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America's Mountains thoroughly explains the geological origins and history of North America's magnificent mountains. The book begins with an exploration of orogeny, the process of mountain formation. Subsequent chapters investigate the dramatic influence of these land masses on plants, animals, people, and the general environment.
This book includes the following papers:
- A.R. Riebau, Reflecting stars in a mountain lake: managing alpine air quality with new techniques for data gathering, pollution modeling, and data visualization
- P. Wezyk, M. Guzik, The use of "Photogrammetry-GIS" (P-GIS) for the analysis of changes in the Tatra Mountains' natural environment
- W. Fraczek, A. Bytnerowicz,...
For countries rich in minerals and hydrocarbons, natural resources should provide an essential source of financing for development. However, in many cases, exploitation of such resources is linked to poverty, inequality, poor public services, and stunted economic growth.
Revenues from extractive industries represent a real opportunity as a complementary source of financing for...
The Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTFEC) was established in 1991 as a sustainable, domestic funding source for Bhutan's environmental programmes. Almost a decade after its inception, the trust fund has spent US$1.66 million against an accumulated capital base of US$34.71 million. Grant making is guided by five-year funding objectives, focusing on conservation of biological...
The formulation of natural resource management policy generally involves science, socio-economic environment and legal framework. The thrust of the management policy is to derive maximum benefits from the natural resources while at the same time ensuring that the ecological integrity is not compromised. The basic scientific process elements such as ecological stability, resistance levels,...
There is a growing global awareness that land degradation is as much a threat to environmental well–being as more obvious forms of damage, such as air and water pollution (e.g. Greenland & Szalbocs, 1994; Conacher, 2001). Although the source of land degradation is usually local, its effects often stretch for considerable distances from the source site. It can impact large areas and...
A study was conducted to look at the relationship between presence and numbers of wild dog (Cuon alpinus) and presence and abundance of wild boar (Sus scrofa). This was corroborated with scat analysis to get percentage of the prey consumed by wild dogs and other predators. A preliminary nationwide presence-absence survey of C. alpinus population showed that with the exception of Trashigang,...
This paper critically assesses the globally dominant pattern of complex relationship that obtains among mass media, market economics, and both cultural and environmental change. Making use of Buddhist conceptual resources that link the meaning of development, environmental conservation and attentional enrichment, the effects of consuming mass media commodities are evaluated in ways that are...
Bhutan is rich in mineral resources such as dolomite, limestone, slate, and coal. It also has small deposits of marble, quartzite, granite, talc, iron ore, and pink shale. Mining in Bhutan started in the early 1970s and it was mostly carried out by the government enterprises. Gradually under the auspices of policy of privatisation, mining sector operations were privatised. Mining activities...
Development of forest areas, particularly in the mountain regions of NWFP, is faced with the two-key challenges of poverty alleviation and environmental conservation.
According to State of the World's Forests, published by FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation), only 2.36m hectare of land in Pakistan is under forest cover, which constitutes 3.1% of the total land area in country and...
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