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As Anniversary Of Sister Dorothy Stang's Murder Approaches, University Of Dayton To Confer Posthumous Honorary Degree

News Releases

News release announces Sister Dorothy Stang will be honored posthumously at the University of Dayton.

Authorities Assess Environmental Damage From Hurricanes Stan, Wilma, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Satellite Study Raises Estimates Of Forest Degradation, Carbon Dioxide Emissions In The Brazilian Amazon, David Sims

Media Relations

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Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Science And The Esa, Joy Nicholopoulos, William Lewis

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

43 pages (includes illustrations and map).

Contains references.

Environmentalists Worried About Dramatic Drop In Monarch Butterflies, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Effects Of Web-Based Tutoring Software On Math Test Performance : A Look At Gender, Math-Fact Retrieval Ability, Spatial Ability And Type Of Help., Rena L. Walles

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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Certification Systems As Tools For Natural Asset Building: Potential , Experience To Date, And Critical Challenges, Michael E. Conroy

PERI Working Papers

Certification systems are becoming important tools to encourage and reward social and environmental responsibility. This paper explores whether these systems, which generally have not been designed for the explicit aim of poverty reduction, can assist poor people, either individually or in community-based and small-to-medium production units, to build their natural assets as a basis for sustainable livelihoods. The paper examines two leading certification systems – the Forest Stewardship Council™ and the Fair Trade Certified™ system – and emerging systems in tourism and mining. The results to date have been mixed. In the forestry sector, poverty reduction benefits of certification have …

Filipino Journalists Speak Out And Pay The Price, Eric Loo

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

There's the shepherd, the flock and the sacristan. Together they drive the media machine with their paymaster, in the back seat brazenly directing the way through the back alleys of Philippine politics.' The 'shepherds' are former journalists turned media publicists. 'Shepherds' take care of reporters covering the election campaign trails - from arranging accommodation to providing food and 'night' entertainment. This can rake in as much as 40,000 pesos monthly (about US$729) for 'shepherding' a presidential election. That's equivalent to how much a broadsheet senior reporter earns in three months. Another story tells of editors pocketing P20,000 to P50,000 a …

International Environmental Law: 2005 Annual Report, Vail T. Thorne, Lakshman Guruswamy, Kevin L. Doran

Publications

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