Journal articles: 'Bioregional planning'

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Tonn, Bruce, Mary English, and Robert Turner. "The future of bioregions and bioregional planning." Futures 38, no. 4 (May 2006): 379–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2005.07.010.

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Wilson, B. A., V. J. Neldner, and A. Accad. "The extent and status of remnant vegetation in Queensland and its implications for statewide vegetation management and legislation." Rangeland Journal 24, no. 1 (2002): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj02001.

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Vegetation classification, survey and mapping provide key information underpinning the implementation of statewide vegetation management legislation and associated policies in Queensland. This paper summarises: (i) the Queensland Herbarium survey and mapping methods and land classification system and its role in vegetation management legislation; and, (ii) the current extent and rate of vegetation clearing by bioregion, sub-region and Broad Vegetation Group; (iii) and the amount of vegetation protected under legislated statewide bioregional and regional ecosystem thresholds. Information also is provided on the pre-clearing and current extent by 18 Broad Vegetation Groups and the area of non-remnant woody vegetation by bioregion. The implications for vegetation management are discussed, along with a comparison of clearing statistics derived from other studies that use different classification and mapping methodologies. The majority of Queensland has relatively continuous native vegetation cover (82% remnant native vegetation remaining in 1999). The productive soils of the southern part of the Brigalow Belt, lowlands in South-east Queensland, New England Tableland and Central Queensland Coast have been, however, extensively cleared with 7–30% of remnant vegetation remaining. Between 1997 and 1999, the annual rate of remnant clearing in Queensland was 4460 km2 of which over 60% occurred in the Brigalow Belt bioregion. A greater proportion of this recent clearing occurred in Broad Vegetation Groups that are associated with less fertile and/or more arid parts of the State compared with pre 1997 clearing. For bioregions and regional ecosystems where past clearing has been extensive, a substantial proportion (50–91%) of the remaining vegetation is protected by bioregional and regional ecosystem thresholds prescribed under statewide legislation and associated policies. For other bioregions and regional ecosystems, other factors such as rainfall, soil and areas of high conservation value are likely to play a larger role in determining the amount of vegetation protected. However, the effectiveness of the Queensland legislation cannot be assessed until regional planning processes have been completed and all criteria addressed.

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Dale, Virginia, Matthew Aldridge, Taryn Arthur, Latha Baskaran, Michael Berry, Michael Chang, Rebecca Efroymson, Chuck Garten, Catherine Stewart, and Robert Washington-Allen. "Bioregional planning in central Georgia, USA." Futures 38, no. 4 (May 2006): 471–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2005.07.013.

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Brunckhorst, D. "Building capital through bioregional planning and biosphere reserves." Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 1 (February 1, 2001): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/esep001019.

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Burgess, Jacquie. "Book Review: Lifeplace: bioregional thought and practice." Progress in Human Geography 28, no. 3 (June 2004): 416–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030913250402800317.

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Brennan, Andrew. "Bioregionalism- a Misplaced Project?" Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 2, no. 3 (1998): 215–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853598x00226.

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AbstractIn response to what postmodern thinkers have called 'homelessness' and to the increasing destruction of the natural environment, some thinkers have suggested that humans should organise themselves into bioregional communities. These communities will be self-governing, relatively autonomous, small groups based on watersheds, river drainages, lakeshores, or other bioregional features. Their core values will be identification with, and care for, the land. I explore a form of this viewpoint, called 'homely bioregionalism'. I argue that this position has little real connection with postmodern thoughts on place and home, it has totalitarian overtones and, even when interpreted as an empirical recommendation, incorporates an optimistic and romanticised conception of 'home'. The phenomenon of ignoring or denying our environmental surroundings is, I argue, a real one, and can be called 'bioregional denial'. Homely bioregionalism, however, does not constitute a workable alternative to bioregional denial.

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Guarnaccia, Paolo, Silvia Zingale, Alessandro Scuderi, Ezio Gori, Vincenzo Santiglia, and Giuseppe Timpanaro. "Proposal of a Bioregional Strategic Framework for a Sustainable Food System in Sicily." Agronomy 10, no. 10 (October 11, 2020): 1546. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101546.

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The alignment of food systems with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is generally envisaged to make a positive impact on sustainability. This paper outlines some critical environmental and socio-economic indicators for Sicily in order to compare and explore the outcomes of two juxtaposing key drivers in a scenario planning exercise, where the extremities are Industrial versus Regenerative Agriculture/Agroecology and a Proactive versus Reactive government response. The most rational and less risky scenario becomes the most sensible sustainable development option, around which a 2030 vision is projected for a bioregional sustainable food system for Sicily, which is aligned with the SDGs and related policies. To accomplish the 2030 vision, a holistic education-led developmental approach is outlined with a supporting bioregional strategic framework, whose key milestone deliverables are projected through a backcasting process. This paper therefore highlights the importance of consistency and alignment of a development vision with its strategic framework and ensuing implementation, failing which, the holistic bioregional approach is compromised by activities that are shown to negatively impact environmental and socio-economic indicators. For this reason, all public and private sector development plans and associated resources ought to be aligned with a bioregional strategic plan for a sustainable food system for Sicily.

