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The Business Case for Sustainability at Cummins Inc.
(2006-04-01)
ABSTRACT
This report presents the business case for why Cummins Inc., a 10-billion-dollar diesel
engine and power company, should adopt a sustainability strategy, and provides suggestions
for how the company can incorporate ...
Patronage or Participation? Understanding the Failure and Success of Community-Based Natural Resource Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2006-12-30)
Abstract
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is a widespread approach to improving the conservation and use of wildlife in sub-Saharan Africa. CBNRM promotes the devolution of rights to use wildlife to ...
Groundwater Sources and their Influence on the Distribution of Steelhead in Topanga Creek, Topanga, California
(2006-07-01)
Abstract
This study examined the effects of groundwater on the distribution of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Topanga Creek, a small coastal stream in Los Angeles County, California. Water quality was monitored in ...
Empowerment in an Era of Self-Determination: The Case of the Washoe Tribe and U.S. Forest Service Co-Management Agreement
(2006-08-01)
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Abstract
Tribes and the U.S. Government have entered into co-management agreements to
accommodate tribal interests in regaining access and reasserting traditional practices on
ancestral lands that were lost during ...
Monitoring Shorebird Habitat Using Softcopy Photgrammetry: The Case of Western Snowy Plover in the Coal Oil Point Reserve, Santa Barbara, California
(2006-08-01)
Abstract
The goal of this study was to determine how softcopy digital photogrammetry
can be used to describe and monitor shorebird habitat. I focused on applying
monitoring methods previously used for beach erosions ...
Sediment Transport Rates in the Lower Muskegon River and Tributaries
(2006-11-30)
Despite the presence of an economically important recreational fishery and recent relicensing of a series of major dams, few studies of sediment transport have been conducted on the Muskegon River. Stakeholder concerns ...
The Landscape in 2025: Alternative Future Landscape Scenarios, A Means to Consider Agricultural Policy
(MJA, 2002)
Agricultural policy implies new future scenarios for agricultural landscapes each time a new federal farm bill or emergency aid to farmers is debated. Future landscape scenario studies can suggest policies that could achieve ...
Expanding and Evaluating Motives for Environmentally Responsible Behavior
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2000)
This article contends that while striving to promote environmentally responsible behavior, we have focused attention too narrowly on just two classes of motives. There is a need to expand the range of motives available to ...
Impacts of major predators on tropical agroforest arthropods: comparisons within and across taxa
(Springer-Verlag, 2004-06)
In food web studies, taxonomically unrelated predators are often grouped into trophic levels regardless of their relative importance on prey assemblages, multiple predator effects, or interactions such as omnivory. Ants ...