Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few studies have coped with the social-cultural dimension of ecosystem services, despite being considered a research priority. We examined how ecosystem service bundles and trade-offs emerge from diverging social preferences toward...

BACKGROUND Interactions between societies and nature are regulated by complex systems of beliefs, symbolism, customs, and worldviews (kosmos), ecological knowledge (corpus), and management strategies and practices (praxis), which are constructed as product of experiences and communication of people throughout time. These aspects influence social relations, life strategies, and cultural identity...

BACKGROUND Nutrition is an important pillar of management in children with type 1 diabetes. Indian food is heavily influenced by region, religion, traditions, seasons, and cultural choices. This survey was done to assess current practices and the need for India specific nutritional guidelines for children with type 1 diabetes. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two 12-item questionnaires were administered...

We propose an economic and cultural explanation for the decline of human fertility during the demographic transition. We show that some transformations in the economic and/or cultural structure of a society can imply a fertility transition, that is to say a transition from a traditional high births rate regime to a modern low births rate regime. Furthermore the cultural structure of the populat...

Knowledge management (KM) is a practice for managing the intellectual assets of an organization. A successful knowledge management program increases employee productivity by providing systems that not only allow for information access and sharing of explicit knowledge, but also enable expression of tacit knowledge in the minds of the people through collaboration. Organizations that successfully...

Non-native diseases of dominant tree species have diminished North American forest biodiversity, structure, and ecosystem function over the last 150 years. Since the mid-1990s, coastal California forests have suffered extensive decline of the endemic overstory tree tanoak, Notholithocarpus densiflorus (Hook. & Arn.) Manos, Cannon & S. H. Oh (Fagaceae), following the emergence of the exotic path...

For the first time in our recent history, Cambodia stands at threshold of making a transition to a period of sustainable economic growth that will enable it to achieve durable poverty reduction. Peace, stability and security in the entire country and for all of our people are the most important pre-requisite conditions for sustainable development. The Royal Government is strongly committed to s...

The design of an information system based on cataloguing actvities in a conservation project is istrumental for the operating aspects and procedures. Its definition is an example of some of the fundamental parts of a general project for the modernisation of Public Administration concerning cultural heritage. The main objective is not only to put together the different catalogues, but especially...

Along with other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, New Zealand's society is aging such that an increase in the number of older people requiring residential care is predicted. What cannot be foreseen is how culturally defined health beliefs affect the care given to older people in residential care. In this article, the authors describe and discuss the cultur...

The design of an information system based on cataloguing actvities in a conservation project is istrumental for the operating aspects and procedures. Its definition is an example of some of the fundamental parts of a general project for the modernisation of Public Administration concerning cultural heritage. The main objective is not only to put together the different catalogues, but especially...