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Breyman, Steve. "Bioregional education on the Hudson." Capitalism Nature Socialism 7, no. 3 (September 1996): 133–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455759609358701.

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McGinnis, Michael Vincent, John Woolley, and John Gamman. "FORUM: Bioregional Conflict Resolution: Rebuilding Community in Watershed Planning and Organizing." Environmental Management 24, no. 1 (July 1, 1999): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002679900210.

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Moss, Michael R., and Robert J. Milne. "Biophysical processes and bioregional planning: The Niagara Escarpment of southern Ontario, Canada." Landscape and Urban Planning 40, no. 4 (May 1998): 251–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0169-2046(97)00116-3.

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Cooke, Philip. "Global Bioregional Networks: A New Economic Geography of Bioscientific Knowledge." European Planning Studies 14, no. 9 (October 2006): 1265–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654310600933348.

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Smith, Gideon F., and Maureen M. Wolfson. "Mainstreaming biodiversity: the role of taxonomy in bioregional planning activities in South Africa." TAXON 53, no. 2 (May 2004): 467–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4135623.

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MUNTEAN, Adrian-Daniel, Remus-Adrian CARANFIL, and Oana-Ramona ILOVAN. "Urban Bioregions and Territorial Identities in Romania. The Role of Information and Communication Technology." Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning SI, no. 8 (June 7, 2021): 78–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/jsspsi.2021.8.07.

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This article explores the current measures and initiatives implemented in Romania to determine what is the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in creating bioregions, and especially in how cities, as potential urban bioregions, play a part in this process. The exploratory documentation and database creation was done through keyword-search on the Google search engine, because of the current COVID-19 restrictions. The initiatives found by keyword searching were then divided into two categories, ICT-related, and non-ICT, and represented in table format. The keyword-based search has led to several results, which were displayed using ArcMap 10.5 and analysed by being superimposed on the historical and development regions of Romania. Firstly, results showed that, in Romania, a bigger concentration of population did not necessarily correlate with a higher number of sustainable practices. Secondly, that cities’ bio/eco food demand, as well as fertile soil, created the premise for the start of numerous eco/bio-certified farms and businesses. Thirdly, cities, and especially the four major regional capitals (Bucharest, Iași, Cluj-Napoca, and Timișoara) had more practices and especially smart-based ones. Finally, results indicated a large regional inequality in terms of the number of sustainable practices, with eastern regions being shallower, while western regions and those counties in proximity to important urban centres being favoured. This exploratory study helps to understand the stage of reaching the aims of the bioregional paradigm in Romania.

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Donovan, Shannon, J. D. Wulfhorst, and Michael Jennings. "Geographic Expression of Social Values in Bioregional Planning: A Case Study of the Palouse." Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 3, no. 2 (March 30, 2011): 125–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19390459.2011.557882.

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Tonn, Bruce, Mary English, Robert Turner, and Angela Hemrick. "The future of bioregional planning in the Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere region." Futures 38, no. 4 (May 2006): 490–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2005.07.014.

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Stevenson, Fionn, and Jonathan Ball. "Sustainability and materiality: The bioregional and cultural challenges to evaluation." Local Environment 3, no. 2 (June 1998): 191–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839808725557.

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Gilbert, Liette, L. Anders Sandberg, and Gerda R. Wekerle. "Building bioregional citizenship: the case of the Oak Ridges Moraine, Ontario, Canada." Local Environment 14, no. 5 (May 2009): 387–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549830902903674.

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Chiew, Francis, Guobin Fu, David Post, Yongqiang Zhang, Biao Wang, and Neil Viney. "Impact of Coal Resource Development on Streamflow Characteristics: Influence of Climate Variability and Climate Change." Water 10, no. 9 (August 30, 2018): 1161. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w10091161.

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The potential cumulative impact of coal mining and coal seam gas extraction on water resources and water-dependent assets from proposed developments in eastern Australia have been recently assessed through a Bioregional Assessment Programme. This study investigates the sensitivity of the Bioregional Assessment results to climate change and hydroclimate variability, using the Gloucester sub-region as an example. The results indicate that the impact of climate change on streamflow under medium and high future projections can be greater than the impact from coal mining development, particularly where the proposed development is small. The differences in the modelled impact of coal resource development relative to the baseline under different plausible climate futures are relatively small for the Gloucester sub-region but can be significant in regions with large proposed development. The sequencing of hydroclimate time series, particularly when the mine footprint is large, significantly influences the modelled maximum coal resource development impact. The maximum impact on volumetric and high flow variables will be higher if rainfall is high in the period when the mine footprint is largest, and vice-versa for low flow variables. The results suggest that detailed analysis of coal resource development impact should take into account climate change and hydroclimate variability.

