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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 37, No. 2, Spring 2008, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

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Resolving Conflict In Non-Ideal, Complex Systems: Solutions For The Law-Science Breakdown In Environmental And Natural Resource Law, Barbara Cosens

Articles

In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a consolidated case concerning the scope of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' jurisdiction to require permits for dredge and fill of wetlands under section 404 of the Clean Water Act, issuing a plurality, two concurrences, and two dissents. Each opinion has a solid legal foundation, yet none truly makes sense if the science of the resource in question is considered. The opinions in Rapanos v. United States illuminate the struggle at the law-science interface. The problem is not due to either a failure in legal reasoning or a failure in scientific methodology …

Introduction: Cotton, Globalization, And Poverty In Africa, William G. Moseley, Leslie C. Gray

Environmental Studies and Sciences

This volume employs a modified commodity chain approach, focusing on the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of cotton production in Africa, and the links between this production and the global market. Individual chapters may examine one or multiple levels in the commodity chain and employ different theoretical approaches, from ethnography, to agroecology, to political ecology, to classic economic analysis. We want to acknowledge, however, that while the commodity chain is an important part of cotton dynamics, it is not the only force at work in African cotton. There are new and interesting developments outside the commodity chain that work for …

Cotton Production In Burkina Faso: International Rhetoric Versus Local Realities, Leslie C. Gray

Environmental Studies and Sciences

Voices ranging from the editorial page of the New York Times to organizations such as Oxfam and the presidents of Burkina Faso and Mali have argued that U.S. cotton subsidies depress world cotton prices and hurt African farmers. These policies deny West African countries their comparative advantage in cotton, which they can produce more cheaply and with lower environmental impacts than farmers in the United States. Some have gone as far as phrasing this as a national security issue; editorials in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have suggested that removing subsidies would have a strong auxiliary …

Conclusion: Hanging By A Thread: The Future Of Cotton In Africa, Leslie C. Gray, William G. Moseley

Environmental Studies and Sciences

Several broad themes emerge from the chapters in this volume. While declining world prices are a serious issue, the ability of farmers to weather declines in prices is often determined by national and local issues. These include government policy, institutions that provide marketing and supply services, access to resources such as land, labor, and agricultural inputs, and individual decision making. Despite declining world prices, some cotton growing economies have had success with cotton production while others have not fared well. In particular, the failure of cotton institutions in many countries is striking.Whether it comes to managing input distribution, new technologies, …

Pedagogical Considerations On The Senior Project Lab, Jeffrey W. Hook

Focus

Two years ago, the CRP Department started to offer CRP 463 Senior Project Lab, as an option for students who, for different reasons, could not or decided not to take the two-quarter-long individually oriented and supervised senior project. Since then Jeff Hook has been teaching this lab, and brings us some comments on the student output and the importance of this capstone lab.

Conceptions Of Wilderness In Tasmania, Sam Adels

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

With this project I set out collect and compare different conceptions of wilderness from individuals on all sides of the ongoing wilderness protection versus forestry debate in Tasmania. I purposed to share the results with all parties to bring them together to cooperate and work towards wilderness protection and sustainable forestry for the future of Tasmania. I spent 5 weeks in April and May of 2008 researching the history of the concept of wilderness as well as Tasmanian wilderness issues. I interviewed 11 subjects, involved in the wilderness versus forestry debate in many different arenas, including forest ecologists, wilderness academics, …

Atravesando La Amazonía: Carreteras, Desarrollo, & El Camino Del Desastre, Olivia De Lancie

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Road construction in the Amazon has greatly impacted its floral and faunal inhabitants. The opening of a new road in a previously isolated region exposes its populations to the economy for the first time, and to the possibility of enriching themselves through the extraction of their products. Unfortunately, this exchange of goods results in the aculturization of indigenous groups, and in the loss of their unique culture. The migration that the roads near indigenous communities encourages increases access to education and sources of work, but results in a nearly complete destruction of these communities’ social fiber. Economic and cultural exchanges …

Draft Proposed Public Transportation Routes For Waterville, Me, Fritz Freudenberger ('09), Michelle Presby ('09)

