Landscape-level naturalness of conservation easements in a mixed-use matrix

Conservation easements: biodiversity protection and private use.

Conservation easements are one of the primary tools for conserving biodiversity on private land. Despite their increasing use, little quantitative data are available on what species and habitats conservation easements aim to protect, how much structural development they allow, or what types of land use they commonly permit. To address these knowledge gaps, we surveyed staff responsible for 119 ...

Naturalness and the Landscape

In this paper I review some arguments of Douglas and myself concerning the concept of naturalness in string theory. I explain why the usual argument for low energy supersymmetry do not apply in this context. An incorrect argument in [7] is corrected. The statistical properties of the Landscape of vacua are strongly biased against low energy supersymmetry.

Supersymmetry, Naturalness and the Landscape *

We argue that the study of the statistics of the landscape of string vacua provides the first potentially predictive – and also falsifiable – framework for string theory. The question of whether the theory does or does not predict low energy supersym-metry breaking may well be the most accessible to analysis. We argue that low energy – possibly very low energy – supersymmetry breaking is likely...

reflections on taught courses of the iranian ma program in english translation: a mixed-methods study

the issue of curriculum and syllabus evaluation and revision has been in center of attention right from when curriculum came into attention of educational institutions. thus everywhere in the world in educational institutions curricula and syllabi are evaluated and revised based on the goals, the needs, existing content, etc.. in iran any curriculum is designed in a committee of specialists and...

The Landscape, Supersymmetry and Naturalness