science sustainability and decision making
MULTI - SCALE INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 5 ppsx
... possible to have a rigorous treatment of decision support analysis for design The terms used there are multi-objective decision making and multi-attribute decision making (e.g., http://design.me.uic.edu/~mjscott/papers/95f.pdf) ... discussion support systems and decision support systems, and then an iteration between the two (e.g., the soft systems methodology proposed by Checkland, 1981, Checkland and Scholes, 1990)), Section ... driven by population growth and socioeconomic pressure, led to a progressive abandonment of the use of green manure (too expensive in terms of land and labor demand) and general switching to synthetic...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 1 pptx
... and economic factors, and the former is because most decisions are made at this level Izac and Swift (1994) propose that to understand sustainability at one level, there is a need to understand ... between human health and well-being issues and agroecosystem ecological sustainability, and draws on both management theory and practice, as well as participatory action research and ecologically-based ... L., Msachi, R., and Chirwa, M (2007) “We Grandmothers Know Plenty: Breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and the multifaceted role of grandmothers in Malawi.” Social Science and Medicine December...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 2 potx
... Checkland and Scholes (1990) Relationships among various institutions and interest groups were explored and depicted in rich pictures (Checkland, 1979a) In addition, root definitions (Checkland, ... economic, and social factors gives rise to emergent properties that are key to the health and sustainability of smallholder farms Last, the principle stated by Izac and Swift (1994) that to assess sustainability ... infrastructure, and natural resource endowment Data on climatic and ecological zonation were derived from the Farm Management Handbook (Jaetzold and Schmidt, 1983) Kiambu District Development Plans and reports...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 3 potx
... climate, agriculture, and pests and diseases Triangulate resource inventories, problem identification, and social maps Farming system and land use Sources and amount of incomes, types and amount of expenditure ... sustainability, and (5) monitor progress, assess health and sustainability, and evaluate the status of the agroecosystem This chapter describes how PAR was used to develop a suite of health and sustainability ... inventory Land-use patterns Problem identification Major events and their impacts Problem identification and coping strategies Resource availability and distribution over time and space Disease and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 4 ppt
... Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Klee, V (1989) Sign-pattern and stability In Applications of Combinatorics and Graph Theory to the Biological and Social Sciences Roberts, ... (1965), Jeffries (1974), Roberts and Brown (1975), Roberts (1976a, 1976b), Perry (1983), Puccia and Levins (1985), Klee (1989), Ridgley and Lumpkin (2000), and Bang-Jensen and Gutin (2001) 4.2.1 Participatory ... concerns and, on the other, its health and sustainability A metaphor in the local language was used to equate categories of related concepts to pots and the thought process as cooking Categories, and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 5 pptx
... Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems step in the second (logic-based) mode of inquiry is to formulate models, which it is hoped will be relevant to the real-world situation (Checkland and ... systems can be made: the primary task system and the issue-based system (Checkland and Wilson, 1980) Primary task systems are ones in which the elements and relationships map on to real-world institutionalized ... Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems action, the monitoring and control unit was identified Measures of performance, based on what the effects and the causes of the problem...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 6 pot
... Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems TABLE 6.1 Sequencing of Learning Tools Used to Generate Community-Driven Health and Sustainability Indicators Tool Objectives Output Introduction and ... participatory process, their stated goals and objectives, and the attributes they considered to be most influential to agroecosystem health and sustainability and depicted in cognitive maps The initial ... validity, feasibility, and parsimony were assessed qualitatively The time- and holarchical scales were based on the target timescales and holarchical levels on the entire health and sustainability assessment...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 7 pdf
... effectiveness, vigor, and productivity Predictions on the long-term sustainability and health of the systems rely on an analysis of spatial and temporal trends of the indicators (Rapport and Regier, 1980; ... Academic Press, Orlando, FL, p 195 Greenacre, M., and Blasius, J (1994) Correspondence Analysis in the Social Sciences: Recent Developments and Application Academic Press, Orlando, FL, p 370 Nambiar, ... researcher-proposed land-use unit (LUU)-level indicators measured in 1999 See CD for color image and key © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 185 An Assessment of Health and Sustainability 186...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 8 docx
... for sustainability issues and had a clearcut idea of what it meant (Chapter 6) in their own agroecosystem despite its vague and ambiguous definition This underscores the global appeal of the sustainability ... stating long-term goals for the agroecosystem and then building and evaluating short-term and long-term goals based on these From their perspective, a sustainability assessment involves an evaluation ... goals for their agroecosystem; to debate, negotiate, and plan remedial measures; and then to monitor and evaluate progress In this regard, sustainability was seen as analogous to health in the...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 9 pdf
... Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Technical improvements, such as geographical information systems and remote sensing, self-reporting systems, and automated and integrated ... the capacity to develop and measure quantitative indicators, while researchers and policymakers lack the knowledge and mandate to make value-based judgments, it seems that decision support systems ... integrated and adaptive approaches as sustainability and AESH should include both components to provide a balanced assessment 10 MCA (multiple correspondence analysis) was useful in summarizing and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 10 (end) doc
... Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Appendices 211 © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 212 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability ... Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Appendices © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 215 216 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability ... Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Appendices 219 © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 220 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability...
