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Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Conservation 2012 Broadcast Series
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An effective conservation strategy includes engagement of people within diverse populations. To be relevant, we need to be innovative, resourceful and also respectful of what’s important to the people we are attempting to reach. Welcoming all groups and individuals, including those who traditionally may not be as directly connected.
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Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Conservation 2013 Broadcast Series
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What does it Matter?Attitudes and Values Make a Difference for Conservation
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Human Dimensions Success Stories in Bird Conservation
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The greater bird conservation community has identified a need for human dimensions success stories to be collected, organized, and shared with the community.
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Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the earth-space battery foretells the future of humankind
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Earth is a chemical battery where, over evolutionary time with a trickle-charge of photosynthesis using solar energy, billions of tons of living biomass were stored in forests and other ecosystems and in vast reserves of fossil fuels. In just the last few hundred years, humans extracted exploitable energy from these living and fossilized biomass fuels to build the modern industrial-technological-informational economy, to grow our population to more than 7 billion, and to transform the biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity of the earth. This rapid discharge of the earth’s store of organic energy fuels the human domination of the biosphere, including conversion of natural habitats to agricultural fields and the resulting loss of native species, emission of carbon dioxide and the resulting climate and sea level change, and use of supplemental nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar energy sources. The laws of thermodynamics governing the trickle-charge and rapid discharge of the earth’s battery are universal and absolute; the earth is only temporarily poised a quantifiable distance from the thermodynamic equilibrium of outer space. Although this distance from equilibrium is comprised of all energy types, most critical for humans is the store of living biomass. With the rapid depletion of this chemical energy, the earth is shifting back toward the inhospitable equilibrium of outer space with fundamental ramifications for the biosphere and humanity. Because there is no substitute or replacement energy for living biomass, the remaining distance from equilibrium that will be required to support human life is unknown.
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Laurent, Ed
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National Heritage Areas - within AppLCC Boundary
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Prepared by Paul Leonard, AppLCC staff.
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Revealing the Role of Local Stakeholders in Landscape Conservation Design: A Social Science Inquiry
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What is the role of local stakeholders and social data in the Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) process?
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SAMAB Cooperative Agreement
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Interagency Cooperative Agreement for the Establishment and Operation of the Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere Cooperative. The Biosphere Reserve is an UNESCO Program initiated in the 1970s.
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Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments
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As urbanisation increases globally and the natural environment becomes increasingly fragmented, the
importance of urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation grows. In many countries, private gardens area major component of urban green space and can provideconsiderable biodiversity benefits. Gardens and
adjacent habitats form interconnected networks and a landscape ecology framework is necessary to understand the relationship between the spatial configuration of garden patches and their constituent biodiversity. A scale-dependent tension is apparent in garden management, whereby the individual garden is much smaller than the unit of management needed to retain viable populations. To overcome this, here we suggest mechanisms for encouraging ‘wildlife-friendly’ management of collections of gardens across scales from the neighbourhood to the city.
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Stakeholder Webinar: Understanding the Human Dimensions of Private Lands Conservation and Management
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Series of speakers on human dimensions of working with private landowners to effect conservation.
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