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Gökmen, Esra Yazici, and Nuran Zeren Gülersoy. "Spatial Planning as a Tool for Effective Nature Conservation: A Conceptual Framework for Turkey’s Spatial Planning System." Journal of Landscape Ecology 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 73–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2018-0002.

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Abstract Protected areas can be parts of larger ecosystems, and land use changes in the unprotected part of the ecosystems may threaten the biological diversity by affecting the ecological processes. The relationship between protected areas and their surroundings has been influential in understanding the role of spatial planning in nature conservation. This article focuses on the problem that Turkey’s protected areas are vulnerable to pressure and threats caused by land use changes. Spatial planning serving as a bridge between nature conservation and land use is the solution for effective nature conservation in Turkey. Thereby, the aim of this article is to develop a conceptual framework which offers spatial planning as an effective tool to bridge the gap between land use change and nature conservation. In this context, first literature review is conducted, and systematic conservation planning, evidence-based conservation planning, bioregional planning and national system planning are presented as effective planning methods in nature conservation. In addition to literature review, official national statistics and Convention on Biological Diversity’s country reports are utilized to shed light on Turkey’s current state. Finally, a conceptual framework is defined, the main differences with the current situation are revealed. The results indicate that an effective planning system for Turkey’s protected areas incorporates a holistic, target-oriented system defining the spatial planning process for protected areas. The spatial planning system to be developed in this context is also used by decision-makers in evaluating the ecological effectiveness of existing plans.

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Lane, Marcus B. "Decentralization or privatization of environmental governance? Forest conflict and bioregional assessment in Australia." Journal of Rural Studies 19, no. 3 (July 2003): 283–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0743-0167(02)00084-0.

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Rosales, Natalie. "How can an ecological perspective be used to enrich cities planning and management?" urbe. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana 9, no. 2 (April 6, 2017): 314–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2175-3369.009.002.ao11.

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Abstract This conceptual article presents a comprehensive overview of principles, new urban descriptors and analysis methods that provide relevant ecological information, which can be fully incorporated into the planning process, by connecting ecological perspectives to planning and management issues. Section one summarizes the different notions of ecological urbanism and explores what concepts and basic assumptions can constitute a guide to implement an ecological perspective into urban planning. Section two covers what frameworks exist for planning and managing the city under an ecological perspective; and what methods and tools are being used by different stake holders to implement an ecological vision today. As a synthesis, the paper suggest that ecological urbanism applies through six concepts (ecological networks, nestedness, cycles, flows, dynamic balance and resilience), which can be covered by three principles: I) an eco-systemic understanding and management of the city; II) a bioregional governance; III) an ecologically balanced planning. By doing so, this piece of work builds conceptually and practically a frame towards the transformation of current planning and management practices outlining clues for reinterpreting strategies to re-signify and re-conceptualize the existing dichotomous relationship between city-nature, environment-society, while strives for a new understanding of the way we inhabit the habitat.

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Trisurat, Yongyut. "Transboundary biodiversity conservation of the Pha Taem Protected Forest Complex: A bioregional approach." Applied Geography 26, no. 3-4 (October 2006): 260–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2006.09.010.

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Mulvihill, Peter R., Robert G. Macdonald, and Jennifer Macmillan. "Fostering Sustainability in Headwaters Country: Using Bioregional and Social Capital Strategies in Support of Sustainability." Local Environment 11, no. 6 (December 2006): 663–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549830600853734.

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Thorburn, P. J., I. J. Gordon, and S. McIntyre. "Soil and water salinity in Queensland: the prospect of ecological sustainability through the implementation of land clearing policy." Rangeland Journal 24, no. 1 (2002): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj02007.

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In Queensland, legislation has recently been enacted that outlines minimum standards for the retention of native vegetation in bioregions and prescribes Performance Requirements for the maintenance of biodiversity and ecological processes, and the prevention of land degradation. It also details Acceptable Solutions to satisfy the Performance Requirements. It this paper we analyse the links between science and action to determine whether the legislation and associated policy are likely to lead to sound management decisions being made for prevention of land and water salinity. We also compared the requirements for biodiversity protection relative to those for salinity control. For salinity (and biodiversity) the minimum standards and Acceptable Solutions in the legislation have a sound technical basis. The main challenge in implementing the salinity Performance Requirements will be provision of information required to assess salinity risk at appropriate scales. This information is: (1) salinity hazard assessment at catchment/regional scale planning scale; (2) technical information to support a sub-catchment scale implementation; (3) guidelines, procedures and local expertise for interpretation of salinity hazard at the property scale. In the process of assessing clearing applications there is no formal role for planners or decision makers at the sub-catchment level who could play an important role in coordinating information gathering for land managers developing clearing applications. There are also limited pathways for accessing relevant scientific information and expertise at an appropriate level to provide support for land managers. We suggest that this situation is likely to limit the successful implementation of the policy for preventing land and water salinity. The minimum standard of 30% retained vegetation would provide similar protection for biodiversity and salinity control at the bioregional level. In smaller areas (e.g. an individual property) however, there could be contrasting requirements for the retention of vegetation.

