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Wildlife in U.S. Cities: Managing Unwanted Animals

Animals, 2015
Conflicts between people and wild animals in cities are undoubtedly as old as urban living itself. In the United States it is only of late, however, that many of the species now found in cities have come to live there.
John Hadidian
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Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso, Harrison Fried, Karissa Courtney, Jonathan Salerno, Stephanie Kampf, Andrea Baudoin Farah   +5 more
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Mammal Mia: A review on how ecological and human dimension research on urban wild mammals can benefit future biophilic cities

Basic and Applied Ecology
Future cities have the potential to be biodiverse areas in which humans and wildlife can coexist. However, the success of creating or maintaining wildlife-inclusive future cities can be challenged by management actions that are solely based on ecological
Simon S. Moesch, Thilo Wellmann, Dagmar Haase, Manisha Bhardwaj   +3 more
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Conservation and sustainable use of wildlife-based resources: the bushmeat crisis [PDF]

, 2008
This document addresses the hunting of tropical forest wildlife for food (known as "bushmeat", "wild-meat", and/or "game meat"; see 1.2 for the definition).
Bennett, Elisabeth, Brown, David, Christophersen, Tim, Nasi, Robert, Tutin, Caroline E.G., Van Tol, Gijs, Wilkie, David S.   +6 more
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A Comprehensive Review on the Significance, Sources, and Applications of Virtual Water on Global Platform

Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.
A conceptual framework of virtual water showing its sources, major applications, components of the virtual water footprint, and emerging future directions. The diagram emphasizes the growing role of virtual water in global sustainability and resource planning.
Priti Bhowmik, Charu Rajpal, Vinay Kumar Pandey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A conceptual framework to evaluate human-wildlife interactions within coupled human and natural systems

Ecology and Society, 2014
Landscape characteristics affect human-wildlife interactions. However, there is a need to better understand mechanisms that drive those interactions, particularly feedbacks that exist between wildlife-related impacts, human reaction to and behavior as a
Anita T. Morzillo, Kirsten M. de Beurs, Chelsea J. Martin-Mikle   +2 more
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Movement and habitat use of two aquatic turtles (\u3cem\u3eGraptemys geographic\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eTrachemys scripta\u3c/em\u3e) in an urban landscape [PDF]

, 2008
Our study focuses on the spatial ecology and seasonal habitat use of two aquatic turtles in order to understand the manner in which upland habitat use by humans shapes the aquatic activity, movement, and habitat selection of these species in an urban ...
Conner, C A, Douthitt, B A, Ryan, Travis J, Salsbury, Carmen M., Sterrett, S C   +4 more
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What personal and environmental factors determine frequency of urban greenspace use? [PDF]

, 2014
For many people, urban greenspaces are the only places where they encounter the natural world. This is concerning as there is growing evidence demonstrating that human well-being is enhanced by exposure to nature.
Altman, Bibby, Fuller, Godbey, Irvine, Kaplan, Katherine Irvine, Kevin Gaston, Lorraine Maltby, Martin Dallimer, Paul Armsworth, Philip Warren, Rodriquez, Venables, Zoe Davies   +14 more
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Towards Water, Food and Energy Security: The Global Challenges and Possible Solutions for a Holistic Vision of Sustainability

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This invited paper gives an overview of the challenges the world is facing and offers a possible solution for water and food security within the holistic integrated concept of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. The paper summarizes the experience the author gained through working on various research projects at national and international ...
Ragab Ragab
wiley   +1 more source

Health and sustainable development [PDF]

, 2001
If sustainable development is to mean anything, people must be healthy enough to benefit from it and not have their lives cut off prematurely. Development without health is meaningless.
Bradley, D, Cairncross, S, Haines, A, Stephens, C   +3 more
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