Benefits of collaborative learning for environmental management: applying the integrated systems for knowledge management approach to support animal pest control.

abstract：:Migratory pastoralism is an adaptation to a harsh and unstable environment, and pastoral herders have traditionally adapted to environmental and climatic change by building on their in-depth knowledge of this environment. In the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, and particularly in the arid and semiarid areas of northern P...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Joshi S,Jasra WA,Ismail M,Shrestha RM,Yi SL,Wu N

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Sound ecosystem management meshes socioeconomic attitudes and values with sustainable natural resource practices. Adaptive management is a model for guiding natural resource managers in this process. Ecosystems and the societies that use them are continually evolving. Therefore, managers must be flexible and adaptab...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： HANEY A,POWER RL

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Little Miami River (LMR) basin, dominated by agriculture, contains two geologically-distinct regions; a glaciated northern till plain with soils three times more permeable than a southern, pre-Wisconsinan drift plain. The influences of two landscape measures, percent row crop cover (%RCC, computed at three spatial...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Daniel FB,Griffith MB,Troyer ME

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazil's Cuiabá-Santarém (BR-163) Highway provides a valuable example of ways in which decision-making procedures for infrastructure projects in tropical forest areas need to be reformulated in order to guarantee that environmental concerns are properly weighed. BR-163, which is slated to be paved as an export corrido...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fearnside PM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various approaches have been used to classify large geographical areas into smaller regions of similar water quality or extrapolate water-quality data from a few streams to other unmonitored streams. A combination of some of the strengths of existing techniques is used to develop a new approach for these purposes. In ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Robertson DM,Saad DA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, the ecological condition of streams and rivers has been impaired by agricultural practices such as broadscale modification of catchments, high nutrient and sediment inputs, loss of riparian vegetation, and altered hydrology. Typical responses include channel incision, excessive sedimentation, declining wate...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lester RE,Boulton AJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of institutional interplay (i.e., the interaction between institutions) is critical if the challenges to multilevel governance are to be better understood and addressed. Drawing on the literature on institutional interplay, this paper develops an analytical approach to examine challenges to multilevel coas...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Gonçalves LR,Fidelman P,Turra A,Young O

更新日期：2020-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Applications of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model typically involve delineation of a watershed into subwatersheds/subbasins that are then further subdivided into hydrologic response units (HRUs) which are homogeneous areas of aggregated soil, landuse, and slope and are the smallest modeling units used wi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Teshager AD,Gassman PW,Secchi S,Schoof JT,Misgna G

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, forest governance practices have utilized a variety of public participation mechanisms to improve decision-making and instill public legitimacy. However, comments, one of the most frequent and accessible avenues for the public to provide input, has received little attention. Further, there has be...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： De'Arman KJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Aliaga town, located 50 km north of Izmir, Turkey, is facing serious air, water, and soil pollution problems of industrial origin. The town has had a widespread public reaction against the estimated environmental effects of a 500 MW power plant originally to be built by a private international company during the fir...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Müezzinoglu A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legislation on the protection of biodiversity (e.g., European Union Habitat and Bird Directives) increasingly requires ecological impact assessment of human activities. However, knowledge and understanding of relevant ecological processes and species responses to different types of impact are often incomplete. In this...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Etienne RS,Vos CC,Jansen MJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wetlands in the Sanjiang Plain are rich in biodiversity and natural resources in the northeast of China. However, this wetland area has decreased in size and deteriorated in quality owing to expanded agricultural activities since the 1950s. Converting farmlands to wetlands is necessary to improve these conditions. Usi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Huang N,Wang Z,Liu D,Niu Z

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tidal marshes are increasingly vulnerable to degradation or loss from eutrophication, land-use changes, and accelerating sea-level rise, making restoration necessary to recover ecosystem services. To evaluate effects of restoration planting density and sea-level rise on ecosystem function (i.e., nitrogen removal), we ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Martin S,Sparks EL,Constantin AJ,Cebrian J,Cherry JA

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:/ While extinctions of individual species are part of a normal cycle, the current rate of extinctions should be a concern to us all. The maintenance of biological diversity is important for utilitarian reasons, quality of life considerations, and because biodiversity is important to sustainable regional economies. Sin...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： PIPKIN J

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water is an abundant resource worldwide, but fresh and clean water is scarce in many areas of the world. Increases in water consumption and climate change will affect global water security even further in the near future. With increasing numbers of people living in metropolitan areas, water, energy, and materials need...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： van Leeuwen K,de Vries E,Koop S,Roest K

