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Calder, Scott C. "Local knowledge matters : knowledge, technology, and power in Newfoundland cod farming /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq25827.pdf.
Full textMarcus, Adam Scott. "Local government citizen academies : is knowledge power?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39852.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Government decision-makers and especially urban planners increasingly face difficulties engaging citizens given trends of public apathy, cynicism towards government, language and cultural barriers, and the growing complexity of government bureaucracy. As municipal governments increasingly focus on the long-term engagement of citizens, particularly special interest, advocacy, and community organizations, a key dilemma is how to create an on-going process for training stakeholders to participate in consultation and conflict resolution efforts. Many individuals and interest groups are ill prepared for participation in public planning processes and do not understand how municipal government functions, the key dilemmas it faces, or the urban planning concepts and procedures that shape economic, social and physical life. Likewise, many planners are not trained to understand and integrate "local knowledge" --the specific expertise and on-the-ground information brought by local citizens--with technical information and bureaucratic processes. As a result, communication with the public is often constrained as citizens perceive government as a "black box" that is unapproachable.
(cont.) To address these challenges there is a growing trend among municipal governments to conduct citizen academies. These efforts to educate the public on the basic functions of municipal government, urban planning, and the land development process are distinct from other forms of citizen training because they occur on a regular basis, are geared towards a broader public, and are coordinated by municipal government staff. This thesis evaluates the effectiveness of three citizen academy programs in the United States in terms of their ability to improve citizen engagement capacity. This research measures such improvements through changes in citizens' and planners' perceptions about citizen-government relations, learning and knowledge exchange, and citizen action. The findings indicate that these academies do broaden citizen understanding of planning and government, foster improved personal relations between citizens and planners, improve citizen's (perceived) ability to influence decision-makers, and invigorate public interest in government boards and commissions.
(cont.) However, academies rarely integrate local and professional knowledge into what they teach and they face an inherent conflict between "capacity building" and "allegiance building." To improve citizen academies local governments might want to foster collaboration between planning and neighborhood services departments, to partner with a local community-based organization, and employ case-based learning approaches in the way they teach.
by Adam Scott Marcus.
M.C.P.
Naess, Lara Otto. "Local knowledge, institutions and climate adaptation in Tanzania." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533723.
Full textPilgrim, S. E. "A cross-cultural study into local ecological knowledge." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434403.
Full textMohamed, O. "Knowledge sharing initiatives in local authorities in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Salford, 2014. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/32260/.
Full textLakareber, Janet. "A framework for local knowledge preservation and transmittance." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.646860.
Full textBlad, Johan. "Boundaries of Knowledge : Foreign-Local Knowledge Exchange through Community Cooperation in Rural Guatemala." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-388288.
Full textCarvey, Kimberly N. "Local People, Local Forests; Using the Livelihood Framework to Evaluate the Representation of Local Knowledge in Ghanaian Forest Policy." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1212793160.
Full textStrong, Ernest L. "Increasing knowledge about biblical faith in a local congregation /." Free full text is available to ORU patrons only; click to view, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1790275471&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=456&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textBean, C. L. "Rough set clustering using local and global data knowledge." Thesis, University of Hull, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411927.
Full textJohnson, Tom. "Law, space, and local knowledge in late-medieval England." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2014. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/73/.
Full textGwilliams, Christopher. "Using local and global knowledge in wireless sensor networks." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/73423/.
Full textKing, H. Peter. "Historical local knowledge and cartography within GIS Kaua'i, Hawai'i /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1464444.
Full textMajury, Niall Charles. "Local knowledge, global markets and the geography of investment banking." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0003/NQ41226.pdf.
Full textCapps, Patricia A. "Assessing Lyme disease knowledge of Indiana local health department nurses." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1048370.
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Li, Shenxue. "Strategic management of China local knowledge : European multinationals in China." Thesis, Durham University, 2004. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1265/.
Full textChaffey, Heather. "Integrating scientific knowledge and local ecological knowledge (LEK) about common eiders (Somateria mollissima) in southern Labrador /." Internet access available to MUN users only, 2003. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,165662.
Full textPaes, Diego Cristóvão Alves de Souza. "Conhecimento local, tecnologias apropriadas e o desenvolvimento sustentável local na piscicultura familiar do Vale do Jamari/RO." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/169042.
Full textBäcklund, Jonas. "Arguing for relevance : global and local knowledge claims in management consulting /." Uppsala : Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Univ, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3490.
