Preprint: Data on Peer Reviewed Papers about Recreational Disturbance of Coastal Avifauna

This data descriptor summarizes the process applied to identify, screen, select and gather data from the content of 142 peer-reviewed papers/sources that report on the sources and impacts of recreational disturbance on coastal avifauna. While populations of resident and migratory coastal avifauna are under threat and diminishing rapidly across the planet, and particularly in association with Asian flyways, many governments are leveraging booming global demand for coastal recreation and tourism in order to deliver economic development to regional communities. The summary data shared via this data description was extracted from papers collected in a systematic literature review that was designed to explore the global literature on the recreational disturbance of coastal avifauna in order to elucidate the state of the global knowledge regarding this issue and to identify management strategies that could be applied at tropical Asian destinations to minimize the impacts of recreational disturbance and thus enhance the ecological sustainability of coastal recreation and tourism across the region. The data shared via the Excel worksheet associated with this data descriptor was extracted from peer-reviewed articles published in English between 1 January 2000 and the 31 December 2018 with the full text of the article available online. These articles were found by searching several online indexing several databases including Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest and Google Scholar.

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Global Knowledge Management Technology Strategies and Competitive Functionality

Strategic Knowledge Management in Multinational Organizations ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-630-3.ch009 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 126-136

Author(s):

William Schulte ◽

Kevin J. O'Sullivan

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Knowledge Management ◽

Competitive Advantage ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Field Research ◽

Global Knowledge ◽

Management Technology ◽

Technology Applications ◽

Technology Strategies

Information and knowledge management technologies and globalization have changed how firms in service industries formulate, implement and sustain competitive advantage. This research project contributes to our understanding of the relationships between Global Knowledge Management Technology Strategies and Competitive Functionality from Global IT. Based on field research this study found that Global Knowledge Management Technology strategies have a positive impact on Competitive Advantage from Information Technology Applications Functionality from Global IT. This study provides recommendations to International Engineering, Procurement and Construction Industry executives regarding the impact of knowledge management strategies and global information technology on competitive advantage of firms in their industry.

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Inter-region planning and analysis of water resources by using WEAP model Seybouse (Annaba) and Coastal East of Constantine (El-Taref)

Journal of Water and Land Development ◽

10.1515/jwld-2017-0026 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 115-122 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sarra Mansouri ◽

Lahbassi Ouerdachi ◽

Mohamed Remaoun

Keyword(s):

Water Resources ◽

Water Demand ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Ecological Sustainability ◽

Actual System ◽

Weap Model ◽

System Use ◽

Key Factor ◽

Response To Water

Abstract Water is seen as key factor for development. Its scarcity raises concerns at all scales. In regards to water resources, Annaba and El-Taref are intimately connected, the different activities (groundwater and superficial), focused on increasing supply, have been considered as a response to water demand. The actual system use of water resources is not able to sustain water needs that are more and more growing in different expansion sectors. Consequently, a strategy should therefore be sought to integrate the various sectoral needs in available water resources in order to reach the economic and ecological sustainability. We will try to respond to this problem by use of Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) model. This study is the first attempt to estimate water demand and analysis of multiple and competing uses of hydro-system in Seybouse’s Wadi basin and to make comparison with proposed water storage estimates. This model was applied according to five different scenarios which reflect the best and worst conditions of the supply and demand, not only to evaluate water demand deficit, but also to help planners to the alternative management. The model stimulation showed that the area study is sensitive to a serious water scarcity by 2030. It is possible to observe an improvement with integration of other management strategies for a best operating system.

