scholarly journals Improving, Restoring, and Managing Wildlife Habitat in Florida: Sources of Technical Assistance for Rural Landowners

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2005 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin B. Main ◽  
Chris Demers ◽  
Mark E. Hostetler
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The University

This document summarizes sources of information from federal, state, and non-governmental organizations that provide technical assistance to rural landowners interested in managing or restoring habitat for wildlife (Table 1). Additional information regarding conservation and management of wildlife habitat in Florida is available on the University of Florida/IFAS Cooperative Extension Electronic Data Information Source (EDIS). This document is CIR1472, one of a series of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date May 2005.  CIR1472/UW218: Improving, Restoring, and Managing Wildlife Habitat in Florida: Sources of Technical Assistance for Rural Landowners (ufl.edu)

scholarly journals Improving, Restoring, and Managing Natural Resources in Florida: Sources of Technical Assistance for Urban Homeowners

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2004 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hostetler ◽  
Martin Main ◽  
Chris Demers
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Wildlife Ecology ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

The purpose of this document is to summarize sources of information from federal, state, and non-governmental organizations that provide technical assistance to urban landowners interested in conserving natural resources (Table 1). This document is WEC-193, one of a series of the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date November 2004.  WEC 193/UW212: Improving, Restoring, and Managing Natural Resources in Florida: Sources of Technical Assistance for Urban Homeowners (ufl.edu)

Categorizing Blogs as Information Sources for Libraries and Information Science

2015 ◽  
pp. 4833-4845
Author(s):  
Mark-Shane Scale ◽  
Anabel Quan-Haase
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Source Category

Blogs are important sources of information currently used in the work of professionals, institutions and academics. Nevertheless, traditional information needs and uses research has not yet discussed where blogs fit in the existing typologies of information sources. Blogs and other types of social media have several characteristics that blur the lines of distinction existent between traditional information source categories. This chapter brings this research problem to the fore. Not only do we examine why blogs do not neatly fit into existing information source categories, but we also deliberate the implications for libraries in terms of the need to consider blogs as an information source to be included in collection development. We discuss the opportunities and possibilities for blogs to be integrated into the collection development efforts of academic and public libraries to better serve patrons. In order to accommodate for blogs and other types of social media as information sources, we propose the introduction of an additional information source category. We suggest new avenues of future research that investigate how blogs are being used to meet information needs in various social settings, such as corporations, health care and educational settings (e.g., higher education, and schools). In this chapter, we develop a framework of how blogs may function as information sources to provide libraries with a better understanding of how blogs are integrated into the context of everyday information seeking. By grouping the ways in which people employ blogs to acquire information, we propose that blogs provide information sources along a continuum ranging from non-fiction to fictional information.

scholarly journals Coastal Climate Adaptation Literatures of the Southeast and Northeast U.S.: Regional Comparisons among States and Document Sources

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Kenyon Lindeman ◽  
Christos Giannoulis ◽  
Bryce Beard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Almost All

Challenges remain in optimizing the use of increasingly large inflows of climate adaptation articles and guidance documents to improve coastal science and engineering practices. In addition to four major academic databases, the large grey literature was quantified by analyzing web sources of hundreds of government, nonprofit and university reports not previously included in reviews. Three spatial scales were examined for differences in amount and timing of adaptation documents: (a) between region (southeast and northeast U.S.); (b) among sub-region (Florida and Carolinas; New York/New Jersey and New England); and (c) among states (ten states total). Comparisons were also made across spatial scales for document sources (academic journals, government, non-governmental organizations (NGO), university, mixed sources), including four governance subcategories (federal, state, regional and local). Differences were identified among some spatial scales in academic vs. grey literature and among categories of grey literature. 53% of the literature was from grey sources (21% government, 10% university, 8% nonprofit and 14% mixed sources). This literature can be large and is grounded in applied, experiential knowledge, yet is unavailable in almost all academic databases. These relatively hidden documents provide insight into on-the-ground science and engineering case-histories, policy innovations, and power relationships across scales of geography and governance.

scholarly journals Contesting Market-Based Conservation: Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Surface of Engagement for Rural Social Movements in Mexico

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Federal State ◽  
International Lending ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Lending Institutions ◽  
Rural Social Movements

