Wilderness perception mapping. Using GIS in wilderness management
Mapping actual and predicted perceptions of wilderness enables the impact of resource use activities upon wilderness to be modelled. The Heaphry Road in the Norhwest portion of New Zealand's South Island is used to evaluate the effects
Wilderness and cultural landscapes : shifting management emphases in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
Aborigines ; Australia ; Cultural landscape ; Environmental management ; Nature conservation ; Patrimony ; Rural community ; Tasmania ; Wilderness
is interpreted as a reflection of recent debates about relationships between wilderness and cultural landscapes, and about community roles in conservation.
Human sprawl and the African wilderness of Okavango
Botswana ; Demographic change ; Fauna ; Population pressure ; Resource management ; Settlement ; Spatial distribution ; Wilderness
Attempts to modify human sprawl near the Okavango wilderness area, currently in an initial phase needs to address the underlying forces of population growth, rural income opportunities, urban employment opportunities and environmentally
Victoria's national parks (wilderness) act 1992: background and issues
The A. studies innovations in wilderness policy in the Australian states and, more specifically, concentrates on recent developments in this area in Victoria.
More than 50 000 wild horses roam free over the rangelands of eight western states, but they compete with cattle for grass and water and do ecological damage. - (D. W. Gade).
The effect of federal wilderness on county growth in the intermountain western United States
Demographic change ; Economic impact ; Employment ; Land ; Mountain ; Regional economy ; Rocky Mountains ; United States of America ; Wilderness
The paper finds, for a sample of 250 nonurban counties in the eight states of the intermountain west, no evidence that the existence of federal wilderness is directly or indirectly associated with either population-density or total-employment
Longtemps assimilée à la nature sauvage et dénuée de social, la wilderness se définit selon les références culturelles des Européens. En se focalisant sur une approche marchande, les Canadiens dénient longtemps à cette nature toute autre valeur. Ils
s'inspirent des E.-U. à propos des notions de conservation et de préservation. La reconnaissance de cette wilderness comme un patrimoine est récente au Canada.
Phytomass, element and water relations of wild and cultivated plants in the Western Desert of SW Egypt
The main focus of this study was to detect adaptations of plants to the extremly arid environments and to calculate the water use of relevant wild and agricultural plant stands. In addition this investigation was supposed to give hints
on the history of the wild oases and recommendations for the proposed land use.
Wilderness, usages et perceptions de la nature en Amérique du Nord
Wilderness, la nature en Amérique du Nord
Canada ; Concept ; Environment ; Man-environment relations ; North America ; Perception ; United States of America ; Wilderness
Les AA. se demandent comment on peut expliquer le succès de ce concept et sa large diffusion dans le nouveau monde. Wilderness fait partie des concepts nomades qui cheminent de la France vers le monde anglo-saxon, pour en revenir chargés d'une
De la répulsion au désir de nature, métamorphose de la wilderness littorale en Nouvelle-Angleterre
Wilderness, la nature en Amérique du Nord
Coastal environment ; Environment ; Geohistory ; Journey ; Landscape ; Man-environment relations ; New England ; Nineteenth Century ; Perception ; Semiotics of space ; United States of America ; Wilderness
En Nouvelle-Angleterre, entre 1800 et 1850, l'essor des représentations du littoral comme une wilderness cache un désir multiforme de rivage sauvage, qui emprunte certes à la vogue européenne des bords de mer, mais ne s'y limite pas. Elle est
Useful plants of neotropical origin and their wild relatives.
Biogeographical, genetic and ethnobotanical dimensions of the full range of domesticated plants of the Americas as well as many important wild plants. Organization is primarily by use category : carbohydrates from roots and tubers| farinaceous
Le sanglier (Sus scrofa scrofa L.) et les diaspores dans le sud de la France. (Predation and dispersion of seeds by the Wild Boar, Sus scrofa scrofa, in southern France)
The percentage of seeds destroyed during digestion decreases with their size. Although the Wild Boar basically remains a seed predator, the hypothesis is put forward that it can also play some role in plant dispersal.
Sheep grazing in national forest wilderness : a new look at an old fight
been the commodity harvested from the national forests. In the summer the ranchers in range states such as Wyoming rely heavily on these forests. A. reviews the situation in the bridger Wilderness. - (SLD)