Full textVisser, Alvin-Jon. "Rural students' local knowledge of learning in formal and informal contexts." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002588.
Full textPeteru, Swetha. "Integrating Local Knowledge about Plants into Conservation Practice in Dominica, West Indies." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1282332269.
Full textJärvinen, I. (Inka). "Revisiting knowledges in education:whose knowledge are we acquiring and imparting and how does that affect local community development?" Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201708302772.
Full textKasvatus usein määritellään tietojen ja taitojen edelleenvälittämisenä kasvavalle sukupolvelle. Jos näin on, on kysyttävä kuka määrittää sen millaisen tiedon pohjalta oppilaita opetetaan ja mitä tietoa heille ei välitetä. Pitkään vain tietynlaista, usein eurooppalaiseen maailmankäsitykseen perustuvaa tietoa on pidetty tieteellisenä ja akateemisena. Nykyään on kertynyt kuitenkin enenevissä määrin tutkimusta ja keskustelua erilaisista tietojärjestelmistä ja paikallistasolla eri yhteisöissä kertyvä tieto ja sen rooli tieteen edistämisessä on saamassa enemmän kuuluvuutta. Tämä kehitys näyttäytyy toisinaan vastakkainasetteluna länsimaalaisen ja paikallisen tai toisinaan perinteiseksi tiedoksi kutsuttujen tietojärjestelmien välillä. Länsimainen tiede ja tieto nähdään ‘valkoisena’ teoreettisena tietona, joka on menettänyt kosketuspintansa oikeaan todellisuuteen kun taas paikallinen ja perinteinen tieto nähdään taikauskoisena, irrationaalisena ja kehittymättömänä. Tässä tutkimuksessa etsin vastauksia ja näkökulmia siihen millaisia käsityksiä ja oletuksia kasvatus edistää ‘tiedosta’ — mikä tieto koetaan validiksi ja tieteelliseksi ja millainen tieto taas ei sitä ole. Oletuksenani on että sillä, mitä pidetään autoritäärisenä ja tieteellisenä tietona, on vaikutusta erilaisten väestöryhmien kehitykseen ja siihen kokevatko nämä kykenevänsä ottamaan vastuun oman yhteisönsä edistyksestä ja kehityksestä. Tästä johtuen haluan nähdä miten kasvatus voi hyödyntää useita tietojärjestelmiä (knowledge systems). Kyseiseen tavoitteeseen päästäkseni tutkin kirjallisuutta ja tutkimuksia liittyen tietoon, tietojärjestelmiin, yhteisöjen kehitykseen, kehitystyöhön sekä hyödynnän Paulo Freiren teoriaa sorrettujen pedagogiasta, kasvatuksen ja tieteen dekolonisaatioon liittyvää kirjallisuutta ja länsimaista sekä paikallista tietoa koulutusjärjestelmässään yhdistävän FUNDAEC-nimisen järjestön kokemuksia Latinalaisessa Amerikassa. Toivon tämän tutkimuksen auttavan ketä tahansa tulemaan tietoiseksi siitä tietopohjasta johon heidän oma kasvatuksensa ja koulutuksensa perustuu, mutta myös erityisesti opettajia ja kasvattajia tulemaan tietoiseksi siitä millaisia oletuksia tiedosta he vahvistavat tai jättävät huomiotta omassa tehtävässään. Kuten Paulo Freire sanoo, kysyessään minkä puolesta kasvatan, kasvattajan on myös kysyttävä itseltään mitä vastaan kasvatukseni sotii. (Freire & Shor, 1987, s. 46)
Horta, Joana Crivelente. "Saber molhar o sertão, patrimônio cultural imaterial em Mirorós - Bahia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100134/tde-03062014-212331/.
