BACKGROUND Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data suggest that Latinos are less likely to be physically active and more likely to be overweight and suffer from resulting complications than are Whites and that within the Latino population, Latina women are especially at risk. Therefore, promoting physical activity among Latinos, and understanding gender participation patterns within that populat...

National park and related forest conservation efforts tend to emanate from core areas of the world and are often imposed on rurai people living on forest fringes in the least developed regions of lesser developed countries. We address the social and cuitural processes that ensue when center-originating conservation meets local people with their resource-dependent livelihoods, and how these vary...

On April 30, 2009 environmental groups released a na­ tional media story that said that the Banff Spring’s snail (Physella johnsonit), found solely in Banff National Park (BNP), Canada, was the only species out of 449 listed under the Canadian Species at Risk Act (Government of Canada 2002) to benefit from the full legally man­ dated conservation process. Ironically, on the same day in BNP’s ba...

A variety of human activities have detrimental impacts on populations of species the park is designed to protect. These impacts range from direct hunting for trophy or subsistence needs, through vehicular collisions, to the direct loss of habitat due to forestry and agricultural activity. These impacts reduce the effective size of the parks and require changes in management policy that deal bot...

Elisabeth Rieper, Janet Anders and Vlatko Vedral 1 Center for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom 3 Atomic and Laser Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX13PU, United Kingdom and 4 Department of Physics, National Univers...

1CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 2School of Resources, Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT 0200, Australia 3Email: [email protected] 4Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University College, University of NSW, Campbell, ACT 2602, Australia 5Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre, Australia 6Snowy Mountains Region Fire ...