Responsibilization in natural resources governance: A romantic doxa?

Ethics and Participation in Natural Resources Protection

Background: Public participation in decisions regarding natural resources is the easiest way to ‎preserve these resources. It seems that having human of conservation ethics of natural resources, ‎has affect on their participation in the preservation of natural resources. This survey research was ‎done to investigate the relationship between conservation ethics of natural resources and ‎particip...

Tourism And Natural Resources

Self-Governance and Forest Resources

Forest resources share attributes with many other resource systems that make difficult their governance and management in a sustainable, efficient, and equitable manner. While some ‘forests’ are small enough that fencing them or protecting their borders from intrusion is relatively easy, excluding beneficiaries from access and use of most forests is costly. The difficulty of exclusion creates t...

Governance of natural resource

The concept of good governance has increasingly come to be seen as an essential ingredient of principles guiding natural resource management. Governance is a term that does not lend itself to an easy definition. Perspectives on debates in governance have varied; however, essentially questions of governance of natural resources revolve around such issues as improving the effectiveness of the bur...

Natural Radioactivity of Drinking Water Resources in Arak, Iran

The activity concentrations of 235U, 232Th, 226Ra, 40K and 137Cs in ground and surface of drinking water resources in Iranian city of Arak were determined by gamma ray spectrometry with aHPGe detector setup, coaxial p type and 8192 channels MCA. The water samples differed in radioactivity content depending on their origin and place. In the ...