scholarly journals Iinterpretation and education in nature conservation

Koedoe ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.T. Geddes Page
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
The Subject

It is pleasant to have an opportunity to deal with the subject of interpretation in nature conservation at a time when so many diversified and often ingenious efforts over the years are becoming formalized into systems with specially trained personnel supplied with specific and reasonable budgets to enable them to really get on with the job. Preparations for the writing of this paper have led to the decision that education in nature conservation, although unquestionably running as a thread throughout most of our interpretative efforts is truly a very different approach.

Conflicts caused by afforestations of agricultural land in densely populated areas

1991 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Lust ◽  
B. Muys
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Biological Value ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View

In  densely populated areas, such as Flanders, serious conflicts arise due to the  afforestation of agricultural lands. Roughly speaking, three sectors are  involved: agriculture, forestry and nature conservation. These groups do not  always share the same points of view. But even within the different sectors  there are several subgroups with their own interests and approaches.  Generally speaking, agriculture is strongly opposed, forestry has a  relatively diversified meaning, whereas nature conservation is either opposed  or in favour, depending on the region's biological value.     The policy in this matter is not forest friendly. Legislation strongly  hampers the afforestation of agricultural lands. Moreover the subject leads  to a series of ecological problems, which have not really been considered up  to now.

Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality in an Industrial Application

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz M. A. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Computer User ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
Reverse Situation ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Target Activity

Abstract In the modern industrial scenario, the technological assets of new working methods and machinery in factory plants grow rapidly. Nevertheless, a reverse situation occurs in terms of availability of trained personnel within the subject area. Moreover, even the most experienced technician is faced with a continual need to update his/her skills. In respect to the training activities, more realism and a greater effectiveness could be achieved if the trainee could learn a new technology directly in the real working place. In this paper, considerations are presented for the use of an innovative hardware and Augmented Reality as platform components for the learning material to this training scenario. Both components are described with emphasis on their suitability to the target activity. The proposed platform encompasses a body-worn and wireless-networked computer, and software with specific features to assist the computer user in his/her task by enriching the content of the application environment. The software component, which addresses the application goals and required adaptations to the platform, is presented.

Study of the Possibility of Using Foreign Experience in the Formation of the Russian Model of Personnel Motivation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
T. Iskenderov ◽  
I. Rzhanova ◽  
Elena Mitrofanova
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Approach ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Motivation Model ◽  
Russian Model

The article discusses related to both the justification of the Russian model of personnel motivation, taking into account international experience. The urgency of solving this problem in modern Russian conditions has been substantiated. The main goal of the formation of a motivation model for Russian organizations is formulated - ensuring the achievement of the organization's goals by attracting and retaining professionally trained personnel and, above all, through effective, strong and sustainable motivation, formed on the basis of complex incentives, which is the subject of interest for all groups of the organization's personnel. The reasons are disclosed that prevent a change in the traditional approach to personnel motivation in Russian organizations, the main among which are: the adherence of Russian companies to traditional methods of incentives and other organization management technologies, as well as the economic situation in the country and the resulting needs of workers in Russia. The characteristics of the main foreign models of motivation, including Japanese, American, French, English, German and Swedish models, are given. The comparison of these models with the Russian ones is carried out and the prospects for their adaptation and use in the Russian practice of personnel motivation and incentives are substantiated.

scholarly journals Theory and Practice in Nature Conservation – Where to Seek Sustainability?

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Mirek ◽  
Zbigniew Witkowski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Subject

AbstractContemporary nature conservation is the subject of serious disputes, with biocentrists emphasising the superiority of the good of nature, while anthropocentrists believe that conservation space should also take account of the good of humankind. The dispute concerns two very important values perceived differently, and not resolvable within any scientifi c framework. The authors postulate a return to the Christian roots of our civilisation. It was God who gave human beings the goods He had created, expecting them to be used in line with His plan. The man who lost God’s plan, destroys the life of nature as well as his own. The postulated solution is the proper shaping of conscience, to condition biodiversity conservation in line with the idea of sustainable development.

scholarly journals Basic assumptions for forest management and nature conservation from axiological, legal, and economic perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-78
Author(s):  
Janusz Czerepko ◽  
Marek Geszprych ◽  
Piotr Gołos
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
The Subject

Abstract The subject matters of this article are mutual relationships between nature conservation and forest management, considered from the axiological and legal point, as well as the economic and social conditions of forest management.

scholarly journals Problems and progress in nature conservation in Rhodesia

Koedoe ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G.F.T. Child
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Human Race ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Technological Age ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One

The conflicting emotions generated around the aesthetic qualities of wildlife and its pragmatic use as a resource are a feature of human societies stretching into antiquity. On the one hand it has been, and remains, the subject of much folklore and art in societies extending from the Stone Age to the Technological Age. On the other, hunting for the necessities of life, and more recently for recreation, goes very deep into the history of the human race.

