Social contracts and community forestry: how can we design forest policies and tenure arrangements to generate local benefits?

How can we save forest biodiversity?

Community design and how much we drive

The preponderance of evidence suggests that communities with denser and more connected street networks and a higher degree of mixed land uses results in fewer vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT). However, there is less agreement on the size of the effect. Also, there is no clear understanding of the specific aspects of community design—such as street networks and land use mix—that are most import...

Social & Environmental Benefits of Forestry

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

efl teachers job satisfaction and social capital in relation to students’ motivation

abstract this mixed method study examines whether there is any relationship among the variables of the study (job satisfaction, social capital and motivation). the researcher considered job satisfaction and social capital as independent variables; motivation is the dependent variable of the study. the researcher applied a questionnaire to assess each variable. to measure efl teachers’ job sati...