Recently added articles from Environments:
Is there anything "good" about Everglades restoration?
Aug 01, 2007; O'Brien, William E. ... <Pre> Will restoration become a practice that turns out ecosystems as predictable commodities, in perfect order, according to the principles of technical expertise? Alternatively, will it remain a heterogeneous ambition, one imbued with community intelligence and ...
On "is there anything "good" about Everglades restoration?".(COMMENTARY)
Aug 01, 2007; Higgs, Eric ... William O'Brien and Jennifer McIvor pose an elegant general question: how do large-scale top-down restoration projects fare against expanded definitions of restoration? The Everglades restoration project is a terrific case to examine, although it is perhaps at this stage more an exception ...
Restoration in mind: placing ecological restoration in a cultural context.(Report)
Aug 01, 2007; Edgar, Tricia ... Introduction A dry stream, a disappearing forest, and a vision of what used to be: this is how many restoration projects begin. Wanting to restore the landscape that once existed in a place, people research, plan, organize, and plant. They revitalize the ecosystem: streams flow ...
Capturing the past and planning for the future: building a digital library for Oregon's Sustainable Community.(Report)
Aug 01, 2007; Lai, Smyth A. ... Introduction Portland, Oregon has a reputation for strong land use planning, protecting green space, and investing in a regional transportation system. Various reports, maps, meeting notes and other planning documentation have been produced by the agencies responsible for these ...
Linking integrated community sustainability planning and watershed planning in Ontario, Canada.(Report)
Aug 01, 2007; Durley, Jennifer L. ... Introduction Watershed planning is continuing to move in the direction of integrated resource management in the Province of Ontario, Canada. For example, the focus of watershed management has evolved since the creation of Ontario's Conservation Authorities in the late 1940s ...
Motivations, training and supervision of volunteers in conservation.(RESEARCH NOTE)
Aug 01, 2007; Douglas, Caitlin ... Introduction Ecological monitoring is widely regarded as fundamental to the protection, utilization and management of the Earth's natural resources (Vaughan et al. 2001, Firbank et al. 2003, Spellerberg 2005). By its very nature, ecological monitoring is labour intensive and ...
Sustainability and the city: introduction.(SPECIAL SECTION)
Aug 01, 2007; Haluza-DeLay, Randolph ... The three papers in this special section originated as presentations of a panel at the 2006 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held at York University. Since the Congress theme was "The City," the topic of "Sustainability and the City" was an obvious one. That "sustainability" ...
Community-based solutions to urban sustainability.
Aug 01, 2007; Teelucksingh, Cheryl ... Urban sustainability is going to be the challenge of this century. The world's urban population is expected to reach 5.1 billion by 2025--with urban defined as any settlement of at least 2000 residents (Oucho, 2001). This means that by 2025, nearly two-thirds of the world's total ...
Genuine wealth: building economies of well-being.(Essay)
Aug 01, 2007; Anielski, Mark ... Robert Kennedy, in one of his last public speeches in 1968, noted that "Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things." He went on with a stinging critique of the primary measure of economic ...
Sustainable cities: fact or fiction?(Essay)
Aug 01, 2007; Dale, Ann ... What makes a city sustainable? Is it a question of limits or scale--can a city be too big, can a community be too small to be sustainable? Or is it the most energy-efficient state-of-the-art green buildings and recycling programs that make a city sustainable? Or is it about good transit, ...
Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2007; Tyser, Rob ... Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times Fremling, Calvin R. 2005. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 472 pages, ISBN 0-299-20290-9 (cloth) / ISBN 0-299-20294-1 (paper), CDN $70.00 (cloth), CDN $29.95 (paper). Calvin Fremling, ...
The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Values.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2007; Carolan, Michael S. ... The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Values Kalof, Linda and Terre Satterfield (eds.) 2005. London: Earthscan, 368 pages, ISBN 1-84407-1677 (hardcover)/1-84407-1669 (paper), [pounds sterling]80.00 (hardcover), [pounds sterling]22.95 (paper) The field of environmental ...
Challenged Earth: An Overview of Humanity's Stewardship of Earth.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2007; Bocking, Stephen ... Challenged Earth: An Overview of Humanity's Stewardship of Earth Lincoln, Stephen F. 2006. London: Imperial College Press, 533 pages, ISBN 1-86094-526-0 (hardcover), [pounds sterling]34.00 (hardcover) This is an ambitious book, attempting no less than an overview of ...
Deep Futures: Our Prospects for Survival.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2007; Tonn, Bruce ... Deep Futures: Our Prospects for Survival Cocks, D. 2003. Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2671-4 (cloth)/ 0-7735-2672-2 (paper), CDN $80.00 (cloth), CDN $32.95 (paper). How will we be able to survive the next ice age if we ...