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Definitions of Biodiversity and Measures of Its Value
Simpson, R. David - 2002
The destruction of natural habitats has prompted concerns about the loss of biological diversity. Regrettably, however, there is no consensus among either biologists or economists on the most meaningful measures of biodiversity. Fundamentally different definitions are useful in asking...
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Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project: Management, Data and Habitat, Annual Report 2001-2002.
Sampson, Melvin R. - 2008
The Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project (YKFP or Project) is an all stock initiative that is responding to the need for scientific knowledge for rebuilding and maintaining naturally spawning anadromous fish stocks in both basins. The Yakama Nation, as the Lead Agency, in coordination with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435512
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Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project : Management, Data and Habitat, Annual Report 2002-2003.
Sampson, Melvin R. - 2008
The Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project (YKFP or Project) is an all stock initiative that is responding to the need for scientific knowledge for rebuilding and maintaining naturally spawning anadromous fish stocks in both basins. The Yakama Nation, as the Lead Agency, in coordination with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436307
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Mitigation action plan sale of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 (Elk Hills) Kern County, California
2009
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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IOGCC/DOE oil and gas environmental workshop
2008
The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) in cooperation with US Department of Energy (DOE) has developed a workshop format to allow state regulatory officials and industry representatives the opportunity to participate in frank and open discussions on issues of environmental...
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PARTICULARITIES AND THREATS ON THE BIODIVERSITY FROM CROATIA
BĂLTĂREŢU, Andreea - 2010
Because it has a specific geographic position and it’s situated at the crossroads of several bio-geographical regions and as a result of its ecological characteristics, the climate and geo-morphological conditions, Croatia is one of the wealthiest countries from Europe concerning the...
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Ecosystem services: Foundations, opportunities, and challenges for the forest products sector.
Patterson, Trista M.; Coelho, Dana L. - 2009
The ecosystem service concept has been proposed as a meaningful framework for natural resource management. In theory it … from developing concrete and enduring responses to emerging ecosystem service markets, policies, and initiatives. Principle … among these barriers is that the ecosystem service concept has a complex history, numerous definitions in use, and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429526
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Estimating the Opportunity Cost of Lithium Extraction in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
Aguilar-Fernandez, Rodrigo - 2009
sensitive ecosystem heavily dependent on water resources. Consequently, local people’s subsistence and well-being also depend on …. Nevertheless, the distributional and social differences have to be carefully assessed in the future according to the ecosystem … ecosystem. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475425
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Value of Natural Resources: Deschutes River Corridor and its Water
Hartmann, Brian; Kasameyer, Michael; Springer, Nathan - 2011
The Deschutes River in Central Oregon provides numerous ecosystem services benefits to the region.This study analyzed … commercial salmon fishing. Using revealed preference methodologiesto assess ecosystem services benefits to these industries, the …
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