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Badgley, Catherine. "The farmer as conservationist." American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 18, no. 4 (2003): 206–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/ajaa200352.

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AbstractAgricultural landscapes are essential for preserving biodiversity, even though agricultural activities are the leading cause of habitat degradation worldwide. About half of the Earth's productive land area is farmed or grazed, whereas only about 6% of the total land area is protected for native species and ecosystems. The ecological services of healthy ecosystems are fundamental to agriculture, and these services depend upon a large number of species interacting with each other and with inorganic nutrient cycles. Likewise, the quality of ecosystems between reserves is critical to the p
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Ocaña-Reyes, Jimmy Alcides. "Short-term impacts of conservation and traditional agriculture on natural resources and corn yield." Revista Investigación Agraria. 2, no. 2 (2020): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.47840/reina20211.

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Crops production on the Peru’s highland is carried out under the traditional agriculture’s practices of, degrading natural resources. Contrary, conservation agriculture’s practices are less tedious and conservationist to natural resources. A field experiment with corn crop was set up to compare the two agricultural systems, evaluating bulk density, volumetric humidity, earthworm population, soil erosion, corn ear yield, and economic utility. An LSD test was designed to assess bulk density, volumetric humidity, earthworm population, and corn yield, with 20 replications each one. Additionally, a
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Sunseri, Thaddeus. "‘Something else to burn’: forest squatters, conservationists, and the state in modern Tanzania." Journal of Modern African Studies 43, no. 4 (2005): 609–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x05001242.

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In the last fifteen years, Tanzanian forest policy has embraced an agenda of biodiversity preservation coupled with privatisation that calls for the expansion of state oversight over forests and woodlands. Reflecting the hegemony of conservationist donors and international and local NGOs, and couched in a language of community conservation, this agenda decries peasant intrusion into forest reserves to burn charcoal for the urban market and to expand fields for agriculture. This agenda is a departure from over a century of state forestry that sought to exploit forests for domestic consumer and
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BUMBUDSANPHAROKE, WIMOLPAT, DOMINIC MORAN, and CLARE HALL. "Exploring perspectives of environmental best management practices in Thai agriculture: an application of Q-methodology." Environmental Conservation 36, no. 3 (2009): 225–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892909990397.

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SUMMARYIn Thailand, horticultural practices are a significant source of non-point source (NPS) pollution, and the government is considering best management practices (BMPs) as control measures for reducing agricultural NPS pollution to water. A prevailing assumption that farmers’ reactions to regulations will be homogenous is not based on underlying insights into attitudinal positions that may explain alternative behavioural responses. This paper uses Q-methodology to identify attitudinal discourses relating to BMP uptake. The approach combines the strengths of qualitative and quantitative res
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Lamberts, Mary, Teresa Olczyk, Phyllis Gilreath, et al. "(201) Strategies to Encourage Grower/Industry Participation in the Development of BMPs for Vegetables in Southern Florida." HortScience 40, no. 4 (2005): 1054C—1054. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.40.4.1054c.

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Florida, like other states, is developing BMPs for specific commodities. Vegetables are in a statewide document that includes field crops. Vegetable advisory committee members from the counties in southern Florida were concerned that the existing document was too broad in its scope and that many practices did not apply to production on sandy or calcareous soils. Based on grower comments, extension agents organized grower meetings to address these issues. The first meeting was a presentation by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) Office of Agricultural Water Poli
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Concenço, G., J. C. Salton, R. C. Brevilieri, P. B. Mendes, and M. L. Secretti. "Soil seed bank of plant species as a function of long-term soil management and sampled depth." Planta Daninha 29, no. 4 (2011): 725–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0100-83582011000400002.

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This study aimed at assessing the level of weed infestation indifferent areas that were submitted to different soil management for 16 years. Four management systems were studied: (1) agriculture only under conventional tillage system; (2) agriculture only under no-till system; (3) crop-livestock integrationcrop-livestock integration; (4) livestock only. These areas were sampled at three soil depths (0-5, 5-10 and 10-15 cm), and soil was stored in plastic pots and taken to a greenhouse, where soil moisture and weight were standardized. Soil was kept near 70% moisture field capacity, being revol
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Delgado, Juan-Luis. "Los árboles que esconden al bosque: Miguel Ángel de Quevedo y los orígenes de la ciencia forestal en México." Historia Agraria Revista de agricultura e historia rural, no. 78 (February 11, 2019): 99–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.26882/histagrar.078e04d.

