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Assessing environmental initiatives through an ecosystem stewardship lens

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2021
Stewardship has been increasingly used in the realm of conservation and sustainable land use as an important pathway for action. Ecosystem stewardship, a specific application of this concept, is an approach for natural resource management, but the lack ...
Alice Ramos de. Moraes   +2 more
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Provenance for Aggregate Queries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We study in this paper provenance information for queries with aggregation. Provenance information was studied in the context of various query languages that do not allow for aggregation, and recent work has suggested to capture provenance by annotating ...
Amsterdamer, Yael   +2 more
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Three Perspectives on Motivation and Multi-Criteria Assessment of Organic Food Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The complexity of values related to organic food systems is normally difficult to ascertain, understand and act upon for both producers and consumers, as well as for other agents.
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted   +8 more
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Cultural ecosystem services and decision‐making: How researchers describe the applications of their work

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2019
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are some of the most difficult ecosystem services (ES) to characterize and connect to specific ecosystem processes. Given their connections to human emotion, deep meaning, fulfilment and motivation, they are also crucial
Rachelle K. Gould   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban versus rural? The effects of residential status on species identification skills and connection to nature

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2021
Urbanization and urban lifestyles increasingly disconnect people from nature in a process that was termed the ‘extinction of experience’. This loss of human–nature interactions can undermine both cognitive (ecological knowledge) and affective (emotional ...
Danielle Bashan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

On Complex Value Relations in Hive [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper, we raise the question how data architects model their data for processing in Apache Hive. This well-known SQL-on-Hadoop engine supports complex value relations, where attribute types need not be atomic. In fact, this feature seems to be one of the prominent selling points, e.g., in Hive reference books.
Pilven, Clara   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Transitive closure of interval-valued relations [PDF]

open access: yes2008 3rd International Conference on Intelligent System and Knowledge Engineering, 2008
Peer ...
González del Campo, Ramón   +2 more
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The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value—In any context

open access: yesPeople and Nature
Pathways to sustainability require a broader and fuller representation of the multiple values of nature in policy and practice. In this People and Nature special feature entitled ‘The Multiple Values of Nature’, researchers interpreted all three key ...
Kai M. A. Chan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Connecting young people with greenspaces: The case for participatory video

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2023
The values that people hold are thought to be key in bringing about the transformative change needed to halt biodiversity loss. Caring for nature has been conceptualised as a relational value and is thought to be largely shaped in childhood and ...
Antonia Eastwood   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relational visual cluster validity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The assessment of cluster validity plays a very important role in cluster analysis. Most commonly used cluster validity methods are based on statistical hypothesis testing or finding the best clustering scheme by computing a number of different cluster ...
Ding, Y., Harrison, R.F.
core   +1 more source

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