Linking Australia's Landscapes

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Biosphere Reserves ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
Natural Resource Managers

Networks of land managed for conservation across different tenures have rapidly increased in number (and popularity) in Australia over the past two decades. These include iconic large-scale initiatives such as Gondwana Link, the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, Habitat 141°, and the South Australian NatureLinks, as well as other, landscape-scale approaches such as Biosphere Reserves and Conservation Management Networks. Their aims have been multiple: to protect the integrity and resilience of many Australian ecosystems by maintaining and restoring large-scale natural landscapes and ecosystem processes; to lessen the impacts of fragmentation; to increase the connectivity of habitats to provide for species movement and adaptation as climate changes; and to build community support and involvement in conservation. This book draws out lessons from a variety of established and new connectivity conservation initiatives from around Australia, and is complemented by international examples. Chapters are written by leaders in the field of establishing and operating connectivity networks, as well as key ecological and social scientists and experts in governance. Linking Australia's Landscapes will be an important reference for policy makers, natural resource managers, scientists, and academics and tertiary students dealing with issues in landscape-scale conservation, ecology, conservation biology, environmental policy, planning and management, social sciences, regional development, governance and ecosystem services.

What Makes a Good Farm for Wildlife?

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B Lindenmayer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Agricultural Management ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Farm Level ◽  
Intensive Research ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Natural Resource Managers

This book brings together extensive scientific learning on what makes a good farm for biodiversity. Based on thirteen years of intensive research, it breaks the discussion into chapters on key environmental and vegetation assets and then discusses how to make these assets better for biodiversity. The work encompasses information on vertebrates and invertebrates on farms and their relationships with significant vegetation and environmental assets: woodland remnants, plantings, paddocks, rocky outcrops and waterways. A chapter is dedicated to each asset and how it can be managed. In the final chapter, the authors discuss the aggregation of these assets at the farm level – bringing all of the information together and also highlighting some landscape-scale perspectives on agricultural management for enhanced biodiversity. What Makes a Good Farm for Wildlife? is written in an engaging style and includes colour photographs and information boxes. It will be an important reference for landholders, hobby farmers, vineyard owners, naturalists interested in birds and other native animals, people from Catchment Management Authorities, natural resource managers and policy makers.

scholarly journals Shrinking Large-Scale Population-Projection Models by Aggregation and Decomposition

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 515-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Rogers
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Population Projection ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scale Population ◽  
Digital Computers

During the past two decades social scientists have come to model dynamic socioeconomic systems of growing size and complexity. Despite a heavy reliance on ever more sophisticated high-speed digital computers, however, computer capacity for handling such systems has not kept pace with the growing demands for more detailed information. Consequently, it is becoming ever more important to identify those aspects of a system which permit one to deal with parts of it independently from the rest or to treat relationships among particular subsystems as though they were independent of the relationships within those subsystems. These questions are, respectively, those of decomposition and aggregation, and their application toward ‘shrinking’ large-scale population projection models is the focus of this paper.

Planting for Wildlife

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Munro ◽  
David Lindenmayer
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Domestic Livestock ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Natural Resource Managers ◽  
A Site

Across Australia, woodlands are increasingly being planted on formerly cleared or semi-cleared land. Such revegetation efforts can improve biodiversity of farm wildlife, enhance aesthetics of the landscape and even boost farm production. Planting for Wildlife provides the latest information on restoring woodlands, with particular emphasis on plantings as habitat for wildlife. Key topics include why it is important to revegetate, where to plant, how to prepare a site, how to maintain and manage plantings, and how they change over time. The authors focus on the south-eastern grazing region where domestic livestock grazing and/or cropping have been prominent forms of land use. These agricultural landscapes have suffered widespread land degradation and significant losses of biodiversity. Revegetation is a vital step towards solving these problems. The book includes high-quality colour photographs to support the themes discussed. It is ideal for natural resource managers; field staff from state and federal government agencies; landholders; hobby farmers; vineyard owners; naturalists interested in birds, conservation and revegetation; as well as policy makers in regional, state and federal government.

Evidence, explanation, and telling histories of violence: A response to Dragojević, Braun, and Fedorowycz

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 1154-1158
Author(s):  
Max Bergholz
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Effects Of Violence

In myriad forms, violence remains a crucial and, arguably, an increasingly dominant form of political practice by a host of actors in the contemporary world. It is thus not surprising that during the past two decades research on various aspects of violence has increased significantly. Historians have long been the central chroniclers of the violent past, but others, especially social scientists, have recently moved into the spotlight with a host of compelling analyses about the origins, dynamics, and effects of violence, including those of riots, pogroms, civil war, and genocide, among others. Today, the story of violent human behavior is one that many scholars seek to tell and explain, and in a host of different ways — from research methodology and scale, to narrative style. Yet regardless of who seeks to tell histories of violence, the question of what drives people to inflict immense pain and large-scale death on others continues to remain a perplexing question in today's world, and thus is one that remains in urgent need of attention from researchers.

