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AN INVENTORY DATABASE FOR GEOEDUCATIONAL OUTREACH BASED ON VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (VGI) APPROACH IN MALAYSIA [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2018 The authors aim to construct a geosite database in Malaysia that is based on volunteered geographic information approach. This is because geosites information is quite scattered around the country.
Norbert SIMON +5 more
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Flexible Querying of Volunteered Geographic Information for Risk Management [PDF]
Proceedings of the 8th conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, 2013 The paper presents an approach to manage volunteered geographic information (VGI) to point out anomalous conditions of the environment to help administrators in charge of the governance and maintenance of the territory to plan mitigation and safeguard interventions.
Paolo Arcaini +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is emphasized among listed companies for their stakeholders and ESG disclosures, ESG engagement among unlisted companies has been rarely examined due to data limitations. This is particularly problematic for the agri‐food industry that has significant impacts on the environment and consists ...
Ying Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
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The Nature of Volunteered Geographic Information
, 2016 This contribution starts from the assumption that volunteered geographic information is a technological, cultural and scientific innovation. It therefore offers first some general background on the context that has fuelled the development of VGI and the lively scientific debates that have accompanied its success. The paper then focuses on the nature of
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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 +2 more
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The representativeness and spatial bias of volunteered geographic information: a review
Ann. GIS, 2018 Many applications of volunteered geographic information (VGI) involve inferring the properties of the underlying population from a sample consisting of VGI observations, i.e. VGI sample.
Guiming Zhang, A. Zhu
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, 2014 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) represents a valuable source of information. At the same time this data presents new data quality issues such as credibility. In this paper, we investigate the integration of VGI in Spatial OLAP (SOLAP) systems, which allow analyzing huge volume of geographic datasets. By means of a real case study, we highlight
Bimonte, Sandro +3 more
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The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
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A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015 Recent disasters, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, have drawn attention to the potential role of citizens as active information producers. By using location-aware devices such as smartphones to collect geographic information in the form of geo-tagged ...
Mohammad Ebrahim Poorazizi +2 more
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