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This is one of a series of regional reviews of multi-sectoral strategies for sustainability at the national, provincial and local levels, complementing the volume on Strategies for National Sustainable Development. They have been prepared with the assistance of the World Bank, UNDP, UNSO, IIED and WRI.
Each volume summarizes the status of strategies in the region, reviews and analyzes case studies to provide an analytical history and status report on each strategy. The information has not hitherto been available, and will be very valuable for practitioners and policy makers, as well as for students of development and of the regions ... Read more

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Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy.

Professor Smith describes how buildings can be made to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil-based energy by the use of solar and geothermal resources. He also describes a range of renewable energy generating technologies. As sustainable building becomes increasingly essential with the advance of climate change, government legislation and international treaties, this is valuable knowledge for every architect, engineer and designer.

This immensely practical book is packed with useful diagrams, charts and colour photographs to illustrate a variety of the most recent case studies, including the education building, the Core, at the Eden Project in Cornwall. As well as exploring cutting edge developments in photovoltaics (PV) this revised edition also includes the latest data from the 2006 Carbon Trust report on wave and tide, and new material on the latest advances in bioenergy and marine technologies.

Buildings are currently a major part of the carbon emissions problem. This book indicates how they may become part of the solution.

* Introduces the very latest in practical sustainability techniques

* First point of reference for all architects and engineers who want their designs to be both responsive and cutting edge

* Useful diagrams, graphs and photographs illustrate the diverse technologies being developed to create optimum eco-efficiency in our built environment
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 7607 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Keywords: Resource management, soil conservation, soil quality, sustainability

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Title: Targeting soil-conservation policies for sustainability: new empirical evidence. (Research).
Author: J. Popp
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: 57Issue: 2Page: 66(9)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 5044 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The implementation of a resource conservation program or Catchment Approach in Kenya was evaluated using Participatory Rural Appraisal. The measured parameters covered social, physical and institutional aspects. Results indicate that the impact of such a program is governed by the degree of contact between extension workers and native residents, good program planning and execution. Increases in agricultural production and lessened resource destruction result with the use of indigenous materials and techniques.

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Title: Sustainability indicators and soil conservation: a participatory impact study and self-evaluation of the Catchment Approach of the Ministry of Agriculture, Kenya.
Author: John Thompson
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1996
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v51Issue: n4Page: p265(9)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 3024 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The conservation of natural resources does not necessarily mean sustainable development or much less sustainable agriculture. Methods of preserving natural reserves may conflict with the economic goals of sustainability. Sustainable programs are also cost-effective and make use of local materials and skills whereas conservation programs are not economically restricted. Moreover, conservation programs are not always feasible and may result to more depletion of other natural resource.

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Title: The relationship between conservation and sustainability.(Commentary)
Author: Dana L. Hoag
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1996
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v51Issue: n4Page: p292(4)

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This digital document is a journal article from Resources, Conservation & Recycling, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Education towards sustainability in Chemical Engineering (CEng) gave birth to a waste management program (WMP) at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, in Portugal. It involves students, teachers, and laboratory technicians. It aims to enhance the conscientiousness of the decision-maker next generation for saving resources, managing wastes, and at same time to develop applied chemistry understanding. This program was implemented in 1999 and is responsible for management and fate of all inorganic wastewater providing from training experimental activities of the CEng degree. An immediate reduction of wastes at their source was first defined. Wastes were collected separately and were reused, recycled or chemically treated, and after analytically controlled as legally imposed. Solids formed after this program were recycled, purified or followed suitable elimination. Global results point out environmental, pedagogical, and social benefits. Active participants are aware, in agreement, and publicly committed to the WMP. ... Read more

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Although the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Kenyan environmentalist, few have considered whether environmental conservation can contribute to peace-building in conflict zones. Peace Parks explores this question, examining the ways in which environmental cooperation in multijurisdictional conservation areas may help resolve political and territorial conflicts. Its analyses and case studies of transboundary peace parks focus on how the sharing of physical space and management responsibilities can build and sustain peace among countries. The book examines the roles played by governments, the military, civil society, scientists, and conservationists, and their effects on both the ecological management and the potential for peace-building in these areas.