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Audet, P., S. Arnold, A. M. Lechner, and T. Baumgartl. "Site-specific climate analysis elucidates revegetation challenges for post-mining landscapes in eastern Australia." Biogeosciences 10, no. 10 (October 15, 2013): 6545–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-6545-2013.

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Abstract. In eastern Australia, the availability of water is critical for the successful rehabilitation of post-mining landscapes and climatic characteristics of this diverse geographical region are closely defined by factors such as erratic rainfall and periods of drought and flooding. Despite this, specific metrics of climate patterning are seldom incorporated into the initial design of current post-mining land rehabilitation strategies. Our study proposes that a few common rainfall parameters can be combined and rated using arbitrary rainfall thresholds to characterise bioregional climate sensitivity relevant to the rehabilitation these landscapes. This approach included assessments of annual rainfall depth, average recurrence interval of prolonged low intensity rainfall, average recurrence intervals of short or prolonged high intensity events, median period without rain (or water-deficit) and standard deviation for this period in order to address climatic factors such as total water availability, seasonality and intensity – which were selected as potential proxies of both short- and long-term biological sensitivity to climate within the context of post-disturbance ecological development and recovery. Following our survey of available climate data, we derived site "climate sensitivity" indexes and compared the performance of 9 ongoing mine sites: Weipa, Mt. Isa and Cloncurry, Eromanga, Kidston, the Bowen Basin (Curragh), Tarong, North Stradbroke Island, and the Newnes Plateau. The sites were then ranked from most-to-least sensitive and compared with natural bioregional patterns of vegetation density using mean NDVI. It was determined that regular rainfall and relatively short periods of water-deficit were key characteristics of sites having less sensitivity to climate – as found among the relatively more temperate inland mining locations. Whereas, high rainfall variability, frequently occurring high intensity events, and (or) prolonged seasonal drought were primary indicators of sites having greater sensitivity to climate – as found among the semi-arid central-inland sites. Overall, the manner in which these climatic factors are identified and ultimately addressed by land managers and rehabilitation practitioners could be a key determinant of achievable success at given locations at the planning stages of rehabilitation design.

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Gladden, James N. "Bioregionalism as an Arctic Wilderness Idea." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 3, no. 1 (1999): 51–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853599x00045.

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AbstractA recurrent question in the modem world is the place of people in nature, and bioregionalism offers some ideas in the debate over the kinds of technology that belong in Arctic wilderness areas, with a focus on northern Alaska. Some interests argue that people should only visit these areas, on foot or by paddle, to achieve a wilderness experience. Rural residents, most of whom are Alaska Natives, hold that access to these lands by motorised vehicles is essential to maintain hunting and gathering traditions. The debate over managing wilderness areas in northern Alaska originates in conflicting views of the meaning of wilderness. A bioregional vision offers some common ground in the idea of wilderness as a place of respect for non-human life forms, but political conflicts will not be easily resolved.

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Taylor, Sarah McFarland. "REINHABITING RELIGION: GREEN SISTERS, ECOLOGICAL RENEWAL, AND THE BIOGEOGRAPHY OF RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 6, no. 3 (2002): 227–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853502320915366.

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AbstractThis article explores the growing movement of environmentally activist Roman Catholic women religious in North America and the implications of this movement for theorizing new directions in religion and culture. Sisters' creative efforts to conserve traditional religious and cultural forms while opening up these forms to "greener" (ecologically-minded) interpretations reveals the very protean process of religious meaning-making. It also subsequently challenges more static and conventional theoretical models of religion. In particular, the author documents and analyzes the intertwining of bioregional philosophies of "reinhabitation," expressions of American Catholic religious life, and manifestations of "green culture." Integrating geographic, ethnographic, and historical methodologies, the author argues that when researchers approach the study of religion as "biogeographers," they discover complex levels of religious understanding and expression that are otherwise overlooked. Significantly, it is these frequently-missed dimensions of the religious landscape that more accurately reflect the "living and lived" quality of religion.

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Pearce, Jack B. "Bioregional Planning: Resource Management beyond the New Millennium. David J. Brunckhorst. Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000, 162 pp. Price US $28.00. ISBN 90-5823-046-5." Marine Pollution Bulletin 40, no. 12 (December 2000): 1222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0025-326x(00)00175-2.

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Dezio, Catherine, and Antonio Longo. "Bioregione come spazio di ricerca e progetto." TERRITORIO, no. 93 (January 2021): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tr2020-093002.

