Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Issues Regarding Everglades National Park and Surrounding Areas Impacted by Management of the Everglades
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
106-1 Oversight Hearing: Issues Regarding Everglades National Park and Surrounding Areas Impacted by Management of the Everglades, Serial No. 106-24, April 27, 1999
Author: Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309214270
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Although the progress of environmental restoration projects in the Florida Everglades remains slow overall, there have been improvements in the pace of restoration and in the relationship between the federal and state partners during the last two years. However, the importance of several challenges related to water quantity and quality have become clear, highlighting the difficulty in achieving restoration goals for all ecosystem components in all portions of the Everglades. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades explores these challenges. The book stresses that rigorous scientific analyses of the tradeoffs between water quality and quantity and between the hydrologic requirements of Everglades features and species are needed to inform future prioritization and funding decisions.
Engineering Within Ecological Constraints
Author: National Academy of EngineeringPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030917645X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Engineering within Ecological Constraints presents a rare dialogue between engineers and environmental scientists as they consider the many technical as well as social and legal challenges of ecologically sensitive engineering. The volume looks at the concepts of scale, resilience, and chaos as they apply to the points where the ecological life support system of nature interacts with the technological life support system created by humankind. Among the questions addressed are: What are the implications of differences between ecological and engineering concepts of efficiency and stability? How can engineering solutions to immediate problems be made compatible with long-term ecological concerns? How can we transfer ecological principles to economic systems? The book also includes important case studies on such topics as water management in southern Florida and California and oil exploration in rain forests. From its conceptual discussions to the practical experience reflected in case studies, this volume will be important to policymakers, practitioners, researchers, educators, and students in the fields of engineering, environmental science, and environmental policy.
Report on Legislative and Oversight Activities of the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives During the ... Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Everglades
Author: Steve DavisPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780963403025
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The 31 chapters provide a wealth of previously unpublished information, plus topic syntheses, for a wide range of ecological parameters. These include the physical driving forces that created and continue to shape the Everglades and patterns and processes of its flora and fauna. The book summarizes recent studies of the region's vegetation, alligators, wading birds, and endangered species such as the snail kite and Florida panther. This referee-reviewed volume is the product of collaboration among 58 international authors from 27 institutional affiliations over nearly five years. The book concludes with a synthesis of system-wide restoration hypotheses, as they apply to the Everglades, that represent the integration and a collective viewpoint from the preceding 30 chapters. Techniques and systems learned here can be applied to ecosystems around the world.
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement: Comments on the draft SEIS
Author: United States. Department of the Air ForcePublisher:
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Category : Air bases
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Public Land Management Policy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National ParksPublisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
National Parks
Author: Alfred RuntePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493067338
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Revised with a new epilogue, “We the People,” this fifth edition of National Parks: TheAmerican Experience continues the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. A prominent adviser to the Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," Alfred Runte is renowned as the nation's leading historian on the meaning and management of these treasured lands. Further supported with period photographs and now twelve pages of color paintings, National Parks remains a stirring look into the lands that define America, from Yosemite and Yellowstone to wilderness Alaska. This is how we got our parks, and looking to the future, the challenges that remain in preserving them. Are “we the people” still up to the task? Yes, this history advises, but only if we consistently cherish the national unity that our commitment to the parks further demands.