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Exploring landowners' perceptions, motivations and needs for voluntary conservation in a cultural landscape

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2020
While efforts to reverse the current global environmental crisis increase, we are still experiencing unprecedented rates of species' extinctions. Traditional cultural landscapes can potentially play an important role for biodiversity conservation ...
Gonzalo Cortés‐Capano   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Les green schools, opportunité contre la ségrégation ou marchandisation du développement durable ? L’exemple du nouvel East Side de Baltimore

open access: yesCahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs, 2020
In a context of school reforms based on school choice and the increased commodification of education in the United States of America since 2000, the purpose of this article is to analyze the stakes of the educative reform integrating sustainable ...
Stéphanie Baffico
doaj   +1 more source

Does Terminology Matter? Effects of the Citizen Science Label on Participation in a Wildlife Conservation Online Platform

open access: yesCitizen Science: Theory and Practice
Despite concerns that sociocultural connotations of the term citizen science may discourage engagement with such projects among certain groups, little empirical evidence is available about the behavioral effects of this terminology.
Poppy McLeod   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

In Defense of Property [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This Article responds to an emerging view, in scholarship and popular society, that it is normatively undesirable to employ property law as a means of protecting indigenous cultural heritage. Recent critiques suggest that propertizing culture impedes the
Carpenter, Kristen A.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Cherokee relationships to land: Reflections on a historic plant gathering agreement between Buffalo National River and the Cherokee Nation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This piece reflects on my involvement in a historic agreement between Buffalo National River and the Cherokee Nation regarding the implementation of the “Gathering of Certain Plants or Plant Parts by Federally Recognized Indian Tribes for Traditional ...
Carroll, Clint
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Adverse Selection in the Environmental Stewardship Scheme: Evidence in the Higher Level Stewardship Scheme? [PDF]

open access: yes
The Environmental Stewardship Scheme provides payments to farmers for the provision of environmental services based on foregone agricultural income. This creates a potential incentive compatibility problem which, combined with an information asymmetry on
Fraser, Iain   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The stewardship of things: Property and responsibility in the management of manufactured goods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In the context of broad-based concerns about the need to move towards a more sustainable materials economy, particularly as they are expressed in debates around ecological modernisation (EM), we argue that product stewardship has radical potential as a ...
Lane, R., Watson, M.
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Stewardship Plan Isinglass River Conservation Reserve, Strafford, NH [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In addition to the significant frontage on the Isinglass River, the Hanson Lot supports myriad wetlands – vernal pools, beaver flowages, forested swamps, meadow marshes, and scrub-shrub wetlands.
Snyder, Ellen, Sperduto, Dan
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Social capital and sustainability of urban environmental groups in Perth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Community based environmental groups have become an integral component of urban environmental stewardship initiatives in Perth metropolitan area. While the utility of Urban Environmental Groups (UEGs) has been recognized by several environmental policies
Dhakal, S.P., Paulin, S.
core   +1 more source

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