the accurate planning and management for sustainable agriculture results in appropriate behaviors ofindividuals towards sustainability through changes happened in individuals’ knowledge and attitudesof sustainability. a survey of natural resources and agricultural researchers (n = 85) was conducted iniranian province of ilam to explore their attitudes of sustainable agriculture and to identify ...

environmental protection is not at odds with the proper use of all the offered possibilities.along these lines, the touristic products available to the consumer has increased exponentially over the lastfew years which has made it possible to convert territorial and patrimonial resources into significant elementsof recreational use put into value at service of the consumer. surveys on the recrea...

earthquakes in urban areas leave behind a considerable amount of debris, which delays the relief services and the reconstruction activities. the relief work would be impossible without the removal of debris from the main access roads to the devastated areas. the proper implementation of this endeavor requires a long-term management of debris. this article discusses development of strategic mana...

*School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 430 E. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1115, U.S.A. Corresponding author present address: Institute for Fisheries Research, University of Michigan, 212 Museums Annex Bldg., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1084, U.S.A. [email protected] School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 430 E. Universi...

1 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Natural Resources and the Environment, Ecosystems, Forestry and Forest Products Research Centre, PO Box 17001, Congella 4013, South Africa 2 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Natural Resources and the Environment, Ecosystems, Earth Observation, PO Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa 3 School of Environmental Sciences, University o...

N owadays, innovation considered as the most important factor, which can affect economic growth extraordinary. Therefore, investigating the effect of variables affecting innovation has priority. In this study, we try to investigate 1) the natural resource curse hypothesis and 2) the effect of institutional quality on the way in which natural resources affects innovation. To investiga...

This paper develops a one-sector endogenous growth model in which renewable natural resources are postulated as both a factor of production and as a measure of environmental quality. We show that sustained economic growth and a non-deteriorating environment can coexist along the economy’s balanced growth path. Moreover, the output growth rate is positively related to the steady-state level of n...

There is a need to select high quality forage legumes that are acid soil-tolerant, drought resistant, and persistent under the close defoliation associated with intensive pasture systems in the humid tropics. A greenhouse pot study was conducted to determine forage legume seedling growth (10 week-old) and regrowth (5 weeks after clipping to an 8-cm residual stubble) responses of ‘Amarillo’ pere...