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Forestry in the Face of Global Change: Results of a Global Survey of Professionals

ecological aspects, but respondents also highlighted the need for a better appreciation of social/political and economic barriers, especially regarding transformation strategies. In addition, the response ... acceptance for transform strategies. Further, this study highlights the importance of social and political factors and the need to understand the general public's values regarding adaptation strategies as well

The Vision of Managing for Pest-Resistant Landscapes: Realistic or Utopic?

landscapes. However, the precise mechanisms by which silviculture can increase resistance remains uncertain. Further, humans tend to more often create pest-prone forests due to political, economic, and human ... on social, political, cultural, and educational mechanisms to motivate implementation of proven ecological solutions if pest-resistant forests are to be favoured by management. Unprecedented outbreaks

Integrating risk management concepts into the drilling non-productive time

a sound technique to evaluate operational losses or wastes of many resources, including time. This paper presents an attempt to couple RM techniques with NPT philosophy together with other concepts ... professional development conference and exposition , Seattle, Washington, 11 - 14 June, ASSE- 06 -544E Pareto V , Page A ( 1971 ) Translation of manuale di economia politica “manual of political economy”, A.M

Shale gas: a step toward sustainable energy future

factors such as political matters, wars, social and economic aspects, and exploration techniques. Depending on the recoverable reserve (RR), production of shale gas entails different methods and with a ... prevailing in that particular region. As the administration introduces new policies, this can lead to political and economic turmoil. Therefore, widespread corruption, weak institutional and government support

Exploring Forest Sector Research Subjects and Trends from 2000 to 2019 Using Topic Modeling

analysis framework covers the complete forest wood chain (FWC) with PESTE factors. PESTE is applied to analyze political, economic, social, technological, and ecological/environmental factors affecting the ... and climate change was detected, but the development of research on economic, political, and especially social factors remained weak. A more recent worldwide review focusing on forest ecosystem services

Criteria for Assessing the Sustainability of Logging Operations—A Systematic Review

forest management (SFM) was defined and adopted at the political level [ 8 ]. The United Nations Forum on Forests (2007) defines SFM “as a dynamic and evolving concept, aims to maintain and enhance the ... ]. C&I belong to a hierarchical framework and represent the levels below the principles, which are the result of a political process [12]. Criteria have the function of compliance with defined principles

Spatial Translations and Embodied Bilingualism: Defining the Migrant's Experience from an Architectural Perspective

the bilingual migrant leads to considerations about translatory motion not only of the body, but also of words. Using the contribution of Henri Poincare to the philosophy of geometry, we will see how ... subject is multidisciplinary and borrows from linguistics as well as phenomenology, philosophy, physiology and geometry. The relationship between architecture and language has been largely discussed under

Cynefin: uncertainty, small worlds and scenarios

Uncertainty, its modelling and analysis have been discussed across many literatures including statistics and operational research, knowledge management and philosophy: (i) adherents to Bayesian ... Zadeh's concept of a fuzzy set; (iv) theories of sense-making in the philosophy and management literatures see knowledge and uncertainty as opposite extremes of human understanding and discuss the

Riser and well casing analysis during drift-off: a coupled solution in the time domain

casing during drift-off, additional calculations were performed with the inclusion of a Production Adapting Base (height = 2.22 m), using Philosophy 2. The tension used in these calculations was 1,600 kips ... % 7.3% 7.3% 7.1% 0.9% 2.8% 2.6% 2.4% 2.6% 3.5% 3.5% 3.3% 2.6% 3.5% 3.5% 3.3% 37 104 100 96 67 119 120 115 67 119 119 114 As it can be seen on Table 2, the results obtained with philosophy 1 (quasi-static

Patricide or Mourning the Nation-State in Francis Leclerc’s Looking for Alexander

