Regional Resource Management in Rural Communities

Investigating and prioritizing factors affecting on Human Resource Management Professionalism in Tehran Regional Electric Co.

In today's organizations, an effective human resource management as the most important organizational source- especially in critical industries such as electricity industry- is not achievable unless having a systematic, specialized and professional perspective. Professionalism is a perfect and holistic view to a work or working situation that it encompasses a comprehensive mastery in affairs an...

Locating Communities in Natural Resource Management

In recent decades, natural resource management (NRM) has embraced community participation and engagement. Despite considerable literature addressing community participation, the tasks of negotiating and integrating diverse community interests, values, goals and boundaries remains a challenge for practitioners. Our view is that NRM discourse is hamstrung by a multitude of overlapping terms and e...

Cognitive mapping concept of resource management for the viability of local communities

The local community is a complex socio-economic system, and its ability to function for an indefinitely long period of time (viability) is not investigated sufficiently today. The purpose of the research was, using the cognitive mapping, propose to the local community management developing their own management strategies to ensure its viability. Considering the weakly structured subject area of...

Bringing prostate cancer education to regional and rural Australian communities

Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) launched its Rural Education Roadshow program in 2013. Funded through the Commonwealth Government, and modelled on the Western Australia Cancer & Palliative Care Network framework, the program brought a structured prostate cancer education program to regional, rural and remote communities across Australia. The Roadshow aimed to: • improve local kno...

Debt, Poverty and Resource Management in a Rural Smallholder Economy