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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Resource Conflict"”.
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Natural Resource Conflict and Socioenvironmental Resistance in Arctic States: Assessing Domestic Risks to Circumpolar Security
… climate change contribute to domestic natural resource conflict and socioenvironmental resistance in the Arctic? The literature assumes that developed Arctic nations possess sufficient state capacity to overcome risks of domestic conflict and unrest posed by regional development and …
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In defence of Nunat (the land): Inuit political development as a response to resource conflict
… throughout the Arctic largely in response to the conflict initiated by threats to the Inuit's mode of production and resource base. This dissertation explores the impetus as well as the course of this political development. Following an examination of the theoretical origins of the conflict, …
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Federalism and resource conflict: Assessing the impact of federalism in curbing conflict over petroleum resource revenues - A case study of Nigeria and Canada
This thesis focuses on lingering conflict over natural resource revenues which has ravaged many countries. The problem has no doubt attracted the attention of researchers who have approached it, mostly, from the angle of how natural resources lead to violent and armed conflict; impact of natural …
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Extending Scojo-PECT by migration based on application level checkpointing
… have different runtimes and required computation resources. With runtimes correlated with resources, scheduling these jobs would be a packing problem getting the utilization and total execution time varies. Sometimes, resources are idle while jobs are preempted or have resource conflict with no …
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The impact of government decentralisation on the development and implementation of benefit-sharing laws in Kenya's extractive sector
… of monetary and non-monetary benefits from resource extraction among multiple entities is a subject of considerable interest in natural resource law. Drawing mainly but not exclusively from international human rights and environmental law, this study explores the nature, core content and …
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A Systematic Framework for Machine Learning-Based Robust Project Scheduling Under Uncertainty
… instability, reduced stakeholder confidence, resource conflict and wastage, and increased costs. This makes project control and coordination more difficult for project managers. This thesis addresses these challenges by developing a Machine Learning-based Robust Project Scheduling (MLRPS) …
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Developing contextual quality standards for emergency departments in Palestine
… timely, life-saving care, particularly in low-resource and conflict-affected areas like Palestine. Palestinian hospitals face significant pressure in their EDs due to a heavy workload from routine injuries and those resulting from ongoing Israeli occupation. Enhancing healthcare quality at all …
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Electro-Thermal Codesign in Liquid Cooled 3D ICs: Pushing the Power-Performance Limits
… on micro-channel locations (basically resource conflict with through-silicon-vias TSVs or other structures). In this work, we investigate optimized micro-channel configurations that address the aforementioned considerations. We develop three micro-channel structures (hotspot optimized …
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Ruffled Feathers: Shared narratives in the sage-grouse management conflict in Sublette County, Wyoming
The tense conflict over sage grouse management in the West, where livelihoods have been pitted against the possibility of an endangered species listing, has been ongoing for many years and has been described as being as tense as the spotted owl conflict in the Northwest in the 1990s. This research …
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Ruffled Feathers: Shared narratives in the sage-grouse management conflict in Sublette County, Wyoming
The tense conflict over sage grouse management in the West, where livelihoods have been pitted against the possibility of an endangered species listing, has been ongoing for many years and has been described as being as tense as the spotted owl conflict in the Northwest in the 1990s. This research …
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A stakeholder approach to ecologically sustainable tourism : the case of the Twelve Apostles, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria
… engendered by costly and high profile conflicts over competing land use, in Australia and internationally in the past decade, highlight the need for such an examination. In addressing this hiatus between ESD policy development and implementation, the aims of this research are fourfold. …
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The contradiction of south-south sustainable development in Chinese-Mauritanian fishmeal factories and environmental violence in the Gambia
… and production targets a low-value critical resource, bonga, and transforms it into a high-value product for aquaculture. The industry also creates conflicts over access to and management of local resources that result in contradictory perceptions of the sustainability of fishmeal production …
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Fight Or Flight: Migration and Conflict Over A Common Pool Resource
… an analytical model of migration into a conflict model of property appropriation from a common pool resource. Anthropological observations are used to motivate the development of the theory. The model suggests that incentives to migrate will result in expenditures on enforcement of …