Interest In Natural Resources Research Articles

Curd v. Mosaic: Establishing a Property Right in Fish and Legitimately Assessing Value for Their Destruction

This paper investigates Curd v. Mosaic, a case currently awaiting oral argument before the Florida Supreme Court, and two related issues: 1) property interests in natural resources, specifically fish; and 2) the value of these interests. Part I of this paper provides a brief ecological, economic, and scientific discussion of Curd by focusing on the fish, chemicals, and environment. Part II begins by fishing for answers. First, does a private citizen have a property interest in natural resources, specifically fish? If so, what historical justifications have courts given to permit fisherman a recovery for smaller catches? The section describes historical caselaw regarding private citizen action for the recovery of wild animals, the views of prominent property rights theorists, and then moves on to statutory governmental causes of action. Next, the section describes the “special relationship” between fishermen and catch before suggesting that nuisance law can best tackle the problems posed by Curd. Part III of this paper investigates the valuation of natural resources. The section describes the two main tests utilized to value and remedy the destruction of natural resources in an attempt to determine whether valuation is mere speculation; or whether legitimate processes have been developed to accurately put a price on our natural surroundings. The second part of this section describes the processes that could be used to distribute a plaintiff’s recovery in Curd. Finally, part IV concludes that the Florida Supreme Court should allow the fisherman a case of action to protect their livelihood and the environment. By permitting fisherman to recover, the Court would take some of the burden of environmental protection off the government and instead utilize the threat of private party litigation as a deterrent.

The first five years of the Conservation Effects Assessment Project

T he Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) was initiated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) in response to a general call for better accountability of how society would benefit from the 2002 farm bill's substantial increase in conservation program funding (Mausbach and Dedrick 2004). The original goals of CEAP were to establish the scientific understanding of the effects of conservation practices at the watershed scale and to estimate conservation impacts and benefits for reporting at the national and regional levels. Other federal agencies and nongovernmental organizations with conservation and natural resource interests are currently partners in various CEAP activities, often through jointly funded research projects. CEAP activities are organized into three interconnected efforts: 1. Bibliographies, literature reviews, and a scientific workshop to establish what is known about the environmental effects of conservation practices at field and watershed scales, and what kinds of research and data collection are needed to assess conservation practice benefits. 2. Watershed assessment studies to provide in-depth quantification of water quality and soil quality impacts of conservation practices at the local level and to provide insight on what practices are needed…

Education and training of future wetland scientists and managers

Wetland science emerged as a distinct discipline in the 1980s. In response, courses addressing various aspects of wetland science and management were developed by universities, government agencies, and private firms. Professional certification of wetland scientists began in the mid-1990s to provide confirmation of the quality of education and experience of persons involved in regulatory, management, restoration/construction, and research involving wetland resources. The education requirements for certification and the need for persons with specific wetland training to fill an increasing number of wetland-related positions identified a critical need to develop curriculum guidelines for an undergraduate wetland science and management major for potential accreditation by the Society of Wetland Scientists. That proposed major contains options directed toward either wetland science or management. Both options include required basic courses to meet the general education requirements of many universities, required upper-level specialized courses that address critical aspects of physical and biological sciences applicable to wetlands, and a minimum of four additional upper-level specialized courses that can be used to tailor a degree to students’ interests. The program would be administered by an independent review board that would develop guidelines and evaluate university applications for accreditation. Students that complete the required coursework will fulfill the education requirements for professional wetland scientist certification and possess qualifications that make them attractive candidates for graduate school or entry-level positions in wetland science or management. Universities that offer this degree program could gain an advantage in recruiting highly qualified students with an interest in natural resources. Alternative means of educating established wetland scientists are likewise important, especially to provide specialized knowledge and experience or updates related to new management discoveries, policies, and regulations.

Bringing the Material Back In: Understanding the U.S. Position on Climate Change

This paper analyzes how natural resource interests have been translated into political outcomes in the form of American climate change policy. Incorporating data about natural resource use and national decision-making, this paper concludes that comprehending fully political decisions about global climate change in the United States requires us to recognize how land-use interests in the growth machine are translated into political outcomes. The findings of this paper suggest that, in order to understand social phenomena more fully, sociologists must recommit to studying the conjoint constitution of natural resources and social processes.

