Ecosystem Approaches to the Management and Allocation of Critical Resources

1998 ◽  
pp. 313-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Folke
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Approaches ◽  
Critical Resources

SAFER model: Strategic allocation of fundamental epidemic resources

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
B W Weston ◽  
Z N Swingen ◽  
S Gramann ◽  
D Pojar
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Broad Distribution ◽  
Census Tracts ◽  
Milwaukee County ◽  
Strategic Allocation ◽  
Four Quadrant ◽  
Time Resource ◽  
Critical Resources

Abstract Background To describe the Strategic Allocation of Fundamental Epidemic Resources (SAFER) model as a method to inform equitable community distribution of critical resources and testing infrastructure. Methods The SAFER model incorporates a four-quadrant design to categorize a given community based on two scales: testing rate and positivity rate. Three models for stratifying testing rates and positivity rates were applied to census tracts in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin: using median values (MVs), cluster-based classification and goal-oriented values (GVs). Results Each of the three approaches had its strengths. MV stratification divided the categories most evenly across geography, aiding in assessing resource distribution in a fixed resource and testing capacity environment. The cluster-based stratification resulted in a less broad distribution but likely provides a truer distribution of communities. The GVs grouping displayed the least variation across communities, yet best highlighted our areas of need. Conclusions The SAFER model allowed the distribution of census tracts into categories to aid in informing resource and testing allocation. The MV stratification was found to be of most utility in our community for near real time resource allocation based on even distribution of census tracts. The GVs approach was found to better demonstrate areas of need.

Using Viewshed Analysis to Explore Settlement Choice: A Case Study of the Onondaga Iroquois

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric E. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Late Woodland ◽  
Past Behavior ◽  
Viewshed Analysis ◽  
Settlement Location ◽  
Political Landscapes ◽  
And Control ◽  
Statistical Results ◽  
Critical Resources

A multitude of factors, ranging from environmental to ideological, determine where human settlements are placed on the landscape. In archaeological contexts, finding the reasons behind settlement choice can be very difficult and often requires the use of ethnographic analogies and/or modeling in a geographic information system (GIS). Archaeologists have used one particular GIS-based method, viewshed analysis, to examine site features such as defensibility and control over economic hinterlands. I use viewshed analysis in this case study to determine how the natural and political landscapes affected the settlement location choices of the Late Woodland and early Historic Onondaga Iroquois. Proximity to critical resources and defensibility both factored into the decision of where communities would place villages. Although this study shows that resources, such as productive soils, had a more significant effect on settlement choice, Iroquois communities were also taking measures to maintain the defensibility of their villages. This examination displays how GIS analyses in archaeology can go beyond the statistical results and help us understand past behavior.

De-picturing John A. Macdonald: Opportunities and Challenges of Representing Canada’s Past with Graphic History

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Critical Resources

This article explores the historiographical and methodological opportunities and challenges of graphic history to represent, interpret, and interrogate Canada’s past. Graphic history is a research-creation approach that combines word and picture to produce illustrated texts and comic book-style narratives. While I address important critiques about academic rigour, pedagogical value, and practical viability, I argue that graphic history has much potential to offer historians. By broadening our understanding of scholarly work, graphic histories can be accessible sources for wider audiences, critical resources for teaching and learning, and/or imaginative methods for engaging with historiographical issues. After examining the theories and practices of graphic history, I illustrate a graphic-text essay on the contested images of John A. Macdonald. Pictures of the first prime minister are well known to most Canadians in photograph, caricature, and statue, but his legacy has come under greater academic and public scrutiny, particularly regarding policies towards Indigenous peoples. I focus on Macdonald because debates over his commemoration are relevant to the ways in which historians represent and confront complicated pasts. I use related debates over statue removal and anxieties about erasure of history to explore deeper historiographic questions about representation, truth, presentism, and perspective. I argue that a graphic history approach is a medium for deconstructing, or, as I call it, de-picturing, a one-dimensional, dominant image of Macdonald on a pedestal, exhibited in bronze.

scholarly journals Art and money: Three aesthetic strategies in an age of financialisation

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Haiven
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Credit Cards ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
Suspension Of Disbelief ◽  
Critical Resources

