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Showing 1 to 20 of 677 for “"natural resource"”.
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Successful female farmers in natural resource management
… 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 integration of …
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EXPLORING NATURAL RESOURCE SCARCITY MITIGATION APPROACHES IN SUPPLYNETWORKS
… their manufacturing operations due to unexpected resource availability issues. This has led to growing scrutiny on the sustainable use of natural capital, requiring firms to incorporate natural resource scarcity (NRS) risks into their operational strategies. However, as demonstrated in the review …
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Three Essays in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
This dissertation analyses the impact of political and macroeconomic uncertainties on environmental outcomes and design of policy instruments. The first essay examines how the rate of agricultural land expansion in tropical countries depends on the nature and persistence of new political regimes. …
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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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Natural Resource Economic Theory: An Application to Illinois Coal
The major economic theories of natural resource extraction are reviewed critically. The current classical theories are shown to be in error. Appropriate classical and neoclassical models of resource extraction are developed and applied using Illinois coal mining data. The models are tested to …
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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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Decision making for sales of urbanized natural resource lands
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.
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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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The Impact of Natural Resource Booms on Local Economic Conditions
<p>My research examines the impacts of natural resource booms on local economic conditions. Each chapter relies upon evidence from the three-state region of Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. A combination of rising prices and advancements in extraction technologies led to a boom in oil …
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Handling and Analysis of Public Comments in Natural Resource Planning
… planning process or action. Consequently, natural resource planning can be characterized as more of a complex situation in recent years due to the increasing involvement of the number of constituents who want to be heard. Likewise, the public wants to know their ideas have been heard and …
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Natural Resource Damage Policy: Political Economy and Optimal Assessment Accuracy
The empirical study investigates factors that influence state adoption of NRD activity. The results show that size and probability of damages strongly influence the timing of the adoption. Additionally, environmental grants and public demand for NRD enforcement also contribute to the likelihood of …
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Nonlinear uncertainty analysis for multiple criteria natural resource decision support systems
The effects of uncertainties on the simulation component and the decision component of the USDA-ARS Water Quality Decision Support System (WQDSS) are studied. For the simulation component, a generalized second order covariance propagation equation for multiple response models is developed to …
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Managing Local Sustainability: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Natural Resource Conservation
This dissertation presents a model which is a continuous-time representation of a forested system. This system model is used to simulate the impacts of strategic behavior in managing lands in a local commons, on and around Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. The system model is also used in optimal control …
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A Natural Resource and Landscape Management Framework for the Bergrivier Municipality
Natural resource management formed out of a century long process within regional planning. Early authors such as Mumford, Geddes and Leopold have contributed to this evolution. These early proponents of sustainable natural resource management promoted the relationship between the natural world and …
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Unworkable formula? : decentralization, development and natural resource conservation in Sehlabathebe, Lesotho
Includes bibliographical references.
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Understanding the Role of Social Norms in Natural Resource Co-Management
… and applied to understand cooperation in natural resources co-management. While interest in social norms is growing across disciplines, they remain relatively underexplored within conservation social psychology, even as research expands in response to urgent social and environmental …
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