Search Results - subject:"Local Knowledge"

Use and knowledge of fuelwood in three rural caatinga (dryland) communities in NE Brazil

Silva, I. Sá e; Marangon, L.; Hanazaki, N.; Albuquerque, U. - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 11 (2009) 4, pp. 833-851

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Local Knowledge Spillovers and Development: An Exploration of the Software Cluster in Uruguay

Kesidou, Effie; Caniëls, Marjolein; Romijn, Henny - In: Industry and Innovation 16 (2009) 2, pp. 247-272

The paper contributes to the understanding of the nature of local knowledge spillovers and their importance for …

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Alertness, local knowledge, and Johnny Appleseed

Skarbek, David - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 22 (2009) 4, pp. 415-424

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Dependence on forest resources and tropical deforestation in Ghana

Appiah, Mark; Blay, Dominic; Damnyag, Lawrence; Dwomoh, … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 11 (2009) 3, pp. 471-487

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Multiple sources of local knowledge: a global review of ways to reduce nuisance from the beneficial weaver ant Oecophylla

Mele, Paul Van; Cuc, Nguyen Thi Thu; Seguni, Zuberi; … - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 8 (2009) 5/6, pp. 484-504

The weaver ants Oecophylla smaragdina and O. longinoda are abundant in tropical Asia, Australia and Africa. Although local people and a handful of scientists appreciate the benefits these tree-dwelling ants bring in terms of medicinal and food source, protection of tree crops, and enhancement of...

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Learning Conceptual Diversity through Caribou Co-management

Kendrick, Anne - 2000

Introduction "The recognition of a diversity of conceptual systems is essential to any exploration of the links between social and ecological systems. This paper focuses on caribou co-management as a possible case study of the evolution of conceptual pluralism in practice. While acknowledging...

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Local knowledge spillovers, innovation and export performance in developing countries: empirical evidence from the Uruguay software cluster

Kesidou, Effie; Szirmai, Adam - In: The European Journal of Development Research 20 (2008) 2, pp. 281-298

This paper examines the importance of local knowledge spillovers for the innovative and export performance of firms in … local knowledge spillovers for innovation. However, not much is known about whether local knowledge spillovers work …. The survey focuses on the direct identification and measurement of local knowledge spillovers; pure knowledge spillovers …

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Does it matter where patent citations come from? Inventor vs. examiner citations in European patents

Criscuolo, Paola; Verspagen, Bart - In: Research Policy 37 (2008) 10, pp. 1892-1908

This paper addresses the question of whether patent citations are useful indicators of technology flows. We exploit the distinction between citations added by inventors and patent examiners. We use information from the search reports of European Patent Office patent examiners to construct our...

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The United Nations International Year of Ecotourism: a critical analysis of development implications

Butcher, Jim - In: Progress in Development Studies 6 (2006) 2, pp. 146-156

The United Nations International Year of Ecotourism (IYE) of 2002 marked out the rise of ecotourism from new niche market opportunity in the 1980s to being regarded by its advocates as an exemplary form of sustainable development in the rural developing world. This paper briefly situates the IYE...

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Woody vegetation change in Sahelian West Africa: evidence from local knowledge

Wezel, A.; Lykke, A. - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 8 (2006) 4, pp. 553-567

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