Full textGeneration after generation, the knowledge about irrigation in Mirorós (BA) transforms the savanna in a place with diverse and productive agriculture. However, under the influence of profound social changes in the late twentieth century, local knowledge was dismantled and is now disappearing. The knowledge developed through oral and social life concerning local manipulation techniques of water for the production of food, the division of natural resource and people organization. This work aims to recognize the knowledge kept by Mirorós population, situated between the towns Gentio do Ouro and Ibipeba, in the central part of the state of Bahia. It begins with the presentation of spatial context, the particularities of semiarid savanna and biome, and the space where the know, on the banks of the river Verde, which rises in the mountains of the Chapada Diamantina and empties into the river São Francisco. Knowing wet the backcountry considered intangible heritage is then described as a set of technical articles, conduct and knowledge about the natural environment and its productivity, played locally until the 1980s. The time frame refers to the disarticulation of knowledge, with the construction of the dam Manoel Novaes in 1983 and the inauguration of the Irrigated Place Mirorós in 1996, works executed by the Company for the Development of the Valley of the São Francisco and Parnaíba (Codevasf). Government actions reordered the space, access to the natural resources and favored techniques imported for agricultural production. Since the oral history methodology, the memory of local irrigators enables understanding of local knowledge and also achieves the transformations in hand with the implementation of public policies. Thus, seek to evoke the traditional knowledge in contemporary cultural and environmental reality and model played by public policy in recent decades.
McFarland, Kelly. "Twenty-First Century Local Food Farmers in North Texas: An Evaluation of Farming Methods, Best Practices, and Common Struggles." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609143/.
Full textGoulding, Sarah, and sarahgoulding@yahoo com au. "Gender and Technologies of Knowledge in Development Discourse: Analysing United Nations Least Developed Country Policy 1971-2004." Flinders University. School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070619.123607.
Full textO'Donnell, Kye. "An investigation into methods for capturing corporate knowledge in an Australian local government context." Thesis, Curtin University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1649.
Full textGosselin, Claudie. "Campaigning against excision in Mali, global and local hierarchies, hegemony and knowledge." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58912.pdf.
Full textRoberts, Susan Maria. "Targeting agri environmental stewardship, based on the value of farmers' local knowledge." Thesis, Bangor University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506168.
Full textNg, King-hang, and 伍經衡. "An investigation into local senior secondary students' competence in English vocabulary knowledge." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/193554.
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Schulman, Alexis. "Bridging the divide : incorporating local ecological knowledge into U.S. natural resource management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42266.
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For the past 100 years, natural resource management in the United States has reflected a belief that the top-down application of science to predict and control the natural world will, in the words of Gifford Pinchot, the Nation's first head of the U.S. Forest Service, "support the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men." However, over the past two decades, a growing number of critics have challenged the technocratic optimism of this "conventional management", arguing that the public should be more deeply engaged in the decision-making that drives natural resource management and policy. Part of the rationale for this argument is based on the growing recognition that Western, scientific management has discounted the value of local ecological knowledge (LEK), a system of knowledge developed over time through observation and interaction with the natural environment. Although advocates have expounded the benefits of using LEK, in practice, LEK is rarely integrated into the scientific assessments that drive management decisions. To understand what affects whether or not LEK is incorporated into management science, this thesis examines: 1. What are the particular barriers to integrating LEK into management science? 2. When LEK is integrated into management science, why is it used and how are specific barriers to its use overcome? These questions are addressed through an intensive examination of two U.S. cases: the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan in Pima County, Arizona and the evolution of fishery management science in the New England groundfishery. This study confirms academics and practitioners' claims that a major barrier to incorporating LEK is a "language" divide: LEK is rarely presented in scientific terms and thus it is difficult for scientists to understand its relevance or confirm its accuracy.
(cont.) Furthermore, scientific studies are often too complex for untrained locals to understand and thus engage with. However, this study also reveals that conflicting interests and values between scientists and bearers of LEK are not only common in resource management, but also significantly discourage knowledge exchange by embedding risk in the very acts of eliciting and divulging LEK. Furthermore, although individuals who are able "translate" between the local and scientific communities can overcome the language divide, interest and value conflicts are rarely overcome by similar translation. Instead, this analysis suggests that incentives must be created to encourage the sharing and eliciting of LEK and outweigh the associated perceived risks. Collaborative research programs in the New England fishery provide one such model. Based on these findings, recommendations for improving knowledge sharing and incorporating LEK into natural resource management are made
by Alexis Schulman.
M.C.P.
Coburn, Jason. "Street science : the fusing of local and professional knowledge in environmental policy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8522.
