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Earth's resources geo facts
\"Learn about the kind of resources Earth holds, and how they are extracted and used. Discover the problems and challenges posed by human consumption of these resources, from overfishing to dwindling supplies of fossil fuels\"--Amazon.com.
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This Land, This Nation
This 2007 book combines political with environmental history to present conservation policy as a critical arm of New Deal reform, one that embodied the promises and limits of midcentury American liberalism. It interprets the natural resource programs of the 1930s and 1940s as a set of federal strategies aimed at rehabilitating the economies of agricultural areas. The New Dealers believed that the country as a whole would remain mired in depression as long as its farmers remained poorer than its urban residents, and these politicians and policymakers set out to rebuild rural life and raise rural incomes with measures tied directly to conservation objectives - land retirement, soil restoration, flood control, and affordable electricity for homes and industries. In building new constituencies for the environmental initiatives, resource administrators and their liberal allies established the political justification for an enlarged federal government and created the institutions that shaped the contemporary rural landscape.
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Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration
Winner of the 2022 Edward M. Bruner Book
Award
Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration is a lively
ethnographic exploration of the world of conservation voluntourism
and its engagement with marine and terrestrial biodiversity on the
Honduran Bay Island of Utila, located in the ecologically critical
Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. In this highly readable text,
anthropologist Keri Vacanti Brondo provides a pioneering
theoretical framework that conceptualizes conservation voluntourism
as a green industry. Brondo argues that the volunteer tourism
industry is the product of coloniality and capitalism that works to
produce and sustain an economy of affect while generating
inequalities and dispossession. Employing a decolonizing
methodology based on landscape assemblage theory, Brondo offers
\"thinking-like-a-mangrove\" to attend to alternative worldings in
Utila beyond the hegemonic tourist spectacle-dominated world
attached to the volunteer tourism industry. Readers journey through
the mangroves and waters alongside voluntourists, iguanas, whale
sharks, turtles, lionfish, and islanders to build valuable research
experience in environmental management while engaging in affective
labor and multispecies relations of care. Conservation
organizations benefit from the financial capital and labor
associated with conservation tourism, an industry boosted by social
media. This critical work asks us to consider the impacts of this
new alternative tourism market, one that relies on the exchange of
\"affect\" with other species. How are human socialities made through
interactions with other species? What lives and dies in Utila's
affect economy? Why are some species killable? Who gets to
decide?
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The Adoption and Impact of Soil and Water Conservation Technology: An Endogenous Switching Regression Application
This paper identifies the factors that affect farmers' decisions to adopt soil and water conservation technology in Africa and how this technology impacts farm yields and net returns. This technology is important because it improves efficiency of water use from rainfall—a critical issue in waterdeficient Sub-Saharan Africa. An analysis of new data from a survey of 342 rice farmers in northern Ghana shows that farmers' education, capital and labor constraints, social networks and extension contacts, and farm soil conditions mainly determine adoption of field ridging, and the adoption of this technology increases rice yields and net returns significantly.
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Conservation : integrating social and ecological justice
\"This book takes as its point of departure today's pressing environmental challenges, particularly the loss of biodiversity, and the role of communities in protected areas conservation. In its chapters, the authors discuss areas of tension between local livelihoods and international conservation efforts, between local communities and wildlife, and finally between traditional ways of living and 'modernity'. The central premise of this book is while these tensions cannot be easily resolved they can be better understood by considering both social and ecological effects, in equal measure. While environmental problems cannot be seen as purely ecological because they always involve people, who bring to the environmental table their different assumptions about nature and culture, so are social problems connected to environmental constraints.\"--Excerpt from page 4 of cover.
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Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land
Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of political processes, whereby numerous groups with often-divergent interests negotiate for access to and control over resources. These political processes determine the outcomes of resource governance reform efforts, such as widespread attempts to decentralize or devolve greater tenure over land and resources to local communities.
This volume examines the political dynamics of natural resource governance processes through a range of comparative case studies across east and southern Africa. These cases include both local and national settings, and examine issues such as land rights, tourism development, wildlife conservation, participatory forest management, and the impacts of climate change, and are drawn from both academics and field practitioners working across the region.
Published with IUCN, The Bradley Fund for the Environment, SASUSG and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Emerald City
At the foot of the snow-capped Cascade Mountains on the forested shores of Puget Sound, Seattle is set in a location of spectacular natural beauty. Boosters of the city have long capitalized on this splendor, recently likening it to the fairytale capital of L. Frank Baum'sThe Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City. But just as Dorothy, Toto, and their traveling companions discover a darker reality upon entering the green gates of the imaginary Emerald City, those who look more closely at Seattle's landscape will find that it reveals a history marked by environmental degradation and urban inequality.
This book explores the role of nature in the development of the city of Seattle from the earliest days of its settlement to the present. Combining environmental history, urban history, and human geography, Matthew Klingle shows how attempts to reshape nature in and around Seattle have often ended not only in ecological disaster but also social inequality. The price of Seattle's centuries of growth and progress has been paid by its wildlife, including the famous Pacific salmon, and its poorest residents. Klingle proposes a bold new way of understanding the interdependence between nature and culture, and he argues for what he calls an \"ethic of place.\" Using Seattle as a compelling case study, he offers important insights for every city seeking to live in harmony with its natural landscape.
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