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Showing 1 to 20 of 218 for “"Natural Resource Management"”.
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Successful female farmers in natural resource management
… in the frame of three projects for a sustainable management of natural resources in East-Africa against the background of the increasing destruction of natural resources (soil, vegetation and water); within this context, special attention is paid to the identification of success-indicators under …
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Remote Sensing Applications to Support Sustainable Natural Resource Management
… was intended to provide the analytical basis for resource planning and management. The problems encountered during the first phase of the original design transformed this project into an extensive analysis of the nature of these problems and a decade-long remote sensing applications development …
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Remote Sensing Applications to Support Sustainable Natural Resource Management
… was intended to provide the analytical basis for resource planning and management. The problems encountered during the first phase of the original design transformed this project into an extensive analysis of the nature of these problems and a decade-long remote sensing applications development …
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Social aspects of natural resource management in rural Kwazulu
… this dissertation is to examine the dynamics of natural resource management by residents of a rural area in KwaZulu known as oBivane. The thesis shows that the conditions leading to environmental degradation are best seen as the result of particular historical and political processes and not …
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The Role of Trust in Collaborative Natural Resource Management
… trust develops in landscape level collaborative natural resource management efforts. I took a case study approach to research four projects in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP). I conducted qualitative analysis of interviews, notes and observations from site visits …
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Social factors influencing natural resource management in the Philippines
… households making a living from a declining natural resource base and surviving in a changing rural economy in rural Philippines. Informed by the political ecology and feminist environmentalism theoretical frameworks, the study uses empirically-based theorizing to elucidate social factors …
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Natural resource management following institutional shifts: case studies from agriculture and bitcoin
… interactions of markets, institutions, and natural resource management. In this dissertation, three examples of unanticipated changes to natural resource management strategies are evaluated using econometric methods. In Chapter I, Southern Colorado farmers faced a threat of state-imposed …
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Bridging the divide : incorporating local ecological knowledge into U.S. natural resource management
For the past 100 years, natural resource management in the United States has reflected a belief that the top-down application of science to predict and control the natural world will, in the words of Gifford Pinchot, the Nation's first head of the U.S. Forest Service, "support the wise use of the …
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COMMUNITY-BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: GROUP CAPACITY, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSESSING SUCCESS
… within the U.S. and abroad. The conservation and natural resource literature has touted these initiatives as more effective when compared to top-down management efforts. As localities are given more responsibility for managing their own natural resources, their ability to do so effectively has …
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Human Bonds with Public Wildland Places: Segmenting Communities to Inform Natural Resource Management
… and equitable plans for addressing contentious management issues. Appropriately designed social science research may contribute to better understanding of public interests regarding resource use, thus reducing conflict and contributing to cooperative solutions. This dissertation describes a …
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Human Bonds with Public Wildland Places: Segmenting Communities to Inform Natural Resource Management
… and equitable plans for addressing contentious management issues. Appropriately designed social science research may contribute to better understanding of public interests regarding resource use, thus reducing conflict and contributing to cooperative solutions. This dissertation describes a …
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Natural Resource Management in Papua New Guinea: An Analysis of the Forestry Sector
… equitable and environmentally sustainable management of forests. Arguing that this is a critical oversight in a country where the majority of forests are owned under customary forms of land ownership, and where the majority of the population still rely on the forests for most of their …
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A fisheries and wildlife resource indicator system for use in natural resource management
… step was assessing the current availability of resource information and involved analyzing state fisheries and wildlife agency annual reports. Administrative information was emphasized in reports over fisheries and wildlife resources and their use. States rarely reported trend statistics that …
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An object-oriented approach to structuring multicriteria decision support in natural resource management problems
… for MCDM and DSS modelling, with the emphasis on natural resource management. The object-oriented approach provides a philosophy to model decision analysis and DSSs in a uniform way, as shown by the diagrams presented in this study. The solving of natural resource management decision problems, the …
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Sustainable natural resource management in regional ecosystems : case studies in semi-arid and humid regions
… thus, a dual relationship between human and natural resources is required. The main goal of the current research was to introduce up-to-date environmental techniques for sustainable natural resource utilization in semiarid and humid ecosystems in short and long term. To achieve this goal, two …
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Looking after country : examining conditions for effective community-based natural resource management in Aboriginal Australia
Over the last few decades Aboriginal land management (ALM) has received increased interest and investment as a strategy to both conserve Australia's environment and assist in improving Aboriginal livelihoods. Yet thirty years of international community based natural resource management (CBNRM) …
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