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his dissertation analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that experience the greatest environmental health risks, are demanding a greater role in describing, researching and prescribing solutions for the hazards they face. Seeking environmental justice, these communities are demanding to "speak for themselves," often drawing on their first hand experience-here called local knowledge -to challenge expert-lay distinctions and how professionals define and prioritize which problems warrant attention. Community participation in environmental decisions is putting pressure on policy-makers to find new ways of fusing the expertise of professional scientists with insights from the local knowledge of communities. This dissertation asks how the local knowledge of community members can improve environmental decision-making? In answering this question, I explore the ways residents of the Greenpoint/Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, are organizing and using their knowledge of local environmental and health hazards to both improve local conditions and influence the judgments of professionals. In particular, this study analyzes how local knowledge was fused with professional insight in four neighborhood environmental health problems:
(cont.) (1) risks from subsistence fish diets; (2) asthma afflicting the Latino population; (3) childhood lead poisoning; and, (4) the mapping of air pollution sources. Through these cases, I describe local knowledge, reveal how it differs from professional knowledge, show the different contributions it makes to environmental politics, and highlight some conditions that contribute to the successful professional uptake of local knowledge. Ultimately, I show that local knowledge can improve environmental policy making in at least four ways: a) epistemology - adding to the knowledge base of environmental policy; b) procedural democracy - including new and previously silenced voices; c) efficiency - providing low cost policy solutions; and, e) distributive justice - highlighting inequitable distributions of environmental burdens.
by Jason Coburn.
Ph.D.
Holmner, Marlene Amanda. "A critical analysis of information and knowledge societies with specific reference to the interaction between local and global knowledge systems." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11102008-143543/.
Full textGrant, Julian Maree, and julian grant@flinders edu au. "Colliding Realities: An Ethnographic Account of the Politics of Identity and Knowledge in Intercultural Communication in Child and Family Health." Flinders University. Nursing and Midwifery, 2008. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20081111.095203.
Full textOsborne, Elijah R. "Financial Literacy in Local At-Risk Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/375.
Full textO'Donnell, Kye. "An investigation into methods for capturing corporate knowledge in an Australian local government context." Curtin University of Technology, Dept. of Media and Information, 2007. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21532.
Full textWalker, Deirdre I. "Homeland Security Knowledge Management for local law enforcement in the national capital region." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Sep%5FWalker.pdf.
Full textThesis Advisor(s): David Brannan, Phyllis McDonald. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-53). Also available online.
Khilji, Nasrullah. "Innovative communication, effective coordination and knowledge management in UK local authority planning departments." Thesis, University of West London, 2015. https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2949/.
Full textMcGarry, Shawna. "Local ecological knowledge of flooding in the Madison Valley neighborhood of Seattle, Washington." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2007. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession86-10MES/McGarry_S%20MESThesis%202007.pdf.
Full textTitle from title screen (viewed 1/23/2008). "A thesis: essay of distinction submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Environmental Studies, The Evergreen State College, June 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-70).
Murray, Andrea Elizabeth. "Footprints in Paradise: Ethnography of Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10297.
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McKee, Jonathan. "The dynamics of local knowledge of botanical pest management in Wag Hamra, Ethiopia." Thesis, University of Kent, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418549.
Full textDaSilva, Christian M. (Christian Michael) Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "Divergence or convergence? Local environmental knowledge, secondary schools, and environmental education in Tanzania." Ottawa, 1995.
Find full textDavis, Brittany Y. "Angling for Inclusion: Marine Conservation, Livelihoods, Local Knowledge, and Tourism on Utila, Honduras." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/333221.
Full textMaghssudipour, Amir. "Knowledge Network Structures and Dynamics in Local Systems: Evidence from the Wine Industry." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/368008.
Full textMaghssudipour, Amir. "Knowledge Network Structures and Dynamics in Local Systems: Evidence from the Wine Industry." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2019. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/3664/1/PhD_thesis_Amir.pdf.
Full textFernández-Llamazares, Onrubia Álvaro. "Indigenous knowledge of a changing environment: An ethnoecological perspective from Bolivian Amazonia." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/327020.
