Web 2.0 and social media applications that allow people to share, co-create and rate online content are crucial new ways for conservation organizations to reach audiences and for concerned individuals and organizations to be (seen as) ‘green’. These dynamics are rapidly changing the politics and political economy of nature conservation. By developing the concept of ‘nature 2.0’ and building on ...

Nature conservation relies largely on peoples' rule adherence. However, noncompliance in the conservation context is common: it is one of the largest illegal activities in the world, degrading societies, economies and the environment. Understanding and managing compliance is key for ensuring effective conservation, nevertheless crucial concepts and tools are scattered in a wide array of literat...

In 2006, a deadly Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak in bagged spinach was traced to California's Central Coast region, where >70% of the salad vegetables sold in the United States are produced. Although no definitive cause for the outbreak could be determined, wildlife was implicated as a disease vector. Growers were subsequently pressured to minimize the intrusion of wildlife onto their farm f...

IOAN FAZEY 1 * , JOHN A. FAZEY 2 , JAN ET G. S AL IS BUR Y 3 , D AVID B . LINDE NM AYE R 4 AND STEVE DOVERS 4 1Institute of Rural Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3AL, UK, 2Research Institute for Enhancing Learning, School of Education, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2PX, UK, 3Biotext, 113 Hopetoun Circuit, Yarralumla, ACT 2600, Australia, and ...

We describe preliminary work on generating contextualized text for nature conservation volunteers. This Natural Language Generation (NLG) differs from other ways of describing spatio-temporal data, in that it deals with abstractions on data across large geographical spaces (total projected area 20,600 km), as well as temporal trends across longer time frames (ranging from one week up to a year)...

Background: International policy has sought to emphasize and strengthen the link between the conservation of natural ecosystems and human development. Furthermore, international conservation organizations have broadened their objectives beyond nature-based goals to recognize the contribution of conservation interventions in sustaining ecosystem services upon which human populations are dependen...

There are several groups of questions that make up the subject this critical and expert analysis problems organizational system law enforcement regarding nature protection - role service in Hungary. Special attention is paid to reasons for need environmental presentation key laws bylaws regulate natural environment In addition, there about as a special unit Hungary, primarily: Organizational sy...

wildlife sancturies (w.s.) according to iucn classification need less conservation, but more development plan. lavandville w.s.: (less than 1000 ha, nw of iran) is located near caspian sea and !is important as habitats for waterfowl and other birds. physical resources (sands and oyster shells) of l.w.s. are exploited ; by local people. the area also provides outdoor .recreational apportunities ...

In 1992 neurophysiologists [20] found a new type of cells in areas V1 and V2 of the monkey primary visual cortex, which they called grating cells. These cells respond vigorously to a grating pattern of appropriate orientation and periodicity. Three years later a computational model inspired by these findings was published [9]. The study of this paper is to create a grating cell operator that ha...