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Apr. 14, 2010, Ifc, Performance Standard 1-Rev.-0.1, Ifc

IFC E&S Performance Standards

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Climate Policy And The Optimal Balance Between Mitigation, Adaptation And Unavoided Damage, Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro, Enrica De Cian

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

It has become commonly accepted that a successful climate strategy should compound mitigation and adaptation. The accurate combination between adaptation and mitigation that can best address climate change is still an open question. This paper proposes a framework that integrates mitigation, adaptation, and climate change residual damages into an optimisation model. This set-up is used to provide some insights on the welfare maximising resource allocation between mitigation and adaptation, on their optimal timing, and on their marginal contribution to reducing vulnerability to climate change. The optimal mix between three different adaptation modes (reactive adaptation, anticipatory adaptation, and investment in innovation …

What Is Different About Government-Controlled Acquirers In Cross-Border Acquisitions?, George Andrew Karolyi, Rose C. Liao

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

We examine the motives for and consequences of 5,317 failed and completed cross-border acquisitions constituting $619 billion of total activity that were led by government-controlled acquirers over the period from 1990 to 2008. We benchmark this activity at the aggregate country level and also at the deal level with cross-border acquisitions involving corporate acquirers over the same period. We find that government-led deal activity is relatively more intense for geographically-closer countries, but also relatively less sensitive to differences in the level of economic development of the acquirer’s and target’s home countries, in the quality of their legal institutions and accounting …

Rent Seekers In Rentier States: When Greed Brings Peace, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Alireza Naghavi

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent seekers, which destabilize society. However, there is a large literature on how so-called rentier states manage to pacify opposition groups by handing out special favors. The present paper attempts to bridge the gap between the rent-seeking view of resource rents as a source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability, and show how one may …

Scaling Up Ecosystem Services Values: Methodology, Applicability And A Case Study, Luke M. Brander, Andrea Ghermandi, Onno Kuik, Anil Markandya, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Marije Schaafsma, Alfred Wagtendonk

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at a larger geographical scale can be called “scaling up”. In a scaling-up exercise, economic values from a particular study site are transferred to another geographical setting, for instance to the regional, national or global scale. This paper proposes a methodology for scaling up ecosystem service values to a European level, assesses the availability of data for conducting this method, and illustrates the procedure with a case study on wetland values. The proposed methodology makes use of meta-analysis to produce a …

Report: The Illinois State University Faculty-Staff Newsletter, April 13, 2010, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Report (1966-2012)

Illinois State University bi-weekly employee newsletter.

Daily Eastern News: April 13, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

April

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Mustang Daily, April 13, 2010

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Constraints To Water Transfers In Unadjudicated Basins: The Middle Rio Grande As A Case Study, Michael Pease Pease

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Water reallocations are contentious under the best of circumstances. When a basin lacks a comprehensive adjudication of water rights, the levels of legal and economic complexity and controversy intensify. This paper evaluates the Middle Rio Grande, a region of New Mexico that would seem an ideal location for water markets as the need to reallocate water between existing uses is high. Due to the lack of an adjudication, and other complicating factors such as the Endangered Species Act, proposed transfers require a complex evaluation system created by the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer. Even with this evaluation system …

From Airport To Spaceport: Designing For An Aerospace Revolution, Paula Selvidge

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

"Airports will shape business location and urban development in the 21st century as much as highways did in the 20th century, railroads in the 19th and seaports in the 18th" - John D. Kasarda, Ph.D. Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina http://www.aerotropolis.com/author.html

I say, spaceports will shape the urban development of the 21st century, more than airports, bringing about an aerospace revolution. Just as new technologies triggered the global revolutions of the past, so the invention of reusable spacecraft will revolutionize transportation.

The invention of such spacecraft suggests the need for a different kind of transportation hub: a spaceport. …

Pediomelum Rydberg (Leguminosae) In Arizona And Two Previously Undescribed Species, Stanley L. Welsh, Max Licher

Western North American Naturalist

Examination of specimens of Pediomelum in the Brigham Young University Stanley L. Welsh Herbarium (BRY), and others obtained on loan from the Northern Arizona University Deaver Herbarium (ASC), the Arizona State University Herbarium (ASU), and the University of Arizona Herbarium (ARIZ), allows for substantial reevaluations of the species in Arizona and for description of 2 previously undescribed species. Pediomelum verdiensis S.L. Welsh and M. Licher is described as a new species from substrate derived from the Tertiary Verde Formation, Verde Valley, north central Arizona. Pediomelum pauperitense S.L. Welsh, M. Licher, and N.D. Atwood is described as a new species from …

