Brand Africa – A Guidebook to Strengthen the Competitiveness of African Tourism

Africa is a diverse continent, with each of its countries endowed with unique features. This offers visitors a wide variety of opportunities to connect with different people, traditions and cultures, making for an unequaled tourism experience. The present book offers guidance on possible strategies and actions that African countries can adopt and implement with a view to strengthening their destination brands and rebuild their tourism sectors stronger. Prepared in collaboration with Africa Tourism Partners, the guidebook collects valuable insights and expertise from African national tourism organizations as well as examples of effective destination branding from Africa and beyond. It concludes with recommendations, operational frameworks and practical tools aimed at supporting African countries in advancing their branding and strengthening their competitiveness towards a stronger Brand Africa and the socioeconomic development of the continent through tourism.

Transizione ecologica e universo fisico-cibernetico

There is a growing awareness that humanity and the Planet Earth are near to a tipping point, since we are experiencing a critical transition phase, resulting from a hyper-connected world, where global interactive structures and cumulative feedback evolve. It follows an increasing systemic complexity at all levels, hence uncertainty and instability all decision makers have to deal with. New strategic and operational frameworks are therefore needed. The book aims to provide a theoretical-strategic frame and to suggest he book aims to provide a strategic-operational frame and to suggest both an operational architecture and mechanisms suitable for assessing the effectiveness of strategic choices.

Classifying Streamflow Duration: The Scientific Basis and an Operational Framework for Method Development

Streamflow duration is used to differentiate reaches into discrete classes (e.g., perennial, intermittent, and ephemeral) for water resource management. Because the depiction of the extent and flow duration of streams via existing maps, remote sensing, and gauging is constrained, field-based tools are needed for use by practitioners and to validate hydrography and modeling advances. Streamflow Duration Assessment Methods (SDAMs) are rapid, reach-scale indices or models that use physical and biological indicators to predict flow duration class. We review the scientific basis for indicators and present conceptual and operational frameworks for SDAM development. Indicators can be responses to or controls of flow duration. Aquatic and terrestrial responses can be integrated into SDAMs, reflecting concurrent increases and decreases along the flow duration gradient. The conceptual framework for data-driven SDAM development shows interrelationships among the key components: study reaches, hydrologic data, and indicators. We present a generalized operational framework for SDAM development that integrates the data-driven components through five process steps: preparation, data collection, data analysis, evaluation, and implementation. We highlight priorities for the advancement of SDAMs, including expansion of gauging of nonperennial reaches, use of citizen science data, adjusting for stressor gradients, and statistical and monitoring advances to improve indicator effectiveness.

Development and Various Critical Testing Operational Frameworks in Data Acquisition for Cyber Forensics

Digital forensics is the science of preserving and analyzing digital data; this data can then be used in court cases as well as for crime detection and prevention. Digital forensics began in the 1970s and was initially used as a tool for fighting financial crime. Today, with computers and digital devices being an integral part of our professional and private lives, digital forensics are used/needed in a wide variety of disputes. Data Acquisitions is described and discuss different techniques or methodology obtain the data, facts, and figures from different resource and at a different level of the system.

Health system resilience – a conceptual and empirical review of health system literature

Background The concept of health system resilience has gained popularity in the global health discourse, featuring in UN policies, academic articles and conferences. The term is commonly used to refer to the ability of health systems to respond to challenges. However, there has been no comprehensive overview of how the concept is understood and assessed in health systems research (HSR). Methods We conducted a conceptual and empirical review in 3 databases using systematic methods. Quantitative and narrative synthesis was used to trace the introduction of the concept to HSR, identify relevant definitions and examine its use in research. Results From 4063 references, we identified 96 articles concerned with health system resilience from 2007 - 2017, with a recent increase in literature (45% of studies published since 2016). Many articles take a general perspective; others focus on specific HSR building blocks (e.g. 28% on service delivery) or a particular type of crisis, such as climate change (12.5%) or natural disasters (10.4%). While the concept was developed from the ecological sciences, its meaning has been adapted in HSR, with a shift towards people-centred and process-oriented definitions. We identify three frameworks operationalising resilience: the “attributes” framework by Kruk et al. (2017), the “everyday resilience” framework by Barasa et al. (2017) and the “complex adaptive systems” framework by Blanchet et al. (2017). However, we find a mismatch between these frameworks and how the concept is assessed in 13 quantitative and 8 qualitative empirical studies. Conclusions The HSR literature has converged around a definition of resilience focusing on the system’s ability to mitigate ongoing challenges. Differences in emphasis remain, resulting in a variety of operational frameworks. The frameworks require further adaptation and testing in empirical studies to demonstrate the usefulness of “resilience” as an analytical category in HSR. Key messages There is a mismatch between conceptualisation and operationalisation of resilience in the HSR literature. Existing operational frameworks of resilience require further adaptation and testing in empirical studies to demonstrate the usefulness of “resilience” as an analytical category in HSR.

Drivers and barriers to sustainable fisheries in two peri-urban impoundments in Zimbabwe

Fisheries sustainability is categorised through four conceptual pillars: ecological, economic, and social, including cultural and institutional. Much work on fisheries sustainability has been done in marine fisheries relative to inland fisheries. Two inland peri-urban impoundments, Chivero and Manyame in Zimbabwe, support numerous small-scale fisheries; however, environmental and socioeconomic variables threaten the sustainability of the fisheries. This study aimed to identify and contextualise drivers and barriers to sustainability of small-scale fisheries in these two peri-urban impoundments. We applied three frameworks, Fishery Performance Indicators, Community-Based Fishery Indicators and FAO Small-Scale Fisheries Indicators, to identify and contextualise the drivers and barriers. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to collect data from fishers in the two impoundments. A structured questionnaire was administered to 115 fishers in 23 fishing companies operating in the two lakes. Fisheries income and revenue as well as food security are key drivers. Lack of post-harvest equipment, volatile fish markets, water quality and quantity deterioration and fish stock decreases are key barriers to sustainability of fisheries in the two impoundments. There are subtle differences in the extent and impact of the drivers and barriers of fisheries sustainability in the two lakes. The differences relate to the uniqueness of the aquatic habitats, social constructs and fisheries operational frameworks in each lake. This suggests a need to assess fisheries sustainability using an integrated bottom-up approach starting from individual fisheries < community fisheries < global/generic fisheries.

A work on Port Management

Data innovation has turned into a basic piece of the quick and precise exchange and preparing of gigantic volumes of information handled in worldwide vehicle firms and port associations. The correct administration of frameworks, which procedure this data and convey it to the individuals who oversee port activities, is essential for productive vehicle. This clarifies why holder following frameworks are given high need among operational PC applications in ports. Researches the significance of data innovation and its job in improving the operational frameworks in freight taking care of. A PC reenactment model is created to think about two distinctive operational frameworks a holder terminal furnished with electronic gadgets versus a terminal without such gadgets.