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In this paper we investigate the reasons why integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) fail to achieve their conservation goals. We develop a bio-economic model of open access land and wildlife exploitation, which is consistent with many farming and hunting societies living in...
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conservation as most visitors come to Iceland to experience the unique nature. The perception of protected areas as 'economical … opportunities. To assess these opportunities, many techniques to measure economic impacts of nature-based and/or protected area … showed that the economic and employment impacts of most sites in the studies were high and that nature-based tourism also …
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Ecologists and economists both use a different approach to determine the value of nature. Its ecological value can be …
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Standard Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is characterized by uniform proportional input reduction or output augmentation in calculating improvement projections. This paper develops a new Euclidean Distance Minimization model in the context of DEA in order to derive a more appropriate...
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In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has …'experts locaux dans la planification et l'évaluation des programmes de développement a augmenté de façon constante. L …
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This paper aims to provide new insights into the analysis of National Innovation Systems (NIS). Whereas the common approach is to analyze specific parts or a defined set of actors and their interactions, this paper attempts to take a more systemic approach by analyzing results of 13 surveys...
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students views? In this paper, we consider evaluate e-learning systems in statistics. We make an evaluation study, we analyze a … students sample of the methods: Factor analysis, Logit model. The common aim of this evaluation is to provide data to justify … questionnaire covers information about e-learning evaluation criterias. Some of these criterias are: Navigability, applicability …
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The low unemployment rates traditionally enjoyed by Sweden have often been attributed to the country's extensive system of active labour market programmes, which have thus frequently been regarded as a model for other countries to emulate. However, unemployment grew enormously in Sweden when the...
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The 'Swedish model' of active labour market programmes is investigated in relation to some crucial institutional features with two aims: examining how successful it has been in the context of the high unemployment atypically experienced by Sweden in the 1990s and trying to derive some general...
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Die pharmazeutische Industrie sowie das gesamte Gesundheitswesen stecken inmitten eines umfassenden Wandlungsprozesses. Solchen Wandlungen kann man am Besten mit Innovationen begegnen. Es müssen neue Ansätze umgesetzt werden, um die Produktivität weiter zu steigern. Weiterhin ist die stetige...
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