Legal regime of natural resource management in Canada

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Integration of Natural Resource Management in the Primary Education Curriculum in Kenya

The Farmers of the Future (FoF) initiative implemented a programme of integrating natural resources management in the basic education curriculum. The purpose of the study was to document activities and determine the effects of FoF programme on primary school learners’ perceptions towards natural resources management by comparing learners involved in the FoF programme and those not involved. Fur...

Promoting Natural Resource Management with an Emphasis on Good Governance

Background and Objectives: Good governance has received a lot of attention regarding the better management of natural resources, because of its efforts to improve the ability of the natural resource management system. In other words, good governance can affect the socio-economic components of the region and ultimately the improvement of natural habitats. In this regard, evaluating good governan...

Historical and projected climate data for natural resource management in western Canada

In this paper we present a comprehensive set of interpolated climate data for western Canada, including monthly data for the last century (1901–2006), future projections from general circulation models (68 scenario implementations from 5 GCMs), as well as decadal averages and multiple climate normals for the last century. For each of these time periods, we provide a large set of basic and deriv...

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