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From:Borneo Research BulletinIntroduction The Sabah Biodiversity Conservation Project (1995 to 1998) was an offical project of the Sabah Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Development (3), with financial and technical assistance from the...
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From:Mechanical Engineering-CIME (Vol. 115, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe US Bureau of Mines had developed MULSIM/NS, software that can predict potential coal bumps or pressure-induced bursts. These bumps are shifts in the stresses of the surrounding rock in underground mines. Often, the...
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From:Science (Vol. 302, Issue 5652) Peer-ReviewedConflicts over the management of common pool resources are not simply material. They also depend on the perceptions of the protagonists. Policy to improve management often assumes that problems are self-evident, but in...
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From:AQ - Australian Quarterly (Vol. 82, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor most of the last decade, water policy in Australia has been dominated by emergency responses to what was, by most measures, the worst drought in our history. Irrigators have received only small fractions of their...
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From:Science (Vol. 289, Issue 5478) Peer-ReviewedThe world's ecosystems are capital assets. If properly managed, they yield a flow of vital services, including the production of goods (such as seafood and timber), life support processes (such as pollination and water...
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From:Global Governance (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the most significant international policy responses that seek to address the resource trap and spur development in resource-rich, but fragile states. It applies a regime theoretical framework to...
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From:The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn New Caledonia, pro-independence leaders perceive economic autonomy as a prerequisite for political independence. The Koniambo Project, a joint venture between a Canadian multinational and a local mining company, is...
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From:Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum (Vol. 14, Issue 2)I. INTRODUCTION The Bush Administration's investiture in office, when combined with conservative Republican control of both houses of Congress and, increasingly, the federal courts, signaled a move to the right on...
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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 57, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThink for a minute about where we'd be without USLE or RUSLE. These tools have enabled us to quantify the risk of erosion under different management, in different landscapes, and on different soils. Conservationists...
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From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAs one of its first acts, the Obama administration has halted all proposed regulations that were announced but not yet finalized by the Bush administration until a legal and policy review can be conducted. The decision...
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From:Policy Studies Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDo organizations with more collaborative partners perform better than organizations with fewer partners? And is this relationship conditional on the ability of those partners to provide nonredundant resources from their...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 88, Issue 9)When the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was built in 1870, it stood half a mile from the water on North Carolina's windswept Outer Banks. But beaches rarely stand still. After more than a century of scouring erosion, waves...
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From:Alberta History (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEditor's Introduction--John Brownlee, who served as Alberta's premier from 1925 to 1934, was considered by many to be the province's most capable leader. A highly intelligent administrator, he maintained tight control...
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From:Environmental Law (Vol. 47, Issue 1)After rancher Ammon Bundy's forceful occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to protest federal "tyranny" in 2016, mainstream commentary dismissed Bundy and his supporters as crackpots. But the dismissal of...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 105, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedASSOCIATE EDITOR Is it possible that many people have tempered their views on the environmental threats posed by power plants with the realization that radical attitudes have placed our nation perilously close to not...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 182, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWater woes: Canadian management of water resources is incoherent and outdated, according to a report from the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. "Canada needs to put in place a national framework...
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From:Global Governance (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article analyzes the different dimensions of the so-called resource curse hypothesis from the perspective of international and domestic law. The analysis is structured as a commentary of the views of the UK-based...
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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 57, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSoil and water conservation programs in the United States have traditionally been conceived and implemented based on the assumption that land owner-operators are more willing to adopt and use soil and water conservation...
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From:Northern Review (Issue 41) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: In a country as large as Canada, connectivity--whether by road, rail, radio, or the Internet--plays an important role in economic growth, political and social development, and civic engagement. The importance...
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From:Conservation and Society (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Shannon. Hagerman, Terre. Satterfield, Hadi. Dowlatabadi The impacts of climate change imply substantive changes to current conservation policy frameworks. Debating and formulating the details of these...