Principles for “Unprincipled Men”

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-48
Author(s):  
Alessandro Antonello
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Scientific Committee ◽  
Antarctic Research ◽  
Antarctic Treaty ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Scientific Arguments

This chapter investigates the scientific arguments for and diplomatic negotiation of the conservation of Antarctic wildlife between 1959 and 1964. The subject of wildlife conservation was raised by biologists working within the newly created Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), and they proposed a series of measures to the Antarctic Treaty consultative parties. The treaty parties negotiated the matter, passing the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora in 1964. This chapter argues that nature conservation became a tool of advancement and power both for biologists, who wanted institutional standing within the Antarctic scientific community, and for diplomats, who wanted to fill the gaps and silences of the Antarctic Treaty with meaning and with structures for controlling each other. The Agreed Measures were the first step away from the geophysical conception of Antarctica that undergirded the negotiation of the Antarctic Treaty.

The emergence of research laboratories in the dyestuffs industry, 1870–1900

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony S. Travis ◽  
Willem J. Hornix ◽  
Robert Bud ◽  
Ernst Homburg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Research Staff ◽  
Industrial Firms ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Set Up

The focus of this paper is the emergence of the research laboratory as an organizational entity within the company structure of industrial firms. The thesis defended is that, after some groundwork by British and French firms, the managements of several of the larger German dye companies set up their own research organizations between the years 1877 and 1883. The analysis of the emergence of the industrial research laboratory in the dyestuffs industry presented here makes clear that both the older study on the subject by John J. Beer and a later paper by Georg Mseyer-Thurow contain some serious defects. Beer, like so many other authors of the 1950s who studied the ‘marriage’ between science and industry during the ‘Second Industrial Revolution’, incorrectly correlates the engagement of university-educated chemists with the rise of industrial research. The appointment of academic chemists by BASF and Hoechst at the end of the 1860s, for instance, was described as ‘the…acquisition of a research staff’. This reveals a misunderstanding of the roles of chemists within the nineteenth-century chemical industry. University-trained personnel were, in fact, working in industry as early as the start of the nineteenth century. However, they were employed as managers, works chemists and analysts, and only exceptionally in research.

scholarly journals Brief Notes on Geodiversity and Geoheritage Perception by the Lay Public

Geosciences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Lucie Kubalíková ◽  
Aleš Bajer ◽  
Marie Balková
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Human Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Geosite Assessment ◽  
Lay Public ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Geodiversity has an irreplaceable significance for both biodiversity and for human society as it has numerous functions and offers various benefits and services. These have been already recognized and assessed by using numerous approaches and methods (e.g., geosite assessment methods, geodiversity indexes, and evaluation of geodiversity functions within the concept of ecosystem services). Nearly all these procedures were elaborated by professionals in the Earth sciences or related domains. The assessment of geodiversity functions and services within nature conservation by the public was not the subject of detailed research yet (with an exception of geotourist assessment). This communication presents the results of a pilot research that is focused on the analysis and interpretation of the public opinion on geodiversity and geoconservation. The data were collected by using the semi-structured questionnaire, and based on them, the interpretation was done and comparison or confrontation with original hypotheses was undertaken.

Words

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1320-1327
Author(s):  
Colbert Searles
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Subject

THE germ of that which follows came into being many years ago in the days of my youth as a university instructor and assistant professor. It was generated by the then quite outspoken attitude of colleagues in the “exact sciences”; the sciences of which the subject-matter can be exactly weighed and measured and the force of its movements mathematically demonstrated. They assured us that the study of languages and literature had little or nothing scientific about it because: “It had no domain of concrete fact in which to work.” Ergo, the scientific spirit was theirs by a stroke of “efficacious grace” as it were. Ours was at best only a kind of “sufficient grace,” pleasant and even necessary to have, but which could, by no means ensure a reception among the elected.

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