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Multi criteria analysis in environmental management: Selecting the best stormwater erosion and sediment control measure in Malaysian construction sites
... understand and use, and so forth The most essential factors for choosing the MCA technique is the easiness of understanding by the analyst, the stakeholders and use Ref [16] stated that “from the decision ... important” in decision making In addition he added, “The quantity and quality of information (input data) needed and difficulty in obtaining them, ability to handle uncrtaines and availability ... Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 2, Issue 5, 2011, pp.853-862 use/simplicity (time and effort required of the decision maker to reach a conclusion) and the understanding ability...
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Báo cáo " Using multi‐criteria analysis as a tool to select the feasible measures for sustainable development of brackish water shrimp culture in Quang Tri Province " doc
... Nguyen Tien Giang et al. / VNU Journal of Science, Earth Sciences 24 (2008) 66‐78 This leads to the demand for seeking and implementing measures to solve the conflicts between economic goal and its negative ... between the desired and existing state of the real world. It is a gap recognized by the stakeholders (decision makers, scientists and/ or farmers). Any decision making process ... begins with the recognition and the definition of the problem. This stage is in the intelligence phase of decision making and it involves in searching the decision environment for ...
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báo cáo hóa học:" A biomechanical assessment of modular and monoblock revision hip implants using FE analysis and strain gage measurements" potx
... Constructs A and B Meshing and material properties ANSYS Workbench 10.0 was used to generate meshes For Construct A, the number of nodes and elements was 41098 and 29436 (Modular) and 33270 and 23744 ... nodes and elements was 52121 and 39423 (Modular) and 61577 and 45847 (Monoblock) Body elements included 10-node quadratic tetrahedrons for cortical bone, cancellous bone, and implants, and a ... Modular and Monoblock implants were developed, and strain and stress maps were generated for two constructs, A and B Construct A modeled a hip implant alone under axial forces of 700 and 2000...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Assessment of Severe Apnoea through Voice Analysis, Automatic Speech, and Speaker " ppt
... were found in formant frequency and bandwidth values between apnoea and healthy groups In particular, the results of the formant frequency analysis showed that F1 and F2 values among the OSA group ... nasal and nonnasal contexts for each speaker in both the apnoea and the control groups The smaller the difference between the nasal and the nonnasal GMMs the more similar the nasalized and the ... representing the apnoea and control classes were built as follows (i) The pathological and control GMMs were trained from the generic UBM relying on MAP adaptation and the standard leave-one-out...
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Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone docx
... scientific understanding of how BC and O3 affect climate and public health has significantly improved This has catalysed a demand for information and action from governments, civil society and other ... designed to provide an interface between knowledge and action, science and policy, and to provide a scientifically credible basis for informed decision- making The result is a comprehensive analysis ... and ice, wind patterns, and clouds are all affected, and these in turn have an impact on human well-being by influencing factors such as water availability, agriculture and land use Both O3 and...
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Báo cáo sinh học: "Assessment of methods and analysis of outcomes for comprehensive optimization of nucleofection" pptx
... data point was first standardized by subtracting the mean of the data set from each data point and then dividing by the standard deviation of the data set Standardized and raw data for the secondary ... secondary optimization to a standardized form, clustered the standardized data, and generated a heat map The heat map allows many data sets to be clustered, visualized, and compared with each other ... program code 96DS:150, and the standard control option Transfected cells were split into plates for recovery, resulting in × 104 cells/well Cells were counted and collected at 24 and 48 h following...
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Assessment of pretreatments and enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw as a sugar source for bioprocess industry
... long chain fatty acids and fatty alcohols, sterols and alkanes Natural waxes have a wide range of industrial uses in cosmetics, polishes and coatings, pharmaceuticals, and insecticides Wheat ... economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels PNAS 2006, 103(30), 11206-11210 [6] Taherzadeh M.J., Kamiri K Pretreatment of lignocellulosic wastes to improve ethanol and ... Mani S., Tabil L.G., Sokhansanj S Grinding performance and physical properties of wheat and barley straws, corn stover and switchgrass Biomass and Bioenergy 2004, 27, 339-352 [56] Birta V.S.P., Womac...
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Tuberculosis Care with TB-HIV Co-management: INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF ADOLESCENT AND ADULT ILLNESS (IMAI) pptx
... have both TB and HIV, it can be serious and sometimes life-threatening without proper diagnosis and treatment Treatment for HIV is becoming more available and can help you feel better and live longer ... make informed decisions about future pregnancies and family planning advice Support and counselling Support for disclosure ❖ Give post-test counselling and support Advise on basic and positive ... women, discuss benefits and possible disadvantages of disclosure of a positive result, and involving and testing partners • Men are generally the decision makers in the family and communities Involving...
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