Recent decades of financialisation have seen a significant growth in art that mobilises various forms of money as artistic media. These range from the integration of material money (coins, bills, credit cards) into aesthetic processes, such as sculpture, painting, performance, and so on, to a preoccupation with more ephemeral thematics including debt, economics, and the dynamics of the art market. This article explores three (and a half) strategies that artists use to engage with money: crass opportunism; a stark revelation of money’s power; a coy play with art’s subjugation to money; and a more profound attempt to reveal the shared labour at the heart of both money and art’s aesthetic-political power. Money’s perennial appeal to artists stems from the irony of its tantalising capacity to almost represent capitalist totality. At their core, both money and art are animated by a certain creative labour, a suspension of disbelief, and a politics of representation. Artistic practices that use money can provide critical resources for studying, understanding, and seeing beyond the rule of speculative capital.

scholarly journals Ecosystem approaches to controlling of vector-borne diseases: dengue and Chagas disease

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. S4-S4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Glória Teixeira ◽  
Ana Boischio ◽  
Maria da Conceição N. Costa
Keyword(s):  
Chagas Disease ◽  
Vector Borne Diseases ◽  
Vector Borne ◽  
Ecosystem Approaches

scholarly journals Ecosystem approaches in the protection of reserved forest areas from phytophagous insects

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.B. Goldin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pest Control ◽  
Microbial Pathogens ◽  
Phytophagous Insects ◽  
Natural Remedies ◽  
Ecosystem Approaches ◽  
Conservation Of Biodiversity

Ecosystem approaches are highly important for pest control in forest reserved areas. Their background is conservation of biodiversity, application of microbial pathogens (bacteria, viruses and fungi) and preparations. Selective and prophylactic natural remedies (attractants, repellents and deterrents) are preferable also. This complex can provide biological security of forest reservations.

scholarly journals Alliance Management as Source of a Successful Strategy

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Margherita Russo
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
High Failure Rate ◽  
Alliance Management ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Management Capabilities ◽  
Critical Resources

In todays global environment, strategic alliances represent an important source of growth and competitive advantage; they allow firms to access new and critical resources and capabilities, to improve competitive position and rapidly to enter a new market In spite of the strategic importance of the alliances, they still exhibit a high failure rate; previous researches show that the half of the alliance formed end up as failure. The low success rate testifies firms difficulties in managing their alliance relationships and in ensuring enough success from them. In global markets, firms exhibit heterogeneity in terms of the overall alliance success; some firms achieve success from their alliance and others fail. Although most companies have realized the importance of strategic alliances, only few of them have developed the needed capabilities to manage them with success. In recent years, empirical studies found that firms with greater alliance success are those ones with superior management capabilities, termed in literature as alliance capabilities. This study is based on the assumption that the heterogeneity in alliance success rate is due to heterogeneity in firms level of management capabilities. Eli Lilly & Companys success in strategic alliances represents a clear example of company that understood the importance of developing an institutionalized approach of alliance management that improves the likelihood of alliance success.

scholarly journals Quantification of the effects of ocean acidification on sediment microbial communities in the environment: the importance of ecosystem approaches

2016 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. fiw027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Hassenrück ◽  
Artur Fink ◽  
Anna Lichtschlag ◽  
Halina E. Tegetmeyer ◽  
Dirk de Beer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ocean Acidification ◽  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Ecosystem Approaches

VENTURE ACCELERATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL GROWTH IN CENTRAL AMERICA

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 2050026
Author(s):  
HANS RAWHOUSER ◽  
CHRISTOPHER SUTTER ◽  
IAN McDONOUGH
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Central America ◽  
Resource Acquisition ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Sales Data ◽  
Entrepreneurial Growth ◽  
Critical Resources

Intermediaries such as accelerators support entrepreneurial activity in developing countries by connecting entrepreneurs to critical resources and by reshaping the entrepreneurial ventures so they can better participate in larger markets. Existing research has examined the activities intermediaries undertake and how these activities influence intermediary effectiveness. However, we know much less about which entrepreneurial ventures benefit from intermediation. Using 24 months of pre- and post-intervention sales data for 139 ventures working with a business accelerator in Central America, we find that facilitating resource acquisition is less important than the constraints to change within the entrepreneurial ventures themselves. Thus, our study suggests that although facilitating resource acquisition through venture acceleration is important, it may be insufficient for increasing venture growth. Rather, the malleability of the venture may play a more important role in intermediation effectiveness.

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