Governance and conservation effectiveness in protected areas and indigenous and locally managed areas

Y Zhang, P West, L Thakholi… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Increased conservation action to protect more habitat and species is fueling a vigorous
debate about the relative effectiveness of different sorts of protected areas. Here we review …

Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement

JCZ Woinarski, AA Burbidge, PL Harrison - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - pnas.org
The highly distinctive and mostly endemic Australian land mammal fauna has suffered an
extraordinary rate of extinction (> 10% of the 273 endemic terrestrial species) over the last∼ …

Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia's tropical savannahs

MI Bird, M Brand, R Comley, X Fu, X Hadeen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
At the time of European arrival on the Australian continent, sophisticated Indigenous
societies practiced land management across Australia's extensive tropical savannahs. Fire …

Vertebrate biodiversity on indigenous-managed lands in Australia, Brazil, and Canada equals that in protected areas

R Schuster, RR Germain, JR Bennett, NJ Reo… - … Science & Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Declines in global biodiversity due to land conversion and habitat loss are driving a 'Sixth
Mass Extinction'and many countries fall short of meeting even nominal targets for land …

[PDF][PDF] Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

JK Shuman, JK Balch, RT Barnes, PE Higuera… - PNAS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have
harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of …

Rewilding: science, practice, and politics

J Lorimer, C Sandom, P Jepson… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Rewilding is being promoted as an ambitious alternative to current approaches to nature
conservation. Interest is growing in popular and scientific literatures, and rewilding is the …

[KIRJA][B] Ecology: from individuals to ecosystems

M Begon, CR Townsend - 2020 - books.google.com
A definitive guide to the depth and breadth of the ecological sciences, revised and updated
The revised and updated fifth edition of Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems–now in full …

Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene

N Boivin, A Crowther - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
As our planet emerges into a new epoch in which humans dominate the Earth system, it is
imperative that societies initiate a new phase of responsible environmental stewardship …

Bottom up and top down: Analysis of participatory processes for sustainability indicator identification as a pathway to community empowerment and sustainable …

EDG Fraser, AJ Dougill, WE Mabee, M Reed… - Journal of environmental …, 2006 - Elsevier
The modern environmental management literature stresses the need for community
involvement to identify indicators to monitor progress towards sustainable development and …

Centering the speech community

S Bird, D Yibarbuk - Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
How can NLP/AI practitioners engage with oral societies and develop locally appropriate
language technologies? We report on our experience of working together over five years in …