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This true story is set in the Coachella Valley, the desert region best known for Palm Springs, California, a glamorous and sunny resort for the rich and famous, filled with emerald green golf courses, lakes, condominiums, and sunset-capped blue mountains. Yvonne Tevis here delineates the ongoing intense battle between developers and conservationists over how this precious land should be used. Basing her tale around the fight to save the habitat of an endangered species, the fringe-toed lizard, Tevis includes: interviews, maps, illustrations, notes, and a comprehensive bibliography, with valid arguments presented on both sides of the issue. A must read for all those concerned with protecting our environment. ... Read more

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A significant consequence of the development of natural landscapes is habitat loss and fragmentation that results in widespread loss of biological diversity. While scientists have made great strides in determining principles and concepts fundamental to preserving biodiversity, their work will have little impact unless it is understood and implemented by those who are making on-the-ground decisions about land use.

Planning for Biodiversity provides an accessible introduction to ecological concepts for planning professionals and students. Sheila Peck explains why planners should be concerned with habitat preservation and presents practical approaches to incorporating conservation principles into planning efforts. The book.

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The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlements and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape. This work provides an introduction to the Mediterranean region, its history, physical and human geography and its environmental problems. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Canada and the World Backgrounder, published by Taylor Publishing Consultants Ltd. on October 1, 1995. The length of the article is 1343 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Loggers versus tree-huggers. (Canadian environmentalists have clashed with the timber industry over such issues as clear-cutting forests)(Sustainable Development - Forestry)
Author: Rupert T. Taylor
Publication: Canada and the World Backgrounder (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1995
Publisher: Taylor Publishing Consultants Ltd.
Volume: v61Issue: n2Page: p18(4)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, published by Air and Waste Management Association on April 1, 2002. The length of the article is 5960 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Modeling and spatially distributing forest net primary production at the regional scale. (Technical Paper).
Author: Robert A. Mickler
Publication: Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2002
Publisher: Air and Waste Management Association
Page: 407(9)

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This digital document is an article from Endangered Species Update, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1959 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Rethinking regional habitat conservation plan monitoring programs: an innovative approach in San Diego, California.
Author: Keith A. Greer
Publication: Endangered Species Update (Newsletter)
Date: July 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 23Issue: 3Page: 91(5)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 4631 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Communities need to revert to human ecological planning, a process that integrates the human perspective on the environment's past behavior with natural resource management practices, to prevent natural calamities from claiming high fatalities. This requires a multidisciplinary approach as well as the construction of a geographic information system and a chronological database about a region's ecological history.

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Title: Natural factors in planning. (includes related article on ecological planning)
Author: Ian L. McHarg
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v52Issue: n1Page: p13(5)

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This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation.

LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long years of experience, and her analysis is deepened with inspiring testimonies by local Native activists sharing the struggle for survival.

On each page of this volume, LaDuke speaks forcefully for self-determination and community. Hers is a beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and ecological transformation.

All Our Relations features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others.

"One of the pleasures of reading All Our Relations is discovering the unique voices of Native people, especially Native women, speaking in their own Native truths."-Women's Review of Books

"...as Winona LaDuke describes, in moving and often beautiful prose, [these] misdeeds are not distant history but are ongoing degradation of the cherished lands of Native Americans."-Public Citizen News

"...a rare perspective on Native history and culture."-Sister to Sister/S2S

"Hers is a beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and ecological transformation.All Our Relations is essential reading for everyone who cares about the fate of the Earth and indigenous peoples."-Winds of Change

"No ragtag remnants of lost cultures here.Strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos."-Whole Earth ... Read more

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Winona La Duke's ALL OUR RELATIONS Must Read
ALL OUR RELATIONS by Indigenous Activist Winona LaDuke is a must read for everyone who cares about our earth. LaDuke presents the state of the environment focusing on several land, treaty rights and toxic exposure struggles on reservations across North America and in Hawaii. Since I met Winona when she was an economics student at Harvard, she has been at the heart of struggles and gains made by indigenous communities, always bringing a keen intellect, diligent research, unswerving commitment, and a broad vision of the whole circle to community and tribal issues.
Because I've known many of the people involved in the essential work LaDuke describes in ALL OUR RELATIONS, it was a personal pleasure to read this book and catch up with what Susannah Santos and her cousins are doing on the Columbia River, be updated on Luana Busby and Melani Trask and the Hawaiian indigenous movement and to get the inside details of the complex political fight Winona's son's father and his people are up aqainst at St. James Bay. But this book will fascinate anyone who cares about our earth, families and communities. It is one to read from end to end, then keep around to re-read again and again.
LaDuke calls the work these tribal communities do to protect their people and landbase from pollution and corporate greed, "soul-retrieval." It is work that we all need to do whatever our ethnic background, since as LaDuke's reportage on the presence of PCBs in mother's breastmilk in the Northeast attests, everyone is affected by what we are doing to the earth. Winona is a mother who has no illusions about how the choices we make as consumers affect the earth and our communities' health. What is most inpiring about LaDuke's writing and life is that she offers solutions. Each chapter not only outlines the problem, but it talks about solutions that are being implemented and suggests others that should be employed. Winona walks her talk. LaDuke has been a strong proponent of wind energy and has worked to engage major corporations like Ben & Jerry in developing wind energy projects on Indian Reservations in South Dakota. Native Harvest and White Earth Land Recovery Project have reclaimed White Earth land and developed sustainable reservation businesses that employ and train White Earth tribal members. Winona LaDuke would be a great President because she is the only public figure who has a sensible plan for economic self-sufficiency, the clarity to explain it to the American people, and the discipline and steadfastness to enact it.