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Demographic analysis of Israeli Carpobrotus populations: management strategies and future directions

10.1101/2020.12.08.415174 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ana Bogdan ◽

Sam C. Levin ◽

Roberto Salguero-Gómez ◽

Tiffany M. Knight

Keyword(s):

Demographic Data ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Plant Population Dynamics ◽

Global Knowledge ◽

Integral Projection Model ◽

Projection Model ◽

Data Set ◽

Future Directions ◽

Demographic Models ◽

Mediterranean Habitats

AbstractCarpobrotus species are harmful invaders to coastal areas throughout the world, particularly in Mediterranean habitats. Demographic models are ideally suited to identify and understand population processes and stages in the life cycle of the species that could be most effectively targeted with management. However, parameterizing these models has been limited by the difficulty in accessing the cliff-side locations where its populations are typically found, as well as accurately measuring the growth and spread individuals, which form large, dense mats. This study uses small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, drones) to collect demographic data and parameterize an Integral Projection Model of an Israeli Carpobrotus population. We validated our data set with ground targets of known size. Through the analysis of asymptotic growth rates and population sensitivities and elasticities, we demonstrate that the population at the study site is demographically stable, and that reducing the survival and growth of the largest individuals would have the greatest effect on reducing overall population growth rate. Our results provide a first evaluation of the demography of Carpobrotus, a species of conservation and economic concern, and provide the first stage-based population model of a representative of the Aizoaceae family, thus contributing to our global knowledge on plant population dynamics. In addition, we demonstrate the advantages of using drones for collecting demographic data in understudied habitats such as coastal ecosystems.

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Strategic Management of Disease Covid-19

Journal of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences ◽

10.18502/ssu.v28i10.4919 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Hosein Aliahmadi Jeshfaghani

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Statistical Analysis ◽

Strategic Management ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Health Treatment ◽

General Management ◽

The World ◽

Practical Proposal

Introduction: Following the outbreak of Qovid-19, many studies have been published rapidly on research sites and scientific literature around the world. This study aimed to investigate the strategies of this epidemic. This study was conducted in a structured review method without statistical analysis that was conducted by searching related studies and resources in databases of Web of Science and Scopus. Finally, 16 qualified articles were analyzed and their texts were reviewed. Based on the obtained data, 19 medical strategies and 3 macro-management strategies were included, which were expressed in several tables, and at the end, a practical proposal of the article was presented. Conclusion: The main strategies in foreign studies are medical strategies and less attention has been paid to general management strategies. Based on the research results, the identification and application of macro-management strategies along with medical strategies are recommended to the Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education of Iran in controlling the Covid-19 epidemic.

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Web of Science and Scopus are not global databases of knowledge

10.31235/osf.io/qhvgr ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jonathan Tennant

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Production Systems ◽

Global Knowledge ◽

Research Knowledge ◽

Global Databases ◽

Non Profit ◽

The Arts ◽

Language Research ◽

Critical Components

Both Web of Science and Scopus are critical components of our research ecosystem, providing the basis for university and global rankings, as well as for bibliometric research. However, both are structurally biased against research produced in non-western countries, non-English language research, and research from the arts, humanities and social sciences. This viewpoint emphasises the damage that these systematic inequities pose upon our global knowledge production systems, and the need to research funders to unite to form a more globally-representative, non-profit, community-controlled infrastructure for our global research knowledge pool.

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Relational Environmentalism in Coastal Recreation and Tourism

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11216011 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (21) ◽

pp. 6011 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anne-Mette Hjalager ◽

Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Primary Data ◽

Media Content ◽

Natural Environments ◽

Media Content Analysis ◽

Marine Litter ◽

Theoretical Contribution ◽

Recreation And Tourism ◽

Coastal Recreation

Given the extensive challenge of marine litter faced by coastal ecosystems, this article aims to illuminate an innovative form of environmental caretaking that builds upon a newly established concept of relational environmentalism. Relational environmentalism is a movement of individuals who purposefully interact with each other and with external bodies in a variety of dynamically developing ways to affect the perceptions, motivations and practical actions for the caretaking of endangered natural environments. As a theoretical contribution, the article conceptualizes eight categories of relational environmentalism: inviting, informing, coaching, norm enforcing, politicizing, mobilizing, intergeneralizing, and bridging. By means of a social media content analysis and primary data from the “Marine Environment Patrol” Facebook site, the article provides the first evidence on what relational environmentalism is and how it is institutionalized in the case of leisure- and tourism-based volunteering to collect marine litter. Furthermore, the article shows that successful campaigning and environmental patrolling in coastal recreation and tourism is a matter of building alliances and exchanging logics across a variety of boundaries and that it depends on a gradual intensification and diversification of communicative and mobilizing measures.

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