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...

Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Indonesia Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across communities ...

a notable amount of medicinal plants grow in iran and local communities in different parts of the country have developed a deep knowledge of various uses of plants during their old history. several ethnobotanical studies have been conducted by the traditional medicine and material medica research center (tmrc) to investigate the use of medicinal plants by local people. some of these studies hav...

Special sites or areas that have one or more attributes which distinguish them as somehow extraordinary, usually in a religious or spiritual sense, are called sacred places. They tend to evoke a feeling of some awesome, mysterious, and transcendent power that merits special reverence and treatment. Sacred groves are stands of trees or patches of forest that local communities conserve primarily ...

Emergency responders at the local community level are the prime actors concerning emergency management. It has been claimed that information systems have considerable potential to support emergency management. However, development of such systems is demanding, due to the complexity of emergency management. The ability to be able to reveal the stakeholders’ needs for support are essential for su...

this study is based on a survey for study the importance of ghale shadab prohibited hunting area (gspha), 3o km north of dezful in khuzestan province, in perspective of stakeholders with emphasis on tourism. all of the stakeholders divided in three group including tourists, local communities and organizations. a total of 750 respondents were interviewed representing different socio-economic and...

In local communities, there exists a tendency to increase dependability on Wireless Mesh Networks, WMNs, as an appealing access network infrastructure, where municipalities and local communities would try to encourage information sharing and knowledge dissemination. However, WMNs are prone to different kind of threats such as disinformation and alteration, on one side, and their security would ...

Controversy on whether local (deterministic) or regional (stochastic) factors control the structure of communities persists after decades of research. The main reason for why it has not been resolved may lie in the nature of evidence which largely comes from realized natural communities. In such communities assembly history leaves a mark that may support either set of factors. To avoid the conf...

today, the tourism industry is a major source of income for many countries. but the tourism as an economic activity mentioned before, is a cultural phenomenon in nature and the main attraction of tourism development as well. given the special vulnerability and fragility of cultural heritage, tourism development, in some cases, can cause damage to indigenous cultural patterns. this is in relatio...

1- introduction despite a lot of plans for rural and remote areas in recent years, many of iran’s local community's health and medical needs are not enough supplied, yet. residents of rural and remote community’s situations show that health care services are weaker than urban centers and health and medical indexes in indigenous communities remain unacceptable. many rural and remote communities ...