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William V. Kennedy 《Environmental Impact Assessment Review》1985,5(3):285-290
This report describes the work of an international group that is supported in part by the Dutch Ministry for Environment and is chaired by Frans Evers, the Ministry's Deputy Director-General for Environmental Protection. 相似文献
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The goal of restoring environmental health and qualities to Hamilton Harbour Great Lakes Area of Concern, an embayment at the western end of Lake Ontario, is considered to be achievable by the year 2015. Restoring Hamilton Harbour is a dynamic process that relies heavily on research and monitoring to direct remediation efforts. Three principle means of coordinating this research and monitoring include: research and monitoring workshops; a monitoring catalogue outlining both government and nongovernment initiatives; and an annual report written by a local community group. These tools increase the effectiveness of remedial actions by: (i) improving stakeholders' ability to track trends; (ii) allowing program decision-makers to utilize adaptive management techniques to continuously modify programs based on new results; (iii) integrating interdisciplinary fields, and (iv) increasing accountability. This paper describes in detail these tools used for coordinating research and monitoring in implementing the Remedial Action Plan of the Hamilton Harbour Great Lakes Area of Concern, along with lessons learned to assist other implementers who are considering similar programs. 相似文献
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Joanna M. Setchell Marie J. E. Charpentier Issa-Ben Bedjabaga Patricia Reed E. Jean Wickings Leslie A. Knapp 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,61(2):305-315
Honest advertisement models of sexual selection propose that exaggerated secondary sexual ornaments are condition-dependent, and that only individuals with superior disease resistance will be able to express costly ornamentation. Studies of secondary sexual ornamentation and their maintenance by sexual selection tend to focus on males. However, females may also possess showy ornaments. We investigated whether female ornaments, in the form of sexual swellings, reliably signal female fitness in a semifree-ranging colony of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) at the Centre International de Recherches Médicales, Franceville (CIRMF), Gabon. We measured swelling height and width using photographs of periovulatory females over three mating seasons and compared swelling size with parasitism (using fecal analysis over one annual cycle), immune status (ratio of lymphocytes to neutrophils in blood smears made during captures), and genetic diversity (microsatellite heterozygosity). Swelling size varied by up to 10% between cycles in individual females, giving some support to the hypothesis that size differences may indicate the quality of individual swelling cycles. However, there was no significant difference in swelling size between conceptive and nonconceptive cycles. Measures of swelling size varied more between females than within females across swelling cycles, implying that swelling size was a relatively consistent characteristic of individual females. Swelling size was not significantly related to either general measures of parasitism and immune status, or to the closest available measures to each swelling cycle. Nor was swelling size significantly related to genetic diversity. The healthy, provisioned nature of the colony and problems associated with observational, correlational studies restrict interpretation of our data. However, in combination with previous findings that females of higher reproductive success do not show larger swellings, and that males do not allocate mating effort as a function of swelling size, these results imply that sexual swelling size does not indicate female quality in these semifree-ranging mandrills. 相似文献
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《Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture》2013,7(3):337-343
This essay examines the narrative strategies employed in Scott Hamilton Kennedy's documentary The Garden (2008) and their impact on making meaning and drawing lessons from the film. 相似文献
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KEVIN M. BROWN R. MICHAEL ERWIN MILO E. RICHMOND P. A. BUCKLEY JOHN T. TANACREDI DAVE AVRIN 《Environmental management》2001,28(2):207-224
During the 1980s, the exponential growth of laughing gull (Larus atricilla) colonies, from 15 to about 7600 nests in 1990, in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and a correlated increase in the bird-strike
rate at nearby John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York City) led to a controversy between wildlife and airport managers
over the elimination of the colonies. In this paper, we review data to evaluate if: (1) the colonies have increased the level
of risk to the flying public; (2) on-colony population control would reduce the presence of gulls, and subsequently bird strikes,
at the airport; and (3) all on-airport management alternatives have been adequately implemented. Since 1979, most (2987, 87%)
of the 3444 bird strikes (number of aircraft struck) were actually bird carcasses found near runways (cause of death unknown
but assumed to be bird strikes by definition). Of the 457 pilot-reported strikes (mean = 23 ± 6 aircraft/yr, N= 20 years), 78 (17%) involved laughing gulls. Since a gull-shooting program was initiated on airport property in 1991, over
50,000 adult laughing gulls have been killed and the number of reported bird strikes involving laughing gulls has declined
from 6.9 ± 2.9 (1983–1990) to 2.6 ± 1.3 (1991–1998) aircraft/yr; nongull reported bird strikes, however, have more than doubled
(6.4 ± 2.6, 1983–1990; 14.9 ± 5.1, 1991–1998). We found no evidence to indicate that on-colony management would yield a reduction
of bird strikes at Kennedy Airport. Dietary and mark–recapture studies suggest that 60%–90% of the laughing gulls collected
on-airport were either failed breeders and/or nonbreeding birds. We argue that the Jamaica Bay laughing gull colonies, the
only ones in New York State, should not be managed at least until all on-airport management alternatives have been properly
implemented and demonstrated to be ineffective at reducing bird strikes, including habitat alterations and increasing the
capability of the bird control unit to eliminate bird flocks on-airport using nonlethal bird dispersal techniques. Because
the gull-shooting program may be resulting in a nonsustainable regional population of laughing gulls (>30% decline), we also
recommend that attempts be made to initiate an experimental colony elsewhere on Long Island to determine if colony relocation
is a feasible management option. 相似文献
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John Eyles Kathi Wilson Lisa Mu Sue Keller-Olaman Susan Elliott 《Local Environment》2013,18(10):981-998
This study examines lay perceptions of the environment and its perceived relation to health at three scales: the environment at large, the neighbourhood, and the home. Interviews were conducted with residents from two contrasting neighbourhoods in the industrial city of Hamilton, Canada. The results reveal variations in perceptions of the environment–health link between residents in the two study neighbourhoods as well as across the different scales. Air pollution and proximity to industry were frequently implicated in lay understandings of the general and neighbourhood environments. In contrast, the home environment was seen as relatively insulated and safe. Furthermore, personal control mechanisms (e.g. cleanliness) were believed to mitigate adverse health impacts in the home and yard while the general environment was seen to be outside of such control. The significance of the findings is discussed in terms of future research and policy relevance. 相似文献
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Forrest E. Dierberg Krista L. Jones 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1989,25(1):43-47
ABSTRACT: In addition to measuring the quantity of stormwater runoff generated during ten rainfall events from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) area of Kennedy Space Center (KSC), historical rainfall records were also used for determining the feasibility of implementing a program of stormwater recycling to air conditioning cooling towers. It was projected that 0.182 million gallons per day (MGD) of runoff would be generated from the VAR area during a year of average rainfall (48 inches); only 0.117 MGD is required for coolant makeup water in the VAR area. Due to the seasonal variations in rainfall, stormwater recycling may not always meet all the cooling water demands. 相似文献
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