natural resource Articles
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Without land, what would a farmer do?
Rural farmers depend on land and natural resources for food, income, and their physical well-being. But what happens when national or local governments prevent rural people and communities from farming their land? All governments have the authority to restrict the use of private land, usually for public interest purposes, such as environmental management or biodiversity conservation. In these ...
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Respect for god's world: the Biblical and Rabbinic foundations of environmentalism
The ancients faced many of the same environmental issues that society is facing today. This paper demonstrates that the Bible and the Talmud are the ideal starting points for those interested in raising moral standards for business and society when it comes to the environment. Issues of concern to the ancients included conservation of resources, waste, pollution, animal rights, beautifying the ...
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Religious approaches to water management and environmental conservation
The goal of this paper is to identify points of convergence between the great religious traditions in addressing human–nature relations, as well as presenting a critical evaluation of whether these approaches have in fact affected environmental conservation in representative countries. Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism have been considered. The main traditions considered are: ...
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2010 Filtrexx Sustainability Report
There is a romantic longing to return to nature, to go green. But rare are the opportunities to do so without sacrificing efficiency, economy or other measures of performance. Our relationship to the land is ironic in this sense; we profit from plundering it but are depleted by its depletion, because renewal is not something we can bestow on our inanimate creations. The problems made by man ...
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A joint, international masters degree in sustainability: how a truly global programme was established
A jointly taught and jointly awarded masters programme has been established between Lincoln University (LU), New Zealand and Universitat fur Bodenkultur, Wien (BOKU), Austria. The degree is an international joint 'Master of Natural Resources Management and Ecological Engineering' (MNaRMEE). Its main feature is a sustainability in national and international settings. It includes four ...
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Conserving Natural Resources Using Geosynthetics
Natural resources are finite, or at a minimum, can easily be consumed faster than they can be replaced. As such, the conservation of natural resources is a pragmatic endeavor. Geosynthetics-widely available materials used in construction, civil engineering, and environmental protection-can be useful in promoting the conservation of these resources. When used as intended, geosynthetics can enhance ...
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Towards sustainability through innovation
The present work addresses the practicality of achieving sustainability through innovation. In order to link between sustainability and innovation, a good understanding of the essence of each of them is required. There are various factors that can significantly affect eco–innovation. These factors are discussed, and the challenges that the process of integrating sustainability into innovation ...
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Role of self-help groups in generating microcredits and linking natural resource management in Karnataka: macro and micro level analysis
Formation of Self-help Groups (SHGs) in rural areas to generate microcredits has become viable units to support various activities related to agriculture, dairy, fishery, and rural industrial enterprises. Besides, it has limited focus on natural resource conservation and management. This paper attempts to examine the spread and performance of SHGs and their role in generation of microfinances to ...
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Development policy cooperation with China in the environmental sector: principles and focal areas
Environmental conservation is a focus of German development policy and thus also a focus of cooperation with the People's Republic of China. Development that is environmentally sound and makes careful use of natural resources is not only important for the people of China, in terms of preserving the source of their livelihood and helping to improve their living conditions. It is also, given the ...
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Are Multinational Companies Green Enough?
In the last few decades, the world has witnessed that 'going green' is not just a push coming from politicians and environmentalists. It is a change of attitude which does not only honour the commitment of environmental protection, but also saves a good deal of money, in most cases. This is why, many big multi-national giants have devised the company policies leading them towards sustainable and ...
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SARA – An enhanced curve number-based tool for estimating direct runoff
This paper introduces the Spatial Analysis of surface Runoff in ArcGis (SARA v1.0) interface to estimate curve number and runoff volume for hydrologic evaluations. This version runs in a vector platform as with other extensions of ArcGIS, introducing changes to the original Natural Resources Conservation Services-Curve Number method, and allowing adaptation to local conditions. The programming ...
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Assessment of the effect of slope on runoff potential of a watershed using NRCS–CN method
The rainfall–runoff is a very complex hydrological phenomenon, as this process is highly non–linear, time–varying and spatially distributed. The average slope within the watershed together with the overall length and retardance of overland flow are considered to be the main factors which govern the runoff process. The Natural Resources Conservation Service curve number (NRCS–CN), formerly known ...
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Land tax: towards a multifunctional institutional tool for land reform and rangeland conservation
This paper presents a bio-economic modelling technique which provides insight on the probable impacts on the management of natural resources of a land tax as an example of policy instrument. The paper is based on a case study carried out in arid natural rangelands of Namibia, where an agricultural land tax has been implemented in 2006. Responding to concerns regarding the impact of this ...
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Farmers' willingness to pay for rehabilitation of degraded natural resources under watershed development in Ethiopia (case study in Dejen Woreda)
This study goes to identify factors that affect farmers' WTP and estimating the TEV. The Bivarite Probit model is used for the estimation of the parameters using 185 sample size. The mean WTP from DBDCV is 28.48 ETH Birr per annum; is higher than the open ended CVM (i.e., 24.8 Birr). The TEV is estimated to be 105,148.16 ETH Birr. Education, fertiliser expenditure and land per capita are ...
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Trends of climate with rapid change in Sinai, Egypt
This study presents evidence for rapid climate change in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Analyses of data for temperature and rainfall from 1970 to 2014 show a clear tendency towards decreasing rainfall and increasing average temperatures. This trend caused severe droughts for many years that were suddenly interrupted by high and unpredictable rainfall that fluctuated heavily in space and time. ...
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Improving Water Quality - A Review of the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) To Target U.S. Farm Conservation Funds
Historically, federal conservation programs have focused on solving environmental and natural resource problems on individual farms. While improvements have been made in water quality and wildlife habitat at the farm scale, landscape-scale environmental benefits in streams, lakes,and bays, for example, are less commonly documented. Excess nutrients (nitrogen, N, and phosphorus, P) continue to ...
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Women empowerment for biodiversity conservation through self help groups: a case from Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala, India
Enormous change has been observed since Self-help Groups (SHGs) were initiated and after their members started patrolling the forests to restrict illegal stem cutting, grazing, and other natural resource degradation process. In this paper, we demonstrate how the rural women pool money and run a microfinance system to tide over temporary financial stringencies arising from time to time. They ...
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Encouraging Americans to Reuse, Recycle, and Conserve Natural Resources
When Congress passed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976, it charged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with ensuring the safe disposal and management of municipal and industrial waste, and it broadly championed a new ethic of resource conservation. During the first two decades of RCRA, EPA, in partnership with the states, focused primarily on establishing a ...
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CSR, global economic recession, and the need for sustainability: case studies of Pittsburgh-based global firms
Through a case study approach, via interviews and data gathered from publicly available sources, two major Pittsburgh-based global companies were examined in order to arrive at a better understanding of its socially responsibility initiatives to their stakeholders as they attempt to provide positive financial results and to uphold their corporate long-term sustainability efforts. It was assumed ...
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International Wire Group, Inc., Camden, NY - Case Study
International Wire is the largest non-vertically integrated copper and copper-alloy wire products manufacturer in the United States! They are committed to operating in an environmentally responsible manner, to reduce the effects of climate change, specific to greenhouse gas emissions, and conserving natural resources while operating in compliance with local, state, and federal environmental ...
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