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This article describes the role of civil engineer Miguel Ángel de Quevedo(1862-1946) in the origins of forestry in Mexico. The guiding issue is to determine whether the critiques of some of his contemporaries regarding his project, which prioritised attention to the tree rather than the forest, were well-founded. Particular emphasis will be placed on the first encounters between the state and forestry, the development of ideas that guided the growth of forestry and the training of forestry workers. The principal sources are the texts published by Quevedo himself. The author concludes that Quev
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Bollig, Michael, and Hauke-Peter Vehrs. "The making of a conservation landscape: the emergence of a conservationist environmental infrastructure along the Kwando River in Namibia's Zambezi region." Africa 91, no. 2 (2021): 270–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972021000061.

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AbstractThe Kwando Basin of north-eastern Namibia is firmly embedded in current national and international conservation agendas. It is a key part of the world's largest transboundary conservation area, the Kavango–Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area, and the home of seven community-based conservation areas (conservancies) and three smaller national parks (Mudumu, Nkasa Rupara and Bwabwata). While conservation agendas often start from the assumption that an authentic part of African nature is conserved as an assemblage of biota that has not been gravely impacted by subsistence agricu
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SEITZ, J. "Three hundred years of House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) persecution in Germany." Archives of Natural History 34, no. 2 (2007): 307–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2007.34.2.307.

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Modernization of agriculture, economic development and population increase after the end of the Thirty Years' War caused authorities in many parts of Germany to decree the eradication of so-called pest animals, including the House Sparrow. Farmers were given targets, and had to deliver the heads of sparrows in proportion to the size of their farms or pay fines. At the end of the eighteenth century German ornithologists argued against the eradication of the sparrows. During the mid-nineteenth century, C. L. Gloger, the pioneer of bird protection in Germany, emphasized the value of the House Spa
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Martins, Letícia Martins e., Orivaldo Arf, Fernando de Souza Buzo, et al. "Nitrogen levels and rotation with cover crops in wheat under no-tillage." February 2020, no. 14(02):2020 (February 20, 2020): 271–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.21475/ajcs.20.14.02.p2151.

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The spread of the conservationist agriculture system involving green fertilization, crop rotation, and no-tillage has altered the dynamics of production, which can benefit the development and productivity of the successor crop, as well as the N fertilizer economy. In this context, the objective of this experiment was to study the effect of single maize cropping and maize intercropping with four cover crops in conjunction with the application of N doses under cover on wheat. The experiment was carried out in 2015 and 2017, in an experimental area using a 5 × 4 factorial randomized block experim
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Conservationist agriculture"

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Asami, Valter Yassuo. "ATRIBUTOS QUÍMICOS E FÍSICOS DO SOLO MANEJADO NO SISTEMA PLANTIO DIRETO EM FUNÇÃO DA CALAGEM SUPERFICIAL, MANEJO DA COBERTURA VEGETAL E ADUBAÇÃO NITROGENADA." UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA, 2010. http://tede2.uepg.br/jspui/handle/prefix/2209.

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Golla, Amarílis Rós [UNESP]. "Meio ambiente e agricultura na microbacia hidrográfica do Córrego Palmitalzinho - Regente Feijó/São Paulo." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89797.

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Portugal, José Roberto. "Sistemas de produção para milho segunda safra consorciado com Urochloa ruziziensis, envolvendo rotação de culturas com plantas de cobertura, arroz e soja /." Ilha Solteira, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/181576.

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Orientador: Orivaldo Arf<br>Resumo: O sistema de produção baseado na sucessão de culturas, assim como a sucessão entre soja e milho no Brasil, não se sustenta ao longo dos anos. Assim, a inserção de plantas de cobertura, bem como o cultivo do arroz substituindo parte da área de soja, podem ser opções para beneficiar o sistema agrícola no Cerrado. O objetivo foi avaliar a adoção de plantas de cobertura no cultivo do arroz de terras altas, da soja e o efeito no milho segunda safra consorciado com Urochloa. O projeto foi constituído por três subprojetos. Subprojeto 1: Sistemas de produção para ar
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Golla, Amarílis Rós. "Meio ambiente e agricultura na microbacia hidrográfica do Córrego Palmitalzinho - Regente Feijó/São Paulo /." Presidente Prudente : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89797.

