Sentences with phrase «conservation value as»

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The former Millstone golf course near Greenville, S.C., whose value rose by a factor of eight when it was donated as a conservation easement.

The consequent nature of God is the gathering up of all the values as they arise and their conservation in an everlasting consciousness that grows from more to more as each epoch rises and perishes and delivers up the value which it has achieved to this cosmic consciousness.

Brumbaugh observes that «it is by an appreciation of value as future, selection of it as present, and conservation of it as past, that we as individuals achieve our cosmic importance» (WPP 128).

Insofar as the clergy is better able to deal with issues of basic belief, values, and orientation toward life, he has an inescapable role to play in the conservation and advancement of mental health....

The conservation movement of recent years has put great emphasis on the value of non-humans as means, that is their instrumental value to humanity.

The Company is driving innovations that extract value from material, polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity.

she blogs at Fine and Fair, a blog written to and for her children about the ups and downs along the journey of raising them as responsible citizens of the world with the values of compassion toward all living things, environmental responsibility, conservation, and celebrating diversity in all of its forms.

As a program of Mass Audubon, our values of conservation, scientific inquiry, and a love for nature inform our teaching — so Know Your Food takes a unique approach to food education.

I now serve as executive director for an organization that has protected and now stewards nearly 5,000 acres of land with high conservation values, including farmland, ridge lines and river corridors.

When analyzing water, for instance, according to Conservation International, researchers studied the value of the crops dependent on water for irrigation, as well as the value of the energy water generates through hydroelectric dams, among other factors.

Conservation - minded chefs in the cities promote paiche as a sustainable choice, which is true at face value: The fish is a nuisance and other edible river fishes are disappearing.

The vulnerability and conservation value of sub-tropical reefs south of the Great Barrier Reef — regarded as climate change refuges — has been highlighted in a new study.

Measuring the value of natural capital can allow governments and business to redefine conservation expenditures as «investments,» said Eli Fenichel, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and lead author of the study.

Losey and his colleague Mace Vaughan of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation undertook the task of estimating the monetary value of insect activity in the U.S. Confining themselves to four activities that could be rigorously calculated — processing cattle dung, controlling pests, pollinating plants and serving as food for wildlife — the scientists derived conservative figures for the value of these services.

«This paper will cause a stir as it really is the first to scientifically illustrate the value of fencing for the conservation of a large predator,» predicts Matt Hayward, a wildlife ecologist with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy in New South Wales, who was not involved in the study.

It demonstrates too the value of captive breeding, even for such a diverse group as this: not only to preserve at least some threatened species, but also to provide contact between humans and animals, and promote human understanding, without which all conservation is doomed.

Although secondary forests do have value for conservation, the study suggests that primary forests are necessary as sources of biodiversity and as a refuge for species that can colonize other sites that are being restored.

And just as important, says ResponsibleTravel.com, which promotes community based tourism in a partnership with Conservation International, the communities become «aware of the commercial and social value placed on their natural and cultural heritage through tourism,» thus fostering a commitment to resource cConservation International, the communities become «aware of the commercial and social value placed on their natural and cultural heritage through tourism,» thus fostering a commitment to resource conservationconservation.

Communicate to citizens and particular stakeholders, including local communities, youth, governments, civil society, and the private sector, about the value of snow leopards and their ecosystem, and sustain the effort by celebrating 23 October 23 each year as the International Snow Leopard Day with presentation of an annual International Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the Snow Leopard.

Professor Todd demonstrates the value of using our resources and conservation efforts to protect the ocean environment itself, as opposed to addressing the plight of any species.

After her PhD, she has worked with nature reserve establishment, the interface of wind power development and conservation as well as the interface of landscape values and tourism development at the County Administrative Board of Västra Götalands län.

REDD + Offset Working Group (stateredd.org) was established in February 2011 as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in November 2010 as part of a collaborative effort between the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (known as «REDD +») and create policies to provide economic incentives for forest conservation by placing a value on living forests and their ecosystems.

In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that only a formulation of quantum theory would be satisfactory which expresses the relation between the value of [the fine structure constant] and charge conservation in the same complementary was as that between the space - time description and energy - momentum conservation.

As driven by the one of the University of Nairobi's core values, «Respect for and Conservation of the Environment», the Institute lead by Prof. S.G. Kiama, Director, joined students and other staff members from CAVS in tree planting activity held at Ngong Hills.

Some landowners benefited as the value of their land abutting the greenbelt went up in value, but many others lost out: their land was now protected by a conservation act and could never be developed.

