A Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) was developed, applied and evaluated to determine its potential to assist village communities in the management of their communal forest resources in the mountains of Nepal. It was successful in involving the community in determining their information needs, collecting data, obtaining resource information and forest management decision making. During the evalu...

OBJECTIVE To improve the quality of patient care by supporting the implementation of practice-specific visitatie (external peer review) recommendations. DESIGN A descriptive evaluation of an intervention strategy (Quality Consultation). Data collection through participatory observation, telephone interviews, and a postal survey. SETTING Twenty-five specialist group practices (67 specialists...

This research aimed to study problems of the corporate environments and their causes and the importance of the development of a sanitation and environmental management model using participatory process in Prachinburi Honda Cars Co. Limited; and to develop and evaluate the developed model. The participatory action research (PAR) and the pretest–posttest one group design were employed. The develo...

BACKGROUND Organisational culture is a key factor in both patient and staff experience of the healthcare services. Patient satisfaction, staff engagement and performance are related to this experience. The department of health in the Western Cape espouses a values-based culture characterised by caring, competence, accountability, integrity, responsiveness and respect. However, transformation of...

procedures that can integrate local knowledge with data collected at the regional or global level and produce information that is salient, credible, and politically legitimate to the decision makers that are a major audience for the results of the MA” (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2004). This chapter aims to contribute to such effort by capturing lessons from participatory local-level ecosys...

abstract: today, informal settlements have been accepted in the cities and towns as a problem and an urban fact facing urban and regional management in different countries of the world. according to past experiences and the evolutions of today, searching for new and efficient solutions in order to improve the quality of these settlements in line with converting them into a habitable zone of urb...

aesthetics relates to felt meaning generated from sensory perceptions, and involves subjective, tacit knowledge rooted in feeling and emotion. we believe the aesthetics of management is important, but little understood, aspect of organizational life. we propose that followers use their aesthetic senses in making these assessments. in this article we try to discover the role of aesthetic in man...

Indoor evacuation systems are needed for rescue and safety management. One of the challenges is to provide users with personalized evacuation routes in real time. To this end, this project aims at exploring the possibilities of Google Glass technology for participatory multiagent indoor evacuation simulations. Participatory multiagent simulation combines scenario-guided agents and humans equipp...