Iowa's Declining Flora and Fauna: A Review of Changes Since 1980 and an Outlook for the Future

Introduction to the 1997 Symposium on Iowa's Declining Flora and Fauna

The effect of changing forest vegetation to rangeland on soil flora and fauna activities of the mountainous part of Kinj-Nowshahr

Soil flora and fauna play an important role in nutrient cycle and ecosystem sustainability. With the aim of investigating the changes in the activity of these soil organisms as a result of the change of vegetation from forest to rangeland in the mountainous regions of the north of the country, the present study was considered. For this purpose, in the Kinj region of Nowshahr, a forest habitat d...

Evolution of the Asia-Pacific Trade Architecture: Stocktake and Future Outlook

APEC Study Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand     Abstract:   One of the key sets of questions underlying Asia Pacific economic cooperation over the last decade has been over the nature and form of the regional trade architecture that would gradually emerge from the turmoil of the Asia-Pacific “noodle bowl” of bilateral and plurilateral FTAs, and how that architecture...

An Overview of Potential Ecotourism Resources and Their Prospects in Valley of Flowers National Park, Uttaranchal, India

Protected areas are major tourism assets for a nation, particularly for developing countries providing sustainable benefit to the local community while funding for the maintenance and rehabilitation of the protected areas themselves. Valley of flowers national park is naturally meant for the conservation and study of western Himalayan flora. It became National park in 1982 and after that livest...

Futurology of IR and the Realization of the New Religious Civilization with an Emphasis on Ayatollah Khamenei`s Thought

After Explaining the why and the how for the appearance of a revolution, one of the most important and considerable issues of every revolution is about its future and outlook. Research on the future developments of revolutions is considered as one of the most widely used topics in the field of politics and theorization of revolutions. The present study, therefore, seeks to study the question: h...