The Endangered Species Act : history, implementation, successes, and controversies / / J. Peyton Doub

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910720570303321
• Autore: Doub J. Peyton
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 237 pages)
• Disciplina: 346.730469522
• Soggetti: Endangered species - Law and legislation - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Roots of endangered species conservation -- Some basic concepts -- The Endangered Species Act : the statute and the regulations -- Related environmental statutes and regulations -- Section 7 : the federal consultation process -- Take permits and mitigation -- The Endangered Species Act and the states -- Future of the Endangered Species Act.
• Sommario/riassunto: The complex regulations of the Endangered Species Act established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can be challenging for environmental professionals who must comply with them or assist clients in compliance. This is true especially for those without a background in biology or ecology. The Endangered Species Act: History, Implementation, Successes, and Controversies discusses the Act using clear scientific prose that all professionals whose activities fit into the ESA compliance process can readily comprehend, including those with limited education in science. The book begins by exploring the deeply rooted history of the Endangered Species Act, which extends back decades preceding its enactment in 1973. It continues with a discussion of the basic scientific theory underlying the Act and provides an overview of its key regulations. The author also examines the Act in the context of other key environmental planning statutes such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act, especially Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, which relates specifically to wetlands. The remainder of the book details the regulatory processes faced by other government agencies and private developers who must ; routinely ensure that their actions comply with the Endangered Species Act. It concludes with a broad discussion of current controversies associated with the Act and how those controversies might ultimately change how environmental practitioners will have to comply with the Act in the future. The book is neither a defense of the Endangered Species Act and its associated regulations nor a call to repeal or modify the Act or regulations. The presentation is factual and avoids the hype and hyperbole commonly directed at the Act by both environmental activists and deregulation proponents. Readers will gain a solid understanding of how the Act was established, what goals were envisioned by its framers, how current environmental practice under the Act has been shaped, and how those practices might be changed in the future.

The Early Islamic Empire at Work. . Volume 1, Transregional and Regional Elites - Connecting the Early Islamic Empire / / Hannah-Lena Hagemann, Stefan Heidemann

• Record Nr.: UNISA996333142903316
• Autore: Sijpesteijn Petra
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020; Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• ISBN: 3-11-066656-1; 3-11-066980-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VI, 458 p.)
• Collana: Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East ; ; 36
• Disciplina: 305.5/209560902
• Soggetti: Abbasiden; Abbasids; Early Islamic History; Elites; Frühislamische Geschichte; Umayyaden; Umayyads; Islamic Empire
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Transregional and Regional Elites - Connecting the Early Islamic Empire -- Studying Elites in Early Islamic History: Concepts and Terminology -- Insult the Caliph, Marry al-Ḥasan, and Redeem Your Kingdom: Freiheitsgrade of Kindī Elites During the 7th to 9th Century -- Landowners in Lower Iraq during the 8th Century: Types and Interplays -- The Rise and Fall of the Early ʿAbbāsid Political and Military Elite -- Who Were the Mulūk Fārs? -- An Empire of Elites: Mobility in the Early Islamic Empire -- Preliminary Notes on the Term and Institution of al-Shākiriyya in Early Islam (ca. 14-218 H/635-36-833 CE) Mainly According to the Arabic Sources -- Khurāsānī and Transoxanian Ostikans of Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia -- The Governors of al-Shām and Fārs in the Early Islamic Empire - A Comparative Regional Perspective -- Muslim Elites in the Early Islamic Jazīra: The Qāḍīs of Ḥarrān, al-Raqqa, and al-Mawṣil -- Christian Elite Networks in the Jazīra, c.730-850 -- Establishing Local Elite Authority in Egypt Through Arbitration and Mediation -- The Civilian Ruling Elite of the Ṭūlūnid-Ikhshīdid Period -- Connecting the Ibāḍī Network in North Africa with the Empire (2nd-3rd/8th-9th Centuries) -- Index of names -- Index of places -- Index of subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: Transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential for the integration of diverse regions into the early Islamic Empire, from Central Asia to North Africa. This volume is an important contribution to the conceptualization of the largest empire of Late Antiquity. While previous studies used Iraq as the paradigm for the entire empire, this volume looks at diverse regions instead. After a theoretical introduction to the concept of 'elites' in an early Islamic context, the papers focus on elite structures and networks within selected regions of the Empire (Transoxiana, Khurāsān, Armenia, Fārs, Iraq, al-Jazīra, Syria, Egypt, and Ifrīqiya). The papers analyze elite groups across social, religious, geographical, and professional boundaries. Although each region appears unique at first glance, based on their heterogeneous surviving sources, its physical geography, and its indigenous population and elites, the studies show that they shared certain patterns of governance and interaction, and that this was an important factor for the success of the largest empire of Late Antiquity.