Stakeholders’ Perceptions Concerning Greek Protected Areas Governance

Providing health care to improve community perceptions of protected areas.

Impoverished communities often turn to illegal extraction of resources from protected areas to alleviate economic pressures or to make monetary gains. Such practices can cause ecological damage and threaten animal populations. These communities also often face a high disease burden and typically do not have access to affordable health care. Here we argue that these two seemingly separate challe...

Protected areas – protected species?

Wild life: The elusive fosa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is the top predator in the dry deciduous forests of Madagascar, but very little was known about its biology until the 1990s. The presence of volunteer groups studying its role in the forest’s ecology has also helped to protect its habitat. (Photo: Earthwatch/ Luke Dollar.) The world’s latest national park has just been created in the east of Russ...

Collaboration theory and tourism practice in protected areas: stakeholders, structuring and sustainability

Examining the Influence of External Stakeholders on IT Governance: Perceptions of IT Executives

Information Technology (IT) governance decisions usually involve several stakeholders with divergent claims. Past research on IT governance focused on internal stakeholders' responsibilities and roles in IT governance decisions. However, we don’t know much about external stakeholders’ place in IT governance. Based on stakeholder theory, a qualitative research approach is adopted to determine th...

The ancient and medieval Greek writer's perceptions concerning the relationship between sexual characteristics and testicular volume.

nuchs, children and women have high-pitched voices”. He also made the observation that “Eunuchs never become bald and never present gout”. Aristotle (4-3 c. BC), in a treatise on the nature of the human voice, supports this notion and attributes the voice change to the weakness of the heart due to the ablation of the testicles. His main line of reasoning focuses on the effect testicles were tho...