In many resource-rich developing countries, policymakers, academics, and practitioners alike seek to promote citizen engagement monitoring in the management of natural resource revenues. However, approaches improve have not been effective as citizens often lack access relevant information opportunities voice their concerns, governments faced financial challenges engaging citizens. this article,...

We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market access by the poor to fodder and natural resource management to livestock parasite drug resistance. We found that these projects closed gaps between knowledge and action by comb...

Australia is a unique complex of land, water and biodiversity resources. Australia has progressively doubled biological productivity from its landscapes in the 200 years since European settlement. Australia recognises that information is the currency for implementing sustainable development and has embarked on an integrated program of natural resources data collection and assessment through a p...

The architecture is the fundamental framework for designing and implementing large scale software, and the ability to trace and control its evolution is essential. However, many traditional software configuration management tools view ‘software’ merely as a set of files, not as an architecture. This introduces an unfortunate impedance mismatch between the design domain (architecture level) and ...

Human resource management and total quality management having been identified as “new” approaches have attracted a great deal of practitioners’ interest. Environmental pressures to change, for example, turbulent market conditions and heightened competition, have left organizations little choice to introduce novel approaches in human resource management (HRM) and total quality management (TQM) i...