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Orientador: Antônio Cezar Leal<br>Banca: Antônio Nivaldo Hespanhol<br>Banca: Andréia Cristina da Silva<br>Resumo: O manejo adequado de solos e água é imprescindível para a manutenção da qualidade ambiental e de vida da população. Entretanto, isso não vem ocorrendo na microbacia hidrográfica do córrego Palmitalzinho -Regente Feijó/São Paulo. Nessa área, são encontrados diversos problemas ambientais, tais como, baixa fertilidade e compactação do solo, erosão e assoreamento dos cursos d'água. Em função disto, neste trabalho teve-se como objetivos: levantar as atividades agropecuárias e sua dispos
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Guera, Keli Cristina Silva. "Mudanças na fertilidade do solo em sistema integrado de produção agropecuária decorrente da aplicação anual de fosfatos na superfície: efeitos em longo prazo." Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, 2018. http://tede2.uepg.br/jspui/handle/prefix/2485.

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Harkatin, Silvano. "APLICAÇÃO DE FOSFATOS EM SISTEMA INTEGRADO DE PRODUÇÃO AGROPECUÁRIA: APROVEITAMENTO PELA SOJA E ATRIBUTOS QUALI-QUANTITATIVOS DO AZEVÉM ANUAL." UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA, 2014. http://tede2.uepg.br/jspui/handle/prefix/2260.

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Books on the topic "Conservationist agriculture"

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Lorraine, Annette. Conserving the family farm: A guide to conservation easements for farmers, other agricultural professionals, landowners, and conservationists. New Hampshire Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture, University of New Hampshire, Cooperative Extension, 2002.

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Beinart, William. The rise of conservation in South Africa: Settlers, livestock, and the environment 1770-1950. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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The rise of conservation in South Africa: Settlers, livestock, and the environment 1770-1950. Oxford University Press, 2003.

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New pioneers: The back-to-the-land movement and the search for a sustainable future. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

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Tansey, Erin. Participation of women in natural resource management in Lobi area, Dedza. s.n., 1995.

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My work is that of conservation: An environmental biography of George Washington Carver. University of Georgia Press, 2011.

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Stone, Jean. Mavis Batey: Bletchley Codebreaker - Garden Historian - Conservationist - Writer. Troubador Publishing Limited, 2020.

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Dowling, Abigail P., and Richard Keyser. Conservation's Roots: Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100-1800. Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2020.

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Beinart, William. Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment, 1770-1950. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Jacob, Jeffrey. New Pioneers: The Back-To-The-Land Movement and the Search for a Sustainable Future. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Conservationist agriculture"

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Nnamani, C. V., D. B. Adewale, H. O. Oselebe, and C. J. Atkinson. "African Yam Bean the Choice for Climate Change Resilience: Need for Conservation and Policy." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_203.

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AbstractGlobal warming has emerged as a major challenge to development and human wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. Periodic incidents show that this challenge will continue and increase in impact on all aspects of natural resources – agriculture, ecosystems services, biodiversity depletion, environmental degradation and human health. Recognizing the enormous potential of underutilized plant genetic resources (PGRs) is crucial as sources of solutions to a number of these threatening challenges emanating from climate change (food and nutrition insecurity, genetic erosion, loss of agro-biodiversity, green job growth and income generation) cannot be over-emphasized. Sphenostylis stenocarpa (Hochst. ex. A. Rich) Harms., commonly known as African yam bean (AYB) belonging to the leguminous Fabaceae, is an underutilized PGR with rich portfolio which could serve as vital source of robust adaption and resilient germplasm for vulnerable local communities in Nigeria. Its substantial nutritional, environmental, cultural, social, medicinal, industrial and soil restorative potentials underpins its position as climate – smart species. Enhancing the potentials of African yam bean via robust innovative approaches for wider utilization through accelerated research, farmer seed exchanges, in-situ and ex-situ conservations, farmers selection, and policy programs such as seed sovereignty will accentuate its adaptation and used as resilient climate –smart species for the vulnerable groups in Nigeria to cushion impact of climate change.
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Lorbiecki, Marybeth. "The Farmer as Conservationist … and Restorationist." In A Fierce Green Fire. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965038.003.0026.

