Biodiversity Offsets Between Regulation and Voluntary Commitment

Leading with Pedagogical Tact- a Challenge in Children's Sports in Sweden The purpose of this article is to elucidate and problemize meetings between children and leaders in children's sport. The competitive sport is high valuated in the Swedish society and sport for children is central in the Swedish youth politics. The foundation in Swedish sport, as well as in the other Nordic countries, has for a long time relied on voluntary commitment. Approximately 650 000 people are voluntary engaged as leaders in sport in Sweden and 70% of children between 7 and 14 years compete in sports clubs. There is, however, a tension in the Swedish sport system. The sports for children has double missions - ‘association nurturing’ and ‘competition nurturing’, missions which are not always in harmony. In the daily activity it is the voluntary leaders who have to deal with these missions, which creates a field of tension. In this article I argue for a bridge between these missions by a leadership based on pedagogical tact. The empirical outlook is a narrative based on statements from leaders, children and parents in a study dealing with voluntary leadership within children's football. In the end I argue that focusing on this bridge is a win-win situation, both for children and sports.

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Biodiversity Offsets in New Zealand: Another Round

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2328631 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Vernon John Charles Rive

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Biodiversity Offsets

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Critical Thinking and Clear Writing

News for Teachers of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s019790190000177x ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Anne F. Lee

Keyword(s):

Critical Thinking ◽

Political Science ◽

Liberal Arts ◽

Writing Proficiency ◽

Science Students ◽

Writing Class ◽

Voluntary Commitment ◽

The University

As part of an on-going effort at West Oahu College (a small, liberal arts, upper-division campus of the University of Hawaii) I am experimenting with ways to help my political science students improve their ability to think critically and communicate clearly. For some time we have been aware of a large number of students having difficulties in writing and critical thinking. We have made an informal and voluntary commitment to use writing-across-thecurriculum (WAC) with faculty participating in workshops and conferring with the writing instructor who coordinates our WAC program.1In-coming students must now produce a writing proficiency sample which is analyzed, returned with numerous comments, and results in students being urged to take a writing class if there are serious problems. A writing lab is offered several times a week and students are free to drop in for help.

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When is an Offset Not an Offset? A Framework of Necessary Conditions for Biodiversity Offsets

Environmental Management ◽

10.1007/s00267-020-01415-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 67 (2) ◽

pp. 424-435

Author(s):

Jenny Pope ◽

Angus Morrison-Saunders ◽

Alan Bond ◽

Francois Retief

Keyword(s):

Necessary Conditions ◽

Biodiversity Offsets

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Biodiversity Offset Program Design and Implementation

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11246903 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (24) ◽

pp. 6903 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Marie Grimm ◽

Johann Köppel

Keyword(s):

Program Design ◽

Landscape Scale ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

No Net Loss ◽

Regulatory Frameworks ◽

Biodiversity Offsets ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Mitigation Hierarchy ◽

Balance Development ◽

Biodiversity Offset

Biodiversity offsets are applied in many countries to compensate for impacts on the environment, but research on regulatory frameworks and implementation enabling effective offsets is lacking. This paper reviews research on biodiversity offsets, providing a framework for the analysis of program design (no net loss goal, uncertainty and ratios, equivalence and accounting, site selection, landscape-scale mitigation planning, timing) and implementation (compliance, adherence to the mitigation hierarchy, leakage and trade-offs, oversight, transparency and monitoring). Some more challenging aspects concern the proper metrics and accounting allowing for program evaluation, as well as the consideration of trade-offs when regulations focus only on the biodiversity aspect of ecosystems. Results can be used to assess offsets anywhere and support the creation of programs that balance development and conservation.

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