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Jardim, Anna Carolina Salgado; Amancio, Robson; Gomes, Marcos Affonso Ortiz. |
The objective of this article is to identify and characterize the environmental reasoning of local farmers and agriculturalists by understanding the world views, perceptions, knowledge bases, and socio-environmental practices of two rural communities situated in the proximities of the source of the River Rio Grande, in the municipality of Bocaina de Minas, Minas Gerais. Specifically, this article attempts to characterize the meaning and importance that the natural resources have for these rural producers: to identify and analyze the use that these producers make of their resources, in order to understand what is the type of established relationship between these social actors and the natural world that envelopes them. This analysis is performed by... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Environmental racionality; Natural resource; Social-environmental practices.. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43831 |
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Laxminarayan, Ramanan. |
The increasing resistance of harmful biological organisms (bacteria, parasites, and pests) to selection pressure from the widespread use of control agents such as antibiotics, antimalarials, and pesticides is a serious problem in both medicine and agriculture. Modeling resistance-or, conversely, the effectiveness of these control agents as a biological resource-yields insights into how these agents should be optimally managed to maximize their economic benefit to society. This paper uses a model of evolution of bacterial resistance to antibiotics-in which resistance places an evolutionary disadvantage on the resistant organism-to develop a simple sequential algorithm of optimal antibiotic use. Although the solution to this problem follows the... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Antibiotic resistance; Natural resource; Optimization; Health Economics and Policy; I0; Q0. |
Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10479 |
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Magadza, Sian Newsome. |
Bulilimamangwe is one of the poorest and most marginalised areas of Zimbabwe. In 2001 a community driven project was started under the Kellogg funded Integrated Rural Development Programme, to utilise the indigenous Marula trees found in the area. From the onset project members were mostly women. This paper documents the early years of the project. Achievements are given, problems faced examined and possible solutions put forward. Challenges, opportunities and conflicts are discussed in the hope that these may be of interest in the study of future projects utilising natural resources in poor communities. |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Empowerment; Women; Natural resource; Rural livelyhoods; Development; Marula; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44107 |
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