In some specific areas, such as California, agro-ecological partnerships have fostered the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (Swezey and Broome 2000; Dlott 2004) and they have proactively spread a green orientation among wineries (Broome and Warner 2008).
This announcement breaks that silence and puts the funds squarely in the hands of state governments via the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, an ecological and economic partnership among Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, created in 2004.
This course emphasizes applied ecological research conducted in partnership with local conservation agencies.
In the midst of heated debates, researchers, policy makers, and conservation practitioners champion the importance of cooperative conservation and social-ecological systems approaches, which forge partnerships at multiple levels and scales to address complex ecosystem challenges.
The city of Johannesburg has been renewed by EcoCity in partnership with the Johannesburg council have tackled poor environmental management in the inner-city by framing a public-private partnership that adopts ecological planning in the design and revitalisation of the inner-city that had decayed.
Elders and other community leaders have long sought to ensure the area's ecological and cultural integrity, often working in partnership with other First Nations, the government of the Northwest Territories, and the Canadian federal government.
The partnership is arguably the most important ecological interaction that occurs in shallow tropical habitats worldwide because Symbiodinium spp. energetically subsidize the entire ecosystem and power calcification processes [ 14] that generate the topographic complexity of these systems.
Second, the information resources ranchers rely on suggest that sustaining working rangelands will require collaborative, trust-based partnerships focused on achieving both economic and ecological goals.
In addition to determining the potential long-term human health and ecological problems, participants hoped to develop strategies, collaborations, and partnerships to be used in the restoration of eastern North Carolina.
This paper presents an empirical case study from western France, in which a partnership between an agricultural cooperative and an ecological research center resulted in a collective design initiative.
The Upper San Pedro River Partnership in Arizona has employed hydrologic and ecological models to support zoning overlays that encourage groundwater pumping more distant from the river [41] and recharge of treated municipal effluent near the river [42].
