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Piemonte Parchi — former paper magazine now on-line, published in Italy by the Piedmont Regional Government; ReNew — Australian magazine first published by the Alternative Energy Co-operative in 1980; Resurgence & Ecologist — British bi-monthly green magazine; Sanctuary Asia — India's first and one of its leading environmental news ...
River restoration to restore ecosystem services is one common application of ecological engineering. Ecological engineering uses ecology and engineering to predict, design, construct or restore, and manage ecosystems that integrate "human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both". [1]
In the life sciences the term adaptability is used variously. At one end of the spectrum, the ordinary meaning of the word suffices for understanding. At the other end, there is the term as introduced by Conrad, [3] referring to a particular information entropy measure of the biota of an ecosystem, or of any subsystem of the biota, such as a population of a single species, a single individual ...
"Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 106 (5): 1305–1312.
In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and subsequently recovering. Such perturbations and disturbances can include stochastic events such as fires, flooding, windstorms, insect population explosions, and human activities such as deforestation, fracking of the ground for oil extraction, pesticide sprayed in soil ...
There are several global centers for the study of road ecology: 1) The Road Ecology Center [3] at the University of California, Davis, which was the first of its kind in the world; 2) the Centro Brasileiro de Estudos em Ecologia de Estradas at the Federal University of Lavras, Brazil; [4] 3) The Center for Transportation and the Environment ...
Adaptive management in a conservation project and program context can trace its roots back to at least the early 1990s, with the establishment of the Biodiversity Support Program (BSP) [7] in 1989. BSP was a USAID -funded consortium of WWF [ 8 ] The Nature Conservancy (TNC), [ 9 ] and World Resources Institute (WRI). [ 10 ]
The British Government's White Paper on Transport [109] marked a change in direction for transport planning in the UK. In the introduction to the White Paper, Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that. We recognise that we cannot simply build our way out of the problems we face. It would be environmentally irresponsible – and would not work.