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cordilleran cypress (Austrocedrus chilensis [D.Don] Pic. Serm. et Bizarri) forests occupy 140,000 ha along a sharp environmental gradient of central Andean-Patagonia in Argentina. Every summer, about 3200 ha of these forests are affected by wildfires, taking thereafter long time to recover. To accelerate forest recove...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Urretavizcaya MF,Gonda HE,Defossé GE

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates of potential and actual C sequestration require areal information about various types of management activities. Forest surveys, land use data, and agricultural statistics contribute information enabling calculation of the impacts of current and historical land management on C sequestration in biomass (in for...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Conant RT,Paustian K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between nutrient removal and loading rate was examined using data from five forested wetlands in Louisiana that have received secondarily treated effluent from 3 to 60 years. Loading rates ranged from 0.65 to 26.80 g/m(2)/yr for total nitrogen and 0.18 to 8.96 g/m(2)/yr for total phosphorus. At loadin...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hunter R,Lane R,Day J,Lindsey J,Day J,Hunter M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visitor use surveys and water quality data indicates that high visitor use levels of two rivers in Puerto Rico does not appear to adversely affect several water quality parameters. Optimum visitor use to maximize visitor defined satisfaction is a more constraining limit on visitor use than water quality. Our multiple ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Santiago LE,Gonzalez-Caban A,Loomis J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BioScene (scenarios for reconciling biodiversity conservation with declining agriculture use in mountain areas in Europe) was a three-year project (2002-2005) funded by the European Union's Fifth Framework Programme, and aimed to investigate the implications of agricultural restructuring and decline for biodiversity c...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Sheate WR,do Partidário MR,Byron H,Bina O,Dagg S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The United States has lost about half its wetland acreage since European settlement, and the effectiveness of current wetland mitigation policies is often questioned. In most states, federal wetland laws are overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but Michigan administers these laws through the state's Departmen...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kozich AT,Halvorsen KE

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent greening of the Sahel region and increase in vegetation cover around pastoral settlements previously described as "man-made deserts", have raised important questions on the permanency of land degradation associated with the over-exploitation of woody plants. Evidence presented is mostly on increased wetness...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Roba HG,Oba G

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial advances have been made in our understanding of the movement of species, including processes such as dispersal and migration. This knowledge has the potential to improve decisions about biodiversity policy and management, but it can be difficult for decision makers to readily access and integrate the growi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Barton PS,Lentini PE,Alacs E,Bau S,Buckley YM,Burns EL,Driscoll DA,Guja LK,Kujala H,Lahoz-Monfort JJ,Mortelliti A,Nathan R,Rowe R,Smith AL

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:European bison, the largest mammal in Europe, after being exterminated in the wild and then restored during the 20th century is still listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) as a species vulnerable to extinction. However, the increasing number of European biso...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hofman-Kamińska E,Kowalczyk R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Describing patterns in the landscape and interpreting the effects of these patterns on flora, fauna, and other factors has been of long-standing interest. Many descriptors have been developed, and these aggregate factors into a single index. The identical numerical result for a multifactor index can be attained by u...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： GILES JR RH,TRANI MK

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depletion of vegetation by overgrazing in arid environments has long-lasting effects on the environmental quality over extended geographic areas. An adequate inspection of habitat changes requires scaled up procedures that would allow assessing end-points of environmental status in broad areas that would be based on p...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bertiller MB,Ares JO,Bisigato AJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four biomass wastes (rice husk, coffee husk, coarse wool, and landfill wood) were added with biochar and polypropylene (PP) to manufacture biocomposites. Individual biomasses were tested for their combustion behavior using cone calorimeter. Biocomposites were analyzed for their fire/thermal, mechanical, and morphologi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Das O,Kim NK,Hedenqvist MS,Lin RJT,Sarmah AK,Bhattacharyya D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desertification directly threatens more than 250 million people and one third of the earth's land surface. Although it is well known that desertification could be reversed in most cases if the intensity of land use were reduced, there have been no studies on how to achieve this reversed desertification on a large scal...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Peng Y,Jiang G,Liu M,Niu S,Yu S,Biswas DK,Zhang Q,Shi X,Yang Q

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bangladesh encounters diverse climate change impacts at different scales, which can severely affect rural communities and livelihoods. In response, the government of Bangladesh has initiated a number of institutional interventions through development plans to better support sustainable adaptation. There have, however,...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Rahman HMT,Hickey GM

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of voluntary programs targeting resource conservation on private land has become increasingly prevalent in environmental policy. Voluntary programs potentially offer significant benefits over regulatory and market-based approaches. This article examines the factors affecting landowner participation in voluntar...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kauneckis D,York AM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00