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The farm lies about two hours away from the Shack but only historic inches away in concept. In the Driftless region of southwest Wisconsin, it bears upon it some of the beautiful contoured crop swirls of Coon Valley, telltale marks of Leopold’s influence. New Forest Farm, started by Mark and Jen Shepard, is restoration agriculture in action. The farm asks the land to do what it is tailored by nature to do best and then trains it artfully, holistically, and prodigiously for personal, natural, and commercial use. From the sky, it looks like a child’s fingerpainting in green, with curlycues and waves of varying shades, dotted with treetop spheres, winding around ridges and swells. Lovely, biologically diverse, and drought resistant. It has pocket ponds with connective rain-irrigation swales cut into the contours following gradual lines of gravity to disperse captured moisture into the roots and soil for storage. In the face of the worst drought since 1933, this farm stood out lush and lively, though the chestnuts, hazelnuts, and fruit trees produced a reduced harvest, saving their energies for survival. On the spring day we visited, three new shaggy, fawn-colored Highland cattle had just arrived—a mother, son, and calf—along with some new solar-powered electric fencing for pasturing paddocks. “The animals get to know the whole thing,” says Peter Allen, the land manager in his early thirties who expounds on the sequential grazing of the cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens, and turkeys. “They stay for a day in the paddock, and they’re ready to move on to the next when we open the gates.” A PhD student from UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Allen is applying precepts of wildlife and land ecology to the emerging field of restoration agriculture. He’s also a warm host and knowledgeable tour guide, handing out exciting details like the intoxicating cider made here.
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Jørgensen, Dolly. "Controlling Pigs in Countryside and City for Sustainable Medieval Agriculture." In Conservation’s Roots. Berghahn Books, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1tbhqqj.7.

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Beinart, William, and Lotte Hughes. "National Parks and the Growth of Tourism." In Environment and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199260317.003.0022.

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Imperial expansion transformed and destroyed nature in many areas; yet, as we argue, it also contained conservationist impulses. On the one hand these involved attempts to modify practices on land that was used for agriculture both by settlers and indigenous people. On the other, land was reserved more directly by creating zones where human settlement was disallowed. In the case of forests, this often implied scientific management and controlled commercial logging—although some forests were more tightly protected. With regard to wildlife and protected habitats, settler and colonial governments placed greater emphasis on exclusion in their conservation strategies. This chapter will chart changes in attitude and policy towards protected areas, as tourists replaced elite travellers and white hunters in answering the call of the wild. As in the last chapter, our discussion moves beyond the colonial period. While we focus on countries that became part of the Commonwealth, independent states were operating in a changing international context of which the imperial heritage was only one element. We recognize the shift towards community management of natural resources, and the potential for tourism to generate income for poor people. But we argue that the legacy of exclusive conservation, informed partly by new concerns and interests, remained powerful. It is an ambivalent legacy, still the subject of intense debate and contestation, and heavily criticized in recent literature on Africa. While conservation has helped to preserve some habitats and threatened species, a point not often recognized in critiques, it has not often won local legitimacy. In discussions of wildlife protection, policies of preservation are sometimes distinguished from conservation. The boundaries between these ideas are not easily drawn. In general, preservation is seen as an earlier phase and ‘is posited on…the prevention of any active interference whatsoever’. More recently, such strategies have been adopted in highly protected wilderness zones. Conservation is seen as a later, more interventionist phase. It implies wise usage or management to ensure the long-term viability of a natural resource—much in the way that ‘sustainable’ is used now. In fact, preservation often also requires some degree of management. With respect to wildlife, conservationist approaches became associated with viewing by tourists.
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Stump, Daryl. "The Role of Agricultural and Environmental History in East African Developmental Discourse." In Humans and the Environment. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199590292.003.0019.

