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  • Traditional Agriculture in Transition: Continuity and Change in Southwest China

    Creator:
    Li, Xiaoyue
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    This dissertation seeks to understand Yi farmers’ livelihoods in the midst of an agricultural transition in Yunnan, Southwest China. This dissertation examines a community’s traditional knowledge related to wild edible plants (WEPs), analyzes socio-ecological vulnerability and resilience in the face of agricultural transition from subsistence farming to cash cropping, and...
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    . Vol. 2 (3), p.233-239 China NBS/ Bulletin on Reforming China’s GDP Accounting and Data Release

  • Ecotourism, poverty, and conservation in Prek Toal, Cambodia

    Creator:
    Conway, Kathryn
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    In Prek Toal, a poor subsistence fishing village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, the conservation organization Osmose is using ecotourism revenues to finance poverty intervention programs and promote conservation in a threatened ecosystem. This thesis examines local perceptions of tourism as a measure of Osmose’s success. Limited awareness of tourism...
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    Masters Thesis
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    preserve the stability of the bird colonies. In 1998, an environmental research station was built in

  • Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

    Creator:
    Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
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    In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
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    , eating in local restaurants, shopping at local grocery stores, reading bulletin boards, viewing historic