Full textIndigenous peoples are increasingly facing threats resulting from a changing global environment. Given the unprecedented rates of ongoing Global Environmental Change, there is scholarly debate on whether these threats might also undermine the adaptive capacity of indigenous knowledge. Due to its strategic position bridging the natural and social sciences, ethnoecology is well-placed to examine to what extent indigenous knowledge is adaptive in the face of rapid environmental changes. This PhD thesis is the result of a three-year interdisciplinary study aiming to understand the relations between Global Environmental Change and the Local Environmental Knowledge held by a native society in Bolivian Amazonia: the Tsimane’ hunter-gatherers. Facing rapidly changing social-ecological conditions and with the scientific discourse on anthropogenic global change still largely inaccessible to this group, the Tsimane’ constitute a suitable case study for casting light on how local perceptions of Global Environmental Change are captured in the social memory of indigenous peoples. The main argumentative line of this work is that Global Environmental Change has direct expressions at the local scale, including changes related to climate, the ecosystem and the availability of natural resources. In its four central chapters, this dissertation empirically investigates: (a) the potential use of indigenous knowledge for complementing scientific models assessing climate change; (b) the interplay between local observations of climate change and the uptake of scientific information; (c) the limits of the adaptive capacity of Local Environmental Knowledge in a context of rapid change; and (d) the role of local perceptions of change as drivers of adaptation to ecological shocks. This research involved qualitative and quantitative data collection during 15 months of fieldwork in 23 villages of the Tsimane’ Territory. I used a number of methods common to ethnoecological research, including participant observation, focus groups and systematic data collection. I specifically conducted semi-structured interviews on environmental change perceptions (n = 300 adults), knowledge tests to assess individual levels of Local Environmental Knowledge (n = 99) and a randomised controlled trial (n = 442). Additional climate and ecological data were sourced to obtain scientific estimates of environmental changes in the study area. The results of this dissertation show that the Tsimane’ identify a wide array of local indicators of environmental change. Such indicators could help to fill gaps in instrumental records of Global Environmental Change. This thesis also shows the existence of a significant overlap between Tsimane’ indigenous knowledge and scientific climate change records, as well as the instrumental role that local perceptions play in sparking collective responses for adapting to change. However, findings from this work also illustrate how Global Environmental Change challenges the adaptive capacity of Local Environmental Knowledge by widening the temporal gap between the rates of change in the ecosystem and the rates of change in the knowledge held by indigenous societies. This thesis brings new insights to the theoretical discussion on the effectiveness of Local Environmental Knowledge in the context of rapid and unprecedented social-ecological changes. Results of this work stress the importance of devising strategic plans to support the resilience of indigenous knowledge in the face of ever encroaching environmental changes. This study also shows the importance of building upon Local Environmental Knowledge for informing and facilitating adaptive processes, particularly in areas inhabited by indigenous groups. Given these findings, I argue for an integration of indigenous peoples in global environmental policy fora, as well as for the recognition of their knowledge systems in scientific scholarship.
Ncoyini, Samuel. "Factors that influence knowledge management systems to improve knowledge transfer in local government: a case study of Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/1918.
Full textFigus, Elizabeth Carroll. "Using Local Knowledge to Inform Commercial Fisheries Science and Management in Poland and Alaska." Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10747800.
Full textScience and decision making in commercial fisheries management take place in the context of uncertainty. This research demonstrates ways that local knowledge held by fishermen can be used to mitigate that uncertainty. This dissertation documents local knowledge of fishermen in Poland and Alaska, and contributes to the development of methods for utilizing that local knowledge in commercial fisheries management. Specific case study examples were developed through exploratory interviews with fishermen in the two study regions. Interviews were conducted with Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) fishermen in Poland and Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) fishermen in Alaska. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyze local knowledge about ecosystems, as well as preferences held by fishermen about regulations. Cultural consensus analysis was used to quantify agreement among fishermen in Poland about the abundance and condition of cod, and generalized additive modeling was used to show how fishermen and scientists attributed different causes to similar observed phenomena. Multiple factor analysis and logistic regression were used to demonstrate how fishing characteristics influence encounters with incidental catch in the commercial fishery for halibut in Southeast Alaska. Finally, an analytic hierarchy process model was used to shed light on preferences halibut fishermen have about data collection methods on their vessels. All findings show how the inclusion of fishermen’s local knowledge in fisheries management need not be limited to informal conversations or public testimony at meetings in order to be meaningfully interpretable by managers.
Byrne-Armstrong, Hilary, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, and Faculty of Social Inquiry. "Dead certainties and local knowledge : postculturalism, conflict and narrative practices in radical/experiential education." THESIS_FSI_XXX_Byrne-Armstrong_H.xml, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/563.
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Harrison, Kate. "The Community Resource Registry, a mechanism for the protection of indigenous and local knowledge." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ52350.pdf.
Full textGeorgiadis, Pavlos. "Local plant knowledge for livelihoods an ethnobotanical survey in the Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India." Weikersheim Margraf, 2008. http://d-nb.info/987714694/04.
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