Atlas of Maine

Currently, there is a public bus transportation route in Waterville, Maine. However, this system could be improved. Our goal was to use GIS to find optimal public transportation routes throughout the city based on given points of interest and high population density areas. Three different groups of points of interest were created in the North, West, and South sections of Waterville. Using the Network Analyst tool, which calculates optimal routes, using existing street data, based on the input of stops, barriers, and impedance, we ran an analysis of what we thought would be the routes that best served the greatest …

Wcsa Alumnews: Spring 2008, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Alumni Relations

WCSA AlumNEWS

Contents Include: Memories from a Forty-eighter-- Jeanne Hahn Swartz '48 in her own words; Greetings from the Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving; Chancellor Jacqueline Johnson testifies before U.S. Senate Committee; Greetings from the Alumni Association President; Gateway Center Project retains historic characteristics while incorporating "green" construction; First Winter Texan WCSA All-School Reunion held in McAllen; 2008 Arizona Winter All-School Reunion: music and reminiscing enjoyed by all; 2009 Arizona WCSA Winter Reunion planned for Mesa; Class News; Glenn Bennett '44 shares military memories and WCSA connections; Schoephoerster '48 thanks merchants on behalf of the 1948 Moccasin Board; Walter Stumpf …

Protecting Shoreland And Riparian Buffers Workshop (2007), Jennifer Hunter

PREP Reports & Publications

The New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) organized and implemented a workshop on protecting shoreland and riparian buffers. A number of other organizations, including three regional planning commissions, NH Fish and Game Department, NH Department of Environmental Services, Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, and UNH Cooperative Extension, were involved in the planning and execution of the workshop. The workshop was designed to provide information and tools to encourage greater municipal regulatory protections for buffers. The workshop was held three times in October and November 2007 and attended by 75 people, primarily planning board and conservation commission members.

Nimbus (Spring 2008), New College Alumnae/I Association

Alumnae/i Association Collection

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Airborne Laser Scanning Quantification Of Disturbances From Hurricanes And Lightning Strikes To Mangrove Forests In Everglades National Park, Usa, Keqi Zhang, Marc Simard, Michael Ross, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Patricia Houle, Pablo Ruiz, Robert R. Twilley, Kevin R.T. Whelan

Faculty Publications

Airborne light detection and ranging (LIDAR) measurements derived before and after Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma (2005) were used to quantify the impact of hurricanes and lightning strikes on the mangrove forest at two sites in Everglades National Park (ENP). Analysis of LIDAR measurements covering 61 and 68 ha areas of mangrove forest at the Shark River and Broad River sites showed that the proportion of high tree canopy detected by the LIDAR after the 2005 hurricane season decreased significantly due to defoliation and breakage of branches and trunks, while the proportion of low canopy and the ground increased drastically. Tall …

Anthropology 2008 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Anthropology APR self-study report, review team report, response to review report, and initial action plan for Spring 2008, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Alcoa In Juruti, Brazil: A Case Of Environmental Injustice And Colonialism?, Caitlin Schroering

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This paper examines the visions of development of Alcoa, an American bauxite mining company, and the traditional ribeirinho communities in the area of Juruti Velho, Brazil. These two objectives are pursued in order to determine if Alcoa’s actions in the area constitute environmental injustice and colonialism. An explication of environmental injustice and colonialism is undertaken, and is followed later by a discussion of social invisibility and how circumstances are created that allow for the exploitation of traditional communities. The work and demands of ACORJUVE, a community association that is in opposition to Alcoa, are also discussed. A review of the …

Ursinus Magazine, Spring 2008, Wendy Greenberg, Daniel Sergeant, Joseph Ferry, Erika Compton, Nancy March, Karen Hollinger

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art calendar • Atlantic writer is commencement speaker; Honorary degree recipients announced • Students spend Spring Break doing community service • Ursinus has Watson winner • Museum campaign gets boost with Gilot art; Anthonisen sculpture • Heather Potts Brown 2002 promoted • Thanks from Coach Small • Focus the Nation: A four-day climate change "think-in" at Ursinus • Letter to the Editor • Travel guides, a group experience: Maya / Mexico travelogue in two parts • Watson diary • Happy 75th anniversary to the Lantern • Q & A with 2008 Lantern Editor Daniel …