The Mexican national Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, which provide financial incentives for rural landholders to conserve forest, were originally designed under the logic of market-based conservation. Based on a multi-sited, multi-scalar ethnography of Mexico's PES programs, this article examines the process through which a national rural social movement was able to redefine the market-based narrative of PES, the historical and political context that provided this window of opportunity, and the ways in which the movement's engagement led to a hybridization of the policy itself. The involvement of the rural social movement introduced a very different conception of PES – as a recognition by Mexico's federal state and urban society of the value of campesino (peasant) environmental stewardship and the economic support needed to allow these stewards to remain on the land. The direct involvement of movement members in the redesign of the programs had a significant impact on their conformation that reflected this vision of revaluing the rural: the inclusion of agroforests and sustainably managed timber lands; requirements for self-defined forest management plans; provision of dedicated funding for technical assistance; and the training of local extensionists. In mapping the evolution of the Mexican national PES programs we can begin to see how, in this particular place and time, rural social movements employed PES as “useful surfaces of engagement” (Escobar 1999: 13) for contesting the market-based notions of the federal state, international lending institutions and conservation non-governmental organizations. I position this analysis in the context of the global project of “grabbing green” and as an example of the frictions that can inhibit and even partially reverse the logic of the seemingly inexorable rise of market-based conservation policy and projects.

Interview with David Kilcullen

2011 ◽  
Vol 93 (883) ◽  
pp. 587-601
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Stability Operations ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Us ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Consultancy Firm ◽  
The University

David Kilcullen is a leading expert on counter-insurgency policy. He served twenty-four years as a soldier, diplomat, and policy advisor for the Australian and United States governments. He was Special Advisor to the US Secretary of State in 2007–2009 and Senior Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq in 2007. He has provided advice at the highest levels of the Bush and Obama administrations, and has worked in peace and stability operations, humanitarian relief, and counter-insurgency environments in the Asia-Pacific region, Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. He is a well-known author, teacher, and consultant, advising the US and allied governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. His best-selling books The Accidental Guerrilla and Counterinsurgency are used worldwide by civilian government officials, policymakers, and military and development professionals working in unstable and insecure environments. Mr Kilcullen holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales. He is the founder and CEO of the consultancy firm Caerus Associates.

scholarly journals Religious Minorities in Iran

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-115
Author(s):  
Nazila Ghana-Hercock
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The University ◽  
Muslim Minorities ◽  
Political Scene

The author is an associate professor of political science at the University ofSouthern California. Her previous publications include a 1982 Praeger publication,"The Women's Rights Movement in Iran: Mutiny, Appeasement, andRepression from I 900 co Khomeini."Religious Minorities in Iran is of interest to political scientists, particularlythose focused on the Middle East; Iran experts; Islamic studies experts concernedwith modem-day politics and governance; those in the field of religiousstudies or comparative religion; and also lawyers, academics, and those workingin Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the human rights field whoare interested in issues related to minority rights, freedom of religion or belief,and human rights in the Middle East.The book focuses on those identified as the main ethnoreligious componentsof the non-Muslim religious communities in Iran: Armenians, Assyrians,Chaldeans, Jews, Zorascrians, Baha'fs, and Iranian Christian converts. Themain period of study is the first decade of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, 1979to 1989. The author gives three reasons for focusing on this period; she arguesthat this was the most ideologically charged moment of the revolution, that theposition of recognized non-Muslim minorities was largely routinized by thelate 1980s, and because she wants to avoid the nuances that emerge and complicatethe political scene after the end of the cold war and the formation ofpost-Soviet states. Later periods are mainly considered only when they beardirect relevance to the points being made and in the concluding chapter ...

scholarly journals Advanced Breast Cancer in Nigeria: A Single Centre Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Wichendu P.N. ◽  
Dodiyi-Manuel A.
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Advanced Breast Cancer ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Advanced Breast ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Port Harcourt ◽  
Dreaded Disease ◽  
The University

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer globally and in Nigeria, it constitutes about 12% of all new cancers and 25% of all cancers in women. In Nigeria, the majority of patients present with late disease and globally, advanced breast cancer is associated with a low survival rate among patients. This study seeks to review the presentation of advanced breast cancer as seen in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Southern Nigeria. Patients and Methods: This is a 5-year retrospective study conducted at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. Records of patients that presented to the hospital within the study period with histologically proven breast cancer (stages 3 and 4) were retrieved, and relevant data extracted and analysed using SPSS version 22. Results: There were 47 patients with advanced breast cancer and they were all females. Their ages ranged from 25 to 72 years with a mean of 43.9 ± 4.7 and peak age of 31–50 years. Majority of the patients (72.3%) had stage 3 disease while 13 (27.7%) of them had stage 4. The lung was the commonest metastatic site and this was seen in 7 (14.9%) patients, followed by the liver in 1 (2.1%). Conclusion: Advanced breast cancer remains a dreaded disease that reduces patients’ quality of life significantly and may also be rapidly fatal. Community-based efforts in collaboration with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) targeted at information dissemination to the public, and offering breast cancer screening and subsidized cancer treatment are essential to reduce the mortality associated with this deadly disease.

