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Accommodating multiple interests in local forest management: a focus on facilitation, actors and practices
Paul G.H. Engel, Anouk Hoeberichts, Laurent Umans - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 1 (2001) 3/4, pp. 306-326
This paper is concerned with three questions. When, if at all, is facilitation worthwhile? When dealing with local … forest management, what exactly should facilitators focus on? How does empowerment fit into facilitation efforts? Two case … problems arise. To overcome these, facilitation should address at least three types of accommodation processes learning …
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Management of airport congestion through slot allocation
Abeyratne, Ruwantissa I.R. - In: Journal of Air Transport Management 6 (2000) 1, pp. 29-41
The lack of airport slots (the time allocated for an aircraft to land or take off), particularly at airports which experience congestion, have reached unmanageable proportions in recent years. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) records that, by the end of 1997, there were 132...
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Intra and extra regional openness: The role of ?trust? builders as Open Innovation Intermediaries
Porto, Igone; Otegi, Jose Ramón - European Regional Science Association - 2014
The role of intermediaries in innovation processes has been analyzed in the literature from a dual point of view of the firm`s performances. Being considered actors involved in the knowledge diffusion and technology transfer, intermediaries are considered collaborators of small and large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131933
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Factors Affecting Rural Facilitators’ Role: Iran
Azimi, Farideh; Kamali, Mohammad Bagher - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management and … 01 (2011) 1
transfer to facilitation as people’s own knowledge creation. This study showed that appreciative inquiry could facilitate the …
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Seeing Green: The <i>Re</i>-discovery of Plants and Nature’s Wisdom
Gagliano, Monica - In: Societies 3 (2013) 1, pp. 147-157
In this article, I endeavor to recount the odd history of how we have come to perceive plants like we do, and illustrate how plants themselves perceive and sense the world and, most importantly, what they can tell us about Nature. Through examples of the ingenious ways plants have evolved to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029764
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Agronomist–farmer knowledge encounters: an analysis of knowledge exchange in the context of best management practices in England
Ingram, Julie - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 3, pp. 405-418
knowledge, other encounters provide a platform for the facilitation of farmer learning in their transition to more sustainable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634611
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Managing natural resources: A social learning perspective
Maarleveld, Marleen; Dabgbégnon, Constant - In: Agriculture and Human Values 16 (1999) 3, pp. 267-280
party facilitation of platform activities. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999 …
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Beyond trade facilitation: impact of the domestic business environment on export competitiveness in Asia and the Pacific
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip; utoktham@un.org - In: Rising Non-Tariff Protectionism and Crisis Recovery
This paper evaluates the potential contribution of both trade and non-trade specific business facilitation measures to … trade and business (investment) facilitation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903922
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Trade costs and facilitation in APEC and ASEAN: delivering the goods?
Shepherd, Ben - In: Rising Non-Tariff Protectionism and Crisis Recovery
In this article, we literature on non-tariff protection and assess its impact.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903935
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Exploring the emerging facilitation and brokerage roles for agricultural extension education
Koutsouris, Alex - Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural … - 2012
literature is explored pointing to a new understanding of facilitation which implies its transformation from exploitation to … exploration, i.e. from information dissemination to co-learning facilitation. A number of examples from agriculture … argued that there is an urgent need for facilitation to be better described, operationally defined and well-evaluated so as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928584