Biodiversity in Australia continues to decline despite substantial government efforts to promote conservation. A statutory duty of care for biodiversity could promote positive outcomes and complement existing regulatory and voluntary approaches. Interest in a duty of care has been persistent, but progress elusive. Two interrelated issues around the social acceptability of a statutory duty of ca...

it seems that success in municipal wastes management has a detectable relationship with citizens' participation and social mechanisms. so, the present study has done for recognition of systematic relations of effective social parameters on municipal solid waste administration. data have collected in two phase to fill of questionnaires including awareness assessment of msw office's per...

recycling and reuse of wastewaters are of the new policies that provide water resources to respond to the need of the growing population. in many societies, social acceptability of these processes has an important role in the success of the reuse from refined wastewater, because the final product of this process is in direct relation with the consumer. therefore, social and cultural implication...

Although the clinical utility of the functional analysis is well established, its social acceptability has received minimal attention. The current study assessed the social acceptability of functional analysis procedures among 10 parents and 3 teachers of children who had recently received functional analyses. Participants completed a 9-item questionnaire, and results suggested that functional ...

IN THEIR PERSPECTIVE “When the hunter becomes the hunted” (19 June, p. 1312), R. Woodroffe and S. M. Redpath rightly pointed out that a social consensus, in addition to scientific evidence, is critical to effectively control species deemed overabundant, such as some predators, because social conflicts over the need for control undermine management decisions. We stress here that social acceptabi...

Achieving equitable access to health care is an important policy goal, with access influenced by affordability, availability, and acceptability of specific services. We explore patient narratives from a 5-year program of research on health care access to examine relationships between social constructions of illness and the acceptability of health services in the context of tuberculosis treatmen...