Phylogenetic Divergence In A Desert Fish: Differentiation Of Speckled Dace Within The Bonneville, Lahontan, And Upper Snake River Basins, Eric J. Billman, Jared B. Lee, D. Owen Young, Matthew D. Mckell, R. Paul Evans, Dennis K. Shiozawa

Western North American Naturalist

Historical events have had a great impact on the biogeography of fishes of western North America. We examined the genetic variation of the speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus) to determine the effects on this species of extensive hydrological changes during the last 10 million years in the Bonneville and Lahontan basins of the Great Basin and the upper Snake River Basin. Eight hundred sixty-nine base pairs of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome b were sequenced from 97 individuals representing 22 populations within these 3 basins, as well as from 2 individuals of longnose dace (Rhinichthys cataractae) that served …

Josh Preston '13, Montevideo, Selected To Attend The National Rural Youth Assembly, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Assembly attendees will work together to educate themselves in the skills necessary to raise the quality of education, protect the land, air, and water, and nurture the economies of rural communities.

The Dominant Water Estate And Water Reallocation, Olen Paul Matthews

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Different parts of the hydrologic cycle have been separated into different property rights regimes. With different property rules applying to the same water in different parts of the hydrologic cycle, management within a reallocation context can be confusing. If the water estate is made dominant and public, then the other property rules would be subservient to it. This does not mean private rights are precluded. They can be represented by a marketable permit. The dominant estate would allow for market and legislative reallocation. Management goals would be achieved through an adaptive management process.

Market Approaches To Water Allocation: Lessons From Latin America, Carl Bauer Bauer

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Latin American experiences with water markets offer lessons to the U.S. because they have emerged in different political and economic contexts. The Western U.S. experience has been longer and has defined some of the world's classic cases of market allocation of water. These cases, however, have been driven by domestic factors and have evolved within domestic social and institutional contexts, which are easy for people in the U.S. to take for granted. Looking at Chile and Mexico can help us see Western U.S. water allocation with fresh eyes. These Latin American cases have been strongly influenced by international theories and …

A Broken Hub Will Not Wheel: Water Reallocation In California, David Zetland Zetland

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

California's water transfer system depends on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to move water. Unfortunately, the Delta's ecosystem appears to be suffering from this use – and other uses. After discussing the stakeholders in the Delta, the causes of ecological decline, and the choices for change (including a radical political-economic market), I conclude that business-as-usual is over, that any solution is costly, and that the politicians and bureaucrats in the middle of this process benefit from conflict and inaction. The Delta will remain broken for the foreseeable future.

Water Reallocation In The West: An "Inconvenient" Truth?, Olen Paul Matthews

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

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Legislative Reallocation: How Compliance With Federal Legislative Initiatives Can Redistribute Water Resources, Melinda Harm Benson

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Water allocation in the United States generally occurs through state administrative processes. Compliance with Federal legislative initiatives, however, can require the reallocation of water resources. Laws enacted to achieve protection of environmental, wildland and wildlife resources have increasingly played a role in the allocation of water, particularly in the West. This Article examines Washington's Methow Valley as a case study in which efforts to recover threatened and endangered aquatic species have achieved reallocations of water resources to protect environmental values. After a brief outline of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and its requirements, it examines how the ESA's consultation process …

Seed Dispersal, Seed Entrapment, And Seedling Recruitment In A Temporally Variable Desert Playa, Amanda N. Breen, James H. Richards

Western North American Naturalist

Natural establishment of seedlings in desert playas with temporally variable precipitation hinges on many factors, including seed production, seed dispersal, seed entrapment, seed germination, and seedling survival. We investigated natural seed dispersal patterns and the effects of surface texture, wind barriers, resource availability (water and nutrients), and protection from herbivory on seedling establishment in a desert playa. We hypothesized that the seed rain would be consistent throughout the year and that seedling establishment would improve in resource-amended plots with barriers to wind dispersal. Contrary to our hypotheses, seed flux peaked seasonally during the winter, and fertilization had no consistent effect …

Analysis Of Mangrove Structure And Latitudinal Relationships On The Gulf Coast Of Peninsular Florida, Peter Novitzky

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The coastline of Florida has been formed by geomorphic processes which have created suitable habitats for certain vegetation and organisms. One type of vegetation is the mangrove; this plant has a latitudinal range of 24° to 32° N latitude which is associated with local climatic changes (Mitsch 2000). There are three species of mangrove found in Florida: red (Rhizophora), black (Avicennia), and white (Languncularia) (USGS 2006). Mangroves have adapted overtime to live in different ecosystems which cause mangroves, along the Florida coast, of the same species not be the same.

