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Macrotis Reid 1837
No full textMacrotis Reid, 1837. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836:131 [1837]. TYPE SPECIES: Perameles lagotis Reid, 1837. SYNONYMS: Paragalia, Phalacomys, Thylacomys. COMMENTS: Not preoccupied by Macrotis Dejean, 1833, a nomen nudum (Troughton, 1932b). Archer and Kirsch (1977) placed Macrotis (including its junior synonym Thylacomys) in a separate family (the name available being Thylacomyidae), rather than in Peramelidae. Groves and Flannery (1990) placed Macrotis back in Peramelidae.Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Peramelemorphia, pp. 39-42 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 39-40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735311
Between priceless and worthless: challenges in using market mechanisms for conserving biodiversity
No full textThis article appears in Transnational Environmental Law published by Cambridge University Press. Copyright 2012 Cambridge University Press There is growing interest in the use of market mechanisms, such as offsetting and payments for ecosystem services, to further the conservation of biodiversity. The specific needs of biodiversity mean that this approach faces significant challenges in terms of defining the units that can be the subject of the economic or market devices, of ensuring that such mechanisms do deliver conservation gains and of establishing appropriate governance arrangements. There are also ethical concerns that a market approach entails a commodification of nature which sacrifices some of the very elements which make nature valuable to us. The market-based schemes currently being operated and devised should be studied carefully to see how successfully these challenges can be met.</p
BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking - Running
No full textWe've been running for two million years give or take. Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore contemporary running as solitary inspiration and communal activity with the Geographer and 1999 Scottish Hill Running Champion, Hayden Lorimer, the artists Kai Syng Tan and Angus Farquhar, and the literary scholar and bare-foot artiste, Vybarr Cregan-Reid. Conversation ranges from feeling empowered on city streets to teaming up with the wind to the horrid history of the treadmill and explore whether Running deserves better representation in the arts.
Guests: Vybarr Cregan-Reid - author of Footnotes How Running Makes Us Human
Angus Farquhar, Creative Director of NVA Public Art, author of a blog 'The Grim Runner'
Hayden Lorimer Running Geographer
Kai Syng Tan, Artist and curator of a biennial festival Run Run Run
Producer: Jacqueline Smith
Trachypithecus obscurus
No full textTrachypithecus obscurus (Reid, 1837). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837:14. TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia, Malacca. DISTRIBUTION: S Thailand and Malay Peninsula, and small adjacent islands. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II. SYNONYMS: carbo, corax, corvus, flavicauda, halonifer, leucomystax, sanctorum, seimundi, smithi, styx. COMMENTS: Subgenus Trachypithecus.Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Primates, pp. 243-277 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 274, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735312
Appendix_A – Supplemental material for ‘It’s Like Chicken Talking to Ducks’ and Other Challenges to Families of Chinese Immigrant Older Adults in Long-Term Residential Care
No full textSupplemental material, Appendix_A for ‘It’s Like Chicken Talking to Ducks’ and Other Challenges to Families of Chinese Immigrant Older Adults in Long-Term Residential Care by Sharon Koehn, Jennifer Baumbusch, R. Colin Reid, and Neville (Ka Ming) Li in Journal of Family Nursing</p
Book review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid
No full textBook review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014; ISBN: 9781472574435 (£17.99)Publisher PD
Macrotis lagotis
No full textMacrotis lagotis (Reid, 1837). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836:129 [1837]. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, Swan River. DISTRIBUTION: Formerly in Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory, W New South Wales, SW Queensland. Survives only in SW Queensland, Northern Territory / Western Australia border region and Kimberleys. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered. SYNONYMS: cambrica, grandis, interjecta, nigripes, sagitta.Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Peramelemorphia, pp. 39-42 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735311
Whose Ecosystem is it Anyway:Private and Public Rights under New Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation
