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Key stresses
Key stresses ASAL Project ASALs Description Outputs Findings Diversity among pastoral groups Key stresses Adaptive strategies Policies which affect adaptive strategies Significance Bibliography Key stresses The common stresses on livelihoods ... and illness among both human beings and livestock. Among the policy-related stresses, the groups which are migratory, especially the Afar, Boran and Maasai, ...
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Project findings
Project findings ASAL Project ASALs Description Outputs Findings Diversity among pastoral groups Key stresses Adaptive strategies Policies which affect adaptive strategies Significance Bibliography Project findings The documentation of adaptive ...
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Biodiversity Conservation in Britain: Science Replacing Tradition
SSSI designations are being filled, where key sites for invertebrates have been overlooked. The importance of pasture woodland for dead-wood ... to live in transient habitats where factors such as the weather, nutrients and other abiotic stresses constrain their populations, to species in which other species are more influential. Many late- ...
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SRI's Values and Lifestyle Program
Belongers tend to be conservative, conventional, nostalgic, sentimental, puritanical, conforming. The key drive is to fit in - to belong - and not to stand out. Their world ... evidence suggests that Belongers lead contented, happy lives and are relatively little vexed by the stresses and mercurial events that swirl around them. In terms of psychological maturity, Belongers are ...
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Soils Resource Kit
UC Davis' own Randy Dahlgren outlines soil processes, emphasizes their key role in global nutrient dynamics, and stresses their importance in understanding ecological functions. Set up as a tutorial, it ...
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soils resource paper
Key to sustainable management of soils is an approach that embraces particular and relevant information ... ) stresses the importance of the social and cultural contexts of individual behavior, as well as institutional factors such as access to credit, land tenure, and market forces as key processes ...
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June 16, 2004: Dead Zones Increasing in World's Coastal Waters
Other aquatic life, like shellfish, that cannot migrate in time suffocate in low-oxygen waters ... century, the world has lost half its wetlands. In the United States, some of the key farming states like Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa have drained 80 percent of their wetlands ...
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Agriculture
Livelihoods and Security Environment and Security Policy Emerging Environment and Security Issues Key Message Sustainable livelihoods and sustainable agriculture principles include perennial and bio-dynamic ... sustainable system of prairie agriculture resilient to environmental and economic shocks and stresses. Our framework is based on sustainable livelihoods and sustainable agriculture principles ...
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Books from the Earth Policy Institute
Crop ecologists at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and at the U ... water productivity, and stabilize climate, but we need to do it at wartime speed. The key to quickly shifting from a carbon-based energy economy to a hydrogen-based one is ...
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Decade of the Mind stresses importance of brain, mind research for everyday Americans
Americans HOME CONTACT US Home > Media > News Releases > 2008 Release SEARCH Decade of the Mind stresses importance of brain, mind research for everyday Americans Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie visits with ... , Krasnow Institute; and Dr. Robert Shumaker, Great Ape Trust. Research with apes and monkeys one key to understanding the human mind Des Moines, Iowa – May 22, 2008 – Nine internationally ...
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