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The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern
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The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern
Virtually everyone values some aspect of the natural world. Yet many people are surprisingly unconcerned about environmental issues, treating them as the province of special interest groups. Seeking to understand how our appreciation for the beauty of nature and our indifference to its destruction can coexist in us, Shierry Weber Nicholsen explores dimensions of our emotional experience with the natural world that are so deep and painful that they often remain unspoken.The Love of Nature and the End of the World is a gathering of meditations and collages. Its evocations of our emotional attachment to the natural world and the emotional impact of environmental deterioration are meant to encourage individual and collective reflection on a difficult dilemma. Nicholsen draws on work in environmental philosophy and ecopsychology; the writings of psychoanalytic thinkers such as Wilfred Bion, Donald Meltzer, and D. W. Winnicott; and ideas from Buddhist and Sufi traditions. She shows how our emotional responses to the vulnerabilities of the natural world range from intense caring and compassion, through grief and outrage, to diffuse depression. Individual chapters focus on silence and the process whereby we move from the unspoken to the spoken, the love of nature, the "perceptual reciprocity" with the natural world to which we might mature, beauty in the human and natural realms, the psychological impact of the destruction of the natural world, and reflections on the future.
Saving the Gray Whale: People, Politics, and Conservation in Baja California (Society, Environment, and Place)
Once hunted by whalers and now the darling of ecotourists, the gray whale has become part of the culture, history, politics, and geography of Mexico's most isolated region. After the harvesting of gray whales was banned by international law in 1946, their populations rebounded; but while they are no longer hunted for their oil, these creatures are now chased up and down the lagoons of southern Baja California by whalewatchers. This book uses the biology and politics associated with gray whales in Mexican waters to present an unusual case study in conservation and politics. It provides an inside look at how gray whale conservation decisions are made in Mexico City and examines how those policies and programs are carried out in the calving grounds of San Ignacio Lagoon and Magdalena Bay, where catering to ecotourists is now an integral part of the local economy. More than a study of conservation politics, Dedina's book puts a human face on wildlife conservation. The author lived for two years with residents of Baja communities to understand their attitudes about wildlife conservation and Mexican politics, and he accompanied many in daily activities to show the extent to which the local economy depends on whalewatching. "It is ironic," observes Dedina, "that residents of some of the most isolated fishing villages in North America are helping to redefine our relationship with wild animals. Americans and Europeans brought the gray whale population to the brink of extinction. The inhabitants of San Ignacio Lagoon and Magdalena Bay are helping us to celebrate the whales' survival." By showing us how these animals have helped shape the lifeways of the people with whom they share the lagoons, Saving the Gray Whale demonstrates that gray whales represent both a destructive past and a future with hope.The peninsula of Baja California is a place little known even within Mexico, a place, until very recently, of isolated fishing villages and single-lane roads. Now great fleets of fishing boats from all over the world, coupled with a gigantic saltworks and other industrial development, threaten the waters off Baja California--a favored habitat of the gray whale, a creature that has received much attention in recent years.Once endangered throughout much of its range, the gray whale has made a comeback thanks to international efforts to preserve the species. Ecologist Serge Dedina discusses how those efforts can be extended to Baja California, where much of the whale's habitat is threatened. Dedina proposes ways to involve local fishing people in whale conservation, by, for instance, developing a locally owned, whale-watching-based tourist industry of the sort that brings millions of dollars to California and British Columbia, other stops along the gray whale's migratory route. "Conservation," Dedina writes in this engaging study, "is more than a political process. It intersects with the way people live, perceive, and interact with the animals and landscape around them." His book, full of useful lessons, will be of much interest to conservationists working with animals and habitats of all kinds, as well as to anyone concerned about the gray whale's future. --Gregory McNamee
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The New Economy of Nature: The Quest To Make Conservation Profitable Reviews
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The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable
Why shouldn't people who deplete our natural assets have to pay, and those who protect them reap profits? Conservation-minded entrepreneurs and others around the world are beginning to ask just that question, as the increasing scarcity of natural resources becomes a tangible threat to our own lives and our hopes for our children. The New Economy of Nature brings together Gretchen Daily, one of the world's leading ecologists, with Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, to offer an engaging and informative look at a new "new economy" -- a system recognizing the economic value of natural systems and the potential profits in protecting them.
