Management style and decision-making create an organization’s culture influence its performance also in the pro-ecological dimension. Therefore, this paper’s originality lies how it explores effect of management to inform our understanding when using a sustainable approach. However, cause-and-effect relations between decisions remain vastly unexplored. The aim is explore whether serves as basis...

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“Environmental flows” is a research discipline that emphasizes freshwater allocation in rivers to sustain desired ecological conditions and human well-being. The basis for environmental flow requirements has traditionally relied on hydrological and ecological data. Contemporary methods focus on detailed hydro-ecological relationships within river ecosystems; however, there is currently no struc...

The “Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS)”, a new approach to ecological classification, was applied to 122 km of the southern intertidal zone of Qeshm Island located the Hormouz Strait - the Persian Gulf. Two components of this model, Surface Geology (SGC) and Biotic Cover (BCC) were used. Considering the extent and geomorphological alternations of the covered area, 12...

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America E problems are intensifying and threatening biodiversity and sustainability worldwide. Scientific understanding is a necessary step toward addressing these problems, but natural science alone is insufficient for achieving desired outcomes that benefit humans and the environment. Human behavior strongly influences ecological and soci...

The project management discipline is expanding within many engineering activities. This discipline can facilitate strivings toward successful accomplishment of an engineering project. Therefore, many academic institutes teach the “project management” program. This study presents a novel approach that educates engineering students to become successful project managers based on contextual learnin...