Following a historical and theoretical overview that explores economic, political, and social theories that support the concept of peace parks, and discussion of bioregional management for science and economic development, the book presents case studies of existing parks and proposals for future parks. After describing such real-life examples as the Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor in Africa and the Emerald Triangle conservation zone in Indochina, the book looks to the future, exploring the peace-building potential of envisioned parks in security-intensive spots including the U.S.-Mexican border, the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, and the Mesopotamian marshlands between Iraq and Iran. With contributors from a variety of disciplines and diverse geographic regions, Peace Parks is not only a groundbreaking book in International Relations but a valuable resource for policy makers and environmentalists.

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Dramé-Yayé Aissetou, Saleem H. Ali, Rolf D. Baldus, Charles Besançon, Kent Biringer, Arthur G. Blundell, Niger Diallo Daouda Boubacar, K. C. (Nanda) Cariappa, Charles Chester, Tyler Christie, Sarah Dickinson DeLeon, Bill Dolan, Rosaleen Duffy, Christina Ellis, Wayne Freimund, Stephan Fuller, Rudolf Hahn, Anne Hammill, Bruce Hayden, Ke Chung Kim, Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo, Jason Lambacher, Raul Lejano, Maano Ramutsindela, Michael Schoon, Belinda Sifford, Anna Spenceley, Michelle L. Stevens, Randy Tanner, Yongyut Trisurat, and Michele Zebich-Knos ... Read more

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Eye-Opening, Comprehensive Take On Conservation as Conflict Resolution
This is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in saving the world and the planet at the same time. If that distinction makes no sense, read this book. Never before did I realize the degree to which environmental concerns can influence, and always have influenced, international affairs; and the degree to which the environment has suffered indirectly (or directly) due to conflict. A must-read for anyone on the progressive edge of either conflict management, conservation or environmental studies.

Conserving the environment makes peace
Peace Parks, Conservation and Conflict Resolution, edited by Saleem H. Ali, explores what was called Environmental Peacemaking in a 2003 anthology of that name, edited by Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko.

Ali opens this collection of scholarly essays with an introduction that defines "peace parks" as environment conservation zones "that can play an instrumental role in peacemaking or sustaining amity between communities" (p. 1) especially transboundary protected areas. The World Conservation Union lists 188 transboundary protected areas around the world. The first peace park was Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, established in 1932. Rotarians on both sides of the United States-Canada border had promoted the creation of this international peace park. Since the United States and Canada have maintained friendly relations, Ali calls the establishment of this first peace park a "symbolic" gesture (p. 2). But the two nations cooperate in managing the natural and cultural resources of the international park, and Ali admits that such peace parks can "provide some insights in terms of how cooperation can be sustained between amicable neighbors through environmental conservation" (p. 11).A case study of the park, later in the book, shows a history of effective cooperation in function, like interpretation and public safety, and resiliency despite the United States increasing border security within the international park in recent years.

The case of Ecuador and Peru deserves special consideration, according to Ali, because "it was the first formal effort in which conservation groups were actively involved in international conflict resolution" (p. 9)A border dispute decades old erupted briefly in 1995 in armed conflict. Prodded by Conservation International and other conservation groups, the two countries agreed to peace, to a designated international border, and to conserve the area on both sides of the new border. Indigenous Chimu communities joined the discussions that led to adoption of a bioregional conservation plan and, in 2004, binational recognition of the Condor -Kutuku conservation corridor. Yet this is not the subject of any case study in the book.

Ali asks, is there a natural connection between ecology and peace?He answers his own question, yes. Environmental concerns can be the common grounds that give conflicting parties reason to cooperate, even if their conflict is not over environmental resources.

