Easements on Tribal Sovereignty

Conducting Research with Tribal Communities: Sovereignty, Ethics, and Data-Sharing Issues

BACKGROUND When conducting research with American Indian tribes, informed consent beyond conventional institutional review board (IRB) review is needed because of the potential for adverse consequences at a community or governmental level that are unrecognized by academic researchers. OBJECTIVES In this article, we review sovereignty, research ethics, and data-sharing considerations when doin...

On the futures of sovereignty

The debate on the alleged end of sovereignty is reigning everywhere. The proponents of the end of sovereignty thesis argue that the sovereign state—the governments with an absolute right to control their own territory and independence of all other states in the international arena, that is to say having no superior authority internally and externally—is no more. Indeed, non-governmental organis...

Monitoring Understory Composition of Blue Oak Woodlands on Conservation Easements

Conservation easements are an increasingly popular strategy for conserving biological diversity on private land. Long-term vegetation monitoring on conservation easements can provide critical information on persistence of biological diversity and abundance of invasive species. We sampled understory plant composition on five of The Nature Conservancy’s conservation easements in the Mt. Lassen fo...

The Effects of Conservation Easements on Land Values

On Donor Sovereignty and United Charitiesv