National Marine Fisheries Service Habitat Conservation Efforts in the Southeastern United States for 1988

Dataq uantifying the area of habitat affected by Federal programs that regulate development in coastal zones of the southeastern United States are provided for 1988. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) made recommendations on 3,935 proposals requiring Federal permits or licenses to alter wetlands. A survey of 977 of these activities revealed that 359,876 acres of wetlands that support fishery resources under NMFS purview were proposed for some type of alteration or manipulation. Almost 95 percent of this acreage was for impounding andl/or manipulation of water levels in Louisiana marshes. The NMFS did not object to alteration of 173,284 acres and recommended the conservation of 186,592 acres. To offset habitat losses, 1,827 acres of mitigation were recommended by the NMFS or proposed by applicants and/or the Corps of Engineers (COE). From 1981 to 1988 the NMFS has provided in depth analyses on 8,385 projects proposing the alteration of at least 656,377 acres of wetlands. A follow-up survey on the disposition of 339 permits handled by the COE during 1988 revealed that the COE accepted NMFS recommendations on 68 percent. On a permit-by-permit basis, 13 percent of NMFS recommendations were partially accepted, 17 percent were completely rejected, and 2 percent were withdrawn. The permit requests tracked by the NMFS proposed the alteration of 2,674 acres of wetlands. The COE issued permits to alter 847 acres or 32 percent of the amount proposed.

Roy of the Rivers (cartoon)

This is the Roy of the Rivers (cartoon) report produced by the National Rivers Authority (NRA) South West Region. This NRA document is a leaflet comic format which looks at the fishing and safe issues in rivers. This comic highlights the community policing to help guard the water environment. It gives a 24 hour emergency number and three steps to be followed in case of pollution, dead, distressed fish or suspects someone of illegally catching or selling fish.

Solomon Islands national situation analysis

The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (CRP AAS) was approved by the CGIAR Fund Council in July, 2011. Solomon Islands, one of five countries targeted by the program, began its rollout with a five month planning phase between August and December of 2011. Subsequent steps of the Program rollout include scoping, diagnosis and design. This report is the first to be produced during the scoping phase in Solomon Islands; it addresses the national setting and provides basic information on the context within which the AAS Program will operate. The macro level subjects of analysis provide initial baselines of national level indicators, policy context, power relationships and other factors relevant to the Program.

Nelson Werneck Sodré e a crise da Revolução Brasileira

Esta dissertação em História Política da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), inserida na linha de pesquisa Política e Cultura é um estudo sobre a historiografia brasileira tendo como elemento central a contribuição teórica do militar do Exército Brasileiro e historiador Nelson Werneck Sodré, no tocante a modernidade (ou melhor, o desenvolvimento) no Brasil. A sua obra notabiliza-se pela necessidade de modificar as estruturas políticas, sociais e econômicas do país, construídas ao longo de sua formação histórica, marcado pelo alinhamento das classes dominantes com o centro hegemônico, a sua intensa relação com o mercado externo e o seu mutualismo com o capital internacional. Escreveu extensa obra teoricamente fundamentada no marxismo-leninista, no afã de superar as forças tradicionais, que em sua visão impediam o avanço do país na constituição de uma nação, dificultando uma política de industrialização independente, em contraposição a setores progressistas da sociedade brasileira. Através da concepção dialética, do choque entre os opostos, no caso, o novo e o velho, no qual o primeiro era a Revolução Brasileira e a sua antítese, o segundo, as forças da tradição: o latifúndio e o imperialismo. Em nossa pesquisa também focamos a crise da Revolução Brasileira, com a instauração da ditadura, após o golpe de 1964, que culminou com a derrota de um projeto de nação de toda uma geração. Por fim observamos o intenso debate político-historiográfico que a obra de Werneck Sodré foi submetida, além do seu posicionamento.