1Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory, Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 2Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Science Branch, Pacific Region, Cooperative Resource Management Institute, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada V5A 1S6 3Pacific Salmon Ecology and Conser...

The precautionary principle was included in 1992 in the Rio Declaration on Environmental and Development and is a part of important international agreements and documents, for example, the Convention on Biological Diversity. Yet the interpretation of this principle is not straightforward as a guide for environmental policy – a variety of interpretations are possible. This paper identifies and e...

the present research was conducted to build a conceptual model of internal effective factors of small and medium enterprises in mazandaran province. to accomplish the goal of the research first, a complete review of the related literature was conducted. second, questionnaires were given to the corresponding population. finally, the gathered data were calculated and analyzed using spss, excel an...

In the Luangwa Valley, Zambia, persistent poverty and hunger present linked challenges to rural development and biodiversity conservation. Both household coping strategies and larger-scale economic development efforts have caused severe natural resource degradation that limits future economic opportunities and endangers ecosystem services. A model based on a business infrastructure has been dev...

The study of human beings in conservation is often eclipsed by the study of threatened species and their environments. This is surprising given that conservation activities are human activities, and that the very need for conservation arises out of human actions. In this chapter, we begin with the premise that understanding human activities and human roles in conservation is fundamental to effe...

Resource sustainability requires a thorough understanding of the influence of forest management programs on the conservation of genetic diversity in tree populations. To observe how differences in forest management affect the genetic structure of Fagus orientalis Lipsky (oriental beech), we evaluated thirteen beech sites across Hyrcanian forests, based on six microsatellite loci. Significant di...

  Organizations For promoting the quality and quantity of services, increasing competition, efficiency and reducing the Costs and changes lead the organizations to modern challenges must be developed and increased productivity human resource management factor, and information technology important in the increasing productivity human resource management factor, the present study was conducted to...

abstract in recent years, the practice of using corporate websites to recruit job applicants has increased steadily. the aim of this paper is to review and analyze the e- recruitment in iran. in this article, we examine e-recruitment situation in premier 100 iranian organizations through websites content analysis. these top 100 organizations were introduced by the imi in 1390. this ranking is b...

Conservation and land management organizations such as The Nature Conservancy are developing conservation strategies to distribute protection efforts over larger areas and a broader range of ownership and management techniques. These ‘distributed conservation strategies,’ such as working forest conservation easements, are based on the premise that blending resource extraction, such sustainable ...