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Web 2.0 and knowledge management for local government in England – A model for the public sector? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
PURPOSE Delivering success in the public and private sector requires staff to have access to the best knowledge possible about how to do their jobs well so a major challenge for employers is how to ensure their staff are making decisions based on the ...
Leask, M
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Understanding the conservation-genetics gap in Latin America: challenges and opportunities to integrate genetics into conservation practices

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics
Introduction: Integrating genetic data into conservation management decisions is a challenging task that requires strong partnerships between researchers and managers.
Constanza Napolitano   +35 more
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction: food relocalisation and knowledge dynamics for sustainability in rural areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The chapter presents the literature on local food and local knowledge and introduces the case studies analysed in the ...
FONTE, MARIA CATERINA
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Perceptions of the Maltese public towards local Marine Protected Areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The marine environment represents a central component of Malta's local environment, and its ecosystem services play a vital role in supporting the economy as well as human well-being.
Mifsud, Mark C., Verret, Marielle
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Legacies of intensive management in forests around pre-columbian and modern settlements in the Madeira-Tapajós interfluve, Amazonia

open access: yesActa Botânica Brasílica, 2019
Amazonian peoples use and manage plant populations in previously domesticated landscapes, but the extent of landscape transformation remains uncertain, especially in interfluvial areas.
Maria Julia Ferreira   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Approximating Local Homology from Samples [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Recently, multi-scale notions of local homology (a variant of persistent homology) have been used to study the local structure of spaces around a given point from a point cloud sample.
Skraba, Primoz, Wang, Bei
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Using Farmer Decision Rules for Mapping Historical Land Use Change Patterns from 1954 to 2007 in Rural Northwestern Vietnam

open access: yesLand, 2019
The present study revealed how local socioecological knowledge elucidated during participatory rural appraisals and historical remote sensing data can be combined for analyzing land use change patterns from 1954 to 2007 in northwestern Vietnam.
Thanh Thi Nguyen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Local Knowledge and the Adoption of Science Knowledge in Cocoa Cultivation Community in East Kolaka Regency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This study aims to analyze the existence of local farming knowledge by cacao farmers community and their integration with science knowledge from outside.The results showed that local knowledge in cacao cultivation is based on customs and traditions as ...
Fausayana, I. (Ine)   +3 more
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In search of ‘lost’ knowledge and outsourced expertise in flood risk management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper examines the parallel discourses of ‘lost’ local flood expertise and the growing use of commercial consultancies to outsource aspects of flood risk work.
Coulthard T J   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Local Knowledge and Professional Background Have a Minimal Impact on Volunteer Citizen Science Performance in a Land-Cover Classification Task

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2016
The idea that closer things are more related than distant things, known as ‘Tobler’s first law of geography’, is fundamental to understanding many spatial processes.
Carl Salk   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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