The ring of truth is heard loud and clear....
If I could, I would thank Winonah LaDuke in person for writing such an important, informative and engaging book on the travesty that is the North American government's view of native land and those who inhabit it.The numerous tribes who make the land their home are forced to co-exist with the insensitive, selfish and literally toxic decisions made by government and corporations who dump tons upon tons of toxic pesticides in their water and on "abandoned" land.These lands are also subject to divebombings from military jets.These are illegal decibel levels that drive those within hearing range to points of mental instability, as well as potential hearing loss.

One of the most important quotes from this book that I remember (since I read this book a couple of years ago in a Native/African-American Women's Studies course) was from a Seminole leader who said, "Selling your land for a price is like selling a piece of your mother."[I paraphrase this.]I couldn't agree more.When I remember that quote, I think about all of the animals, vegetation and tribes (consisting of families and friends) who have lived off of the land of the United States, as well as Canada.How can one possibly put a price on something that can't truly be owned by anyone and is its own autonomous entity.Even if people have the illusion that they can occupy land as territory (because of treaties, as an example) does not mean that it is ever their to keep.LaDuke makes several strong examples of this in the book.We can't continue to pollute, abuse and neglect land without paying a price environmentally or in terms of human quality of life and mortaiity.I believe everyone should read this book, regardless of occupation, national origin or territorial location.We need to face the damage done before more of it goes unacknowledged.Thank you, Winonah.

Becoming Native to America
Spoon-fed news by large media corps, few were aware that Winona LaDuke ran for the vice presidency under Ralph Nader in the 2000 elections. Even fewer know that she is also a Native American eco-philosopher with a critical perspective on the health and future prosperity of America. All Our Relations is particularly instructive, in that LaDuke surveys the entire American landscape (and by landscape, I am not merely referring to the political landscape), showing the deep connections that exist between local cultures, their environments, and the corporate-governmental giants that often compromise their health. Although LaDuke has specifically focused on Native American communities, the stories are engaging and instructive for Americans in general. Informative, powerful, and transformative, LaDuke here provides an antidote for our increasing alienation from the land and biota that sustain us. A must read for any conscious American.

Truth, told with powerful clarity
Winona Laduke ran as vice president alongside Ralph Nader.It would be truly amazing if this woman had become our vice president (for many reasons).It is my hope that some day she will be our vice president (or president).Her views on the environment and its effect upon animals and people (particularly babies, children and pregnant/nursing mothers) are exactly how I feel.She expresses these views eloquently in these quotes by Lil'wat grandmother Loretta Pascal, "Where did you get your right to destroy these forests? How does your right supercede my rights? These are our forests, these are our ancestors."(p.5), by Ted Strong, "If this nation has a long way to go before all of our people are truly created equally without regard to race, religion, or national origin, it has even further to go before achieving anything that remotely resembles equal treatment for other creatures who called this land home before humans ever set foot upon it...."(p.5), and by Katsi Cook, "Why is it we must change our lives, our way of life, to accommodate the corporations, and they are allowed to continue without changing any of their behavior?"(p.12).Reading this book you will feel sorrow, and be inspired to action.Most of what was said in this book I already knew a little about, but through this book I understood the depth and complexity of all the factors.I can not recommend this book enough.She tells the truth of our world with a powerful clarity.She tells the stories of many Native American Tribes throughout North America (Canada and the United States, including a chapter on Hawaii).She ends the book with the optimism that it is possible for us to make change, but it is up to us.

Written by a True Patriot
To think this woman could be our Vice President today. Most people don't even know that Winona LaDuke ran for Vice President on Ralph Nader's ticket. An articulate and passionate writer, LaDuke presents an awareness of the plight of America unsurpassed by any other. She knows what's wrong. She knows what needs to be done. She knows who is doing the work, how and why. She presents her advocacy as human, heartfelt and real. I learned things about what is happening to this country that I would never have known otherwise. You certainly don't see it in the news, and you don't learn about it in school. We're in trouble, folks, and it's not too late to do something about it. With more power she could have made such a difference! But she continues to work on the issues, and it is so important that more people are aware of her work. Please, please, please read this book. It is the most important book you will read all year. ... Read more

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Psychology in Practice is the definitive six-part series on the practical applications of psychology to areas of everyday life, overcoming crime, education, health, sport organizations and the environment.Each book in the series examines one unit of the Applications of Psychology section of the OCR Syllabus. The social, political and human issues of how e live and interact are integral to the development of modern society.As the world population increases, questions of urban planning, renewal and housing design have become vitally important. IPsychology in Practice: Environment offers a unique insight into a range of social and environmental issues including the psychology of collective behavior, crowding and personal space, architecture, climate and environmental cognition. ... Read more