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2010 Forest Carbon Workgroup: Final Report

Description: This document provides a detailed report and recommendations of the 2010 Forest Carbon Work group to the Director of the Department of Ecology and the Commissioner of Public Lands. The recommendations relate to the critical role Washington’s forest lands will play in addressing the challenge of climate change; appropriate responses to pressure for conversion of working forest lands to non-forest uses; and the role of ecosystem service markets, including carbon offset markets, and other incentiv… more
Date: January 2011
Creator: Partridge, Craig; Boese, Jerry & Bernath, Stephen
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Appendix G: Contingency Plan Outline

Description: This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. In this appendix, the policy statements address the general requirements and procedures related to the enactment and handling of the MetaArchive Contingency Plan.
Date: November 9, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
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Blue Carbon - First Level Exploration of Blue Carbon in the Arabian Peninsula

Description: Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities around the world, including throughout the Arabian Peninsula. These benefits include ecosystem services such as a rich cultural heritage; the protection of shorelines from storms; erosion or sea-level rise; food from fisheries; maintenance of water quality; and landscape beauty for recreation and ecotourism. In a Blue Carbon… more
Date: 2011
Creator: Lutz, S.J.
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A Blueprint for Ocean And Coastal Sustainability: An Inter-Agency Report Towards the Preparation of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)

Description: "A Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability", jointly prepared by UNDP’s Water & Ocean Governance Programme, IOC/UNESCO, FAO and IMO, contextualizes and sets forth a series of ten tangible proposals to shift the oceans management paradigm towards sustainability, and is intended to inform and influence possible Rio+20 outcomes on oceans.
Date: November 2011
Creator: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
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China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change 2011

Description: .The Chinese government constantly sets great store by the issue of climate change and has included addressing climate change into its mid- and long-term planning for economic and social development as a major issue concerning its overall economic and social development.
Date: 2011
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Climate in Asia and the Pacific: A Synthesis of APN Activities

Description: The synthesis report is part of the APN’s larger aim to contribute, from the science perspective, to the development of policy options for appropriate responses to climate vulnerability and impacts, including adaptation and mitigation, which in turn will contribute to sustainable development.
Date: 2011
Creator: Manton, Michael J; Heath, Lance; Salinger, James & Stevenson, Linda Anne
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Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010

Description: The preface states that the work includes citations of articles, books, and technical reports on digital curation, mostly published between 2000 and 2010.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
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Digitization 101

Description: This document discusses digitization processes, including computer hardware, setting up the computer with Windows XP, setting up Windows 7 for digital projects, identifiers, folder management, standards, scanning, and digital preservation.
Date: April 11, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Moore, Jeremy D. & Hall, Nathan
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Editor's Foreword [Fall 2011]

Description: Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
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Editor's Foreword [Spring 2011]

Description: Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
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Editor's Foreword [Summer 2011]

Description: Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
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Editor's Foreword [Winter 2011]

Description: Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
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Emeritus College Presentation Lecture Notes

Description: These lecture notes accompany a presentation titled 'This Side of the Border: The Mexican Revolution through the Lens of American Photographer Otis Aultman.' The lecture notes discuss the fifty-two presentation slides with the topics and details.
Date: February 17, 2011
Creator: Carlisle, Tara
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Enhancing Information for Renewable Energy Technology Deployment in Brazil, China and South Africa

Description: This report documents crucial information to support deployment of renewable energies in three key emerging markets - Brazil, China and South Africa - and provides information for policy-making aimed at supporting renewable energy markets in these countries. Specifically this study collates information on solar and wind resources and resource information, renewable energy support policies and goals, risk management and technologies integral to the increased renewable energy technology deploymen… more
Date: 2011
Creator: Moner-Girona, Magda
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Fighting Corruption in the Water Sector - Methods, Tools and Good Practices

Description: This publication is part of a series of UNDP-sponsored studies that present methods, tools and good practices to map corruption risks, develop strategies and sustain partnerships to address challenges and tackle corruption in the education, health and water sectors. They complement UNDP’s MDG Acceleration Framework (MAF), which has been endorsed by the UN Development Group and enables governments and development partners, within established national processes, to identify and systematically pri… more
Date: October 2011
Creator: Vos, Jeroen
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Lone Star Ink: Texas NDNP 2011: Grant Materials

Description: These grant materials were prepared for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to provide access to historic American Newspapers. The Library of Congress serves as the technical adviser for the NDNP. The Award funded digitization of Texas historical newspapers. For the grant, UNT served as the lead institution and partnered with the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas. This proposal was funded … more
Date: January 2011
Creator: Krahmer, Ana; Belden, Dreanna & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
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New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation

Description: The report looks at how libraries are developing new roles and services in the arena of digital curation for preservation. The authors consider a "promising set of new roles that libraries are currently carving out in the digital arena," describing emerging strategies for libraries and librarians and highlighting collaborative approaches through a series of case studies of key programs and projects. They also provide helpful definitions and offer recommendations for libraries considering how be… more
Date: March 2011
Creator: Walters, Tyler & Skinner, Katherine
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Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2011

Description: This document is a brief organizational history for The Portal to Texas History for 2011. This document was used for grant submissions to state or federal funding agencies, or private foundations. This document reflects on strategic directions for the program, as well as the number of collaborative partners for the Portal, and the number of historic documents in the digital library.
Date: 2011
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
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Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2012

Description: The document describes a wide range of advances in understanding the underlying processes responsible for climate variability and change, such as advances in understanding of climate change at high latitudes. It also describes progress on understanding the ongoing and projected effects of climate change on nature and society, including the interconnected relationships between climate, forests, and wildfire. The document also describes how observational and predictive capabilities are being impr… more
Date: 2011
Creator: Climate Change Science Program
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The Portal to Texas History Partner List, 2011

Description: This document lists all of the partners of The Portal to Texas History in 2011. These partners were involved in projects and collections that were a part of the Portal.
Date: 2011
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010

Description: This bibliography lists citations of English-language articles, books and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published from 1990 through 2010; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
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