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Il servizio propone una riflessione sulla natura esplorativa e progettuale del termine ‘bioregione'. Il campo d'indagine è la metropoli milanese, centro di un sistema di luoghi e paesaggi, relazioni tra produzioni e consumi, gestione di scarti ed energia. La prospettiva bioregionale, spesso legata a nuove ideologie e scuole, affinché non risulti una semplice modalità di identificazione accademica, richiede approcci pragmatici basati su azioni concrete; qui si parla di azioni rivolte al miglioramento della qualità agronomica e ambientale e della relazione tra produzioni, consumi e scarti. La lettura territoriale e paesaggistica del sistema bioregionale si offre come una prospettiva di lavoro e di ricerca imperfetta, ma utile alla comprensione di relazioni complesse, che permette di affrontare sfide ambientali e paesaggistiche riguardanti i territori contemporanei, nella valorizzazione delle risorse locali.

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Treweek, Jo. "Book Reviews: "Bioregional Assessments — Science at the Crossroads of Management and Policy", K. Norman Johnson, Frederick Swanson, Margaret Herring & Sarah Greene (Eds)." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 01, no. 04 (December 1999): 538–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1464333299000399.

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Alexandra, Jason. "Australia's landscapes in a changing climate—caution, hope, inspiration, and transformation." Crop and Pasture Science 63, no. 3 (2012): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/cp11189.

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Australia’s future landscapes will be shaped by global climatic, economic, and cultural drivers. Landscapes evolve. They are manifestations of the complex negotiations between nature and cultures, over millennia. In the Anthropocene, humans are the dominant evolutionary force reshaping the biosphere. Landscape management involves all human activities and interventions that change the forms and functions of landscapes. It also involves the ways we learn about, and understand the world, and our place in it. Responses to climate change are driving changes in natural resources policy, research and management. Building capability for large-scale, adaptive management is critical in an era of global change. By rigorously examining and learning from recent experience—bioregional conservation planning, natural resource management (NRM), landcare, and water reform—Australia can build capacity for integrated and adaptive resource management. Climate change compounds existing stressors on ecosystems. It adds complexity and presents new challenges for integrated assessment, planning, and management of natural resources. Given the dynamic nature of the ecosystems, static conservation paradigms and stationary hydrology models are increasingly redundant. In the face of inherent complexity and uncertainty, ‘predict and control’ strategies are likely to be less useful. Adaptive approaches are called for, due to the complex relationships and non-linear feedbacks between social, ecological, and climatic systems. Australia should invest in building professional and community capacity. Australia’s scientific and professional capacity in natural resources provides useful foundations, but substantially increased investment is called for. Research should be focused on guiding and influencing management at large scales and on avoiding undesirable thresholds or tipping points in complex ecological systems. Cultural and governance aspects are emphasised as central to effective adaptation strategies, because landscape management is an intergenerational, societal challenge that requires participatory, adaptive learning approaches.

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Watts, Paul, Eduardo Macose, Eusebio Angara, and Marivic Pajaro. "A holistic educational paradigm: Managing coastal resources in the Philippines." Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement 3 (November 25, 2010): 120–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ijcre.v3i0.1638.

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The world is facing a depletion of marine resources that threatens entire cultures and endangers the very life of the planet. Reports indicate that over 80 per cent of world fish stocks are heavily exploited or depleted, yet close to 200 million people continue to depend on the fishery for livelihood (FAO 2008). The vast geographical range of many marine fish populations calls for public participation, communication and coordination on a large scale. The need for public participation is particularly acute in those countries where both government services and marine management infrastructure are limited. In the Philippines, public participation has been identified as a priority strategy to promote sustainable development of coastal resources (Republic Act 8435, Akester et al. 2007). Given the lack of empowered stakeholders and a functional government body that can appropriately address the challenges of coastal resource management through public participation, catalyst institutions need to step in. This role is being undertaken by the Aurora State College of Technology (ASCOT), located in Aurora Province on the northeast coast of Luzon Island, Philippines. ASCOT has adopted a holistic approach that offers a model for responsive education with a focus on participation and representative leadership. This article outlines ASCOT’s ongoing programs as an example of a ‘catalyst institution’ in action, with a focus on responsive education through the establishment of strategic partnerships and public participation. It also reports on research conducted with the local fisherfolk of Aurora Province and Pamana, a national alliance of fisherfolk Marine Protected Area (MPA) managers. Key words: fisherfolk empowerment, participative education, catalyst, bioregional planning

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Johnston, Robert A. "Bioregional Planning. Resource Management Beyond the New Millennium BY DAVID J. BRUNCKHORST ix + 162 pp., 23.5 × 15.5 × 1.1 cm, ISBN 90 5823 046 5 hardback, GB £ 18.00, Amsterdam, Netherlands: OPA, 2000." Environmental Conservation 28, no. 4 (December 2001): 378–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892901300401.

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Williamson, G. J., L. Christidis, J. Norman, B. W. Brook, B. Mackey, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. "The use of Australian bioregions as spatial units of analysis to explore relationships between climate and songbird diversity." Pacific Conservation Biology 17, no. 4 (2011): 354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc110354.

