Author: Vermont Environmental CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental education
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Vermont Environmental Center
Author: Vermont Environmental CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental education
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Wetland, Woodland, Wildland
Author: Elizabeth Hathaway ThompsonPublisher: University Press of New England
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The first field guide to all of Vermont's natural communities
The Nature of Vermont
Author: Charles W. JohnsonPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611681316
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An up-to-date overview of Vermont's geological, natural, and land use histories, in the context of past, present, and future human interactions with the landscape
Transforming Environmental Relationships
Author: Jeremiah GouletPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Vermont Nature
Author: Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies
Author: G. GarrardPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023035839X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Ecocriticism is one of the most vibrant fields of cultural study today, and environmental issues are controversial and topical. This volume captures the excitement of green reading, reflects on its relationship to the modern academy, and provides practical guidance for dealing with global scale, interdisciplinarity, apathy and scepticism.
An Environmental Directory for Vermont
Author: University of Vermont. Center for Rural StudiesPublisher:
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
A Field Guide to Economics for Conservationists
Author: Brendan FisherPublisher: Roberts
ISBN: 9781936221509
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Why do conservationists need a field guide to economics on their shelves alongside the well-loved bird and plant guides? Two reasons, really. First, the economic decisions people make every day are at the core of the world's conservation issues: climate change, Amazonian deforestation, tiger poaching, vulture declines in Asia, and countless others. Second, and more importantly, an understanding of the economic forces behind these decisions can help conservationists safeguard biodiversity in a more sophisticated and effective way. The authors use simple illustrations, examples from around the world, and readable (occasionally irreverent) prose to describe the central economic principles that are relevant to conservation. They assume no previous economic training. The book should prove an excellent resource for both teachers and students in conservation and ecology classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as for working scientists and others interested in learning more about conservation and economics.
Constitutions and the Commons
Author: Blake HudsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136661743
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Constitutions and the Commons looks at a critical but little examined issue of the degree to which the federal constitution of a nation contributes toward or limits the ability of the national government to manage its domestic natural resources. Furthermore it considers how far the constitution facilitates the binding of constituent states, provinces or subnational units to honor the conditions of international environmental treaties. While the main focus is on the US, there is also detailed coverage of other nations such as Australia, Brazil, India, and Russia. After introducing the role of constitutions in establishing the legal framework for environmental management in federal systems, the author presents a continuum of constitutionally driven natural resource management scenarios, from local to national, and then to global governance. These sections describe how subnational governance in federal systems may take on the characteristics of a commons – with all the attendant tragedies – in the absence of sufficient national constitutional authority. In turn, sufficient national constitutional authority over natural resources also allows these nations to more effectively engage in efforts to manage the global commons, as these nations would be unconstrained by subnational units of government during international negotiations. It is thus shown that national governments in federal systems are at the center of a constitutional 'nested governance commons,' with lower levels of government potentially acting as rational herders on the national commons and national governments potentially acting as rational herders on the global commons. National governments in federal systems are therefore crucial to establishing sustainable management of resources across scales. The book concludes by discussing how federal systems without sufficient national constitutional authority over resources may be strengthened by adopting the approach of federal constitutions that facilitate more robust national level inputs into natural resources management, facilitating national minimum standards as a form of "Fail-safe Federalism" that subnational governments may supplement with discretion to preserve important values of federalism.
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