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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Human wellbeing"”.
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Human Wellbeing and Ecosystem Services: A mixed-methods study of Shade-Grown Coffee in Veracruz, Mexico
… there is less research on how that relates to human wellbeing. A practical challenge is balancing these two simultaneous goals—improving farmers’ wellbeing whilst conserving the environment—through interventions like certification schemes. This study uses a case study of a new certification for …
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Investigation into the creation of an ambient intelligent physiology measurement environment to facilitate modelling of the human wellbeing
… worldwide has an increasing expectation of wellbeing and life expectancy. The monitoring of the majority of elderly people on an individual basis, in a medical sense, will not be a viable proposition in the future due to the projected numbers of individuals requiring such activity. The …
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Modelling human wellbeing for fisheries management: Science, extraction and a politics of nature in the Walvis Bay, Namibia
… fishing, and a changing climate and ecology. The human dimension is framed around the concept of wellbeing which in fisheries management emerges as an umbrella term for the social world that is reduced through the logic of neoliberalism to the measurable, enumerable, and indexable social and …
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Are Elephants Flagships or Battleships? Understanding Impacts of Human-Elephant Conflict on Human Wellbeing in Trans Mara District, Kenya
This thesis examines the impacts of human-elephant conflict on human wellbeing and the implications for elephant conservation and management in Trans Mara District, Kenya. The District comprises communal lands bordering the world-famous Masai Mara National Reserve in southwestern Kenya. Trans Mara …
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Mapping the evidence on the impacts of agroforestry on agricultural productivity, ecosystem services, and human wellbeing in high-income countries
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Designing green stormwater infrastructure for hydrologic and human benefits: an image based machine learning approach
… green spaces are also major contributors to human health. Considerable research in the psychological sciences have shown significant human health benefits from appropriately designed green spaces, yet impacts on human wellbeing have not yet been formally considered in GI design frameworks. …
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Analyzing ecosystem services and green urban infrastructures to support urban planning
Ecosystems contribute to human wellbeing though the provisioning of goods and services, also known as ecosystem services (ES). However not all ecosystems provide ES to the same extent and depending on physical characteristics of the ecosystems or their location within the city, ES flow differently. …
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'A Bridge Over the Chasm': Rhetoric and Reflexivity in Housing Advocacy
… its value in the context of social relations and human wellbeing. The rhetoric that has evolved to explain gaps in housing access intersects powerfully with homelessness policy and advocacy, and ideas about leadership and solutions. In a case study of a housing advocacy subculture in Anchorage, …
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A Humanist Perspective on Economic Policy: Ecuador's Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy, 2007-2017
… (2007 - 2017) from the perspective of human development. It aims to accomplish two objectives —one conceptual and one empirical. At the conceptual level, it brings together two intellectual traditions that are often seen as antagonistic: on the one hand, classical development theory …
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Eating (Meat) ethically: The convergence of Human Health, ecological sustainability
… take into account to form a robust position are human wellbeing, animal wellbeing, and ecological sustainability. I take this to be relatively uncontroversial. My contribution to this discussion is to note the manner in which questions relating to human health and ecology are often not discussed …
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Local hazards knowledge and risk perceptions of stakeholders in Southern Illinois watershed partnerships
… hazards and their effects on ecological and human wellbeing. While participants predominantly articulated unidirectional relationships between direct effects of direct forces of change on ecosystem services and to a lesser extent on human wellbeing, fewer participants articulated …
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Conflicting goals in product development : learning from the fatal Firestone flaw
The human-centered design approach is a powerful methodology for developing products that are considerate of humanity. Yet, in spite of the proven success of empathetic design, we still see products that fail, amplify negative social behaviors, or take advantage of human tendencies for the sake of …
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The Landscape of Impact: Creating a New Design Framework for Targeted Project Outcomes Through a Practice Based Approach to Research
… health and well-being, yet even fundamental human needs such as access to healthy food and safe outdoor spaces are absent in many communities. This research was conducted as a Practice Based Research investigation. It examined a body of work - that of my 30-year practice, Bradley Site Design …
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Challenges Faced – Implications for Policy: The Everyday Lives of Eastern European Women in New Zealand
… of Kaupapa Māori Research; the theory of Human Wellbeing; and the theory of Positive Psychology, and using the methods of narrative inquiry, three interviews were conducted with each participant. The focus of the first interviews was to learn about the everyday lives of research …
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A Sea of Relationships: Investigating Relational Wellbeing in UK Marine Governance
… nature of environmental sustainability and human wellbeing – a healthy environment is required for a thriving humanity and vice versa. While appreciation of the multidimensionality of wellbeing is growing in marine governance, these concepts have yet to be fully employed in relation to the …
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A Sea of Relationships: Investigating Relational Wellbeing in UK Marine Governance
… nature of environmental sustainability and human wellbeing – a healthy environment is required for a thriving humanity and vice versa. While appreciation of the multidimensionality of wellbeing is growing in marine governance, these concepts have yet to be fully employed in relation to the …
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Deer impact and plant resistance traits
… influence ecological communities, ecosystems and human wellbeing by foraging preferentially on certain plant species. Previous research has shown that high deer density can change the relative abundance of tree species in forest communities. Furthermore, some evidence shows that resistance traits …
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Bridging the energy divide and securing higher collective wellbeing in a climate-constrained world
… energy needed to secure higher collective wellbeing across the globe by mid-century based on regional energy elasticities of wellbeing derived from regressions using linear log-log models and by calculating the associated carbon emissions based on emission intensities obtained from …
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Making urban progress legible : the role of territorial social indicators in the new economy
… regularly published data-driven reports on urban wellbeing, and academics assembled comprehensive social progress indices for cities, counties, and states. Unfortunately, the social indicator movement stalled amidst the economic turbulence of the 1970s, and has never regained its strength. This …
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Determination and control of some pollutants in indoor environments
… microbial components or from various kinds of human activity such as smoking. Different methods are available to limit the exposure to unwanted pollutants and improve human wellbeing and health. One goal of this thesis was to determine two microbial markers (3-hydroxy fatty acids of bacterial …
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