No full textA range of legal tools is increasingly being used for the conservation of biodiversity. These tools include conservation covenants, biodiversity offsets and payment for ecosystem services. There are benefits to these approaches, but also challenges to be met if these mechanisms are to be applied successfully. Among the challenges is the fact that these schemes generate new relationships between land, people and the environment, especially wildlife. This requires consideration of the basic position of ownership of wild flora and fauna, the extent of the property rights of landowners and others with interests in the land, and of how far the state is justified in restricting, and even taking over, these rights for conservation purposes. The restriction of property rights for environmental purposes has already given rise to litigation under the European Convention on Human Rights and as ideas of long-term stewardship in land or new rights in relation to ecosystem services develop, there are questions over the nature and extent of the rights being recognised. Moreover, there are concerns over the acceptability of an approach that converts nature from a “common heritage” to a bundle of property rights. Mechanisms that confer rights on nature add a further dimension to the discussion. Using examples from the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions this article attempts to highlight the different ways in which rights can be viewed in the context of developments in conservation law and the need to appreciate the consequences from different perspectives. © [Colin Reid, 2014]. The definitive, peer reviewed and edited version of this article is published in [Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, volume 5, issue 2, pages 112-135, 2014] </p
Towards a biodiversity law:the changing nature of wildlife law in Scotland
No full textAttitudes towards nature have changed greatly in the last 60 years. Wildlife laws that contribute effectively to conserving biodiversity will look very different from the laws that were developed when wildlife was viewed simply as a resource to be exploited or when a few species or places were first granted legal protection. The purpose of this paper is to examine the attributes that laws supporting biodiversity should possess and to explore how the law has evolved to develop these by examining how the laws in one country, Scotland, have changed since the conservation of nature first came to be accepted as a desirable objective deserving legislative support. The early conservation measures simply prohibited specific forms of direct harm to a few selected species. Then the protective measures were extended in their range and a new dimension added by the recognition of the need to look after habitat as well as to prevent direct harm. In turn the habitat measures too have been extended, becoming stronger and responding to the appreciation that maintaining habitat in good health demands active conservation measures rather than just passive prevention of harmful activities. Now there is further emphasis on the eco-system approach to conservation and on biodiversity in all its forms and in all areas, requiring a further shift in approach. Several points emerge as essential if the law relating to wildlife is to fulfil its potential. The law must be pervasive in its efforts to conserve biodiversity rather than dealing with designated sites or species in isolation from the wider environment. It must be positive, actively supporting biodiversity rather than just seeking to prevent particular harm. It must give conservation adequate priority in the face of competing interests. It must be participative, engaging a wide range of parties rather than being a closed matter for dedicated agencies and landowners. Finally, in view of the dynamic nature of our environment, and our understanding of it, it must be precautionary and proactive if the future health of the natural environment is to be secured. Only laws which display these attributes can be expected to meet the challenge of combating the many threats to biodiversity. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy on 13th December 2012, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13880292.2012.724326#.U8_Oc-NdV8F Article DOI 10.1080/13880292.2012.724326</p
Molyneux’s question and the phenomenology of shape
No full textWilliam Molyneux raised the following question: if a congenital blind person is
made to see, and is visually presented with a cube and a globe, would he be able to
call the shapes before him a cube and a globe before touching them? Locke,
Berkeley, Leibniz, and Reid presented their phenomenological view of shape
perception, i.e. their view as to what it is like to perceive shape by sight and touch, in
responding to Molyneux’s Question. The four philosophers shared the view that
visual perception delivers no solid shape. This view would provide a premise for an
argument for immaterial objects. The purpose of my thesis is to reject that argument.
Kant’s view and John Campbell’s externalist account offer a way to reject the
premise of the argument in question. However, my strategy is not to adopt their view.
I pursue Reichenbach’s view that the there is no congruence or incongruence
involved in the visual phenomenology. I develop his view, and propose the view that
visual perception delivers no flat or solid shape. Although my view endorses the
premise in question, I can offer a way to reject the argument. This is because my
view is compatible with a form of externalism about perception (which differs from
Campbell’s). My view can also do full justice to the phenomenological views
presented by the four philosophers
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