Essays about: "ecological threats"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 53 essays containing the words ecological threats.

  1. 6. Social-Ecological Resilience and Whale Conservation

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Sandra Wilbrink; [2023]
    Keywords : social-ecological resilience; international law; whale conservation; biodiversity protection;

    Abstract : Whale species face numerous man-made threats, such as pollution, whaling, climate change and whale-watching, that threaten their survival. International environmental law has several regulations in place that aim, either directly or indirectly, at conserving whales. READ MORE

  3. 7. Prioritizing national security over care for land? A qualitative study on the social, ecological and cultural impacts of the U.S. military in Hawaii

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Yuichi Tsuchibuchi; [2023]
    Keywords : U.S. military; collective identity; counter-hegemony; social movement; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Social, ecological, and cultural impacts associated with the U.S. military in Hawaii are egregious. However, due to the historical oppressions and injustices to Hawaiians, the U. READ MORE

  4. 8. The Great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, as a predator of the invasive Round goby

    University essay from SLU/Dept. Of Aquatic Resources

    Author : Louisa Alvarez Blomgren; [2023]
    Keywords : Round goby; invasive species; Great cormorant; predator-prey interaction; prey selectivity;

    Abstract : Dispersal of invasive species poses a significant threat to biodiversity loss globally and is one of the major threats to the ecological condition in the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is facing potential problems caused by the Round goby, Neogobius melanostomus, which was presumably introduced via ballast water. READ MORE

  5. 9. Constructing a food web from inventory data in a boreal forest-dominated national park in south-eastern Sweden

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi

    Author : Philip Kjellström; [2023]
    Keywords : ecological network; food web; boreal forest food web; national park food web; interspecific competition; swedish forest; construction food web;

    Abstract : A food web was constructed for a boreal-forest dominated national park in south-eastern Sweden, called Tyresta national park and its surrounding nature reserve. Due to increasing threats to mammalian species and their critical role in the food web mammals were used as the outset of the food web, and from there branching out to taxa trophically interacting with mammals directly and indirectly. READ MORE

  6. 10. Is it out of our hands? : A case study of sustainability interpretations and implementations regarding Tiveden National Park

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Rosanna Stridell; [2022]
    Keywords : sustainability; Tiveden National Park; management; interdisciplinarity; nature-based tourism; hållbarhet; Tivedens nationalpark; förvaltning; transdisciplinärt; naturturism;

    Abstract : Sustainable changes become increasingly urgent with the climate crisis, which makes it necessary to study the human-environmental relationship. Tiveden National Park is a shared environment, and this thesis studied how sustainability was interpreted and implemented in the management of the park. READ MORE