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| Andersen, Alan; Wildlife and Ecology, CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre; Alan.Andersen@terc.csiro.au. |
| European ("scientific") and Aboriginal ("experiential") perspectives on fire management in northern Australia are often contrasted with each other. For Europeans, management is portrayed as a science-based, strategically directed and goal-oriented exercise aimed at achieving specific ecological outcomes. In contrast, landscape burning by Aboriginal people is more of an emergent property, diffusely arising from many uses of fire that serve social, cultural, and spiritual, as well as ecological, needs. Aboriginal knowledge is acquired through tradition and personal experience, rather than through the scientific paradigm of hypothesis testing. Here I argue that, in practice, science plays only a marginal role in European fire management in northern Australia.... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Aboriginal burning; Adaptive management; Australia; Cross-cultural conflict; Fire ecology; Land management; Management culture; Performance indicators; Science culture; Strategic goals; Traditional fire ecology and management.. |
| Ano: 1999 |
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| Melo Torres,Ligia Inés; Melo Torres,María Mercedes; Fonseca Pinto,Dora Esther. |
| Abstract The market liberalization policy is forcing business sectors and localities to generate strategies aimed to improving the living conditions of entrepreneurs and at the same time, being competitive. The present study exhibits the major contributions to local development, obtained from the creation associativity strategy of small coffee growers in Ocamonte (APCO), Santander-Colombia. It was observed that contributions evidenced in the dimension improvements as follows: socio-cultural, economic, environmental and policy- institutional, respectively. Given these concerns, a descriptive study with a sample of 45 associates was designed, from which in the second half of 2015, a structured survey was applied, evidencing the perceptions of the associates... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Social capital; Fair trade; Competitiveness; Management culture; Association; Local development. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-28122017000400538 |
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