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Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 (NPR-1, also called {open_quotes}Elk Hills{close_quotes}), a Federally-owned oil and gas production field in Kern County, California, was created by an Executive Order issued by President Taft on September 2, 1912. He signed another Executive Order on December 13,...
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). Users can tailor inputs like acreage availability, forest type, and start-up costs to yield rough estimates of project and … tree planting projects, not existing forest tracts. …
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declining stocks of timber to support forest-dependent livelihoods and biodiversity, and large recurring emissions of … decades of overharvesting and clearing to bridge supply gaps, Indonesia’s forests and forest industries are in a crisis, with … and forest-sector policies which reduce market distortions, improve market transparency and liquidity, and raise domestic …
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-aged Eucalyptus pilularis (Smith) experiment in New South Wales,. Australia. The magnitude of spatial dependence changed as the …
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dramatischen Verlust der Artenvielfalt und einem drastischen Rückgang der Populationsgrößen von Segetalarten. Eine Reihe von …
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As defined by Ascher, biocomplexity results from a "multiplicity of interconnected relationships and levels." However, no integrative framework yet exists to facilitate the application of this concept to coupled human-natural systems. Indeed, the term "biocomplexity" is still used primarily as a...
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"Integration of biodiversity conservation into economic utilization of natural resources has become a central response … for biodiversity conservation. We analyze the scale, scope, and distribution of the resources and competencies that …
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as a step toward institutionalized reward schemes for agro-biodiversity using questionnaires and roleplaying games (RPG …
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"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to … conserving biodiversity is context-specific. "This paper addresses the question of where to vest different forms of authority to … ensure biodiversity conservation and an equitable distribution of benefits and costs. There has been little theory or …
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, one might expect a U-shaped relationship between per capita wealth and the proportion of a country’s forest that is … among 35 tropical forest countries. To do so, I introduced the use of quantile regression and spatial filtering, addressing … proportion of their forests, a proxy measure for biodiversity. However, a closer examination of conservation practices and …
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