How a Student Views the Field

I t was the Colorado Section meeting in 2004 when the presiding president Rob Alexander told the members that one of his goals during his term was to tie bonds between the student chapter and the section. He said this was because everything is more exciting for us when the students are involved. As the acting president of the Range Ecology Club at Colorado State University, thus the head of the student chapter at the time, I thought to myself, can I help to develop and encourage this bond? Then it hit me. I should speak to the members at the next section meeting. During the next break, I found Rob Alexander, who was chatting with Roy Roath, the next president, and other members of the group, and introduced myself and suggested (perhaps foolishly) that I could speak at the next meeting if they thought it would be interesting. About 6 months later, Roy Roath, who was in charge of organizing the meeting for 2005, approached me to say that he had developed the speakers list for the meeting and was counting on me to speak. I thought to myself, Surely he is not holding me to an off comment I made nearly 6 months ago, but he was. So that is how it came that I would be speaking at the Colorado Section's 2005 meeting. Approximately 1 week before the meeting I was starting to worry, I had spent considerable time thinking about my speech and still had no direction. The theme of the meeting was Past, Present, and Future and I was there to represent the future. My speech was titled Preparing for a Career: How a College Student Views the Field in the program for the meeti g which had been distributed a month earlier. It was too late to back out now. I needed to focus and develop something to talk about. Again, I was hit with a moment of clarity, Jesse, I said to myself, have heard all of your professors say 'you don't know where you are going, unless you know where you have been.' I decided that I would tell my story of how I got into the field. I grew up in a quaint little town of nearly 200,000 about 25 miles straight west of America's third largest metropolis, Chicago. Illinois is a state with a diminishing 0.01% of the historic rangelands, the tall-grass prairie. However, I was drawn to them in high school when I had taken a class entitled Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM). This class taught basic ecological principles and processes but most importantly to me at the time it included many field trips with opportunities to leave school. On one of our field trips, we were taken to Treehaven, a field campus for natural resource students for University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. On this trip I was exposed to multiple ecosystems and ecological processes. This exposure fueled my ever-growing interest in natural resources; so much so, that after this trip that I had decided that I would study natural resources in college. The rest of that year in high school was spent looking at colleges and spending free time in the tall-grass prairie near my house. The prairie was located at Fermilab National Laboratory, an underground particle accelerator. They had a very intensive management plan and had even returned the native grazer of buffalo to their land. This land had truly drawn my interest. I really wanted to know how and why it worked as it did. At the same time the land was drawing my curiosity, my teacher from INRM class had suggested Colorado State

Developing an Off-Campus Natural Resource Conservation Program

Abstract The University of Florida has created an off-campus natural resource conservation education program in the Florida Panhandle to meet the needs of place-bound students. By partnering with the nearby University of West Florida and Pensacola Junior College and strengthening an existing research center, the program leverages scarce educational resources. It offers a science-based curriculum that integrates forestry and wildlife education and also allows students to focus on their own particular interests in natural resources.

Early Interest in Natural Resources of Mississippi

Soil Survey HorizonsVolume 41, Issue 1 p. 14-15 Article Early Interest in Natural Resources of Mississippi Roy W. Simonson, Roy W. Simonson Retired Pedologist 21 Kendall Drive, Oberlin, OH, 44074-1901Search for more papers by this author Roy W. Simonson, Roy W. Simonson Retired Pedologist 21 Kendall Drive, Oberlin, OH, 44074-1901Search for more papers by this author First published: 04 August 2015 https://doi.org/10.2136/sh2000.1.0014Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume41, Issue1Spring 2000Pages 14-15 RelatedInformation

Compensation for Taking of Natural Resource Interests: Principles and Practices in Recent Queensland Cases

Designation of new protected areas, introduction of new environmental regulations and resumption of land for infrastructure development lead to expropriation of natural resources or limitations on private property rights. ‘Takings’ by government may be justified when the social gain exceeds the private loss. Important issues then arise as to compensation policy. This article examines economic aspects of takings and limitations of property rights to natural resources. Compensation decisions by government with respect to three case studies in Queensland are reviewed. The nature and extent of compensation varied widely in these cases, and lack of clearly enunciated policies by government is apparent. It is probably impractical for government to set out clear guidelines to compensation for the takings of resources interests, although some reduction in uncertainty appear to be desirable.

The National Resources Inventory: a long-term multi-resource monitoring programme

Interest in natural resources and the environment has led to the development of new federal monitoring efforts, the expansion of existing federal inventory programmes, and discussions of inter-agency collaboration for natural resource assessment data collection. As federal programmes evolve, knowledge gained from existing long-term survey programmes can provide valuable contributions to statistical and operational aspects of survey efforts. This paper describes the National Resources Inventory (NRI), which has been conducted by the US Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service in cooperation with the Iowa State University Statistical Laboratory for several decades. The current NRI is a longitudinal survey of soil, water, and related environmental resources designed to assess conditions and trends every five years on non-federal US lands. An historical overview is provided highlighting the development of the survey programme. Sample design, data collection, and estimation procedures used in the 1992 NRI are described, and statistical issues related to long-term monitoring are discussed.