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The past, or the perception of the past, plays a pivotal role in the formation of modern policies on land-use, since the rhetoric of conservation favours the protection of ‘ancient’ or ‘pristine’ landscapes, whilst the focus on economic or environmental sustainability has led to the endorsement of apparently long-lived ‘indigenous’ practices, especially where these appear to have permitted extended periods of cultivation whilst conserving local soil, water, and forest resources. Focusing on examples of locally developed intensive agriculture from Kenya and northern Tanzania, this chapter aims to highlight how the history of landscape management in these areas—although still poorly understood—continues to be cited within developmental and conservationist debates. It will outline how a combination of archaeological, historical, and palaeoenvironmental research might be employed to produce a more complete understanding of these agronomies, and argues that work of this kind is essential to qualify the historical assumptions that have been used to justify external intervention. The invocation of historical arguments in support of either economic intervention or wildlife conservation is not a recent phenomenon, but the critical appraisal of such arguments has gained momentum over the last two to three decades. It is by no means a coincidence that this is also the period that has seen a rise in interest in the precepts of ‘historical ecology’ (e.g. Balée 2006; Crumley 1994) and in resilience theory (e.g. Walker et al. 2004), both of which emphasize the need to study social, economic, and environmental factors from a long-term historical perspective in order to fully understand the relationships between them in any given place or time, and both stress the importance of seeing modern landscapes and resource exploitation strategies as legacies of former periods of land-use. More recently, a resurgence in interest in world systems theory—itself formerly influential on developmental thinking via dependency theory (e.g. Frank 1969)—raises similar themes through the notion that most if not all local economies have been influenced by their interaction with broader webs of trade relations at regional and global scales for several centuries (e.g. Hornberg and Crumley 2007).
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Martin, Randall. "Localism, Deforestation, and Environmental Activism in The Merry Wives of Windsor." In Shakespeare and Ecology. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199567027.003.0006.

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Poisoned towns and rivers, species extinctions, and now climate change have confirmed many times over how modern dreams of limitless growth combined with relentless technological exploitation have compromised planetary life at every level. In response to such degradation, the integrity of local place has been a major orientation for environmental ethics and criticism. The origins of localism are conventionally traced to late-eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critiques of urban industrialization, and Romanticism’s corresponding veneration for rural authenticity and wilderness spaces. Mid-twentieth-century environmentalism revived this ‘ethic of proximity’ in denouncing the release of pollutants and carcinogens into local soils, waters, and atmospheres by civil offshoots of military manufacturing and industrial agriculture. Those releases did not stay local, but soon penetrated regional water systems and wind patterns to become worldwide problems. Such networks of devastation continue to grow, especially in developing countries eager to mimic the worst aspects of Western consumer culture. In response to these developments, ecotheorists have partially revised locally focused models of environmental protection. Planetary threats such as rising global temperatures, melting polar ice sheets, and more intense storms have made it imperative to update the famous Sierra Club slogan and to act globally as well as locally. Localism has also been reshaped by conservation biology’s new recognition that geophysical disturbances and organic change are structural features of all healthy ecosystems. Within these more complicated ecological paradigms, the cultivation of relatively balanced and genuinely sustainable local relationships nonetheless remains an important conservationist worldview. In early modern England it was the leading life experience out of which responses to new environmental dangers were conceived. In this chapter I shall discuss Shakespeare’s representations of one of the three most significant of these threats—deforestation—in The Merry Wives of Windsor. (The other two, exploitative land-uses and gunpowder militarization, will be the subjects of Chapters 2 and 3 respectively). Early modern English writers and governments treated deforestation as a national problem, even though its impacts were concentrated mainly in the Midlands and the south-east.
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Lekan, Thomas M. "Who Cares for Africa’s Game?" In Our Gigantic Zoo. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199843671.003.0008.

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This chapter examines Bernhard Grzimek’s increasing inability to broker conservation politics in Tanzania during the 1960s as the country moved toward self-reliance and the Africanization of the wildlife sector. Grzimek found it difficult to make wildlife pay for themselves due to logistical problems of West German game-cropping projects, insufficient donations for expanding and maintaining Tanganyika’s national park system, and competition with Kenya for East Africa’s share of the wildlife tourism market. Such failures shaped and were shaped by Tanzania’s shift toward socialist development and Eastern Bloc partnerships that further jeopardized a tourism industry catering to foreign desires. Friction between Western conservationists and agricultural minister Derek Bryceson over Tanzania’s conservation priorities alienated Nyerere and other African observers, who resented international conservationists meddling in “national” heritage. The Africanization of the national park leadership in the early 1970s signaled that the fate of the Serengeti’s wild animals lay in Nyerere’s hands—not Grzimek’s.
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Holleman, Hannah. "The White Man’s Burden, Soil Erosion, and the Origins of Green Capitalism." In Dust Bowls of Empire. Yale University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300230208.003.0005.

