Just as Pirsig’s (Pirsig, R.M. 1974. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. William Morrow and Company, New York. 412pp.) account of his motorcycle adventure explores the dichotomy of holistic and reductionistic philosophies, so too does a short course in chainsaw safety and tree felling incorporate these seemingly disparate viewpoints...
Estuaries are once again emerging as important ecosystems for scientific study. Consequently, knowledge of what research has been conducted helps us identify benchmarks and plan new projects. A comprehensive bibliography of published research, technical reports, local documents, and data sets is one means of recording this knowledge. Yaquina Bay, located...
The rapid growth of the aquaculture sector and its role in supplying fishery products in view of declining capture fisheries has raised both expectations and concerns. Aquaculture is seen as the only way to supply the additional 37 million tonnes of fishery products needed by 2030 to satisfy the growing...
A private power company, Cape Wind Inc., wants to develop the largest wind farm in United States history off the coast of Cape Cod Massachusetts in a twenty-five square mile area of Nantucket Sound known as Horseshoe Shoal (HSS). However, Cape Wind must compete for the use of this area...
The authors suggests that the problem with how political scientists approach their work stems from forcing the real-world to fit the requirements of their models rather than forcing their models to fit the
requirements of the real world.
A higher dependence on the resources motivates to community participation on resources management. Uses of common property resources are not benefit to each and every person in equal rate of resources since magnitude of the resources extraction depend on the number of criterion. Selecting of the interest group for the...