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Conservation catalysts [how...
"This multi-author volume explores large-landscape conservation projects catalyzed by colleges, universities, independent field stations, and research organizations around the world. These initiatives are grand-scale, cross-boundary, cross-sectoral, and cross-disciplinary efforts to protect working and wild landscapes and waterscapes in Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Kenya, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, and the United States"--
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monografia Rebiun17946710 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun17946710 140731t20142014mauab ob 001 0 eng|d 9781558443013 alk. paper) 9781558443228 e-book) UPVA 997927793603706 UAM 991008028744104211 UPM 991005763646904212 UPCT u399636 CaPaEBR. eng. rda. pn. CaPaEBR. UMA.RE Conservation catalysts Recurso electrónico] how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation edited by James N. Levitt ; with foreword by Stephen Woodley 1 online resource (377 pages) color illustrations, maps 1 online resource (377 pages) E-Libro Description based on print version record Includes bibliographical references and index The wildlands and woodlands initiative / David Foster -- The University of Montana-Missoula : a campus with an ecoystem / Gary Tabor, Matthew McKinney, and Perry Brown -- Research networks and large-landscape conservation and restoration : the case of the Colorado River delta / Karl Flessa -- Conservation at the landscape scale -- Saving the Florida scrub : science and serendipity / Hilary Swain, Archbold Research Station, and Patricia Martin -- The Canadian BEACONS project and boreal forest conservation / Fiona Schmiegelow -- Working landscapes and the Western Hemisphere Jaguar Network / Joe Figel -- Philander Chase Corporation / Douglas Givens -- The quiet corner initiative at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental studies / Mary Tyrrell, Matthew Fried, Mark Ashton, and Richard Campbell -- Alternative futures modeling in Maine's Penobscot River Watershed : forging a regional identity for river restoration / Robert J. Lilieholm, Christopher S. Cronan, Michelle L. Johnson, Spencer R. Meyer, and Dave Owen -- Landscape-scale conservation on the Serengeti / Robin Reid -- Conservation law initiatives in the West / Fred Cheever and Nancy McLaughlin -- The creation of coastal zone management in Victoria, Australia / Geoff Wescott -- Karukinka and the emerging private land conservation movement in Chile / Guillermo Donoso -- A proposal for conservation easements in Trinidad and Tobago / Karena Mahung -- Appendices: catalyzing conservation through the humanities -- A. Poetry and place : a presentation / Caroline Harvey -- B. Film transcript : Colorado College's large landscape conservation strategy to save the Colorado River Basin / Alex Suber -- The drowning fish : large landscapes and the burden of significance / Blair Braverman "This multi-author volume explores large-landscape conservation projects catalyzed by colleges, universities, independent field stations, and research organizations around the world. These initiatives are grand-scale, cross-boundary, cross-sectoral, and cross-disciplinary efforts to protect working and wild landscapes and waterscapes in Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Kenya, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, and the United States"-- Provided by publisher Print version:. Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, [2014],. 9781558443013 Modo de acceso: World Wide Web E-Libro Nature conservation- Societies, etc Nature conservation- International cooperation Landscape protection- Societies, etc Landscape protection- International cooperation Levitt, James N. editor Woodley, Stephen author of introduction, etc E-Libro (Servicio en línea)