Outlook FeasibilityStudy TenBrink 2000

...of money, even when it is limited to a small number of groups. The result is a function of the monitoring effort, which makes the trends less comparable and almost impossible to assess. Furthermore, it is difficult to relate this indicator with pressures in order to make predictions, because extinction is difficult to measure or to predict. Moreover, this has to be done for a large number of sp...

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Gowdy McDaniel 1995 OneWorldOneExperiment BiodiversityEconomicsConflict EcolEcon15p181-192

...exact number, we are near or past the sustainable popula- tion limit (Ehrlich and Ehrlich, 1990; Daily and Ehrlich, 1992; Meadows et al., 1992; Kendall and Pimentel, 1994). Although some have proposed that future technologies and different resource use pat- terns might increase the upper theoretical limit of energy use and therefore population size (Simon and Kahn, 1984), our position is that p...

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Stedman-Edwards 1998 Root Causes Biodiversity Loss WWF-MPO

...of a variety of social scien- tists should ensure that appropriate methodologies are chosen and that the full range of socioeconomic causes is considered. Table 2 below suggests some possible data sources for analysis at different scales. For the conceptual model in Diagram 2, data might be collect- ed on migration patterns and economic activities from the local population, on infrastructure an...

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Barbados Museum Biodiversity Programme Overview BMHS 1997

...schoolchildren. Even, or perhaps especially, in this “age of information”, it is the physical objects of the Earth and its life that must continue to hold a central place in our intellectual universe. Warren D. Allmon, 1934 Once a collection of specimens exists, the most obvious use is for identification. The specimens also form the basis for distribution and biogeographical studies. Morpholo...

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