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The Sustainable Sites Initiative: Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks (open access)

The Sustainable Sites Initiative: Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks

This guide describes how to develop a site in a way that does the least damage to the ecosystem, and provides maximum ecological benefits, including improved air quality, storm water treatment, and energy efficiency.
Date: 2009
Creator: American Society of Landscape Architects
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustainable & Subsistence Providing Spaces Regulated by Public Characters: An Anthropological Study of South Dallas Street Vendors (open access)

Sustainable & Subsistence Providing Spaces Regulated by Public Characters: An Anthropological Study of South Dallas Street Vendors

Paper examines the ways in which “public characters” in South Dallas regulated the space in their regular gathering area, with a focus on the need for life-sustaining informal spaces.
Date: 2009
Creator: Oliver, Elisha
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 2009 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 2009

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 1, 2009
Creator: Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems (open access)

Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems

This Report (SAP 4.2) focuses on the thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems. As defined in this Synthesis and Assessment Report, 'an ecological threshold is the point at which there is an abrupt change in an ecosystem quality, property, or phenomenon, or where small changes in one or more external conditions produce large and persistent responses in an ecosystem'.Ecological thresholds occur when external factors, positive feedbacks, or nonlinear instabilities in a system cause changes to propagate in a domino-like fashion that is potentially irreversible. This report reviews threshold changes in North American ecosystems that are potentially induced by climatic change and addresses the significant challenges these threshold crossings impose on resource and land managers. Sudden changes to ecosystems and the goods and services they provide are not well understood, but they are extremely important if natural resource managers are to succeed in developing adaptation strategies in a changing world. The report provides an overview of what is known about ecological thresholds and where they are likely to occur. It also identifies those areas where research is most needed to improve knowledge and understand the uncertainties regarding them. The report suggests a suite of potential actions that land and resource managers …
Date: January 2009
Creator: U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 6, Number 4, 2009 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 6, Number 4, 2009

Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is covers globalization and the international impact of environmental policies.
Date: 2009
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 7, Number 1, 2009 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 7, Number 1, 2009

Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is about environmental policies and practices that reduce one's carbon footprint, and protect threatened species.
Date: June 30, 2010
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 7, Number 2, 2009 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 7, Number 2, 2009

Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue addresses topics related to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December 2009.
Date: 2009
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 7, Number 3, 2009 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 7, Number 3, 2009

Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is devoted to threatened species, habitats, and the International Year of Biodiversity.
Date: 2009
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Undergraduate Scholar Articles in Art History: An Introduction (open access)

Undergraduate Scholar Articles in Art History: An Introduction

Introduction to the special section on art history in the 2009 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2009
Creator: Way, Jennifer; Owen, Lisa N. & Hirsch, Lauren
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNEP 2008 Annual Report (open access)

UNEP 2008 Annual Report

The UNEP annual report provides an overview of UNEP's activities for the year of 2008. The report also reflects on the campaign theme for the run-up to the crucial negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009, "United to combat climate change".
Date: 2009
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNEP Year Book 2009: New Science in Our Changing Environment (open access)

UNEP Year Book 2009: New Science in Our Changing Environment

This publication provides an overview of global and regional environmental issues policy decisions during 2009.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of North Texas Libraries Grant History: 2000-2009 (open access)

University of North Texas Libraries Grant History: 2000-2009

This document lists all grants given to the University of North Texas Libraries from 2000 to 2009. The projects that were funded by these grants are summarized.
Date: 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now and are expected to increase

This map shows current and projected effects of climate change on various regions of the United States.
Date: 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
Young Bolivians’ Perspectives on Globalism and How It Impacts Opinions on the New Nationalistic Bolivian Constitution (open access)

Young Bolivians’ Perspectives on Globalism and How It Impacts Opinions on the New Nationalistic Bolivian Constitution

Paper examines perceptions of globalism among young Bolivians, aged 18-27, who are living in their home country, and how those opinions impact their perception of the new Bolivian constitution.
Date: 2009
Creator: Lule-Hurtado, Gibrán
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library