If the property contributed as a conservation easement is not a capital asset and gives rise to ordinary income, the taxpayer can take a deduction equal to the fair market value (FMV) of the property less any gain that would not have been long - term capital gain if the property had been sold at the time of the conservation easement contribution.

Invited lecturer on July 16: «Case Studies from Africa: The Value of the «One Health» Entry Point for Facilitating Conservation and Development,» as part of the «One World, One Health, One Medicine: Emerging Global Animal Health Threats» panel.

Doing so provides a basis for comprehending both the value of cats as companions and pets but also the conservation risks of releasing them to the outdoors.

The property makes a critical contribution to the conservation of the natural values within the Great Rift Valley, as an integral part of the most important route of the African - Eurasian flyway system where billions of birds are found to travel from northern breeding grounds to African wintering places.

The area has adopted a model of economic development that values conservation, which means that as you sit on your board, looking inland from the ocean, your view will be of the unadorned coastal mountain range instead of a line of high - rise hotels.

A conservation strategy for Gili was developed by considering groups of problem sources, the Park's potential values, regulations, as well as environmental and socio - economic conditions of the surrounding communities.

Conservation projects address topics of current importance such as developing an understanding of biodiversity and wildlife habitat needs, the contributions of sustainably managed forests to water quality, and quantifying the value of these forests toward mitigating climate change.

Its conservation value is further marked by its role as the boundary between mangrove and Melaleuca forests, and as a reproduction and breeding area of marine species.

What's the best route to balancing economic development and biological conservation in a place valued both as a local resource and global asset?

Quite the opposite of the point made with that ridiculous list, TR stands as a testament to the value of conservation and concern for future generations regardless of technological innovation to come.

But the scientific understanding we have developed as summarized by the IPCC and affirmed by virtually every relevant scientific body in the US and abroad, together with completely common place social and ethical values about conservation, infrastructure development and food and water management (that apply in all kinds of other policy arenas as well) does call for a response of some kind.

Indigenous studies scholars assertively emplace Indigenous values, cosmologies, and frameworks as critical to conservation, natural resource management, and desired futures.

They studied conservation values like wilderness protection and restoration processes as well as a number of variables, including how much human modification the land has experienced, how important the land is as a natural linkage between protected areas, how well the land's ecosystems are represented within existing protected areas, and whether a place is rich in rare and endemic species.

To commit to no conversion of primary forests and high conservation value areas, as well as to limit the conversion of natural forests for oil palm plantations to the highest extent possible,

«We've created governance structures; we've valued our ecosystem services — such as water filtration, biodiversity conservation, and evapotranspiration — and we've shown that we can use our indigenous vision to save and manage our forest.»

Assigning values to these services and designing conservation agreements based on these (broadly known as PES), can be an effective way to help local communities adapt to climate change.

Scientists combined maps of established conservation qualities, such as wildness, connectivity and habitat representation, to create a composite wildland conservation value to each region of the 48 contiguous states.

(11/12/2010) The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body that sets environmental standards for palm oil production, has passed a resolution to reconfirm that secondary and degraded forests can classified as High Conservation Value (HCV) areas.

The contribution of forest ecosystems — such as carbon sequestration, crop pollination, conservation of agricultural soils and control of water discharge to streams and rivers — to other sectors, particularly agriculture, is valued at 6.77 percent of Ethiopia's GDP.

On 23 June, UNESCO decided to put the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) Conservation Area in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh on the World Heritage List, acknowledging it as one of the world's most important and significant natural habitats for conservation of biological diversity, containing threatened species of outstanding univConservation Area in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh on the World Heritage List, acknowledging it as one of the world's most important and significant natural habitats for conservation of biological diversity, containing threatened species of outstanding univconservation of biological diversity, containing threatened species of outstanding universal value.

The Nature Preserve as Classroom, created in partnership with the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, has meant that over 1,000 children — future stewards of our land — come to the preserve twice a year with their teachers to learn the value of conserving nature.

This is all a great shame because it distracts readers from the real value of the book, in which Zehner asks the question: «Why do the options of wind, solar, and biofuels flow from our minds so freely as solutions to our various energy dilemmas, while conservation and walkable neighborhoods do not?

That is why intact landscapes should be treated as having high (or even the highest) conservation value.»

While the potential for emissions savings and clean energy may not be as obvious or as dramatic as in some of the other Bioregional projects, this scheme has an important conservation value, and it has shown how tapping into local pride and tradition can help reengage people with each other, and with the natural world around them:

However, by making conservationists more aware of how people construct anthropomorphic meanings around species and how they engage with species and attribute value to their characteristics — e.g. people may attribute personhood or emotions to species that they play with, such as pets or even livestock — they can create conservation programmes which speak to people through their cultural expectations and emotional connections.