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Biogeographers often investigate patterns of biodiversity at continental and global scales, using existing data georeferenced to a lattice of cells of latitude and longitude. Problems can arise with this approach when the available biological data are insufficient to adequately sample each cell and the cells are environmentally heterogeneous. An alternative, though less-often employed, approach is to use bioregions (defined as areas with distinctive biophysical environmental characteristics) as the basic sampling unit and to statistically control for unequal areas of regions. Here we applied this latter approach with the Interim Biogeographical Regionalisation of Australia (IBRA) to analyse continental patterns of songbird species richness in relation to mean annual precipitation, mean annual temperature, and mean wet season temperature, which are all predicted to substantially change given anthropogenic climate change. We used the Birds Australia database that has a large sample (>1,560,000) of distribution records covering Australia. For each of the 85 IBRAs, we determined the total number of songbird species and standardized these richness values accounting for the species-area effect by including the log of bioregion area as a covariate in the statistical models. Our analysis of standardized bioregion songbirds richness showed that the best supported model, based on information theory statistics included an interaction of mean annual temperature and precipitation (48.6% deviance explained). The fitted model showed declining richness with increasing temperature and declining precipitation, signalling that future climates may result in regional declines in songbird abundance. We suggest our simple empirical-statistical approach, using bioregions as the spatial unit, has promise for continental and global impact assessment of diversity changes and for conservation planning

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CHIPENIUK, RAYMOND. "Childhood foraging as regional culture: some implications for conservation policy." Environmental Conservation 25, no. 3 (September 1998): 198–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892998000253.

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Natural resource planning theory now accepts that laypersons may acquire scientifically correct knowledge of nature by informal means and that sense of place, or ecological identity, motivates citizens to assume personal responsibility for their own bioregion. Previous research has identified childhood foraging, that is, searching for and using wild plants and animals of distinguishable kinds, as one informal means by which citizens learn about local ecosystems, but ethnographic evidence suggests foraging may also contribute substantially to the development of ecological identity. Does foraging reflect the ecological characteristics of local bioregions closely enough to structure ecological identity in industrial populations too? By way of addressing this question, studies were conducted to test predictions about the foraging repertoires of people growing up in two separate, but related, bioregions of Canada, centred on Niagara and Ottawa respectively. The most important of these predictions were, first, that regional patterns of foraging experience would correspond to regional ecological patterns, and second, that foraging repertoires would evince within-region similarities and between-region differences. Results confirm that the childhood foraging experience of ordinary Canadian citizens responds to important ecological parameters at the regional scale and in so doing constitutes an aspect of place-specific culture. These findings have a bearing on conservation policy, particularly for multicultural societies.

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Dezio, Catherine. "Verso un'infrastruttura materiale e immateriale per la Bioregione." TERRITORIO, no. 93 (January 2021): 32–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tr2020-093005.

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L'idea bioregionale sottende un progetto di ricomposizione dei paesaggi di bordo che, ripristinando flussi, funzioni ecologiche, relazioni e identità, realizza un tessuto connettivo e attivatore. Tale tessuto agisce tramite interventi locali, caratterizzati da strumenti e linguaggi multidisciplinari e transcalari. Secondo quest'ottica, gli spazi rappresentano entità che si attivano attraverso una dimensione relazionale, di natura sociale, politica, economica, culturale, dai risvolti spaziali. Pratiche di modificazione, forme di regolamentazione, politiche di governo, gesti e usi, immaginari urbani e rurali concorrono, in forma plurale, alla generazione di spazi che sono il prodotto di questa molteplicità. È, quindi, attraverso questo quadro bioregionale che possiamo rileggere spazi, azioni progettuali e relazioni come elementi di una rete.

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Dariati, T., Firnawati, C. W. B. Yanti, N. E. Dungga, H. Iswoyo, K. Mantja, and D. U. Zainuddin. "Planning the upstream agricultural landscape of the Jeneberang watershed using the bioregion approach." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 486 (May 27, 2020): 012075. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/486/1/012075.

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Fanfani, David. "The urban bioregion as form and project of the co-evolution between urban and rural domain. the case of the Florence metropolitan area." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 1.4 (January 4, 2018): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.4.9264.

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Urbanization processes entailed, especially in western countries, growing interaction between urban and rural domain alongside with ‘resilience’ problems also related to global economic, climate and ‘transition’ matters. That calls for a ‘re-embedding’ of cities in their surrounding regions. In such a framework, this article explores the opportunity of recovering, in planning practices, the ‘urban bioregion’ concept, as key feature for balanced and co-evolutionary polycentric urban regions. That allows to point out, as in the case described relatively to Florence MA, the need to adopt integrated and bottom-up approach, in order to overcome routine and path-dependent practices in periurban areas planning.