scholarly journals Awareness of Improved Hatchery Management Practices among Fish Farmers in Lagos State

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Oghenetejiri Digun-Aweto ◽  
Ademuyiwa Hafiz Oladele
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Fish Production ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Fish Farms ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Personal Saving ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Lagos State

Abstract During the last decade, hatchery infrastructure and table fish production systems have been exclusively targeted towards catfish production in Nigeria. These efforts have not translated to sufficient domestic fish production. The shortfall in demand for fish fry and fingerlings by growing population of fish farms in Lagos State confirms the fish seed production deficiency. This study investigated the level of awareness of improved hatchery management practices among fish farmers in Lagos State. Using simple random sampling method, 150 fish farmers from 12 local government areas of Lagos State were selected and interviewed using a structured questionnaire. The majority of the respondents were male (68 %) and married (76.6 %), with dominant age range of 41–50 years (55.3 %) and a farming experience of 5–10 years (68 %). Personal saving (46.7 %) and cooperative societies (31.3 %) were the respondents’ main sources of fund and fortnight visits by extension agent was of commonest frequency (86 %). Extension agents and research institutes ranked first and second, respectively, among the sources of information, and accounted for the main sources of information to the farmers. The farmers either strongly agreed or agreed on almost all the hatchery management practices, while they expressed their need for advisory and input support services from government and non-governmental organizations. The significant relationship which exists between age and marital status, and farmers’ awareness shows that greater communication of improved hatchery management practices will lead to adoption, thereby increasing the output of the farmers. Improved hatchery output will lead to greater availability of fish seeds for table size production as well as greater income to the fish farmers. In addition to more intensive extension efforts, other channels of information notably mass media should be revitalized in delivering improved management practices to the fish farmers.

scholarly journals Development Of An Excel-Based Cost Effectiveness Analysis Tool For Ascertaining Value For Money In Implementation Of Hiv And Other Health Interventions At Bomu Hospital, Kenya

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
NANCY MUCOGO NJERU ◽  
Elizabeth Owiti ◽  
Aabid Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Cost Effectiveness Analysis ◽  
Economic Evaluations ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Effectiveness Analysis ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The University

Abstract An Organization Capacity Assessment done in Bomu hospital in April 2015 with an aim to strengthen the local institution’s capacity for sustainable fight against HIV Aids pandemic led to the development of this excel-based cost effectiveness analysis tool. Objective: The specific objectives were to develop a cost-effectiveness analysis excel tool complete with instruction manual for use in costing, determining prices of services and carrying out economic evaluations. Method: A technical working team (TWG) comprising of senior management of the hospital and the University of Nairobi Fellow was formed. The TWG identified program where cost indicators would be derived, developed cost indicators collection tools, collected costing data and build necessary consensus and assumptions. The data was used to design the tool complete with working instructions. Results: The tool comprises of processes, instructions, excel data entry provisions and inbuilt formulae in excel sheets. The unique tool features include; simple to use instructions, systematic listing of cost elements with a drop down option to allow selection as required, allows additional cost elements to be added thus increasing scope of use . The tool also separates costs and sub-costs in a manner that allows cost drivers to be known precisely as well as avoid double costing among others. Conclusion: The tool is transferable to other facilities and can be replicated in all hospitals within the country, in private, public and non – governmental organizations. Its regular review, improvements and utilization will be important for the health sector to fully benefit from its use. It will be necessary to sensitize health facilities to address information gaps and also ensure that data is available in form and detail necessary for costing purposes. Key words: Economic evaluation, Costing, Resources, Treatment outcomes

The Boom

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew K. Shannon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The U.S

This chapter traces the ways in which the United States launched its most coordinated effort to promote Iranian development during the 1970s. The educational cooperation of the decade prioritized military training, particularly for members of the Imperial Iranian Navy; technical assistance, notably through the training of Iranian nuclear engineers; and cultural exchange programs that were administered by the U.S. and Iranian states as well as non-governmental organizations.

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