Through engaging stories from around the world, the authors introduce readers to a diverse group of people who are pioneering new approaches to conservation. We meet Adam Davis, an American business executive who dreams of establishing a market for buying and selling "ecosystem service units;" John Wamsley, a former math professor in Australia who has found a way to play the stock market and protect native species at the same time; and Dan Janzen, a biologist working in Costa Rica who devised a controversial plan to sell a conservation area's natural waste-disposal services to a local orange juice producer. Readers also visit the Catskill Mountains, where the City of New York purchased undeveloped land instead of building an expensive new water treatment facility; and King County, Washington, where county executive Ron Sims has dedicated himself to finding ways of "making the market move" to protect the county's remaining open space.
Daily and Ellison describe the dynamic interplay of science, economics, business, and politics that is involved in establishing these new approaches and examine what will be needed to create successful models and lasting institutions for conservation. The New Economy of Nature presents a fundamentally new way of thinking about the environment and about the economy, and with its fascinating portraits of charismatic pioneers, it is as entertaining as it is informative.
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Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration With...
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Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business
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Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business
In 2004, U.S. consumers spent $5.2 billion purchasing bottled water while the government only invested 5 percent of that amount to purchase critical watersheds, parks, and wildlife refuges-systems vital to clean water and healthy environments. How can we reverse the direction of such powerful economic forces?
A group of dedicated business-people-turned-environmental-entrepreneurs is pioneering a new set of tools for land conservation deals and other market-based strategies. These pragmatic visionaries have already used these methods to protect millions of acres of land and to transform the practices of entire industries. They are transforming the very nature of conservation by making it profitable.
Drawing on his vast experience in both business and land conservation at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), William Ginn offers a practical guide to these innovative methods and a road map to the most effective way to implement them. From conservation investment banking, to emerging markets for nature's goods and services, to new tax incentives that encourage companies to do the "right" thing, Ginn goes beyond the theories to present real-world applications and strategies. And, just as importantly, he looks at the lessons learned from what has not worked, including his own failed efforts in Papua New Guinea and TNC's controversial compatible development approach in Virginia. In an era of dwindling public resources and scarce charitable dollars, these tools reveal a new, and perhaps the only, pathway to achieving biodiversity goals and protecting our lands.
Conservation professionals, students of land conservation, and entrepreneurs interested in green business will find Ginn's tales of high-finance deals involving vast tracts of pristine land both informative and exciting. More than just talk, Investing in Nature will teach you how to think big about land conservation.
Infinite Nature
In this impassioned and judicious work, R. Bruce Hull argues that environmentalism will never achieve its goals unless it sheds its fundamentalist logic. The movement is too bound up in polarizing ideologies that pit humans against nature, conservation against development, and government regulation against economic growth. Only when we acknowledge the infinite perspectives on how people should relate to nature will we forge solutions that are respectful to both humanity and the environment.
Infinite Nature explores some of these myriad perspectives, from the scientific understandings proffered by anthropology, evolution, and ecology, to the promise of environmental responsibility offered by technology and economics, to the designs of nature envisioned in philosophy, law, and religion. Along the way, Hull maintains that the idea of nature is social: in order to reach the common ground where sustainable and thriving communities are possible, we must accept that many natures can and do exist.
Incisive, heartfelt, and brimming with practical solutions, Infinite Nature brings a much-needed and refreshing voice to the table of environmental reform.
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John Burroughs Wrote on Nature Subjects and Inspired the Early Conservation Movement, 1901 Photographic Poster Print, 12×16
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John Burroughs Wrote on Nature Subjects and Inspired the Early Conservation Movement, 1901 Photographic Poster Print, 12x16
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Faces of Change, The Conservation of the Blue Wall [VHS]
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Faces of Change, The Conservation of the Blue Wall [VHS]
Faces of Change: The Conservation of the Blue Wall tells the story of the dedicated people, including attorney Tommy Wyche, who have worked for decades to conserve a unique area that lies on the border of the Carolinas. Hosted by Joanne Woodward, this is the story of the conservation of the Jocassee Gorges area in the Carolinas.
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Tigers Conservation Still in Progress
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Recently at a meeting held by officials under Project Tiger, it was decided that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would release the tiger census report on 27 or 28 March in New Delhi. During the listing of tiger census data, the Centre has asked the state governments to strengthen steps to protect wildlife in India.
According to YV Jhala, Scientists from Wildlife Institute of India, the data has been mapped and classified depending on the region and state and to check accuracy GIS formatting has been used.
Almost all places have been covered in the project except the northeastern states, as the region is quite different and difficult. The reason behind it is that most of the regions there cannot be accessed by road whereas the scientists have to walk miles for the project. Thus, the tiger census will be conducted from March to July whereas the report will be released later.
As per the initial plan the report for census was to be released by the by July, but as the National Tiger Conservation Authority and ministry of environment & forests wanted the report by the end of July, they are hence releasing it in March end.