Reflections on Canada in the Year 1994

Canada is profoundly at risk, most importantly because of English Canada/Quebec conundrum. But risk does not just derive from that -- this is not the Quebec problem, this is the Canada problem. I was reminded of just how bad things have become when our federal transportation minister announced in Calgary Herald that the National Dream is dead as he warned Canadians that $1.6 billion we spend each year on transportation subsidies -- St. Lawrence Seaway, passenger train service, Crow Benefit, ferries of Atlantic Canada, Coast Guard -- are on chopping block.(f.1) If we end our national policy of a forced and subsidized east - west transportation system, and substitute free market and private enterprise, another stake will have been driven into heart of Canada's federal system.What is most deeply disturbing is that English Canadians have not yet awakened -- though we are on edge of abyss -- have not yet realized enormity of risk facing Canada. Indeed, mood abroad in English Canada is so cavalier that I fear we may stumble thoughtlessly through a series of crises and urgent events, and suddenly wake up to find that this great federal experiment we call Canada has failed before its 130th anniversary. And it will have been a failure that could have been averted had we had sufficient political will to concede, compromise, and innovate.Quebec and English CanadaI am one of large block of English Canadians -- ranging from 30 to 40 percent depending on which Gallup Poll in which year you consult -- who believe that only road out of English Canada/Quebec impasse is to negotiate for Quebec in our constitution.(f.2) I have believed this for over 30 years, ever since beginning of Quiet Revolution. Indeed, since emergence of Rassemblement pour l'Independance Nationale in 1966 Quebec election I have been convinced that Quebecois have presented English Canada with a starkly clear option: special status or sovereignty.(f.3) Ironically, choices amount to same thing in final analysis -- sovereignty will inevitably lead to some form of intimate association not dissimilar from European Union (unless English Canada goes completely mad). What English Canada faces, then, is a choice between a very long and messy road to special status in some form of negotiated sovereignty - association on one hand, and shorter road to same reality via negotiation leading to harmonious and voluntary constitutional change, on other.But despite fact that at 30 or 40 percent we special status advocates are a significant minority in English Canada, really on threshold of majority status with right leadership and commitment, rest of English Canada, most importantly all our prominent political leaders, have exhibited a growing cranky unwillingness even to discuss option. And in Quebec, strong nationalists and committed separatists insist that it is too late, that only Quebec sovereignty will now suffice to realize that nation's dreams and securities. Hence, Quebecois today face narrow and hard choices -- to accept federalism as it has evolved or to choose sovereignty. One need not belabour history's lesson that presenting an aggrieved population such a zero - sum choice can be very, very risky.Political analysts and commentators appear profoundly puzzled as they try to understand and explain why Canadian politics and political debates have reached such a parlous state: dominated by business lobby; an absence among established political and economic elites of a commitment to project of Canadian federation's survival; a separatist party as Official Opposition in Ottawa;(f.4) a western - based protest party of extreme right funded by oil and natural resource interests as only other contender for status of Official Opposition;(f. …

Structural adjustment and natural resources in sub‐Saharan Africa: The role of tenure reform

Current critiques of African resource management policies have been influenced by some of the key precepts of World Bank and International Monetary Fund “structural adjustment”; programs, especially the notion that state agencies should play a reduced role in directing and managing economic activity. Many Western donors argue that better resource management will result from policies that extend clearer property rights to users and give greater authority to local institutions, believed to be more accountable to the public. The author agrees with the need for tenure reforms, but argues that devolution of tenure rights and withdrawal of the overbearing state will not alone result in sustainable resource management. Tenure policy needs to be conceived in broad terms, with the aim of achieving an appropriate distribution of rights among all parties with interests in natural resources: farmers, communities, and the state.

Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State: the Australian Position

Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State: the Australian Position

The Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State in the United Kingdom and in International Law

The Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State in the United Kingdom and in International Law

Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State: the Norwegian Ekofisk Royalty Case

Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State: the Norwegian Ekofisk Royalty Case

Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State: Canada

Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State: Canada

Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State

Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State

Public Control of Land Use: Are Existing Administrative Structures Appropriate?

The last 30 years has seen an enormous urban expansion and an increase in the complexity of metropolitan processes. This is visible in a continually greater competition for land and the renewed emphasis on land use planning. Although land allocation problems exist in all areas, this condition is especially acute in the urban periphery where competition includes not only urban industrial and development interests, but pastoral, recreational, and natural resource interests as well. Moreover, the competition does not revolve merely around traditional property rights and the economic use of land. Instead, a new land ethic of environmental interest may be emerging which suggests there is an element of livability in the development of land, that the highest good is not necessarily the economic use of land, and that this livability element can, if need be, overrule the economic element.' As a result, land use control has emerged as a central political issue in many areas of the United States.