The changing role of bush nurses in East Gippsland, Victoria.
Abstract In the last four years, East Gippsland has experienced drought, floods and more recently devastating bushfires. Economically, local primary and tourist industries have experienced a decline. Over the decade, services have been withdrawn from small towns and opportunities for youth mean having to leave home. The...

Promoting Cloverland: regional associations, state agencies, and the creation of Michigan's Upper Peninsula Tourist Industry. (2002 Student Essay Prize Winner).
If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you. --Motto on the Great Seal of the State of Michigan The upper peninsula of Michigan, rich beyond telling in the possibilities of agriculture, forestry, mining, fruit, cattle raising and diversified manufacturers stands before the country today...

The Institutional Architecture of Extractive Reserves in Rondonia, Brazil.
This paper was accepted for publication in June 1999 This paper examines the evolution and development of institutions involved in the establishment of extractive reserves. It focuses on the different actors, organizations and projects concerned with extractive reserves in Rondonia in western Amazonia, Brazil. Extractive reserves are...

Social structure, identities, and values: a network approach to understanding people's relationships to forests.
Introduction The management of publicly owned forests in the province of British Columbia (BC) Canada has traditionally focused on timber production and economic outputs. Registered professional foresters, people with specialized training in forestry who carry the legal responsibility for the management of forestry tenures, have dominated the...

Reclamation, Ranching, and Reservation: Environmental, Cultural, and Governmental Rivalries in Transitional Arizona.
In the spring of 1996, Tonto National Forest burned spectacularly. The Lone Fire swept over 61,000 acres, much of which was within the Four Peaks Wilderness Area. During the week of the fire, the issue of appropriate land use captured the media's attention, as well as the attention of...

Presidential resource support for IRCs and DRAs: a principal-agent explanation.
Abstract This article examines whether Independent Regulatory Commissions (IRCs) received less presidential resource support (employment and outlays) than Dependent Regulatory Agencies (DRAs). The principal-agent theory was used to explain why DRAs fare better in the hands of presidents than IRCs in terms of resource allocation. It also...

Rain forest extraction and conservation in Amazonia.
Daily news reports in the 1980s of an unparalleled onslaught on the Amazon rain forest by cattle ranchers, colonists, dam builders and gold miners, and the accompanying violence against indigenous peoples, prompted global concern about the fate of the forest and its peoples. Motivated by such concern and frustrated with...

A Pacific Rim approach to salmon management: redefining the role of Pacific salmon international consensus.
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. PACIFIC SALMON ECOLOGY A. The Ocean Phase B. The Freshwater Phase C. Technological Influence--Hatcheries III. THE PACIFIC SALMON AGREEMENTS--HARVEST MANAGEMENT A. The Convention for the Conservation of Anadromous Stocks in the North Pacific Ocean B. The Pacific Salmon Treaty C. Russia-Japan Fisheries Agreements...

The moon bear as a symbol of yama: its significance in the folklore of upland hunting in Japan.
ANIMALS are common motifs in Japanese folklore and folk religion. Of the mammals, there is a wealth of folklore concerning the fox, raccoon dog (tanuki), and wolf, for example. The fox is regarded as sacred, and is inextricably associated with inari, originally one of the deities of cereals and...

The need to conduct studies of Swedish Saami reindeer-herder subsistence behaviours: a case of indigenous resource-use rights.
Abstract: Although much is known about Swedish Saami reindeer herding, one area that has received little attention is traditional subsistence activities that support modern herding families and provide a means of cultural survival. This article examines the current political situation in Sweden related to efforts to comply with the...