Consideration of social and cultural dimensions in coastal marine planning has increased ecosystem services provide important framing to investigate values priorities associated with these systems. Research efforts communities offer insights on ocean management decisions, but questions remain about how demographics geographic residence affect perceptions resources management. We conducted analy...

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Since 1982, under an agreement between the California Department of Water Resources and the USDA Forest Service, snow sensors have been installed and operated in Forest Service-administered wilderness areas in the Sierra Nevada of California. The sensors are to be removed by 2005 because of the premise that sufficient data will have been collected to allow "correlation" and, by implication, pre...

Farmland abandonment takes place across the world due to socio-economic and ecological drivers. In Europe agricultural and environmental policies aim to prevent abandonment and halt ecological succession. Ecological rewilding has been recently proposed as an alternative strategy. We developed a framework to assess opportunities for rewilding across different dimensions of wilderness in Europe. ...

A reviewed monograph considers the problem of wilderness. According to author, wilderness should be considered as Wilderness overcomes anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric limitations all attempts theoretically justify need protect wilderness, including environmental philosophy, bioethics, religious concepts environment, etc. Therefore, author offers a "nobody's nowhere" view only it can rev...

How wild is wildlife? Underneath the debates pitching cat lobbyists against bird lovers and badger defenders against cattle farmers lurks another deeper question, namely what wildlife or wild nature should look like. One might argue that birds coming into our gardens to be fed and badgers well-protected in managed park landscapes have little to do with nature or wilderness. From these considera...

Confronted with the pressure of increased security threats and financial fraud, Customs administrations worldwide changed regulations and added restrictions to international trade in recent years. At the same time, governments also want to reduce the administrative burden for businesses in order to create an economically competitive zone. The EU is now implementing e-government ideas in new pro...

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The idea that wildfires play an integral role in maintaining healthy forests has begun to change the ways that scientists, managers, and the general public view fire policy and programs. New approaches to forest management that seek to integrate natural disturbances with the provision of goods and services valued by people impose a greater need for a full accounting of the economic effects of w...