Software development is increasingly becoming important in today’s businesses as an enabler of their business processes and services. However, software improvement processes are still unsatisfactory and not mature. This paper examines software process improvements from the perspective of new product development and operations management, and suggests how research in these fields may be used to ...

The desert locust remains a major threat to global food security. Control operations are crucial tool manage crisis; this research investigated the nature of control conducted between 2019–2021. Historical data on and were obtained from survey reports at FAO Locust Hub analysed with respect reports, land cover types, cropland/rangeland extent crop productivity data. We found that 16.1% grid cel...

Invasive plants reduce the capacity of ecosystems to provide goods and services required by society, alter ecological processes, and can displace desirable species. They can reduce wildlife habitat quality, riparian area integrity, rangeland economic value, and enterprise net returns. The invasion process is regulated by characteristics of the invading plant and the community being invaded. The...

Hydrological response of a watershed is a comprehensive symbol of environmental conditions and characteristics of the basin. Vegetation is one of the main factors in water resources status, erosion, and sediment of a watershed. Rangelands of Golestan province, Iran due to the geographical location, climate, and destruction of these resources as well as drastic land use changes from forests, and...

Contemporary Australian rangeland management is characterised by concurrent processes of a continuing intensification of land management practices and simplification of landscape ecological processes. This dual characteristic is associated with increasing levels of potential conflict between land management practices that promote improved economic performance of rangeland enterprises at the app...

Support for range management interventions by the World Bank and other international development institutions has a somewhat checkered history. In certain respects, this has mirrored theoretical developments and shifts in thinking among rangeland professionals, but the relationship between rangeland science and development policy and practice is far from direct. It is mediated by contextual fac...