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| ducks unlimited ecology conservation & management certification: Wetlands Committee on Characterization of Wetlands, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council, 1995-09-20 Wetlands has become a hot word in the current environmental debate. But what does it signify? In 1991, proposed changes in the legal definities of wetlands stirred controversy and focused attention on the scientific and economic aspects of their management. This volume explores how to define wetlands. The committee--whose members were drawn from academia, government, business, and the environmental community--builds a rational, scientific basis for delineating wetlands in the landscape and offers recommendations for further action. Wetlands also discusses the diverse hydrological and ecological functions of wetlands, and makes recommendations concerning so-called controversial areas such as permafrost wetlands, riparian ecosystems, irregularly flooded sites, and agricultural wetlands. It presents criteria for identifying wetlands and explores the problems of applying those criteria when there are seasonal changes in water levels. This comprehensive and practical volume will be of interest to environmental scientists and advocates, hydrologists, policymakers, regulators, faculty, researchers, and students of environmental studies. |
| ducks unlimited ecology conservation & management certification: Sacred Natural Sites Bas Verschuuren, Jeffrey McNeely, Gonzalo Oviedo, Robert Wild, 2012-06-25 Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western Ghats (India), Sagarmatha /Chomolongma (Mt Everest, Nepal, Tibet - and China), the Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia), Holy Island of Lindisfarne (UK) and the sacred lakes of the Niger Delta (Nigeria). The book illustrates that sacred natural sites, although often under threat, exist within and outside formally recognised protected areas, heritage sites. Sacred natural sites may well be some of the last strongholds for building resilient networks of connected landscapes. They also form important nodes for maintaining a dynamic socio-cultural fabric in the face of global change. The diverse authors bridge the gap between approaches to the conservation of cultural and biological diversity by taking into account cultural and spiritual values together with the socio-economic interests of the custodian communities and other relevant stakeholders. |
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| ducks unlimited ecology conservation & management certification: Game Management Aldo Leopold, 1987-03-13 With this book, published more than a half-century ago, Aldo Leopold created the discipline of wildlife management. Although A Sand Country Almanac is doubtless Leopold’s most popular book, Game Management may well be his most important. In this book he revolutionized the field of conservation. |
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| ducks unlimited ecology conservation & management certification: The Green Belt of Europe Andrew Terry, Karin Ullrich, Uwe Riecken, 2006 The Iron Curtain, running from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea, divided Europe for almost 40 years and no activity was allowed in this forbidden zone. When it fell in 1989, it left a strip of land that runs the entire length of Europe and that has remained comparatively undisturbed - a green belt. The Green Belt initiative aims to integrate this entire strip of land with its key habitats and ecological areas as part of an international network of valuable ecosystems. This book provides background information on the initiative, reviews current activities in a number of case studies and looks at how the initiative can fit into current and future global efforts to protect European biodiversity. |
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| ducks unlimited ecology conservation & management certification: Wetlands of Canada Canada Committee on Ecological (Biophysical) Land Classification. National Wetlands Working Group, 1988 Covers the influencing factors, distribution, evolution, classification, regionalization and methodologies for study of the wetlands of Canada. Specific chapters are devoted to the arctic, subarctic, boreal, prairies, eastern temperate, Atlantic and Pacific regions as well as the salt marshes of Canada. |
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| ducks unlimited ecology conservation & management certification: California Riparian Systems Richard E. Warner, Kathleen M. Hendrix, 1984-01-01 This volume presents 135 of the papers presented at the 1981 California Riparian Systems Conference. The papers address all aspects of riparian systems: habitat, wildlife, land management, land use policy planning, conservation and water resource management. |
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