The census was done by forest department officials along with two NGOs, Centre for Wildlife Studies and Nature Conservation Foundation. The meeting was held in January 2009 for three days using camera trapping and field survey. The conservation steps taken by the state, according to which 20% of India’s tiger population live in 5% of its forest areas, has been appreciated by the World Bank. Apart from all this, a burden is adding day by day on state with the increase in population of tiger in india.
If we look at previous survey reports, India has 1,411 tigers, on an average, in which Madhya Pradesh houses 300 tigers whereas Karnataka has 290 tigers in all. Karnataka has approx 40,236 sq km of forest out of which forests cover 18,715 sq km in three tiger constituted areas. Spread across 10,800 sq km Nagarhole-Madhumalai-Wynad patch of forest houses 190 tigers. 7,054 sq km occupied by Kudremukh-Bhadra forest houses 58 tigers and Sharavathi Valley-Dandeli- Khanapur has an average of 33 tigers.
Daxinganling strengthen the construction of nature reserve management
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Daxinganling recently issued a circular, in-depth implementation of the “State Forestry Administration on strengthening the nature reserve management view”, and propose specific requirements.
First, unity of thinking, to raise awareness and define responsibilities. Localities to attach great importance to the construction and management of nature reserves, the management of nature conservation into the important agenda-building, fully aware of the importance of construction of nature reserves and urgency, to correctly handle the ecological protection and economic development relationship. A clear responsibility to work to implement the tasks, and constantly increase the protection and construction efforts.
Second, sound institutions, strengthen management, solid work. Construction and management of nature reserves is the county government and the responsibility of forestry enterprises, localities and departments concerned to strengthen wildlife protection and the construction of nature reserve management institutions, there is no institution for the establishment to determine the organization, staffing; established institutions, according to the actual work needs to be constantly enriched and improved to form a highly efficient, streamlined nature reserve management system. Current and future construction and management of nature reserves must adhere to the “scale of development” and “content development” the principle of attaching equal importance, we should improve the system, strengthening management and improving management of protected areas and protection performance. For the establishment of protected areas or not the small size protected areas where construction should increase efforts to implement the responsibility objectives, as soon as possible to establish a rational layout, features significant structural integrity of nature reserves. Protected areas have been established to strengthen management, in the deepening of the “content” to make big efforts in improving the institutional establishment, rules and regulations, community co-management and conduct of forest, wetland assessment and ecological monitoring and so positioning should be greatly improved.
Third, actively raise funds to accelerate the pace of nature reserve. Localities to actively raise funds construction and management of nature reserves. To seek funding through various channels. Year to build and manage protected areas include the funds required for annual financial (financial) budget. Protection and management departments at all levels should actively seek provincial and national finance in natural resources protection and ecological compensation invested, to eco-tourism and resources through appropriate development and utilization continued to improve the self-supporting capacity of nature reserves.
Fourth, to protect the nature reserve resources according to law. Localities according to the “Forest Law”, “Wild Animal Protection Law”, “Conservation Ordinance”, “Heilongjiang Wetlands Ordinance” and other laws and regulations and documentation requirements, according to the law to fulfill the forest nature reserves, wetlands, protected species and management of the firm to stop all deforestation, hunting, Unchecked Excavation, encroachment of wetlands and other illegal activities.
Fifth, actively promote the scientific use of the work of Nature Reserve. To actively and steadily push forward throughout the experimental nature reserve area of natural resources protection and rational use of scientific work. Use of natural resources of protected areas work in the Nature Reserve is currently limited to carrying out experiments in the region to be used in the preparation of program resources or eco-tourism planning and environmental impact assessment and impact evaluation of the main object of protection, based on reports by the State scientific evidence and FDA approval before their implementation.
6 is to strengthen the supervision of the management of nature reserve. It is imperative to strengthen the supervision of construction and management of nature reserves, to ensure the effective use of the capital investment. The Bureau of Forestry’s forest resources deployed to increase oversight and management of nature reserves construction supervision. To encourage and support community groups, individuals and news media on the nature reserve management oversight, improve management of protected areas and protection.
Seventh, construction and management of nature reserves to check up and evaluate. Daxinganling will as soon as possible the appropriate assessment and evaluation measures and methods, since 2006, will be around the nature reserve construction and management of the target-assessment and performance assessment, evaluation results will be notified in the region. They must plan on the basis of science, and actively carry out a construction and management of nature reserves, increasing the protection area, to improve the level of protection and management, ecological protection and construction for the sustained and healthy development of regional economy.
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