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Scudo, Gianni, and Matteo Clementi. "La progettazione ambientale delle filiere alimentari orientata allo sviluppo bioregionale." TERRITORIO, no. 93 (January 2021): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tr2020-093004.

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Il testo presenta strumenti di analisi e progetto di filiere alimentari elaborati nella ricerca ‘Bioregione'. Lo studio mira ad approfondire i processi che connettono domanda e offerta in un ambito territoriale definito e a formulare scenari migliorativi. Le filiere interessano i principali alimenti che compongono la domanda aggregata associata alla ristorazione collettiva nelle diverse fasi, dalla produzione in campo al conferimento al centro cottura, al consumo e alla gestione degli scarti. Gli indicatori utilizzati sono la domanda energetica complessiva (energia primaria non rinnovabile), la contabilità di terreno agricolo produttivo per quantità di prodotto o pasto equivalente e il costo di produzione. Essi costituiscono strumenti sperimentali di riferimento per una pianificazione territoriale locale che metta al centro un nuovo modello metabolico campagnacittà ambientalmente sostenibile.

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Pezzoli, Keith, Justine Kozo, Karen Ferran, Wilma Wooten, Gudelia Rangel Gomez, and Wael K. Al-Delaimy. "One Bioregion/One Health: An Integrative Narrative for Transboundary Planning along the US–Mexico Border." Global Society 28, no. 4 (September 18, 2014): 419–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2014.951316.

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Birch, K. "Growth Cultures: the global bioeconomy and its bioregions * Philip Cooke." Journal of Economic Geography 8, no. 2 (October 24, 2007): 265–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbm047.

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Nyirenda, Vincent R., Ngawo Namukonde, Matamyo Simwanda, Darius Phiri, Yuji Murayama, Manjula Ranagalage, and Kaula Milimo. "Rodent Assemblages in the Mosaic of Habitat Types in the Zambezian Bioregion." Diversity 12, no. 10 (September 23, 2020): 365. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d12100365.

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Rodent assemblages have ecological importance in ecosystem functioning and protected area management. Our study examines the patterns of assemblages of rodents across four habitat types (i.e., Miombo woodland, Acacia woodland, grasslands and farmlands) in the savanna environment. Capture-mark-recapture (CMR) methods were applied for data collection across the Chembe Bird Sanctuary (CBS) landscape. The Non-metric Multi-Dimensional Scaling (NMDS) was used for exploratory data analysis, followed by Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Tukey–Kramer’s Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) post-hoc tests. The rodent assemblages in CBS significantly differed between the non-farmlands (i.e., Miombo woodland, Acacia woodland and grasslands) and farmlands. There were: (1) zero rodent diversity in farmlands, dominated completely by a pest species, M. natalensis; and (2) different rodent assemblages in three non-farmland habitat types. We suggest that rodent assemblages should be mediated by conservation planning and multi-stakeholder collaboration beyond the protected area boundaries to contribute to a working CBS landscape positively.

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Barquet, Karina. "Building a bioregion through transboundary conservation in Central America." Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography 69, no. 5 (October 20, 2015): 265–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2015.1087421.

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Barica, J. "Sustainable Management of Urban Lakes: A New Environmental Challenge." Water Quality Research Journal 27, no. 2 (May 1, 1992): 211–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wqrj.1992.015.

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Abstract In view of the exponential growth of human population in urban areas during the last century, more attention should be paid to large city ecosystems as specific ecological bioregions. There is a need to shift the present biocentric-naturalist views prevailing in environmental circles to include the human population as an integral part of the ecosystem in a stringent application of the principles of the ecosystem approach and sustainable development. A new environmental realism is needed: boundaries and limits of ecological sustainability have to be respected and necessary caps imposed through rational urban planning and settlement policies. The urban lakes can serve as living indicators of good environmental management or mismanagement, as well as overall urban environmental health.

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Agyeman, Julian, and Bob Evans. "From finance in Brazil, to the framework of the bioregion." Local Environment 3, no. 2 (June 1998): 109–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839808725552.

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Deur, Douglas, Peter K. Schoonmaker, Bettina von Hagen, and Edward C. Wolf. "The Rain Forests of Home: Profile of a North American Bioregion." Geographical Review 88, no. 1 (January 1998): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/215878.

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Voellinger, Leonard, and Claudia Oakes. "Regional Place-Systems Analysis Applied to Long-Range Transportation Planning." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1518, no. 1 (January 1996): 19–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198196151800104.

