How can we build the institutions that will promote the cooperation needed to meet our intertwined environmental and economic needs? Efforts to meet these twin goals in New York City’s watershed collaborations offer some guidance. The experience provides lessons in addressing scattered sources of pollution, encouraging environmentally compatible economic development, and coping with conflicts that are part of the collaboration process. It also yields insights into what we need to work effectively towards sustainable economic development. This book identifies many barriers to achieving the cooperation necessary to solving our water problems and discusses how watershed collaborations are a means to overcoming those barriers. Historical experience and lessons from other watershed collaborations informed the design of New York City’s complex watershed collaboration which is shown to contain the elements of a "green milieu" that can foster sustainable economic development. The particular challenges to the collaboration’s environmental and economic goals created by the watershed’s rural economy, farming and forestry are described. The unusual inclusion of the analysis of the economic aspects and effects of collaboration, of the relationship between collaboration and sustainable development, and of the processes of implementation and conflict make this book especially valuable to those interested in collaboration, regulation, environmental cooperation and conflict, watershed protection, economic development in general, and sustainable economic development in particular.
Help your preschooler get ready for a great start. Follow the lovable Lulu on a trip through the Grand Zoo. An iguana, quetzal, unicorn, and other critter friends make reading and writing ABCs so much fun! Kids will enjoy learning the names of the animals that start with the letters of the alphabet. They will also practice tracing letters and numbers, learning shapes and colors, identifying same and different, matching, sequencing, and following directions. Lulu's jokes and fun facts add smiles and learning opportunities. Examples include "What kind of cat lives in the ocean?" and "Butterflies have transparent wings and taste with their feet." Find a lively selection of reading readiness, early math, and beginning science activities in our zoo-tastic Preschool Scholar; the skill focus is listed at the bottom of every page for easy reference. Bold, colorful illustrations help little learners stay focused and motivated, and when they are all done, they can fill out the completion reward certificate and display it with pride! A Parent Guide inside the front cover offers helpful tips for maximizing, the learning and Activities to Share inside the back cover suggest fun, easy, creative activities that get kids stretching their senses and critical thinking skills. This workbook is an excellent size for tucking into a tote or backpack and turning road trips and wait times into learning opportunities.
Colorful drawings and activities challenge preschoolers to organize information as they classify, sequence, complete picture analogies, and solve logic puzzles.
School Zone's I KNOW IT! Learning Workbook series provides a resource for basic skills that are taught from kindergarten through sixth grade. Written by specialists, this title explores phonics and is organized so that both child and parent can understand the directions. Amusing illustrations enhance the learning process.
This 1-25 Dot-to-Dot workbook helps children practice numbers 1-25 while they discover fun pictures of familiar places. Plus, dot-to-dot activities improve children's fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination.
School Zone's I KNOW IT! Learning Workbook series provides a resource for basic skills that are taught from kindergarten through sixth grade. Written by specialists, these exciting workbooks are organized so that both child and parent can understand the directions. Amusing illustrations enhance the learning process.
This workbook will help your child learn how to find the question inside the story problem, reduce it to a familiar equation, and successfully solve the problem. Addition, subtraction, equations, and problem solving techniques are covered thoroughly.
School Zone Get Ready Workbooks offer a complete preschool curriculum. Distinguished by charming, full-colour illustrations, these workbooks have easy-to-read instructions and fun-to-do exercises for parents and children to enjoy together.
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