Peace Parks is divided into eighteen chapters, written by a total of thirty-one authors and organized into three sections. In the first section five chapters address theoretical and policy aspects of Environmental Peace-Building. Another five chapters appear in the second section on existing Transboundary Conservation in Action. The third section on proposed Peace Parks and Regional Governance Regimes has eight chapters, including Ali's conclusion. In addition to academicians, the authors include park rangers, consultants, and employees of government agencies (like the German Development Agency) and non-governmental organizations (like the World Conservation Union).

Among the case studies of existing peace parks are Selous-Siassa Wildlife Corridor and "W" International Peace Park in Africa; the Emerald Triangle conservation zone in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia; Antarctica; and Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. Peace parks are proposed along the U.S.-Mexican border, in Liberia, for Korea's demilitarized corridor, in the Kashmir province, between Afghanistan and its neighbors, and even for the Mesopotamian marches in Iraq and Iran. Jason Lambacher, for example, reports on a possible Russo-Japanese peace park in the Kuril Islands, which have been the subject of conflict, albeit not armed, since the Soviet occupation of the islands at the end of World War II. Peace efforts in such cases of conflict, according to Ali, should be grounded in the "dilemma of common aversions," which "implies that harm to the environment is a mutually destructive outcome that rational actors in a conflict would wish to avoid" (p. 335).

In general, this book offers case studies, strategic guidance, practical advice, and idealism. "Since environment planning is inherently concerned with future outcomes of present decisions," says planner Ali (p. 335), "it tends to be less likely to be mired in historical grievances between communities that often tinge security discourse." ... Read more

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Protecting the Future showcases tangible examples of the practical implementation of global sustainability and the triple bottom-line plus one (comprising environmental, social and cultural economic and governance dimensions) in the scholarship and operations of RMIT University. These practical initiatives, applications and methodologies can provide information and inspiration for individuals or organisations wanting to implement global sustainability principles in their planning and operations.

Global sustainability is one of the fastest growing concerns around the world. Organisations of all kinds are increasingly aware that their future may well depend on their ability to create solutions to economic, environmental, social and cultural as well as governance issues. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Resources, Conservation & Recycling, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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There is an urgent need for sustainability in markets and in our economic system. This need is in the face of a growing destruction of non-renewable resources and the ceaseless degradation of the environment. It is generated by affluent societies, relentlessly replacing tangible goods, and is based on wealth economics trading in new products to continue expanding well-being. Industrialised countries are facing the challenge of maintaining living standards, while lowering consumption. This paper describes the novel opportunity offered by trading off products-services, namely, enhanced products or extended deliveries, which include the life-cycle and recycling incumbents and supplies, with a transparent accounting of resource depletion. Product enhancement relates directly to information content, it is consistent with the wealth driven economics of the knowledge society, and it naturally leads to the description of manufacturing processes by KILT-models. There, in addition to investment I and labour L, both knowledge K and tangibles T are considered as independent productivity factors. In that context, the use of TYPUS-metrics is required to assess resource decay. This opportunity is related to extended enterprises and co-operative infrastructures. These provide a critical means to manage product life-cycles for sustainability with a measure of the resulting environmental impact. The developments are presented as innovative steps, necessary to enable eco-consistent changes with technological issues framed in coherent social and legal arrangements. ... Read more

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Although global in scale, the impact of climate change will be felt at the local level. Refocusing our attention away from the ice shelves disintegrating in the Antarctic, the flooding of Pacific islands, and carbon inventories measured in billions of tons, Jerry Jenkins turns to changes that are already occurring much closer to home, changes that threaten to transform one of America's great wildernesses, the Adirondack region, into a damaged and unfamiliar landscape.

