How successful can the management of fragile environments be‚ given the constant and increasing demand for their exploitation? A fragile environment is an area where the flora and fauna have adapted to a specific climate and evolved to occupy many different niches due to extremely high competition for resources. Furthermore due to the constant abiotic conditions‚ specialisation and symbiotic relationships have occurred to such a degree that even the slightest ecological or environmental disruption
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There is a estimated more than 100 uncontacted and isolated tribes around the world. Imagine someone who had never seen a car‚ used the internet‚ or even learned to start a fire‚ all of the things that we use in our everyday lives. Some may consider these individuals to be “ underdeveloped”‚ but what if their way of living was much more complicated than we could have ever imagined? Hidden in the Amazon rain forest‚ there remains the Lost City of Z a wonder that has been dreamt about by many explorers
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SMA/ENVIR 476 Fall 2005 Klamath Basin Case Study Description of the assignment This case study casts you as a member of the fictitious Klamath Sustainable Economic Development Committee (KSEDC). The KSEDC is composed of experts from various perspectives‚ including government‚ industry‚ academia‚ and environmentalists. Your task is to analyze the Klamath Basin case study materials and make recommendations to the Klamath River Basin Federal Working Group (KRBF)‚ with the goal of mitigating
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| Dean Kuhlman | Research Paper HI-315VC | | | | | | | Kit Carson is best known for his role in the expansion of the West as a trapper‚ explorer‚ scout and American soldier. Carson not only spent time carving the path to the west‚ he defended it in battle as an officer in the U.S. Army. One of the most famous mountain men of the Westward movement‚ Carson has had several landmarks‚ cities‚ and areas named after him. Among these are Carson‚ Colorado‚ Carson City‚ Nevada
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Introduction The tourism industry is rapidly becoming one of the fastest growing and successful industries‚ with revenue of recorded 693 million international tourist arrivals in 2001‚ reported by World Tourism Organization (WTO)‚ nevertheless its definition cannot be agreed on. Youell (1998; pg.9) presents a definition given by WTO in 1993 defining tourism as “activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure
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Conservation of Biodiversity in Peruvian Amazonia through integrated action 139 Conservation of Biodiversity in Peruvian Amazonia through integrated action Conservación de Biodiversidad en la Amazonía peruana a través de acciones integradas Sanna-Kaisa Juvonen1*‚ Luis Campos Baca2‚ León Bendayan Acosta2‚ Ada Castillo Ordinola2‚ Lizardo Fachin Malaverri2‚ Darwin Gómez Ventocilla2‚ Risto Kalliola2‚ Kember Mejía Carhuanca2‚ José Luis Mena Alvarez2‚ Víctor Miyakawa Solís2‚ Fernando Rodríguez Achung2
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HONOUR AND SHAME IN THE MED. By the end of the 1950s a group of anthropologists‚ led by J. G. Peristiany‚ started a discussion about the existence of the Mediterranean as a territory characterized by some common features that assured its cultural homogeneity. One of the main publications that contributed to found the anthropology of the Mediterranean was the anthology Honour and Shame: The Values of Mediterranean Society edited by Peristiany (1966). Even if Peristiany and Pitt-Rivers have claimed
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part of the country. They pass through various kinds of environment on their journey to the sea. The Murray River and the Darling River are the two main rivers in the Murray-Darling River Basin. A river basin is the area of land that surrounds a river‚ from the headwaters to the mouth. The Murray-Darling Basin measures over one million square kilometres‚ which is almost one-seventh of all the land in Australia. The Murray is over 2‚500 kilometres long. Islands and Reefs A coral reef is an accumulation
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Utilization of Remote Sensing For River Basin Stuides Aroboinosen Hillary Department of Agricultural and Bio-Resources Engineering‚ Federal University of Technology‚ Minna‚ Niger State‚ Nigeria. Email: aroby_hillary@yahoo.com June 2013 Abstract The efficient management and use of water resources is a prime concern all over the world. This sometimes leads to scarcity creating an environment of tension and conflict‚ on the other hand excess of water can cause flooding and became a threat
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER CONFLICT IN THE NILE BASIN: IMPLICATION FOR EGYPT NATIONAL SECURITY BY IDAMA OGHENEROBO SUPREME PG/PHD/11/59989 BEING A SECOND SEMINAR PAPER PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE‚ UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA‚ NSUKKA‚ IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE Ph.D IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION) SUPERVISOR: PROF E.E. EZEANI MARCH 2012 ABSTRACT CONTENTS Abstract
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