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Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate

The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. All of Earth's ecosystems now face the spectre of the accelerated greenhouse effect and rates of change in climatic regimes that have hitherto been unknown. In addition, multiple use forestry – where forests are managed to provide for both a supply of wood and the conservation of biodiversity – can change the floristic composition and vegetation structure of forests with significant implications for wildlife habitat. Wildlife, fire and future climate: a forest ecosystem analysis explores these themes through a landscape-wide study of refugia and future climate i...

The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance

  • Categories: Law

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} This thought-provoking book stimulates dialogue and action on the role of global ethics in the governance of individual societies and the international order. Such inquiry is imperative given the extraordinary challenges that face the world today. Leading figures in environmental ethics, philosophy and law approach questions surrounding global ethics and governance from a range of cultural and philosophical perspectives.

Wildlife, Fire & Future Climate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Wildlife, Fire & Future Climate

The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. This volume explores these themes through a landscape-wide study of refugia and future climate in the tall, wet forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria.

Biodiversity Conservation, Law and Livelihoods: Bridging the North-South Divide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 617

Biodiversity Conservation, Law and Livelihoods: Bridging the North-South Divide

  • Categories: Law

The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Research Studies' third colloquium brought together more than 130 experts from 27 nations on nearly every continent. This book brings together a number of papers presented there and offers a global perspective on biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of sustainable cultures.

The Nature of Northern Australia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

The Nature of Northern Australia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-07-01
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  • Publisher: ANU E Press

Northern Australia stands out as one of the largest natural areas remaining on Earth - alongside such global treasures as the Amazon rainforests, the boreal conifer forests of Alaska and Canada, and the polar wilderness of Antarctica. Nature remains in abundance in 'the North'. Its intact tropical savannas, rainforests, and free flowing rivers provide a basis for much of the economic activity and the quality of life for residents of the area. THE NATURE OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA details the latest science on the Northern environment. With increasing debate over the future of Australias often forgotten North, this is a timely examination of its environmental significance, the ecological processes that make it function, and the economies that are compatible with maintaining healthy communities and people and healthy country into the future.

Green Carbon Part 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

Green Carbon Part 1

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-08-01
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  • Publisher: ANU E Press

The colour of carbon matters. Green carbon is the carbon stored in the plants and soil of natural ecosystems and is a vital part of the global carbon cycle. This report is the first in a series that examines the role of natural forests in the storage of carbon, the impacts of human land use activities, and the implications for climate change policy nationally and internationally. REDD ("reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation") is now part of the agenda for the "Bali Action Plan" being debated in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009. Currently, international rules are blind to the colour of carbon so that the green carbon in natural forests is not rec...

Green Carbon Part 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 125

Green Carbon Part 2

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-11-01
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  • Publisher: ANU E Press

This report is the second in a series that examines the role of natural forests and woodlands in the storage of carbon. Understanding the role of natural ecosystems in carbon storage is an important part of solving the climate change problem. This report presents a landscape-wide green carbon account of the `Great Western Woodlands¿ (GWW), sixteen million hectares of mostly contiguous natural woody vegetation to the east of the wheatbelt in south-western Western Australia. For the first time, we provide an overview of the vegetation structure, climate, geology and historical land use of the GWW, and examine how these interact to affect the carbon dynamics of this region¿s landscape ecosyst...

Educating for a Culture of Social and Ecological Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Educating for a Culture of Social and Ecological Peace

Examines the overlapping aims, values, and concepts in peace and environmental education.

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 631

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics is a powerful reference source for the identification and exploration of the underlying ethical issues in climate change law and policy. Bridging theory with practice, it takes ethical engagement out of the classroom and into the halls of governance. The Handbook‘s 39 chapters--written by a diverse and inter-disciplinary team of experts from around the world--are case studies divided into five parts. Parts I-IV highlight the ethical issues that arise in climate change policy formation, from duties not to harm to duties to consider the views and voices of those who will be, or are being, harmed; from the role of human rights, justice, ...

Patriots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Patriots

Powerful and provocative, Patriots travels through the history and p politics of Australia's conservation movement, and describes a new national identity - an identity deeply enmeshed in nature, an identification with the land that non-Indigenous Australia has lacked