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Are current ecological restoration practices capturing natural levels of genetic diversity? A New Zealand case study using AFLP and ISSR data from mahoe (Melicytus ramiflorus)

, 2015
Sourcing plant species of local provenance (eco-sourcing) has become standard practice in plant community restoration projects. Along with established ecological restoration practices, knowledge of genetic variation in existing and restored forest ...
Goshorn, Mary, Stevens, Mark I., Clarkson, Fiona Marie, Clarkson, Fiona M., Gemmill, Chrissen E.C., Clarke, Andrew C.   +5 more
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Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak, Claudia Bazzani, Andreas C. Drichoutis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Schooling, Local Knowledge and Working Memory: A Study among Three Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Societies.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Researchers have analysed whether school and local knowledge complement or substitute each other, but have paid less attention to whether those two learning models use different cognitive strategies.
Victoria Reyes-García, Aili Pyhälä, Isabel Díaz-Reviriego, Romain Duda, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Sandrine Gallois, Maximilien Guèze, Lucentezza Napitupulu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Green Infrastructures and Essential Variables Workflows towards SDG 15 [PDF]

, 2018
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established to be achieved by 2030 are an ensemble of 17 goals to address global environmental and social economic concerns [1].
Honeck, Erica, Rodila, Diana-Denisa, Lehmann, Anthony, Giuliani, Gregory   +3 more
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Whose knowledge matters? negotiating local experience and scientific expertise in Yangtze River ecological governance

Frontiers in Environmental Science
IntroductionChina’s ecological governance of the Yangtze River increasingly relies on scientific expertise and top–down interventions, most notably the 10-year fishing ban.
Jing Su, Tingting Tan, Yiting Xiao, Hongye Xu, Zihui Sun, Yu Cheng   +5 more
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Eliciting the implicit knowledge and perceptions of on-ground conservation managers of the Macquarie Marshes

, 2010
Knowledge that has been developed through extensive experience of receiving and responding to ecological feedback is particularly valuable for informing and guiding environmental management.
Johnson, Bill, Newell, Barry, Fazey, Ioan Raymond Albert, Proust, Katrina, Fazey, John A.   +4 more
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Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Local Knowledge-based Citizenship Learning Model to Increase Ecological Awareness in the Indonesia-Malaysia Border Area

Jurnal Kewarganegaraan
High gap between ecological knowledge and pro-environmental action remains a critical challenge for sustainability, particularly in ecologically sensitive border regions.
Moad, Hadi Rianto, Muhamad Imaduddin, Nawawi, Syafrial Nur   +4 more
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Technologies, knowledge and capital : towards a political ecology of the Hake Trawl Fishery Walvis Bay, Namibia

, 2011
Around the world, the implementation of effective fisheries management has been met with a variety of challenges. The incorporation of fisher's local ecological knowledge (FK) into the management paradigm is an important step in understanding perceptions
Draper, Kelsey
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Contribution of traditional knowledge to ecological restoration : practices and applications [PDF]

, 2012
Traditional knowledge has become a topic of considerable interest within the research and development environment. The contribution of traditional knowledge to conservation and management is increasingly recognized, and implementation endeavours are ...
Uprety, Yadav, Bergeron, Yves, Doyon, Frédérik, Asselin, Hugo, Boucher, Jean-François   +4 more
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