Defining psychological maltreatment: The relationship between questions and answers

1991 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Wald
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Psychological Maltreatment ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

Over the past 30 years, hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of dollars have been spent on research related to child maltreatment. Yet, with some notable exceptions, this research has produced disappointingly little information that is relevant to policy-makers. In part, this reflects the difficulty of doing policy-relevant research, a problem exacerbated by the unwillingness of most funding sources to support the types of large-scale research projects needed to answer many policy questions. However, part of the blame lies with the research community itself. Too often, researchers have failed to understand the policy issues at stake. As a result, they have not asked the right questions or utilized appropriate research designs. In fact, they often have failed to conceptualize adequately the questions they were trying to address.

Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Landscape Restoration ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Temperate Woodlands ◽  
Science Management ◽  
Natural Resource Managers ◽  
Policy Arenas ◽  
Conservation And Management

This book summarises the main discoveries, management insights and policy initiatives in the science, management and policy arenas associated with temperate woodlands in Australia. More than 60 of Australia’s leading researchers, policy makers and natural resource managers have contributed to the volume. It features new perspectives on the integration of woodland management and agricultural production, including the latest thinking about whole of paddock restoration and carbon farming, as well as financial and social incentive schemes to promote woodland conservation and management. Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management will be a key supporting aid for farmers, natural resource managers, policy makers, and people involved in NGO landscape restoration and management.

Environmental rights in the Asia Pacific region: taking stock and assessing impacts

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-206
Author(s):  
Joshua Gellers ◽  
Chris Jeffords
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Environmental Rights ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adoption And Implementation

Since their emergence in the 1970s, human rights relating to environmental protection have spread all over the world and continue to find homes in an ever-growing list of national constitutions. These provisions mainly fall into one of three categories – substantive, procedural, or derivative environmental rights. Over the last two decades, the proliferation of these rights has caught the attention of legal scholars and social scientists, who have sought to catalogue their distribution and analyze the origins and impacts of this development. The literature in this area has provided anecdotal updates concerning environmental rights jurisprudence at the national and regional levels and global quantitative assessments regarding the effects that such rights have on humans and the environment. However, scant work offers regionally-focused empirical examinations of the variation of the presence and impacts of environmental rights. In an effort toward filling this gap, this article utilizes statistical techniques in order to determine what, if any, correlation exists between environmental rights and environmental performance in the Asia Pacific region. Preliminary results suggest that, over the past several years, countries with environmental rights have experienced strong improvements in ecosystem vitality but weak reductions in measures of environmental health. In addition, there is evidence of important intra-regional differences – South and South-West Asia lay claim to some of the world's most innovative environmental rights jurisprudence, while North and Central Asia possess the region's greatest concentration of constitutions featuring environmental rights. The article concludes with several recommendations for policy-makers in the region regarding the adoption and implementation of environmental rights.

Community forestry in Ontario

1994 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 725-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Harvey ◽  
Brian Hillier
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Community Forestry ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Forestry Project

Policy-makers and resource managers are attempting to define more-effective mechanisms for involving the local community in forest land management for many years. In the past five years, renewed attention has been given to the opportunity for empowering local communities with decision-making and program delivery responsibilities. The community forestry project in Ontario is one example of policy-makers, resource managers and local communities trying to bridge the gap between community development and resource management. With the assistance of four pilot projects, a research project and public discussion, a community forestry strategy is under development in Ontario. While it may take years to produce indisputable results through trials at the local level, three years of work have already enriched our understanding of the interface between human settlements and natural resources and of alternative means for successful stewardship. Key words: community forestry, community forest, Ontario

Everything Old is New Again? Processes and Theories of Immigrant Incorporation

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 1096-1111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Dewind ◽  
Philip Kasinitz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Incorporation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
International Migration Review ◽  
The Past

After three decades of renewed, large-scale immigration to the United States, social scientists are increasingly turning their attention to processes of immigrant incorporation and reexamining the perspectives of social scientists who studied similar processes in the past. This essay reviews the insights and questions raised by the foregoing articles in this special issue of the International Migration Review and assesses their theoretical contributions to understanding relations between immigrants and native-born Americans in contemporary processes of incorporation.

scholarly journals The importance of social values in the prioritization of research: a quantitative example and generalizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Falcy
Keyword(s):  
Utility Function ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Vital Rates ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Projection Model ◽  
Structured Decision Making ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Natural Resource Managers ◽  
Value Of Perfect Information

1. Identifying critical uncertainties about ecological systems can help prioritize research efforts intended to inform management decisions. However, exclusively focusing on the ecological system neglects the objectives of natural resource managers and the associated social values tied to risks and rewards of actions. 2. I demonstrate how to prioritize research efforts for a harvested population by applying expected value of perfect information (EVPI) analysis to a matrix projection model of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and an explicit utility function that models risk/reward objectives. Research priorities identified by EVPI diverge from priorities identified by matrix elasticity analyses that ignore utility. The degree of divergence depends on uncertainty in population vital rates and the particular form of the utility function used to represent risk/reward of harvest. 3. Synthesis and applications. EVPI analysis that includes perceived utility of different outcomes should be used by managers seeking to optimize monitoring and research spending. Collaboration between applied ecologists and social scientists that quantitatively measure peoples’ values is needed in many structured decision making processes.

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