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Flood Risk Analysis in Lower Part of Markham River Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Approach (MCDA)

Hydrology, 2016
Papua New Guinea is blessed with a plethora of enviable natural resources, but at the same time it is also cursed by quite a few natural disasters like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslide, floods, droughts etc.
Sailesh Samanta, Cathy Koloa, Dilip Kumar Pal, Babita Palsamanta   +3 more
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Varied motivations for secondary forest reclearing among landholders make forest persistence challenging

People and Nature
Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover.
Francis H. Joyce
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Privatizing Public Lands

Choice Reviews Online, 1995
In the United States, private ownership of land is not a new idea, yet the federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges. Managing these properties is expensive and contentious, and few management decisions escape criticism.
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CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES: CAN INCENTIVES WORK FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS? [PDF]

It has been argued that the traditional regulatory approach of the Endangered Species Act, based on land-use restrictions, has failed to protect endangered species on private land.
Langpap, Christian
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Mapping recent timber harvest activity in a temperate forest using single date airborne LiDAR surveys and machine learning: lessons for conservation planning

GIScience & Remote Sensing
Effective planning for natural resource management and wildlife conservation requires detailed information on vegetation structure at landscape scales and how structure is influenced by land-use practices. In many forested landscapes, the largest impacts
G. Burch Fisher, Andrew J. Elmore, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Darin J. McNeil, Jeff W. Atkins, Jeffery L. Larkin   +5 more
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Use of private lands for foraging by California spotted owls in the central Sierra Nevada

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2014
The use of private land by owls has long been of interest to wildlife managers in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA, because private lands could contribute to owl conservation if it is used extensively. Therefore, we studied the use of private lands for
Perry J. Williams, Sheila A. Whitmore, R. J. Gutiérrez   +2 more
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Envelope Thermal Design Optimization for Urban Residential Buildings in Malawi

Buildings, 2016
This study sought to optimize the envelope thermal design of free-running urban residential buildings in Malawi. It specifically set out to improve the urban residential buildings’ thermal comfort and suggest optimal envelope thermal design features for ...
Amos Kalua
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Constraints on Private Conservation of Biodiversity [PDF]

This paper finds that private sector, which can play an important role in the conservation of biodiversity, is being constrained from doing so by a range of institutional factors.
Productivity Commission
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The practice and promise of private land conservation

Ecology and Society, 2018
In many countries around the globe, private freehold lands cover large areas. Conservation on these private lands, next to statutory protected areas, promises to play a critical role in efforts for reaching internationally agreed environmental protection
Michael Drescher, Jacob C. Brenner
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Harnessing private sector conservation of biodiversity [PDF]

This study draws together and builds on previous research by the Commission on the role of the private sector in the conservation of biodiversity. With more than 60 per cent of Australia's land area under private management, conservation cannot be ...
Productivity Commission
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