As humans continue to encroach into natural habitats, and conservation efforts restore wildlife to areas where they have been absent, contact between humans and wild animals is growing. Some species, even the endangered, can have serious impacts on human lives and livelihoods. Tigers kill people, elephants destroy crops and African wild dogs devastate sheep herds left unattended. This book presents a variety of solutions to human-wildlife conflicts, including novel and traditional farming practices, controlled hunting and tourism, as well as the development of local and national conservation...
As humans continue to encroach into natural habitats, and conservation efforts restore wildlife to areas where they have been absent, contact between ...
This is a book about the reality of place in America, the events and influences that led to the America we recognize today. It is a book about the growth of American cities and their suburbs during the twentieth century, about institutions and metropolitan governance, about real estate development and finance, about housing and the lack of it, about the emergence and perhaps the eventual debilitation of cities and suburbs alike. Incorporating the thinking of visionary city planners and land use economists, the author presents a lucid primer on the economics of land, its development and usage,...
This is a book about the reality of place in America, the events and influences that led to the America we recognize today. It is a book about the gro...
This is a book about the reality of place in America, the events and influences that led to the America we recognize today. It is a book about the growth of American cities and their suburbs during the twentieth century, about institutions and metropolitan governance, about real estate development and finance, about housing and the lack of it, about the emergence and perhaps the eventual debilitation of cities and suburbs alike. Incorporating the thinking of visionary city planners and land use economists, the author presents a lucid primer on the economics of land, its development and usage,...
This is a book about the reality of place in America, the events and influences that led to the America we recognize today. It is a book about the gro...
This book provides a thorough guide to the issues to be resolved to minimize risks and maximize private and public rewards for land development projects. The author fully explores the strategic considerations involved in selecting the right piece of land and in obtaining the necessary building approvals. The author investigates the impacts of economic conditions, federal programs, demographic and income-related trends, state and local policies, land use controls, and urban sprawl on the predevelopment process. "Recent Publications on Governmental Problems"
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This book provides a thorough guide to the issues to be resolved to minimize risks and maximize private and public rewards for land development pro...
Alan Rabinowitz provides the first comprehensive analysis of the nontraditional or social change philanthropists who help finance national campaigns and grassroots organizations that focus on improving American society and the environment, particularly for minority and low-income people. Written both for funders and grantees already in the field and those just beginning to fund nontraditional activities, "Social Change Philanthropy in America" examines the experience, operational practices, and future prospects of philanthropists who have been involved in such activities over the past...
Alan Rabinowitz provides the first comprehensive analysis of the nontraditional or social change philanthropists who help finance national campaign...
As humans continue to encroach into natural habitats, and conservation efforts restore wildlife to areas where they have been absent, contact between humans and wild animals is growing. Some species, even the endangered, can have serious impacts on human lives and livelihoods. Tigers kill people, elephants destroy crops and African wild dogs devastate sheep herds left unattended. This book presents a variety of solutions to human-wildlife conflicts, including novel and traditional farming practices, controlled hunting and tourism, as well as the development of local and national conservation...
As humans continue to encroach into natural habitats, and conservation efforts restore wildlife to areas where they have been absent, contact between ...
Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are they all alone in empty cages? Are they being punished? More than anything, he wants to be their champion--their voice--but he stutters uncontrollably.
Except when he talks to animals...
Then he is fluent.
Follow the life of the man Time Magazine calls, "the Indiana Jones of wildlife conservation"as he searches for his voice and fulfills a promise to speak for animals, and people, who cannot speak for themselves....
2015 Schneider Family Book Award Winner
Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are t...
Here's summary of the broad-gauged set of topics (including the growth of the right wing) that are explored in three "notebooks: " -Notebook I includes a bird's-eye view of the geopolitics of the war itself and of the World War II era, highlights FDR's Four Freedoms doctrine, and deals with many of the isms (such as fascism, socialism, and capitalism) then and still at large in the world. -The four chapters in Notebook II develop themes about important changes that cry out for better understanding in today's world: the military-industrial complex, the communications revolution, Keynesianism...
Here's summary of the broad-gauged set of topics (including the growth of the right wing) that are explored in three "notebooks: " -Notebook I include...
The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong, the jaguar has shaped indigenous cultures and the beliefs of early civilizations on two continents. In An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar, big-cat expert Alan Rabinowitz shares his own personal journey to conserve a species that, despite its past resilience, is now...
The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of envir...
The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong, the jaguar has shaped indigenous cultures and the beliefs of early civilizations on two continents.In "An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar," big-cat expert Alan Rabinowitz shares his own personal journey to conserve a species that, despite its past resilience, is now...
The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of envir...
