Showing papers on "Resource management published in 1992"

Integrated Manufacturing and Human Resource Management: A Human Capital Perspective

Abstract: This study examined the relationship between integrated manufacturing, defined as the use of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT), just-in-time inventory control (JIT), and total quality managem...

River conservation and management

Abstract: River Conservation and Management' is a book based on a symposium sponsored by the Nature Conservancy Council of Great Britain. The symposium was held at the University of York in September of 1990 and which was. The book consists of 29 contributed papers which are organized into an introduction, four subject sections, and a conclusion. The subjects covered include (1) The Case for Conservation; (2) River Classification and the Assessment of Conservation Potential; (3) Recovery and Rehabilitation; and (4) Protecting Rivers--Legislation and Public Participation. The common themes which characterize the book include whole catchment planning, the division of water resource responsibilities among political entities and the concomitant decrease in accountability for the well-being of the resource. This book has a European focus but still manages to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of riverine research.

Human Resource Strategy

Abstract: Walker's 1980 McGraw-Hill title, Human Resource Planning, encompassed the most significant trends in human resource management of the 1980's; in a similar manner, this new offering is destined to become the forward-looking text of the '90's, and potentially will influence the way human resource management is taught in many institutions. The shift from a traditional planning to strategic emphasis, and special attention to human resource issues are in line with the most current thinking. Walker's examples include some of the world's most innovative, flexible organizations.

Marine Resources Management in the Context of Customary Tenure

Abstract: Although customary marine tenure (CMT) systems for the management of local marine resources occur throughout the world, compared with other models of fisheries management they remain relatively little known The Pacific Basin is especially rich in CMT systems, which play key roles in overall social, economic and cultural life of societies Based on a Solomon Island example, we examine the organizational principles and potentials of CMT systems to provide sustainable yields and equitable access to resources, their resilience to external pressures, and mechanisms for ensuring local autonomy in resource control Next we demonstrate that CMT systems are an expression of traditional ecological knowledge, and show the importance of such knowledge to scientific research and the planning of resource management Finally, we suggest priorities for research on CMT systems

Grassroots Environmental Action: People's Participation in Sustainable Development

Abstract: 1. Introduction, Dharam Ghai and Jessica Vivian Part I: Approaches and Concepts 2. Sustainable Development and Popular Participation: A Framework for Analysis Michael Redclift 3. Foundations for Sustainable Development: Participation, Empowerment and Local Resource Management Jessica Vivian Part II: Traditional Systems Of Resource Management 4. The Barabaig Pastoralists of Tanzania: Sustainable Land Use in Jeopardy Charles Lane 5. The Zanjeras and the Ilocos Norte Irrigation Project: Lessons of Environmental Sustainability from Philippine Traditional Resource Management Systems Ruth Ammerman Yabes 6. Sustainable Development and People's Participation in Wetland Ecosystem Conservation in Brazil: Two Comparative Studies Antonio Carlos S. Diegues Part III: Social Action and the Environment 7. Urban Social Organisation and Ecological Struggle in Durango, Mexico Julio Moguel and Enrique Velazquez 8. Strategies for Autochthonous Development: Two Initiatives in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico Jutta Blauert and Marta Guidi 9. Ruining the Commons and Responses of the Commoners: Coastal Overfishing and Fishworkers' Actions in Kerala State, India John Kurien 10. From Environmental Conflicts to Sustainable Mountain Transformation: Ecological Action in the Garhwal Himalaya Jayanta Bandyopadhyay Part IV: Lessons from Environmental Projects 11. Environmental Rehabilitation in the Northern Ethiopian Highlands: Constraints to People's Participation Michael Stahl 12. Local Resource Management and Development: Strategic Dimensions of People's Participation Philippe Egger and Jean Majeres 13. Who Should Manage Environmental Problems? Some Lessons from Latin America Charles A. Reilly.

Human resource management, information technology, and the competitive edge

Abstract: Executive Overview Global competition is putting increasing pressure on U.S. managers to make faster and better business decisions. Investments in information technology are often touted as a critical means of speeding up and improving management decision making. Yet it has proved distressingly difficult to realize the potential of information technology investments. This is particularly so in business areas such as Human Resources (HR), though the longer lead times traditionally associated with changes in HR systems mean that it is a prime candidate to benefit from information technology. To pull into the lead in global competition, managers must control labor costs, motivate employees to high quality, customer-oriented performance, and continuously search out new and better ways of doing both. These objectives must be met in the face of shrinking head count and a global environment in which employees are more culturally diverse and located throughout the globe. Even the relatively routine tasks of emplo...

Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management

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Environmental Impact Assessment for Developing Countries

Abstract: Overview and general considerations environmental impact analyses national experiences summary and recommendations.