This article examines two closely connected dimensions of Francis Leclerc’s 2004 film, Looking for Alexander: a psychoanalytical dimension and a political one. Freud’s theories on the murder of the ... psychoanalytic reading of the issues at stake in Mémoires affectives, a reading that will subsequently lead me to unveil the film’s political subtext and demonstrate how the question of patricide and the mourning

Logic and rationality in OR interventions: an examination in the light of the ‘critical rationalist’ approach

wilted under the onslaught of relativist and post-modern attack. One proposed philosophy of science seeks to avoid such problems by adopting a strictly objectivist approach. Critical rationalism (CR), the ... . Critical rationalism (CR), the philosophy originated by Karl Popper, attempts to eliminate all inductive, justificatory and merely subjective claims by the ruthless application of deductive logic. The

Paleoclimate quantitative reconstruction and characteristics of continental red beds: a case study of the lower fourth sub-member of Shahejie Formation in the Bonan Sag

relative’ (NLR) philosophy provides the fundamental methodology to describe climatic parameters based on fossil sporopollen data (Dhakal et al. 2022; Gibson et al. 2022; Mosbrugger and Utescher 1997

Application of artificial neural network models and random forest algorithm for estimation of fracture intensity from petrophysical data

the political border with Turkmenistan, around 180 km northeast of Mashhad city in Iran (Fig. 1). This field is situated in the Kopet Dagh Basin, and its neighboring field in Iran is Gonbadli Field and

Projecting le Temps des Loisirs: Cycling and Working-Class Identity in French Cinema of the 1930s

competing ideologies that fractured France over the course of the 1930s. Locating the practice of cycling within its contemporary economic, political and sociological contexts, this analysis proposes that ... could believe in what Keith Reader dubs ‘the imaginary resolution of political contradictions’.4 However, with the benefit of hindsight, it is far too simple to criticise the Front populaire for failing

Was the European oil industry prepared for the current global crisis?

Fig. 1. In the current geo-political context, like most major global economic players, the EU has had to adopt measures to reduce its dependence on oil imports, including from Russia. As a result, the ... produced locally. At EU level, dependency is 96% (Petrescu 2022) . Energy independence represents in the current geo-political context a strategic element that can ensure economic independence in the

Sustainable Forest Management in Mexico

Forest management in Mexico is immersed in diverse and complex ecological, socio-cultural, political, economic, and technological contexts. These contexts have led to the use of the forests for many ... characteristics will allow better adaptation to the rapid changes, complexities, and ambiguities of the global environment and the Mexican ecological, social, political, and economic conditions. Forest

Linguistic Construction of Migrant Identity in U.S. Crime Reports

can have to immigration policies and public attitudes. In addition, the aim of the paper is to serve as a springboard for social and political change through consciousness-raising and the ability to ... to the negative representation of Latino migrants in everyday media discourse and the use of this issue by politicians to gain political support (and as a distraction from their own mistakes in

Influence of top management commitment towards the effective implementation of TQM in Iraqi oil companies

several approaches to quality management, the most prominent of which has been TQM. According to Górny (2017) , TQM is considered to be both a philosophy and methodology for managing companies, it ... provides the overall concept that fosters continuous improvement in a company. Thus, it is more than a philosophy as it entails a methodological approach which draws on the strengths of statistical analysis

Energy efficiency and Jevons

external factors, such as the legal system and political risk. One of the factors affecting the ENC is the URB, as affirmed by the following empirical studies. Shahbaz et al. (2017 ) examine the long-term ... variables must be controlled, established due to the economic and social interaction present in the countries examined. This interaction between countries occurs due to globalization, political relations

Centering Indigenous Voices: The Role of Fire in the Boreal Forest of North America

of berry patches was guided by complex political and social systems which varied by group, but which served to conserve and enhance the yield of favorable plants [ 110, 111 ]. For example, burning ... : the algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State . University of Minnesota Press; 2017 . 132. Roberts J. “ What are we protecting out here?” a political ecology of forest, fire, and fuels management in