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This chapter presents evidence that knowledge of both the dangers presented by soil erosion and the means to successfully address it exist deep in the memory and experience of agricultural societies and were understood by the white settlers who colonized North America. Yet, even as knowledge of the problem and efforts to contain it in the United States and around the world grew, so did the erosion crisis. As the erosion crisis developed in colonial societies, addressing its root causes was out of the question for those in charge because doing so “may well require a social and political revolution.” Colonial officials and colonists could not consider the radical social change needed to address the root cause of extreme socio-ecological crises because such change would threaten the racialized colonial social order. This is the denial represented by green capitalist and colonial approaches to ecological problems, which dominated early conservationists' attempts to address soil erosion.
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Langlitz, Nicolas. "Field Experiments with a Totem Animal." In Chimpanzee Culture Wars. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691204284.003.0008.

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This chapter follows Tetsuro Matsuzawa and his coworkers to their outdoor laboratory in Bossou, Guinea. Revered as the totem animal of the Manon and deprived of almost all primary rainforest, the Bossou chimpanzees had learned to live on human crops in an agricultural landscape. In contrast to Christophe Boesch's emphasis on so-called wild cultures, Matsuzawa speculated that historically, this chimpanzee community might have learned from the human population how to crack the oil palm nuts that local farmers cultivated. Field experiments allowed the primatologists to study how female immigrants passed on their knowledge of how to crack other kinds of nuts within the group. At this point, Japanese cultural primatology contradicted the Manon's mythological understanding of “their” apes as a bounded community of nonnatural animals. Chimpanzee road crossings provided an opportunity for a natural — or really “naturecultural” — experiment in an anthropogenic environment. Ethnoprimatologists collaborating with Matsuzawa studied the ecological interface between humans and primates and used their insights for conservationist ends. After a political conflict over the protection of a small patch of primary forest on a sacred hill, the Japanese primatologists took over the Manon's position that the livelihood of the Bossou chimpanzees was better served by plantations than by a nature reserve.
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Vogel, David. "Managing Water Resources." In California Greenin'. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691196176.003.0005.

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This chapter examines California's water management projects, which represent an important exception to its leadership in the area of environmental protection. California's approach to water management is distinctive from its other environmental policies in three important respects. First, the threats to the state's aquatic environment came from government, not business. Second, with the notable exception of the battle over the damming and flooding of Hetch Hetchy around the turn of the century, until recently neither conservationists nor environmentalists challenged California's wide-ranging water management initiatives, despite the fact that many had deleterious environmental consequences. Third, historically, business interests were not divided with regard to what to do (or not do) with California's water. Both agricultural and urban commercial interests were united in their strong support for the continued expansion of the state's hydraulic infrastructure. Thus, in this case, the public and business were on the same side. As was the case with the protection of forests and scenic areas, the federal government has also played an important role in shaping California's approach to water management. The federal government's initial legal backing of and subsequent financial support for the state's water management system has been critical in promoting the exploitation of not only the state's but the region's water resources.
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Conference papers on the topic "Conservationist agriculture"

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Galinskaitė, Lina, Gytautas Ignatavičius, and Vaidotas Valskys. "DEPENDENCE OF VEHICLE COLLISIONS WITH ROE DEER ON SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL FACTORS IN LITHUANIA." In 11th International Conference “Environmental Engineering”. VGTU Technika, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/enviro.2020.651.

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Rising road densities, vehicle speeds limits and traffic volumes, combined with recent growth in the population density of various deer species, have increased the risk of DVCs across the world, causing a great deal of animal suffering, traffic safety problems and socio-economic costs. Object of this investigation was to find out collisions trend with roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in Lithuania. The aim of our study was to determine where in Lithuania accidents occure more frequently and evaluate these accidents in time. In 2013–2017 number of AVCs in Lithuania was recorded more then 12 011 ti
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