SOCIETY AWARENESS AS A STRATEGY FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Conservation and Enhancement of Natural Resources

Meeting food and livelihood security needs in developing countries will require the conservation and enhancement of natural resources that contribute to agricultural production. Chief among the resources to be sustainably managed are soils and forests. Failure to protect and improve soils will lead to dramatic decreases in domestic agricultural production and consequent dependence on imported f...

Conservation Risk Assessment: a Strategy for Managing Resources for Preventive Conservation

Ideally, practitioners of preventive conservation should be able to quantify all risks to a collection and determine the most cost-effective means of reducing overall risk to that collection. This paper describes an attempt by the Canadian Museum of Nature to assess the risks to collections. Currently. the information required to produce accurate estimates of the magnitude of many risks is lack...

the effectiveness of strategy-based instruction in teaching english as a second or foreign language: a meta-analysis of experimental studies

a large number of single research studies on the effects of strategy-based instruction (sbi) in teaching english as a foreign or second language has been conducted so far. however, the lack of a comprehensive meta-analysis targeting the effectiveness of english language sbi is observed. moreover, the findings of experimental studies regarding the context of the english language, proficiency lev...

Soil Conservation and Poverty: Lessons from Upland Indonesia, SOCIETY AND NATURAL RESOURCES, Vol. 7, 1994

Soil conservation efforts in Indonesia since the Dutch colonial era have focused on introducing bench terraces—a costly soil conservation method for poor, upland farmers. Data from two villages in the Kerinci uplands of Sumatra illustrate that even with state underwriting of bench terrace construction, farmers across all economic strata still resist using this method. Why the state has not purs...

Conservation of natural resources for sustainable Agriculture Introduction