Watershed Land Use Allocation: Potential Mechanisms for Addressing Societal Concerns

This paper summarizes a sampling of planning tools to provide ideas on how multiple objectives for watershed management may be tackled. It also explores the mechanisms for allocation with due emphasis on avenues for resolving conflicts. Future directions for subsequent work are suggested.land use planning, land management, watershed

Economics of Upland Resource Depletion: Shifting Cultivation in the Philippines

This paper provides a systematic investigation of agricultural systems practiced in the uplands by starting with a formal treatment of the shifting cultivation problem. The optimum rate of use of forested land from society’s viewpoint and from the individual uplander’s viewpoint, given traditional choices between timber production and agricultural production through slash-and-burn farming is likewise investigated. The study explains swidden farming in the context of a standard resource economic model on open access exploitation, the discounting bias and zero valuation of the externalities involved.natural resources and environment, environmental issues, environmental management, resource management, uplands

Cabrera v. State, 135 Nev. Adv. Op. 65 (Dec. 26, 2019)

The Court determined that the plain language of NRS § 194.010(8) cannot be interpreted to limit the duress defense with respect to crimes that are not punishable with death, regardless of the relationship between those crimes and another crime that is punishable with death

Forest and Land-Use Practices in Philippine Uplands: National Level Analysis Based on Eight Villages

The study identifies the rural poor and measures their needs and capabilities. It focuses on the tree product from forests and upland cultivation systems and analyzes the forest and land use practices of the upland poor through the development of a common database. It also examines the influence of household-specific characteristics, development intervention mechanisms, institutional and local use conditions on specific tree and forest-use practices.land use planning, natural resources and environment, forestry sector, land management, uplands

Watershed Land Use Allocation: Potential Mechanisms for Addressing Societal Concerns

This paper summarizes a sampling of planning tools to provide ideas on how multiple objectives for watershed management may be tackled. It also explores the mechanisms for allocation with due emphasis on avenues for resolving conflicts. Future directions for subsequent work are suggested.land use planning, land management, watershed

Forest and Upland Resources Management: A Policy Framework

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It discusses several concerns in forestry and upland resources management focusing on the issues of logging, forest destruction and the continuous conversion of forestlands into land uses that are generally prone to soil erosion.forestry sector, land management

The Private Costs of Commercial Forestry, Reforestation and Social Forestry

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It analyzes the private perspective of upland resource management mechanisms by drawing from the salient findings of studies on commercial forestry, reforestation and communal tree farming conducted under PIDS/IDRC upland resources research program.natural resources and environment, forestry sector, environmental issues, farm lands, environmental management, uplands

The Private Costs of Commercial Forestry, Reforestation and Social Forestry

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It analyzes the private perspective of upland resource management mechanisms by drawing from the salient findings of studies on commercial forestry, reforestation and communal tree farming conducted under PIDS/IDRC upland resources research program.natural resources and environment, forestry sector, environmental issues, farm lands, environmental management, uplands

Geometry and Topology of Escape I: Epistrophes

We consider a dynamical system given by an area-preserving map on a two-dimensional phase plane and consider a one-dimensional line of initial conditions within this plane. We record the number of iterates it takes a trajectory to escape from a bounded region of the plane as a function along the line of initial conditions, forming an ``escape-time plot''. For a chaotic system, this plot is in general not a smooth function, but rather has many singularities at which the escape time is infinite; these singularities form a complicated fractal set. In this article we prove the existence of regular repeated sequences, called ``epistrophes'', which occur at all levels of resolution within the escape-time plot. (The word ``epistrophe'' comes from rhetoric and means ``a repeated ending following a variable beginning''.) The epistrophes give the escape-time plot a certain self-similarity, called ``epistrophic'' self-similarity, which need not imply either strict or asymptotic self-similarity.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Chaos, first of two paper