participatory conservation, as bottom-up management, is currently the most acceptable modelfor management of protected areas across the world. social context is a central issue in the sustainablemanagement of conservation areas. it is also crucial to introducing participatory conservation. the newapproach therefore recognizes rural communities as key partners in biodiversity management and seek...

rangelands are the main sources of forage for livestock feeding by localpeople. beside forage production, rangeland ecosystems provide many other goods andservices such as medicinal plants, recreation, soil and water conservation, wildlife habitat,fishing, hunting, hiking, etc. nevertheless, there are no much information about the waythat local communities think about the rangelands goods and s...

the court orders, inter alia, the provisional injunctions, are normally aimed to impose some specific result on the parties to a proceeding. provisional measures including interim injunctions are somehow connected to the general standards of fair proceeding. the question might be how a proceeding could be assessed as being fair while an interim injunction is being issued against one of the part...

Iran has a long history in the use of medicinal plants and traditional medicine. Local people in the villages, especially the elderly, have useful information about health benefits and how to use these plants. Therefore, it seems that collecting and recording this information leads to the revival of this traditional knowledge. The current research is an ethnobotanical study on the medicinal pla...

For the development of software requirements within a team, efficient communication and a systematic approach are necessary. Because of the complexity of the task, the need for software support seems obvious. A requirements portal is an Internet based software application, which provides all parties involved with the current discussion status of the requirements including preliminary versions a...