Climatic variation causes individual mangrove trees have structural differences such …

Unh, Partners In Northeast Share $1.4m Flood Planning Grant, David Sims

Media Relations

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First Documentation Of The European Gut Fungus, Ephemerellomyces, And Other Insect Associated Endosymbionts In The Dry Creek Drainage, Boise, Idaho, Prasanna Kandel, Daleesa Cole, Emma Wilson, Donavon Carrie, Eric Tretter, Yan Wang, Lance Steele

College of Arts and Sciences Poster Presentations

Trichomycetes, a former class of obligate endosymbiotic fungi, are now recognized as an ecological group that inhabits the gut(s) of immature insects. Though the biodiversity and geographical distribution of trichomycetes are worldwide, our knowledge of the group in the Pacific Northwest is limited due to the few researchers conducting studies on them. Dry Creek drainage in Boise, Idaho was selected in the winter of 2009-10 as a potential site to find gut fungi. This initial survey provides the first account of Ephemerellomyces aquilonius, a species previously documented and studied only in Norway. Ephemerellomyces aquilonius (a monotypic genus) is a member …

Viola Day, April 11, 2010, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Illinois State University

College of Fine Arts School of Music

April 11, 2010

Sunday

Policy Conflicts And Sustainable Water Resources Development In New Mexico's Rio Grande Basin, Michael Campana, Linda I. Gordan, Chris T. Mclean, Richard M. Desimone, Kelly A. Bitner, Sarita Nair, Claire Kerven, Lynne Marie Paretchan, Kathy A. Smith, Robin L. Just

Water Resources Field Methods Reports

This course is the required capstone seminar for Master of Water Resources (MWR) graduate students in the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico. Drs. Michael E. Campana (hydrology), Paul Matthews (water law and policy), and David Brookshire (environmental economics) were the instructors. The class focused on three contemporary issues within the Rio Grande basin: 1) arsenic in the waters of the basin, including both the conflict between the City of Albuquerque and Isleta Pueblo over arsenic in the Rio Grande and the impending change in drinking water standards for arsenic; 2) the hydrologic impacts and fire management …

Proposal To The Usm Faculty Senate For University Reorganization, University Of Southern Maine

University Reorganization

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The Loss Of Species: Mangrove Extinction Risk And Geographic Areas Of Global Concern, Beth A. Liu, Kent A. Carpenter, Lorna Collins, Norma C. Duke, Aaron M. Ellison, Joanne C. Ellison, Elizabeth J. Farnsworth, Edwino S. Fernando, Kandasamy Kathiresan, Nico E. Koedam, Suzanne R. Livingstone, Toyohiko Miyagi, Gregg E. Moore, Vien Ngoc Nam, Jin Eong Ong, Jurgenne H. Primavera, Severino G. Salmo Iii, Jonnell C. Sanciangco, Sukristijono Sukardjo, Yamin Wang, Jean Wan Hong Yong

Biological Sciences

Mangrove species are uniquely adapted to tropical and subtropical coasts, and although relatively low in number of species, mangrove forests provide at least US $1.6 billion each year in ecosystem services and support coastal livelihoods worldwide. Globally, mangrove areas are declining rapidly as they are cleared for coastal development and aquaculture and logged for timber and fuel production. Little is known about the effects of mangrove area loss on individual mangrove species and local or regional populations. To address this gap, species-specific information on global distribution, population status, life history traits, and major threats were compiled for each of the …

2010 Research Day Program

Research Day 2010-2016

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Commonwealth Times 2010-04-08

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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The Loss Of Species: Mangrove Extinction Risk And Failure Of Critical Exosystem Services, Beth A. Polidoro, Kent E. Carpenter, Lorna Collins, Norman C. Duke, Aaron M. Ellison, Joanna C. Ellison, Elizabeth J. Famsworth, Edwino S. Fernando, Kandasamy Kathiresan, Nico E. Koedam, Suzanne R. Livingstone, Toyohiko Miyagi, Gregg E. Moore, Vien Ngoc Nam, Jin Eong Ong, Jurgenne H. Primavera, Severino G. Salmo Iii, Jonnell C. Sanciangco, Sukristijono Sukardjo, Yamin Wang, Jean Wan Hong Yong

Jackson Estuarine Laboratory

Mangrove species are uniquely adapted to tropical and subtropical coasts, and although relatively low in number of species, mangrove forests provide at least US $1.6 billion each year in ecosystem services and support coastal livelihoods worldwide. Globally, mangrove areas are declining rapidly as they are cleared for coastal development and aquaculture and logged for timber and fuel production. Little is known about the effects of mangrove area loss on individual mangrove species and local or regional populations. To address this gap, species-specific information on global distribution, population status, life history traits, and major threats were compiled for each of the …

Western News, April 8, 2010 , Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Governor makes two trustee appointments for 2011; WMU administrator selected as ACE Fellow; Service anniversaries for April; On Campus with Scott Coy.