Between Preservation And Exploitation

Author : Kemi Fuentes-George
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262528762
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Preservation and Exploitation written by Kemi Fuentes-George and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of biodiversity governance analyzes the factors that determine the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks and the importance of justice claims to conservation. 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 Yucatán Peninsula. In each case, the catalyst for the campaign was information gathered and disseminated by transnational advocacy networks (TANs) of researchers, academics, and activists. Both campaigns were successful despite opposition from industry supporters. Meanwhile, simultaneous campaigns to manage land in another part of the Yucatán and to conserve migratory birds in Egypt had far less success. In this book, Kemi Fuentes-George uses these four cases to analyze factors that determine the success or failure of efforts by TANs to persuade policymakers and private sector actors in developing countries to change environmental behavior. Fuentes-George argues that in order to influence the design and implementation of policy, TANs must generate a scientific consensus, create social relationships with local actors, and advocate for biodiversity in a way that promotes local environmental justice. Environmentally just policies would allow local populations access to their lands provided they use natural resources sustainably. Justice claims are also more likely to generate needed support among local groups for conservation projects. In their conservation efforts, Jamaica, Mexico, and Egypt were attempting to meet their obligations under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and other regional agreements. Fuentes-George's innovative analysis shows the importance of local environmental justice for the implementation of international environmental treaties.

Author : Susan L. Cutter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploitation Conservation Preservation written by Susan L. Cutter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating physical, economic, social, and political perspectives, Cutter and Renwick's Fourth Edition presents readers with a wide range of opinions and interpretations of the major natural resource issues facing the world today.

Author : Susan L. Cutter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploitation, Conservation, Preservation written by Susan L. Cutter and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan L. Cutter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploitation, Conservation, Preservation written by Susan L. Cutter and published by . This book was released on 1991-03-27 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a geographic approach to the study of the environment and environmental policy, the authors have successfully integrated physical, economic, social and political considerations of the major natural resource issues facing the world today. Features many maps, photos and other visual materials to reinforce learning. New to this edition is material on toxic substances and land resources as well as a focus on current issues in the topic.

Author : Sonia A. Socaci
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1789854253
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Preservation and Waste Exploitation written by Sonia A. Socaci and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest challenges facing the food industry and society is the reduction of food waste. Annually, all over the world, millions of tons of agro-food waste are produced, and their efficient management and valorization represents one of the main objectives of EU actions towards sustainable development. The book compiles information on the possibilities of the recovery of valuable compounds from food waste and their valorization in different food and non-food applications, as well as new preservation methods for optimizing food waste reduction.

Author : Mark Dowie
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026226062X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservation Refugees written by Mark Dowie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How native people—from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa—have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation. Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells this story. This is a “good guy vs. good guy” story, Dowie writes; the indigenous peoples' movement and conservation organizations have a vital common goal—to protect biological diversity—and could work effectively and powerfully together to protect the planet and preserve biological diversity. Yet for more than a hundred years, these two forces have been at odds. The result: thousands of unmanageable protected areas and native peoples reduced to poaching and trespassing on their ancestral lands or “assimilated” but permanently indentured on the lowest rungs of the money economy. Dowie begins with the story of Yosemite National Park, which by the turn of the twentieth century established a template for bitter encounters between native peoples and conservation. He then describes the experiences of other groups, ranging from the Ogiek and Maasai of eastern Africa and the Pygmies of Central Africa to the Karen of Thailand and the Adevasis of India. He also discusses such issues as differing definitions of “nature” and “wilderness,” the influence of the “BINGOs” (Big International NGOs, including the Worldwide Fund for Nature, Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy), the need for Western scientists to respect and honor traditional lifeways, and the need for native peoples to blend their traditional knowledge with the knowledge of modern ecology. When conservationists and native peoples acknowledge the interdependence of biodiversity conservation and cultural survival, Dowie writes, they can together create a new and much more effective paradigm for conservation.

Author : David Stradling
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803800
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservation in the Progressive Era written by David Stradling and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation was the first nationwide political movement in American history to grapple with environmental problems like waste, pollution, resource exhaustion, and sustainability. At its height, the conservation movement was a critical aspect of the broader reforms undertaken in the Progressive Era (1890-1910), as the rapidly industrializing nation struggled to protect human health, natural beauty, and "national efficiency." This highly effective Progressive Era movement was distinct from earlier conservation efforts and later environmentalist reforms. Conservation in the Progressive Era places conservation in historical context, using the words of participants in and opponents to the movement. Together, the documents collected here reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term "conservation" and the contested nature of the reforms it described. This collection includes classic texts by such well-known figures as Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and John Muir, as well as texts from lesser-known but equally important voices that are often overlooked in environmental studies: those of rural communities, women, and the working class. These lively selections provoke unexpected questions and ideas about many of the significant environmental issues facing us today.

Author : Susan L. Cutter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780470195956
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploitation Conservation Preservation written by Susan L. Cutter and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan L. Cutter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploitation Conservation, Preservation written by Susan L. Cutter and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text integrates the physical, economic, social, and political considerations in our examination of the major natural resource issues facing the world today. It includes a wide range of opinions and interpretations of natural resource issues which provide both a balanced review and a basis for discussion.

Author : Vasileios Mezaris
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319734652
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Multimedia Preservation written by Vasileios Mezaris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique text/reference advocates a novel forgetful approach to dealing with personal multimedia content in the long run, which is inspired by the effectiveness of human forgetting as a mechanism for helping us to stay focused on important things. The text presents theoretical foundations, technologies, applications, and case study results that help the reader to understand the problems and challenges associated with personal digital preservation, and the solutions that can be developed in response to these challenges. Topics and features: Highlights the value of an intelligent and selective approach to personal multimedia preservation, involving managed forgetting and contextualized remembering; considers how a conceptual understanding of human memory function can be used to inspire the design of digital managed preservation and forgetting; discusses methods that endow computers with capabilities to understand digital content, in order to support intelligent preservation decisions; examines the assessment of the importance of information items, introducing the concepts of memory buoyancy and preservation value; reviews methods for preserving the context associated with a digital item, and for assessing how this context evolves over time; proposes a reference model for the Preserve-or-Forget (PoF) approach which is integrative, value-driven, brain-inspired, forgetful, and evolution-aware; describes the integration of preservation functionalities in a Personal Information Management (PIM) application; presents a user study on a photo selection task, using the results to design methods for automatically selecting important photos from personal collections. This interdisciplinary volume provides significant insights from computer science, engineering and psychology that will be of great interest to researchers involved in multimedia and software engineering, multimedia preservation, cultural informatics, digital heritage, and the digital humanities.