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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

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A journey of a plant biologist: Back to the wild to solve current crises.

HumanNature

Human exploitation of natural resources has resulted in accelerated climate change, ecological imbalance, and pest resistance & outbreaks that affect global food production (Deutsch et al., 2002, Pilbeam D.J., Altogether, solutions for current and future crises in food, and nutrition has led our journey back to wild.

2018 52
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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

For instance, some emphasize how environmental scarcities can induce substate conflict (Homer-Dixon 1999), others intentionally avoid a conflict-oriented perspective and highlight the cooperative negotiation that can likely occur over shared environmental risks (Conca and Dabelko 2002). Dabelko (eds.). Environmental Peacemaking. Hardt, J.N.,

2011 52
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The Art of Affect: Creative Expression as Personal Resistance and Resilience

HumanNature

Candidate in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University How does creativity, imagination, or emotion relate to our resilience and resistance during crises and disasters? 2017), and demonstrate its different applications across disciplines today. 680; Massumi, 2002; Ngai, 2007).

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Address Impact Of Operations In Niger Delta Before Selling SPDC – CSOs Tell Shell

Corp Watch

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say

Corp Watch

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). Also see SOMO's 2008 report.