Connecting People to Their Public Lands 2017: An Update

Connecting People to Their Public Lands 2017: An Update
Author: Land Management Bureau (U S )
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-11-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780160941689

This report includes a snapshot of the programs available to youth and adults, including BLM's (Bureau of Land Management's) Hands-on the Land outdoor classroom activities available across the USA. These programs assist students, especially college-age interns to gain skills and exposure to future career possibilities. The report covers public lands and waters managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and programs, such as Project Archaeology, Interpretive programs, Veterans Hiring programs, Youth volunteer programs, wildlife, firefighting programs, and more. Details and full-color graphics are included for specific regional states to provide educational and engaging information to the reader. This updated report includes an overview of the Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 2016 accomplishments in the areas of education, interpretation, volunteers, and youth development. It provides hands-on field experience helping college-age interns expand their skills and "try-out" possible future careers as well as provides interpretive and self-guided activities to thousands of children and families, and youth hiring programs for key areas such as trail improvements, firefighting, biological resources, recreation, educational and volunteer programs about water testing, soil programs, and more. U.S. military veterans, high school students, and some elementary and middle school-aged children located in various states that hold BLM Earth Day and Hands-on Lands school programs to teach children about the outdoors as a learning environment. Families, school administrators, federal and state government personnel, and teachers that may create learning partnerships with the US Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management may also be interested in this updated report. Related products: Click here:Federal & Public Land Management resources collection for more resources related to this topic. Soil Management and Water Management

Connecting People to Their Public Lands 2016

Connecting People to Their Public Lands 2016
Author: Interior Dept., Bureau of Land Management
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780160936944

Discover the Outdoors through the Bureau of Land Management This publication explains the many ways the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) engages youth and adults with opportunities to have fun in the outdoors, learn about science and careers, and volunteer or work as stewards of our treasured landscapes and resources. Other products produced by the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/560

Organized Crime and Corruption Across Borders

Organized Crime and Corruption Across Borders
Author: T. Wing Lo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429632231

This book explores China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the criminogenic potential for economic, financial, and socio-cultural cooperation across countries, where some are known for weak law enforcement and high levels of corruption. It examines whether these flows of capital are increasing the amount of organized crime in the newly linked regions and how law enforcement agencies are responding. Bringing together experts across the Global South and Europe, this book considers transnational organized crime and corruption across One Belt One Road (OBOR). It examines crime and corruption in China and its international United Front tactic; analyzes various forms of transnational organized crime such as trafficking of illegal drugs, looted antiquities, and wildlife and counterfeit products; and presents studies on corruption and organized crime in selected OBOR countries including Russia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, and Bangladesh. This book makes a significant contribution to the development of southern criminology and will also be of interest to those engaged with transnational organized crime, political economy, international relations, and Asian and Chinese studies.

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology
Author: Serena Nanda
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2019-01-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1544333900

Now with SAGE Publishing! Cultural Anthropology integrates critical thinking, explores rich ethnographies, and prompts students to skillfully explore and study today’s world. Readers will better understand social structures by examining themselves, their own cultures, and cultures from across the globe. Serena Nanda and Richard L. Warms show how historical studies and anthropological techniques can help students think about the nature, structure, and meaning of human societies. With a practical emphasis on areas such as medicine, forensics, and advocacy, this book takes an applied approach to anthropology. The authors cover a broad range of historical and contemporary theories and apply them to real-world global issues. The Twelfth Edition includes a wealth of new examples, along with updated statistical information and ethnographies that help students see the range of human possibilities. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.

Bringing Home the Housing Crisis

Bringing Home the Housing Crisis
Author: Mel Nowicki
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2022-12
Genre:
ISBN: 1447361865

Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept. This book explores the legislative changes dismantling vulnerable groups' rights to decent and affordable housing.

Grand Canyon For Sale

Grand Canyon For Sale
Author: Stephen Nash
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0520965248

Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research, Stephen Nash shows how accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the national landscape. In addition, a growing political movement, well financed and occasionally violent, is fighting to break up these federal lands and return them to state, local, and private control. That scheme would foreclose the future for many wild species, which are part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and also would devastate our national parks, forests, and other public lands. To safeguard wildlife and their habitats, it is essential to consolidate protected areas and prioritize natural systems over mining, grazing, drilling, and logging. Grand Canyon For Sale provides an excellent overview of the physical and biological challenges facing public lands. The book also exposes and shows how to combat the political activity that threatens these places in the U.S. today.

The African Church and COVID-19

The African Church and COVID-19
Author: Martin Munyao
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-01-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1793650993

The African Church and COVID-19: Human Security, the Church, and Society in Kenya is a bold and incisive look at the African Church in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the book, contributors explore how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragilities of African society as well as the weaknesses in the Church’s role in helping and serving African communities. The African Church and COVID-19 analyzes the question of how the Church in Kenya should move forward in a post-COVID-19 era to address the vulnerabilities of socio-economic and political structures in Africa.