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The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) requires the integration of environmental considerations into transportation planning. Although previous legislation has required the consideration of environmental elements during project planning, ISTEA necessitates a different approach. During project-specific planning, each environmental element is researched to determine baseline conditions, and project plans are superimposed to determine potential impacts and the need for mitigative measures. This approach is appropriate for project-specific planning, but it presents only a snapshot of existing conditions because environmental data are changing constantly. The integration of environmental considerations into long-range plans requires a much broader focus. It must allow dynamic systems to change without affecting the plan's validity. A case study is presented of the Oklahoma statewide intermodal transportation plan, which uses recent geographic theory to integrate planning and human activity at varying scales. This theoretical framework is based on ecological and societal units of interaction called bioregions or place-systems. The environmental baseline and analysis for Oklahoma begin with the identification of place-systems in the state: areas of biophysical and cultural similarity and context. The delimitation of such regional place-systems is sufficiently generalized and flexible to accommodate many data types and sources, yet rigid enough to be useful for planning. Both quantitative data and descriptive information are included in an analytical framework suitable to relational data bases and geographic information systems applications. These are used to create a series of map and data overlays to project potential environmental impacts and constraints, as well as opportunities for developing future transportation projects. The methods used to delineate regional place-systems in Oklahoma and their subsequent use in environmental analyses and planning are described.

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Hunter, John T., and Vanessa H. Hunter. "Montane mire vegetation of the New England Tablelands Bioregion of Eastern Australia." Vegetation Classification and Survey 1 (May 4, 2020): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vcs/2020/48765.

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Aims: To use unsupervised techniques to produce a hierarchical classification of montane mires of the study region. Study area: New England Tablelands Bioregion (NETB) of eastern Australia. Methods: A dataset of 280 vascular floristic survey plots placed across the variation in montane mires of the NETB was collated. Vegetation types were identified with the aid of a clustering method based on group averaging and tested using similarity profile analysis (SIMPROF) and through ordinations using Bray-Curtis similarity and non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS). A hierarchical schema was developed based on EcoVeg hierarchy and was circumscribed using positive and negative diagnostic taxa via similarity percentage analysis (SIMPER) and importance based on summed cover scores and frequency. Results: We defined one macrogroup to include all montane mire vegetation of the NETB and within these two groups and twelve alliances. Conclusions: Our study re-enforced the separation of bogs from other montane mire systems and confirmed the separation of fens and wet meadows, a distinction that previously had not been independently tested. Based on our results many existing montane mire communities of the NETB have been ill-defined at multiple hierarchical levels, leading to confusion in threat status and mapping. Additionally, nearly half of the alliances we recognise were found to have no correlates within current classification systems, which necessarily has implications for the effectiveness of current conservation planning. Taxonomic reference: PlantNET (http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/, accessed June 2016). Abbreviations: BC Act = Biodiversity Conservation Act; EPBC Act = Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act; NETB = New England Tablelands Bioregion; NMDS = non-metric multidimensional scaling; PCT = plant community type; RE = regional ecosystem; SIMPER = similarity percentage analysis; SIMPROF = similarity profile analysis.

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Poli, Daniela, and Maria Rita Gisotti. "Le regole dell'arte di costruire le città e i servizi ecosistemici del territorio intermedio bioregionale." TERRITORIO, no. 89 (November 2019): 123–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tr2019-089016.

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Ficetola, Gentile Francesco, Mattia Falaschi, Anna Bonardi, Emilio Padoa-Schioppa, and Roberto Sindaco. "Biogeographical structure and endemism pattern in reptiles of the Western Palearctic." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 42, no. 2 (April 2018): 220–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309133318765084.

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The analysis of biogeographical structure and patterns of endemism are central topics of biogeography, but require exhaustive distribution data. A lack of accurate broad-scale information on the distribution of reptiles has so far limited the analyses of biogeographical structure. Here we analysed the distribution of reptiles within the broad-sense Western Palearctic to assess biogeographical regionalization using phylogenetic and non-phylogenetic approaches, identified areas of endemism and evaluated the environmental factors promoting community uniqueness and endemism. We gathered distributional records from the literature and from the field, mapping the distribution of all the Western Palearctic reptiles on a 1-degree resolution grid. βsim dissimilarity and hierarchical clustering was used to identify bioregions, analysing data both at the species and at the genus level, and considering phylogenetic dissimilarity. Consensus areas of endemism were identified on the basis of the optimality criterion. We then assessed whether biogeographical structure is related to present-day climate, insularity, orography and velocity of climate change during the Late Quaternary. The genus-level analysis identified five main biogeographical regions within the Western Palearctic, in partial agreement with previous proposals, while the species-level analysis identified more bioregions, largely by dividing the ones identified by genera. Phylogenetic bioregions were generally consistent with the non-phylogenetic ones. The strongest community uniqueness was observed in subtropical warm climates with seasonal precipitation and low productivity. We found nine consensus areas of endemism, mostly in regions with limited velocity of Quaternary climate change and warm subtropical climates. The biogeographical structure of Western Palearctic reptiles is comparable to what has been observed in other vertebrates, with a clear distinction between the Saharo-Arabian-Sindian and Euro-Mediterranean herpetofaunas. Unlike other vertebrates, in reptiles the highest uniqueness and endemism is observed in dry climates, but the velocity of climate change during the Quaternary remains a major driver of endemism across all the vertebrates.

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