scholarly journals Assessing the Potential of Phytolith Analysis to Investigate Local Environment and Prehistoric Plant Resource Use in Temperate Regions: A Case Study from Williamson’s Moss, Cumbria, Britain

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Kali Wade ◽  
Lisa-Marie Shillito ◽  
John M. Marston ◽  
Clive Bonsall
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Phytolith Analysis ◽  
Plant Resource

Environmental heterogeneity influences plant resource use – A case study in a rural community of NE Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 671 ◽  
pp. 362-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Novais Barros ◽  
Bárbara Luzia Santos Pinto ◽  
Cleiçon Félix de Sá ◽  
Ivanilda Soares Feitosa ◽  
Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Environmental Heterogeneity ◽  
Plant Resource

When Neutrality is Taboo. Navigating Institutional Identity in Protracted Conflict Settings - the Nigerian Ife/Modakeke Case

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peyi Soyinka-Airewele
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Institutional Identity ◽  
Protracted Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
The University

AbstractThis paper explores the means by which social institutions located in African communities that are deeply and violently polarized along ethnic-related lines, navigate the institutional role and identity within such a local environment. Utilizing a case study of ethno-political conflict in the Ile-Ife and Modakeke communities of South Western Nigeria, the paper investigates how the local academy has sought to survive as a zone of diversities located in host cit(ies) with rigidly structured mythicohistories and conflicting geopolitical claims. Through this exploration of the paradox of the uneasy cohabitation of contested realities and the quest for postwar healing and rehabilitation, the paper unveils the unusual local interpretation, rejection and reconstruction of the concept of neutrality, and highlights the challenges, both philosophical and concrete, which confront the academy. The findings of the study suggest a need to cautiously, but decidedly, resituate the university as a civically engaged arena for the creative re-envisioning of diversity and cultural pluralism and ultimately for local and national conflict transformation in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Modeling and planning of bentonite clay mining: a case study at Bañado de Medina, Melo, Uruguay

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-528
Author(s):  
Renato da Silva Marques ◽  
Luis Eduardo de Souza ◽  
Luiz Delfino Albarnaz ◽  
Raul Oliveira Neto
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Bentonite Clay ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Mineral Deposit ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Mining Activities ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Geological Complexity

Mining planning and its correct sequencing are essential to facilitate the exploitation of minerals both economically and environmentally, thus ensuring the feasibility of the mining in operational and economic terms. The small geological complexity or the low aggregate value of a mineral deposit tends to result in the planning stages being neglected, so the mining begins without the necessary detailing or it is only scheduled for a short period of time. Thus, in order to ensure a sustainable sequence of operations, and to predict the environmental impacts caused by mining activities and suggest options that would allow the establishment of mitigation measures for these impacts, the feasibility of the technical and economic utilization was evaluated for an occurrence of bentonite in the Bañado de Medina deposit located in the Department of Cerro Largo, Uruguay, respecting the local environment in the process so as to give the project a strong character of sustainability.

IKEA Inc.: the India way

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Neetu Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
International Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Level

Learning outcomes Learning outcomes are as follows: to learn about the application of Bartlett and Ghoshal’s model of international strategy; to compare and contrast the global strategy of IKEA in India and China; and to understand how adaptability can create a new competitive advantage in emerging markets. Case overview/synopsis The case study enables discussion about the global strategy of a well-established multi-national company, IKEA in an emerging market. IKEA is a well-established and well-known brand in the international market in furniture retailing. It has decided to make a debut in India in 2017 with its first store in Hyderabad. However, it was yet to open it in 2018. The case emphasizes upon understanding the global strategy of IKEA, positioning itself in the fragmented Indian furniture industry, managing differences in emerging markets and adapting to the local environment of the particular country. The case highlights how adaptability can create a new competitive advantage in managing global strategy in different countries of emerging markets. Complexity academic level This case study is developed for post-graduate management programs as an MBA, Executive MBA and executive development programs. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.

scholarly journals Common Property and Power: Insights from a Spatial Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Pasture Boundaries among Pastoralists in Central Tibet

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Participatory Mapping ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
Tibet Autonomous Region ◽  
Central Tibet

Spatial analysis can bring out crucial issues in the political ecology of pastoral areas, with important implications for planning future development. This research combines textual analysis, participatory mapping, ethnography, and remote sensing data to study resource use and common property among pastoralists in Central Tibet. Specifically, this paper presents a case study of pasture boundaries over time in the Porong region (Nyelam County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, PRC). Translation and analysis of an historical (1884) boundary survey from Porong yielded hundreds of toponyms, boundary markers, livestock corrals, and resource locations, which were catalogued and indexed in a geographical database. Toponyms and landscape features listed in the boundary survey were geo-referenced using a Geographic Positioning Systems (GPS) unit: fieldwork in Tibet resulted in the collection of over five hundred GPS points that marked historical and contemporary pasture boundaries. In addition, participatory maps of pastures were generated with local herders and subsequently digitized using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. These compiled GIS maps provide a time series of common property boundaries and illustrate how changes in Tibet’s governance (feudalism vs. socialism) and type of economy (e.g., collectivized vs. private household production) did or did not impact the distribution of resources among pastoralists. Analysis of vegetation resources available within historical and contemporary common property units provides compelling evidence that boundaries reflect the balance of power relations, resulting in unequal availability of rangeland resources. The case study adds to the literature on common property by reinserting the state’s central roles in defining boundaries, regulating resource use, and mediating resource conflicts.Key Words: participatory mapping, GIS, Central Tibet, common property resource management.

Free radicals in the European periphery: ‘translating’ organic chemistry from Zurich to Barcelona in the early twentieth century

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
AGUSTÍ NIETO-GALAN
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
European Periphery ◽  
Free Radical Chemistry ◽  
The University ◽  
Scientific Standards

In 1915, after acquiring first-hand knowledge of the new free radical chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Antonio García Banús (1888–1955) became professor of organic chemistry at the University of Barcelona and created his own research group, which was to last from 1915 until 1936. He was a gifted teacher and a prolific writer who attempted to introduce international scientific standards into his local environment. This paper analyses the bridges that Banús built between the experimental culture of organic chemistry at the ETH and the University of Barcelona. It presents a case study which aims to provide new historical data for the general analysis of groups who conducted their work in the European periphery.

scholarly journals Water supply network model for sustainable industrial resource use a case study of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 100131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joeri Willet ◽  
Jude King ◽  
Koen Wetser ◽  
Jouke E. Dykstra ◽  
Gualbert H.P. Oude Essink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Supply Network ◽  
Water Supply Network ◽  
Industrial Resource
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