Many forests of the western United States have undergone over one hundred years of anthropogenic impacts that have led to increased tree density, homogenization in forest structure, and accumulation of woody material, which combined with a changing climate pose threats to valued social and ecological features. In California, recent waves of tree mortality and unprecedented
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5 June 2022
Evolving adaptive governance: challenging assumptions through an examination of fisheries law in Solomon Islands
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Unprecedented, rapid social-ecological change threatens marine ecosystems and the livelihoods of communities who depend on them. Governance scholars have identified adaptive governance principles that enable managers and decision makers to respond flexibly to such change. However, much of this work is the result of case studies undertaken in the Global North, primarily in democratic countries.
4 June 2022
Elif Shafak: there’s a scream building up in young people
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Author cites Brexit and the climate crisis as examples of previous generations ‘breaking’ their future The author Elif Shafak has said she thinks “there’s a scream building up” inside many young people, because they feel their future “is being shaped by older generations”. “It’s difficult to be young, in this age in particular,” the Turkish-British
4 June 2022
Public Land Protection Cells in India: A New Hope for Our Commons
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Fuzzy boundaries that lead to costly and incomplete enforcement and overlapping land and property laws lend common lands to exploitation. | Picture Courtesy: Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) By External SourceANAND, India, Jun 3 2022 (IPS) Common lands are natural resources that are used collectively by a community, such as forests, pastures, ponds, and ‘wastelands’. They
3 June 2022
Why competitiveness should not become a goal for the FCA
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The promotion of competition is an existing aim of financial regulation. But in proposals around the Future Regulatory Framework in the Queen’s Speech last month, an additional objective was suggested: encouraging “competitiveness”. This modification of the regulatory remit sounds like a technical, semantic change. It is indeed technical — the devil of all financial regulation
2 June 2022
If Women Don’t Lead, We’ll Lose the Battle Against Climate Crisis
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The Iraqi capital of Baghdad covered in a layer of dust during the third dust storm in two months, 24th May 2022. Credit: Zaid Albayati/Oxfam 2022 By Sally Abi KhalilBEIRUT, Lebanon, Jun 1 2022 (IPS) We are in the midst of so many crises across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: the most
1 June 2022
Record low wild salmon catch in Scotland alarms ecologists
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Calls for action as decline is seen as evidence of harm caused by climate crisis, pollution and fish farming Salmon anglers have called for urgent action to protect Scotland’s wild salmon after the lowest number on record were caught last year. The latest official data shows that 35,693 Atlantic salmon were caught by anglers on
1 June 2022
Labor will cut EV taxes and try to legislate 2030 emissions target, Chris Bowen says
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New climate minister says calls to raise Labor’s emissions target are ‘odd’ and asks Greens and independents to ‘respect our mandate across the country’ Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Australia’s new climate minister has vowed to quickly cut taxes on electric vehicles and meet with state counterparts to address a