The Voice, Spring 2008: Volume 53, Issue 3, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Unrest in Kenya; Education That Transforms; What Are You Going to Be?; Digital Media Majors Earn Their Tools; Dead Man Walking Gets the Campus Talking; Students Compete over Energy Savings; Dutch Nursing Students Conclude Adventure; Bringing in the Aging; Arkema Internship Helps Local Hospital Go Green; McCarthy Retires as VP; Hoekstra Appointed First Provost; Faculty News; Getting to the Core; Rethinking Residences as Learning Communities; Theater People Earn a Bunch of Awards; Blades Skate Way to Nationals; Hoops Squads Finish Out Up-and-Down Season; Final Winter Alumni Weekend; Alumni Notes; Enrollment Continues Upward Trend; Ten Haken Appointed New Coordinator of Marketing …

Cercla's Cost Recovery Statute Of Limitations: Closing The Books Or Waiting For Godot, Alfred R. Light

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

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Experts To Speak On Community Rights, Sustainability, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Limnological Assistance For The Lake Mead National Recreation Area In Meeting The Challenge Of The Water 2025 Initiative: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending: April 1, 2008, Margaret N. Rees

Limnological Studies

Hiring: A decision is anticipated in the upcoming weeks regarding the hiring of a limnologist. Two candidates were selected from among three qualified applicants for telephone interviews; they were subsequently interviewed in-person.

Project 1: Review of the draft Boulder Basin Adaptive Management Plan is on-going. Meetings of the Systems Conveyance and Operations Program (SCOP) Technical Advisory Teams were attended.

Project 2: Development of a white paper expressing the joint needs of the entities involved in Water 2025 projects is on-going; scientific review of data and reports related to bacteria in high-use areas of Lake Mead is underway.

Project 3: Discussions …

Colorado College State Of The Rockies Report Card, David Havlick, Walter E. Hecox, Christopher B. Jackson, Matthew K. Reuer

Publications (SD)

The critical research topics for the 2008 Report Card include immigration, affordable housing, renewable energy resources, river restoration and restoration economies, and wildlands.

Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Mamie Peers, David Ashley, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Grace Russell

Inside UNLV

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An Affordable, Practical Eco-House, Dave Fitzpatrick

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

An eco-house or zero-energy house is not a new concept- houses with extremely low impact on their surroundings and good use of local resources have been around for centuries. This particular eco-house is designed to offer full modern services and comforts while consuming very low energy and few expensive building materials. Ideally, someone would be able to use this thesis as a blueprint for actual construction.

Conserving The United States' Coral Reefs: National Monument Designation To Afford Greater Protection For Coral Reefs In Four National Marine Sanctuaries, Jennifer C. White

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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2008 Friends Of The University Of Montana Herbarium Newsletter, Peter Lesica, David Dyer

Newsletters of the Friends of the University of Montana Herbarium

MONTU Gets a Helping Hand During the Depression / Peter Lesica -- Activities -- Notes from the Board / Elizabeth Crone -- MONTU People: Wally Albert -- MONT News Briefs -- 2008 Friends of the UM Herbarium Annual Meeting -- Destructive Sampling of Herbarium Specimens / Peter Lesica -- Meet MONTU's Student Employees / Dave Dyer -- Montana Flora Online Project / Peter Lesica

Land-Use Impact On Water Pollution: Elevated Pollutant Input And Reduced Pollutant Retention, Weixing Zhu, Joseph Graney, Karen Salvage

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

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A Watershed-Based Approach To Environmental Education Integrating Ecology, Hydrology, And Geochemistry, Joseph Graney, Karen Salvage, Weixing Zhu

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Flooding And Watershed Management, Peter L.K. Knuepfer, Burrell E. Montz

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 4/1/2008, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Gordie News, April 2008, West Chester University Of Pennsylvania

Gordon Natural Area History & Strategic Plan Documents

No abstract provided.