[ad_1] The politics of conservation: using international carbon trading to protect forests and biodiversity Carbon trading to reduce tropical deforestation is emerging as a leading strategy to combat harmful climate change while also potentially reducing…
Read More[ad_1] Shotguns, Spray, and Smoke: Regulating Atmospheric Deposition of Pollutants under the Clean Water Act The author is an attorney in Los Angeles, and a former law clerk to Judge PaulC. Huck, United States District…
Read More[ad_1] DEFORESTATION AND REFORESTATION IN NAMIBIA: THE GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES OF LOCAL CONTRADICTIONS CHAPTER 1 firearms and iron technology shaped local southern African environments in nonlinear and unexpected ways. Some invasive germs caused deadly virgin soil epidemics…
Read More[ad_1] THE IMPACT OF CASH CROPPING, FARM TECHNOLOGIES, AND DEFORESTATION IN NIGERIA Introduction The awareness of the many services provided by tropical forest (Costanza et al. 1997) and the rapid increase in tropical deforestation has…
Read More[ad_1] BIOFUELS BOOM SPURS DEFORESTATION: EFFORTS TO SLOW CLIMATE CHANGE BY USING BIOFUELS AND PLANTING MILLIONS OF TREES FOR CARBON CREDITS HAVE IRONICALLY BROUGHT MAJOR NEW CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION, REPORTS STEPHEN LEAHY INTRODUCTION 21/03/07, BROOKLIN,…
Read More[ad_1] The Forestry Crisis as a Crisis of the Rule of Law The abstract global ideas of sustainable development and of the rule of law meet in the forests of the tropics, where the absence…
Read More[ad_1] URBAN GROWTH, FARM EXPORTS DRIVE TROPICAL DEFORESTATION INTRODUCTION A big but so far unspecified chunk of the cash will go on programmes to prevent loss of tropical forests, which is a major source of…
Read More[ad_1] ECONOMIC GROWTH VERSUS THE ENVIRONMENT: THE POLITICS OF WEALTH, HEALTH AND AIR POLLUTION INTRODUCTION This book was written out of a sense of dismay at witnessing one of the most destructive contradictions of our times,…
Read More[ad_1] No Deep Breathing: Air pollution impedes lung development INTRODUCTION Spending one’s childhood in a community with polluted air stalls lung development roughly as much as does having a mother who smokes, according to a…
Read More[ad_1] Maternal Exposure To Air Pollution And Birth Outcomes BACKGROUND: The knowledge about air pollution effects on birth weight, prematurity, and small for gestational age (SGA) in low-exposure areas is insufficient.Maternal Exposure OBJECTIVES: The aim of…
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