Profiling Collaborative Natural Resource Initiatives and Active Participants

Perceptions of Secondary School Students towards Natural Resources Management: Case Study of Participants in FoF and Non-Participants

Integrating natural resources management in the secondary school curriculum in Kenya has received a lot of talk without adequate practical activities. The Farmers of the Future Programme under the World Agroforestry Centre, formally the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), initiated a practical approach to integration of natural resources management in the secondary school...

Passive Profiling and Collaborative Recommendation

Institutional Quality, Natural Resource Rent, and Shadow Economy

Natural resource rent affects countries’ economies through various channels. Revenues from the natural resources sales are expected to boost countries' economic growth, but the economic experience of recent decades reveals the numerous economic problems in these countries, the most important of which may be the increase in the shadow economy size. Moreover, the institutions specify the signific...

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

User Profiling: Collaborative Filtering

Collaborative filtering is based on the assumption that “similar users have similar preferences”. In other words, by finding users that are similar to the active user and by examining their preferences, the recommender system can (i) predict the active user’s preferences for certain items and (ii) provide a ranked list of items which active user will most probably like. Collaborative filtering ...