Basic Principles for Sustainable Participatory Irrigation Management

Basic Principles of Sustainable Development

This chapter introduces the concept of sustainable development. We begin by disaggregating the components of the concept and showing how each developed through the course of its earlier history. The goals expressed or implied by the sustainable development are multidimensional, raising the issue of how to balance objectives and how to judge success or failure. Though it may be impossible to pos...

Fisheries Management: Basic Principles

Participatory Indicator Development for Sustainable Natural Resource Management

There have been few attempts to develop, test or apply sustainability indicators for natural resource management at a farm-level, and even fewer have fully consulted land users from the initiation of this process. While environmental sustainability indicators need to be accurate and reliable, land users also need them to be rapid, cost-effective and easy to use, in addition to being linked to m...

Dysphagia Assessment and Intervention : Basic Principles for 1 Trauma Management

Participatory Design for Sustainable Campus Living

Participatory design methods have the potential to produce ethical and useful persuasive technologies, particularly in support of environmental sustainability. I present the use and results of ethnographically-inspired methods, Cultural Probes, and the Inspiration Card Workshop to generate concepts for new persuasive technologies for use by a college EcoHouse.