Sentences with phrase «land management by»

There are numerous challenges to working with smallholders, but they all seem to carry a similar root cause: the need to improve land management by implementing sustainability practices while ensuring that the livelihoods of those working the land are protected and improved over time.

According to him, the Holocene was not supposed to be this long, but the natural glacial inception process was stopped by an anthropogenic perturbation that began as early as 8,000 years ago (rice plantations and land management by antique civilisations).

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Before 2009, there were no solar farms and only a handful of wind and geothermal plants on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

According to the Marketing Land 2014 Marketing Technology Survey, HootSuite is by far the most recognized social media management firm on the planet.

To guide this growth, Indochino landed one of the biggest rounds of financing in Canadian e-commerce history and recruited a management team of fashion and retail veterans, led by a new top suit with experience scaling businesses.

Failing this sort of bold action, Hofmeister sees North America entering an «energy abyss» by the end of the next decade, the result of land (mis) management, an irrational aversion to nuclear power, and 50 years of ignoring serious questions about our resource base and the infrastructure that powers society.

It offers a joint degree in environmental engineering with the University of British Columbia, helping UNBC land an overall ranking of eighth, supported by top marks in both required and elective courses dedicated to social or environmental impact management.

A notice slated to be published Friday in the Federal Register by the Bureau of Land Management said the agency «has concerns regarding the statutory authority, cost, complexity, feasibility, and other implications» of the 2016 rule, which is set to go fully into effect next month.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

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Backed by the Koch brothers and their American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, legislators across the American West, where most of the public lands are located, are calling on the federal government to cede control and management of them to counties and states.

There are lots of rules in life, the law of the land, doctor's orders, guidelines laid down by management at work, professional ethics, etc..

But to have the computer lines and terminals, specialists in image analysis, specialists in food production, geology, land management, ocean ecology, investment specialists, and, finally, to own the worldwide satellite facilities to move the information instantly — such capability can be achieved only by very large, multinational corporations.

By reducing threats to native flora and fauna, land management actions such as these increase the likelihood that environmental watering will achieve its intended outcomes.

The shareholders of this Māori owned business all descend from the original four Māori tribes from the top of the South Island and their primary focus is the management and sustainable use of ancestral lands always guided by a set of traditional Māori values which are as relevant today as they were in the past.

These entries into the SCAA competition are sponsored by Ka'u Farm and Ranch Company, LLC, the management entity of the lands on which the award - winning Ka'u coffee farms are located.

The main objectives of the GEF Tea Project were to reduce land degradation associated with tea production in Asia by supporting farmers and catalyzing industry and government leaders to mainstream sustainable land management (SLM) and integrated natural resource management (INRM).

However, neither indigenous cultures, their land management, nor these unique co-evolved ecosystems were recognised and understood by post-1788 invaders of this land: people imbued with the post-Enlightenment «mechanical» mind.

To achieve this design - stage accreditation, the project is assessed using a system of environmental measures grouped by management, health and well - being, energy, transport, water, materials, waste, land use and ecology, pollution, and innovation.

However, it is now claimed by The Sun that the former Chelsea boss is closer than ever to landing his preferred job after making it clear that he intends on returning to top - level management this summer.

As a private landowner, Mass Audubon believes that advancing our mission by generally not allowing hunting on land we care for and control is reasonable and fair in light of our management objectives, just as we respect the decision of other land owners who do permit hunting on their land.

Mass Audubon's Bird Conservation team has developed an informative document that outlines best management practices for nesting grassland birds for fields owned by municipalities, land trusts, private landowners, and conservation groups.

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), has indefinitely suspended one of its officers in the Ashanti Region, for exercising his rights to free speech, saying he had breached the Civil Service Law — PNDC Law 327 by mocking the first two gentlemen of the land.

The pest control undertaken across the country by shooting — which has a management influence on two - thirds of the rural land area - is a major conservation benefit to threatened species.

Resolution No. 28 of 2013 — Adopting «Guidelines for Land Bank Management and Disposition of Real Property within the City of Syracuse» drafted and proposed by the Land Bank Citizens Advisory Board

«Those who manage the countryside, and shooting has a management influence on two - thirds of the rural land area, must have confidence that the law on licensing will be fairly applied by Natural England.

