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    What makes a community resilient? How do we ensure its sustainable future?Resilience—the unique ability to positively adapt to changing physical and social environments—is essential for populations of all sizes and locales in today's world of unexpected changes and increasing instances of environmental change. Communities around the globe possess unique combinations of culture, skills, and ... Leer más

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  • Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences

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  • Voices of Resistance and Renewal

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    Western education has often employed the bluntest of instruments in colonizing indigenous peoples, creating generations caught between Western culture and their own. Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be led, Voices of Resistance and Renewal applies recent research on local, culture-specific learning to the challenges of education and leadership ... Leer más

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  • Getting to the Heart of Science Communication

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  • Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

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    **This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades. However, this period has also ... Leer más

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