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"The years 2021 to 2030 have been designated "The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration". Ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation efforts face unprecedented challenges, especially in developing countries and areas, such as the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. The huge HKH region is a biodiversity hotspot with a vast array of ecosystems, landscapes, peoples and cultures. It is known as one of "the pulses of the world". However, the HKH is also the world's largest and poorest mountain region, where landscapes and environments have been severely eroded as a result of climate change and human activity. The HKH region includes areas in eight separate countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, China, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan). Coordinating conservation and restoration policies, sharing knowledge, funds and maintaining livelihoods are major challenges and are in urgent need of improvement. This book details the past and current ecological problems in the HKH region, and the threats and challenges that ecosystems and local people face. It pays special attention to developments of transformative adaptations and gives examples of sustainable conservation and ecological restoration management practices. Three primary questions are addressed: (1) Do the existing conservation strategies of international organizations and government policies really protect ecosystems and solve biodiversity problems? (2) Can these management measures be one-time solutions? and (3) What is the strategic framework and scenario prognosis for the future based on the historical trajectory of ecological conservation and restoration in the region? This book will be essential reading for ecologists and conservation biologists involved in large-scale ecological restoration projects, along with practitioners, graduate students, policy makers and international development workers"--
Restoration ecology --- Nature conservation --- Sustainable biodiversity --- Sustainable agriculture
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"Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and biodiversity Revenant Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical enormity of global extinction. Arguing that Western conservation approaches not only ignore but also magnify powerful forms of structural violence, Audra Mitchell fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives"-- "Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction As global rates of plant and animal extinctions mount, anxieties about the future of the earth's ecosystems are fueling ever more ambitious efforts at conservation, which draw on Western scientific principles to manage species and biodiversity. In Revenant Ecologies, Audra Mitchell argues that these responses not only ignore but also magnify powerful forms of structural violence like colonialism, racism, genocide, extractivism, ableism, and heteronormativity, ultimately contributing to the destruction of unique life forms and ecosystems. Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and biodiversity through the lens of diverse Indigenous philosophies and other marginalized knowledge systems, Revenant Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical enormity of global extinction. Mitchell offers an ambitious framework-(bio)plurality-that focuses on nurturing unique, irreplaceable worlds, relations, and ecosystems, aiming to transform global ecological-political relations, including through processes of land return and critically confronting discourses on "human extinction." Highlighting the deep violence that underpins ideas of "extinction," "conservation," and "biodiversity," Revenant Ecologies fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives. It also foregrounds the ways that multi-life-form worlds are actively defying the forms of violence that drive extinction-and that shape global efforts to manage it. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions"--
Nature conservation --- Mass extinctions --- Environmental justice --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Social aspects.
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Social responsibility of business --- Nature conservation --- Environmental protection --- Rights of nature
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L'une des fonctions classiques du droit est de rendre possible la coexistence entre les membres de la société. La crise environnementale fait apparaître l'une de ses fonctions encore plus essentielles : veiller à ce que le monde reste habitable. Le droit de l'environnement a-t-il les ressources techniques et conceptuelles adaptées pour le garantir ? L'auteur propose des pistes différentes. En premier lieu, le droit peut créer des droits et les conférer à des entités naturelles non-humaines. Elles acquièrent alors une représentation légale. Ce mouvement a pris une importance internationale dans les dernières années. D'autres pistes internes sont à étudier. Des domaines du droit a priori étrangers à la protection de l'environnement peuvent y contribuer de manière innovante : les droits de succession, si l'on considère la terre comme possédant ses occupants plutôt que l'inverse ; le droit de la santé, si l'on considère l'air que l'on respire comme un prolongement de notre corps ; ou le droit de la propriété intellectuelle appliqué aux productions de la nature. Ce livre montre comment le droit contient les ressources d'une relation renouvelée avec les entités de la nature.
Climatic changes. --- Changements climatiques. --- Environmental law --- Environnement --- Nature conservation --- Nature --- Law. --- Droit. --- Law. --- Protection --- Droit.
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This book addresses the recognition of the Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, examining their conceptualization and implementation. RoN refers to a diverse set of legal developments that seek to redefine Nature's status within the law, gradually emerging as a novel template for environmental protection.
Nature conservation --- Habitat conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Environmental law --- Environmental protection --- Law and legislation
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Nature conservation --- Environmental policy --- Environmetalism --- History. --- McCarthy, Gerald P., --- Virginia Environmental Endowment. --- Virginia Conservation Network. --- Virginia --- Environmental conditions. --- Environmentalism
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