Organizing phenological data resources to inform natural resource conservation

Conservation and Enhancement of Natural Resources

Meeting food and livelihood security needs in developing countries will require the conservation and enhancement of natural resources that contribute to agricultural production. Chief among the resources to be sustainably managed are soils and forests. Failure to protect and improve soils will lead to dramatic decreases in domestic agricultural production and consequent dependence on imported f...

On Reason , Mythologies and Natural Resource Conservation

In 1971, I spent five months in Ghana, West Africa, collecting data for an MSc thesis, "On the Ecology and Fishery of a Small West African Lagoon". I was puzzled at the time by the behavior of the fishermen who exploited the Sakumo lagoon, near Tema (Fig. 1). Based in a nearby village, they were part-timers or full-timers, but fished in either case rarely more than about 4 hours at a time, then...

Comparing the effect of religiosity on public goods production and natural resource conservation: a experimental study

In this research, the effect of religiosity on participation in the production of public goods and preservation of natural resources has been investigated. Extraction of participation data and conservation of natural resource has been done through the implementation of online laboratory of public goods and natural resource games. To extract the three dimensions of religiosity (belief, rituals a...

Conservation of natural resources for sustainable Agriculture Introduction

Agents, Individuals, and Networks: Modeling Methods to Inform Natural Resource Management in Regional Landscapes

Landscapes are complex systems. Landscape dynamics are the result of multiple interacting biophysical and socioeconomic processes that are linked across a broad range of spatial, temporal, and organizational scales. Understanding and describing landscape dynamics poses enormous challenges and demands the use of new multiscale approaches to modeling. In this synthesis article, we present three r...