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Transforming a Poaching Hotspot: Embedded NGO Governance Between State and Community in Southern China

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Linking Ecosystem-Service Perceptions and Wool Valorisation in Alpine Sheep Farming Systems. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Costamagna C, Merlino VM, Petrontino A, Degli Esposti A, Cornale P, Borra D, Battaglini LM.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mountain Forum Bulletin: Mountain biodiversity: Lifleine for the future

, 2009
Articles in this edition of the Mountain Forum Bulletin ...

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Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract We aimed to evaluate the mental health benefits and possible mechanisms of objective and subjective treescape exposures whilst also accounting for relationships with residential area greenspace in general. Independent variables were objective measures of residential neighbourhood tree cover density and woody linear features, and a subjective ...
Ian Alcock, David Sheffield, Piran C. L. White, Peter A. Coventry, Merryn L. Hunt, Miles Richardson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Melting Mountains, Shifting Microbiomes: Reconsidering Microbial Roles in Post-Glacial Ecosystem Services. [PDF]

Curr Opin Environ Sustain
Kumar A, Dahal N, Lamichhaney S, Kumar R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The magnitude and economic replacement value of wild meat obtained from ‘recreational’ big game hunting in the United States

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Meat production has notable benefits for food security, nutrition and various production economies, but has elicited substantial negative environmental impacts. Recreational hunting provides an alternative to agricultural meat production for over 24 million hunters worldwide.
Shane P. Mahoney, Richard D. Honor
wiley   +1 more source

Reforestation Under Climate Change-A Cross-Regional Deadwood Retention Experiment to Develop Multifunctional Forests on Disturbed Norway Spruce Areas. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Putzenlechner B, Zwanzig M, Bässler C, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Ebert J, Grieger S, Koal P, Oechler H, Peter D, Profft I, Spaleck S, Steinebrunner F, Tischer A, Thorn S, Wehnert A, Zhou X, Huth F.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Biodiversity bibliography: Economics of forest and mountain biodiversity

, 2008
The bibliography includes titles relating to forest ecosystems (valuation, policies, conservation and management) and mountain ...

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Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover while also maximising the benefits of forests for people and improving community engagement with the process of ...
Sarah Greenwood, Elisa Fuentes‐Montemayor, Catherine Cowie, James Levine, Piran C. L. White, Michael Wilson, Sandra Engstrom   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduced Fish in Mountains: State of Published Research on their Removal from Lentic Ecosystems. [PDF]

Environ Manage
Cogălniceanu D, Stănescu F, Tănase TL, Vlad SE, Snethlage M, Ranipeta A, Urbach D.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source