With the aid of comprehensive color illustrations, graphs, charts, and maps, Jenkins demonstrates the fundamental reality of climate change on a local level and presents his analysis and discussion of the available data for the Adirondacks. The region's culture, biology, and economy are already shifting rapidly: boreal species such as the spruce grouse are in decline, pests such as the mountain pine beetle and black-legged tick are moving in, and ski areas are suffering from lack of snow. Jenkins goes on to deliver a critical message: changes in personal energy consumption can fundamentally alter the present trajectory of global warming. Climate Change in the Adirondacks provides a road map for how individuals and communities whether inside the Blue Line or beyond can reduce their reliance on fossil fuels and lead the way toward a more responsible future. ... Read more

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Greening Modernism addresses the interrelationships between sustainability, architectural preservation, and the Modern movement and places these issues into historical perspective.

For the past quarter-century, mainstream architecture has proceeded onthe underlying belief that we have the resources to build whatever and asmuch as we want and that technology can overcome any problems we createfor ourselves through our building activities. The serious shortages thatnow confront us demand a thorough reevaluation of this premise.Carl Stein, nationally recognized for his contributions to the field of sustainabledesign, connects the impact of individual building design decisions tothe global energy and environmental crises. He sets out the argument forsustainability inherent in Modern design, identifying tenets that are intrinsicto contemporary ecological thinking, and he provides the nuts-and-boltsinformation to assist practitioners and students of architecture, engineering,planning, and environmentalism in specific building-upgrade projects. While not a how-to handbook, Greening Modernism provides quantitativedata and describes the environmental benefits from the continued use of the vast inventory of modern buildings,including reduced demand for energy and other finite resources and reduced need for waste processing.Greening Modernism explains the relationships between design and technology in the pre-petroleum, early-petroleum,and late-petroleum eras and goes on to suggest opportunities for architecture in a post-petroleumworld.

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Written from an agronomic rather than an engineering perspective, this introduction to soil and water conservation explores a full range of topics and environmental issues, including some ignored or overlooked in other books on the subject. Comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible, it considers the hazards posed by erosion, sedimentation, and pollution, and describes the techniques needed to conserve soil and maintain environmental quality. Situations and examples are drawn from many places to represent a cross-section of the soils, climates and cultures of the world, as well as the full scope of agricultural, engineering, mining, and other uses of the land.The volume covers conserving soil and water, soil erosion and civilization, geologic erosion and sedimentation, water erosion and sedimentation, wind erosion and deposition, predicting soil loss, soil surveys as a basis for land use planning, cropping systems, tillage practices for conservation, conservation structures, vegetating drastically disturbed areas, pastureland, rangeland, and forestland management, water conservation, soil drainage, irrigation and reclamation, soil pollution, water quality and pollution, economics of soil and water conservation, soil and water conservation agencies in the United States, and soil and water conservation around the world.For professionals that deal with soil and water conservation. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In this paper, we analyze the consequences of mass and energy conservation and the second law of thermodynamics for economic activity. In contrast to former studies, we deduce our results formally from a general model of production and consumption. We show that in a static setting for economies containing irreversible processes, a non-zero resource input as well as non-zero emissions are necessary to sustain a positive level of consumption. We generalize this result to a dynamic setting and apply it to the growth discussion and the sustainability discourse. Thereby we show that limits to growth of production and consumption are likely to exist and that the concept of weak sustainability is either morally unattractive or physically infeasible. ... Read more

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In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability. Touching on topics including conservation efforts in specific locales; social and political constructions of rhetorical place and space; community literacy; historical and archival analysis of institutional politics, policies, and practices concerning the environment and economic growth and development; town planning and zoning issues; and rhetorics of environmental remediation and sustainability, this collection of essays provides rhetoricians and environmentalists a window into the complex and often contradictory arena of discourse on sustainability.

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 7530 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Keywords: Agricultural sustainability, management zones, precision conservation, precision farming, remote sensing

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Title: Precision conservation for environmental sustainability.(Research Editorial)(Editorial)
Author: J.K. Berry
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: 58Issue: 6Page: 332(8)

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