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Incorporating Capacity Building as a Pathway to Environmental Stewardship for Public Schools in Kenya

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues, 2023
Education has been touted as a major driver toward the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, environmental stewardship takes a peripheral position in the pre-service and in-service training of teachers.
Charles N. Kariuki   +2 more
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An assessment of sampling designs using SCR analyses to estimate abundance of boreal caribou

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2020
Accurately estimating abundance is a critical component of monitoring and recovery of rare and elusive species. Spatial capture–recapture (SCR) models are an increasingly popular method for robust estimation of ecological parameters.
Samantha McFarlane   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long Term (1998–2019) Changes in Water Quality Parameters as a Function of Freshwater Inflow in a River–Bay Continuum

open access: yesHydrology, 2022
Freshwater inflow is important in transporting nutrients to a bay. We hypothesized that freshwater inflow was transporting dissolved nitrogen and phosphorus to the Inland Bays.
Bhanu Paudel, Lori M. Brown
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental stewardship as a dimension of a Christian stewardship ethic: views of seminary students, lecturers and ministers

open access: yesKoers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2016
It is not uncommon to find that Christians are blamed for contributing to the destruction of the environment – a view that derives from the Biblical precept that ‘man was given dominion over the earth’ (cf Gen. 1:28). The current state of the environment
Cheryl Sheila Le Roux
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Collaborative stewardship in multifunctional landscapes: Toward relational, pluralistic approaches [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Landscape stewardship offers a means to put social-ecological approaches to stewardship into practice. The growing interest in landscape stewardship has led to a focus on multistakeholder collaboration.
Cokburn, Jessica   +7 more
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Biocultural stewardship, Indigenous and local ecological knowledge, and the urban crucible

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2020
Although biocultural stewardship models have been written about widely, especially in Indigenous and rural communities, the practice of applying them in multicultural, urban environments has rarely been explored. We have yet to realize the full potential
Heather L. McMillen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Individual transferable quota contribution to environmental stewardship: a theory in need of validation

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
We explored the extent to which (1) individual transferable quotas (ITQs) may lead to changes in environmental stewardship and (2) environmental stewardship may in turn contribute to explain the success or otherwise of ITQs in meeting sustainability ...
Ingrid van Putten   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

LESI: A quantitative indicator to measure local environmental stewardship

open access: yesMethodsX, 2020
This method develops a local environmental stewardship indicator (LESI), which represents the level of stewardship action of a person at a place. The goal of the indicator is to quantify stewardship activity and allow it to be compared and modelled. LESI
John W. Turnbull   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Willing to have, willing to help, or ready to own—Determinants of variants of stewardship social practices around Blue-Green Infrastructure in dense urban communities

open access: yesFrontiers in Water, 2023
IntroductionThere is increasing acceptance of the desirability of involving communities in stewardship activities around urban blue-green infrastructure (BGI) to generate acceptance, reduce vandalism and decrease the maintenance burden on authorities ...
Jessica Lamond, Glyn Everett
doaj   +1 more source

Nature-Based Tourism Businesses in Colorado: Interpreting Environmental Ethics and Responsible Behavior [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Tourism businesses operate from a primarily economic-centric point of view, but nature-based tourism businesses are also acutely aware of the need to sustain the natural resource that attracts the client to their outdoor recreation service. A preliminary
Gaede, Diane   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

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