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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"socio-economic drivers"”.
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Socio-economic drivers of agricultural production in a transition economy: A case study of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, China
… ago and has ever since experienced dramatic socio-economic transition towards modernisation, industrialisation and urbanisation. Significant levels of academic attention have focused on empirically identifying economic and policy drivers of Chinese agricultural production from a structuralist …
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Vulnerability of Indigenous Forests in Changing Landscapes
… an integrated assessment of the extent to which socio- economic effects are responsible for native vegetation vulnerability and how these relationships change through time. In this study socio-economic drivers at different scales are related to land cover changes. To analyse vulnerability of …
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Modelling the spatial and temporal distribution of Bacillus anthracis suitability across Uganda and Kenya: A Bayesian Approach
… to consider environmental and host-specific drivers of the spatial distribution of B. anthracis suitability across different contexts. Ecological datasets have become richer, and there are statistical challenges associated with their analysis. Accurate insight and prediction can only be …
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Booming illegal abalone fishery in Hangberg: Tough lessons for small-scale fisheries governance in South Africa
… scale and methods of operation and main socio-economic drivers and impacts. It was found that abalone poaching has become deeply embedded in Hangberg, having evolved into a highly organized boat-based fishery in a period of less than 15 years. At least five local poaching groups – …
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Identifying Cross-Country Key Drivers of Social Entrepreneurial Activity
… sustainable development by integrating the economic, social and environmental dimensions, and social entrepreneurship is of great interest because it has the capacity for facilitating societal change by fostering innovative ways to address social inequality, unemployment, and climate change. …
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Epidemic cholera in KwaZulu-Natal : the role of the natural and social environment
… of the 2000-2004 cholera epidemic in KZN. The drivers of disease associated with the communities affected by cholera were also explored by analysing the complex and dynamic interaction of their biological, socio economic, and environmental nature over time and space. The nature of the study was …
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Characteristics, determinants and management of farmer-predator conflict in a multi-use dryland system, South Africa
… hypothesized that ecological, environmental and socio-economic factors would all contribute to the negative interactions between predators and small-livestock farmers, and to the persistence of the two most prevalent predators in the region, the black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) and the …
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Towards supporting cohesive decision making across water, energy and food through understanding challenges in Malawi
… to sustain human life. In 2011, the World Economic Forum identified water, energy and food (WEF) security as a global risk, and the WEF nexus concept was first recognised and described in time for the Bonn conference in Germany the same year. The increasing pressures on our planet have …
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Conservation of endemic species in China
… endemic to China. During its rapid social and economic development, increasing habitat loss and fragmentation have occurred. However, it wakes up to the threats of biodiversity in recent years. Protected areas, as an essential conservation tool to reduce habitat loss and species extinction have …
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Impact of climate change and irrigation development on hydropower supply in the Zambezi River Basin, and implications for power sector development in the Southern African Power Pool
… River Basin (ZRB) threatens the technical and economic viability of existing and planned hydropower plants, and in turn the expansion plans and costs of the regional power system for Southern African countries. This hypothesis is evaluated using the following three questions to structure the …