The aim of the project is to link the management carried out by people shooting over land in North Wales with conservation programmes in North Wales, principally the Local Biodiversity Action Plans.

Mahoney said the state's financial commitment from the Upstate Revitalization Initiative helped central New York land a drone traffic management convention, led by NASA, for this November.

On the environment, an Akufo - Addo government, he said, would implement a policy that will lead to the effective management of forest reserves, the recovery of millions of acres of land devastated by open - cast and alluvial mining, and the protection of water bodies, stressing that «protecting our environment is a necessity, not an option».

Lands purchased by the Virginia - based Conservation Fund includes forests next to Cherry Plain State Park and the Capital District Wildlife Management Area, which cover about 4,300 acres in the southern Rensselaer County town of Stephentown.

The amount of conservation work provided by people who shoot in Wales amounts to the equivalent of 490 full - time conservation jobs and shooting influences the management of around 380,000 hectares of land — the equivalent of 18 per cent of Wales.

Disapprove BLM Land Use Planning Rule — Vote Passed (51 - 48, 1 Not Voting) The joint resolution would disapprove the rule issued by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Dec. 12, 2016, which modified the process under which BLM develops plans for the use of the public lands it manages, including by considering a wider variety of issues and possible impacts.

On July 14, 1993, the Long Island Pine Barrens Protection Act was signed into law by Gov. Mario Cuomo, creating one of the largest comprehensive land management plans in state history.

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The planned Rensselaer Clean Energy Deployment Center would be built on part of the 24 - acre De Laet's Landing site on the Hudson River by Fuller Road Management Corp..

Two decades - old pieces of legislation — the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947 — give the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management responsibility for minerals leasing on more than 550 million acres of federally owned public lands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal governLands of 1947 — give the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management responsibility for minerals leasing on more than 550 million acres of federally owned public lands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal governlands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal governlands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal government.

This vast and rugged region, part of the National Landscape Conservation System administered by the Bureau of Land Management, was the last major area in the lower 48 states to be formally mapped by cartographers.

Mulroy capped off the»90s by helping to shape the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act, which cleared the way for still more growth.

While the long - term effects of cannabis cultivation on the environment are unknown, the researchers concluded that land management and agricultural policy informed by further research may reduce these threats in California and in other states and countries where cannabis production can be regulated.

Funding for the study was provided by the Bureau of Land Management, California Energy Commission, National Park Service, and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Bureau of Land Management officials and scientists are exploring ways not only to mitigate the damage caused by wildfires but also to restore the Great Basin to a healthier status.

The findings highlight the urgent need for policy - makers worldwide to re-think the issue as many decision - makers, national and internationally, assume that fossil fuel emissions can be offset through sequestering carbon by planting trees and other land management practices.

East of the Missouri River, where efforts have been specifically targeted toward waterfowl conservation, lands under conservation management were more likely than other locations to be used by Whooping Cranes.

This HIA, done in conjunction with other environmental assessments under NEPA, made several proposals relating to factors ranging from monitoring pollution to managing caribou herds for subsistence populations,, many of which were later accepted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

«One important next step is to distinguish between natural landscape fires, fires started accidentally by humans and fires deliberately started as part of land management,» said Andrew Scott, a professor at the Royal Holloway University of London and a co-author of the study.

«We are hopeful that by understanding the core relationships between land productivity and biodiversity, we can then refine management recommendations for land users with the goal of enhancing both economic and environmental outcomes.»

The map of soil loss by water erosion delineates areas of concern that will require special protection measures, such as financing more sustainable land management practices.

And in the 20th century the American Dust Bowl, an ecological catastrophe precipitated by drought and compounded by bad land - management policies, displaced 3.5 million people from the Midwest.

Dr Sue Ward, the Senior Research Associate for the project at Lancaster University, said: «Peat is one of the earth's most important stores of carbon, but one of the most vulnerable to changes in climate and changes in vegetation caused by both climate and land management.

When seeking clues to how well conservation efforts are working in the present, sometimes scientists look to the past — and there may be no better historical record than the forest surveys conducted in Missouri by the Bureau of Land Management in the 1800s.