A resource allocation model for denial of service

Abstract: A denial-of-service protection base (DPB) is characterized as a resource monitor closely related to a TCB, supporting a waiting-time policy for benign processes. Resource monitor algorithms and policies can be stated in the context of a state-transition model of a resource allocation system. Probabilistic waiting-time policies are suggested in addition to the finite- and maximum-waiting-time policies. The model supports concurrency, multiprocessing and networking. A simple example of a DPB is given, as a feasibility and consistency check on the definitions. >

The U.S. forest service: Toward the new resource management paradigm?

Abstract: The attitudes and values of U.S. Forest Service employees toward resource management issues are examined by applying general concepts and empirical observations found in the literature on social change and resource sociology. The concept of a resource management paradigm is developed and operationalized in a nationwide study of Forest Service employees. Its results suggest that the attitudes and values of one particular segment of Forest Service employees, the Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics (AFSEEE), represent an alternative resource management paradigm that differs significantly from the dominant management paradigm held by the majority of Forest Service employees. The emergence of this extraorganizational group of Forest Service employees dedicated to agency reform is unprecedented in the history of federal land management agencies; their characteristics, both sociodemographic and attitudinal, are compared and contrasted with those of non‐AFSEEE Forest Service ...

Wildlife Habitat Relationships in Forested Ecosystems

Abstract: Originally published in 1992 and welcomed both by professors of forestry and working forest managers, Wildlife Habitat Relationships in Forested Ecosystems has been revised and updated to include new material on adaptive resource management, the eco-regions of the United States, and forest wildlife habitat relationships in Canada and Mexico and on U.S. Indian reservations. It proposes a systems analysis approach to management of habitat relationships, making a convincing case for the importance of using computer-maintained databases and computer models in ecosystem management. The author provides problem-solving techniques for forest managers and decision makers, using an interdisciplinary approach unique to this book. Part of the author's innovation is his development of a specially designed relational data model for microcomputers which helps to organize habitat relationships for decision making by forest managers. He shows the reader how to set up a similar model in a database to store wildlife information for use in evaluating any given local habitat.

Resource Management and Pastoral Institution Building in the West African Sahel

Abstract: This discussion paper presents the results of a study on pastoral institution building and resource management in the West Africa Sahel. The study was part of a program of research into the future directions of livestock production, agricultural development, and resource management in sub-Saharan Africa. The study describes the experiences and lessons that have emerged from the implementation of on-going projects assisted by the World Bank, designed to develop pastoral associations in Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. The findings indicate that the formation and operation of pastoral associations must still be regarded as a pilot development activity, although valuable lessons and recommendations can be deduced, even at this early stage. The challenge is now to incorporate these lessons and recommendations in the design of future projects that aim to establish viable sustainable pastoral institutions and resource management activities.

Practicing natural resource management with a policy orientation

Abstract: All natural resource managers want to contribute to successful conservation programs. Having and applying an explicit policy orientation is indispensable. The policy sciences are described and a case is made that, if natural resource managers utilize this set of conceptual and applied tools in their natural resource work, their effectiveness could be enhanced. The policy sciences offer a contextual, problem-oriented, and multimethod approach to meeting complex problems. Two kinds of knowledge are needed to solve problems—substantive knowledge about the resource and process knowledge about the decision and policy processes used to derive courses of management action. The interplay of science, analysis, and politics are examined. The wildlife management community is used to illustrate many points, including the important role implementation plays in the overall policy process.

The two resource-based models of the firm: definitions and implications for research.

Abstract: This paper proposes that there are two distinct resource-based models of the firm. Differences between the two models indicate that different research designs should be used to test each model and ...

Valuing the rain forest: economic strategies by small-scale forest extractivists in the Amazon estuary

Abstract: The current interest in non-timber forest products as an economic option for the Brazilian Amazon represents a radical departure from the policies that have guided development in the region during recent decades. Despite this interest, little is currently known about the forms of resource management or economic strategies practiced by populations dependent on such resources. In this study, we measured the annual income and expenditures of ten households on Combu Island, located in the Amazon estuary near the major port city of Belem; in addition, we documented local uses and management of natural resources on the island Average annual income per household was found to be over U.S. $4000, derived primarily from the harvest and sale of non-timber forest products. The results of this study show that the combination of proximity to a major market and appropriate resource management can lead to high and apparently sustainable economic returns.

Heterogeneity, Distribution, and Cooperation in Common Property Resource Management

Abstract: The report considers the role of group heterogeneity in the success or failure of common property resource management. The author argues that cooperative agreements are less likely to come about when agents are highly heterogeneous along relevant dimensions - and existing agreements are more likely to break down as a group becomes more heterogeneous. The author crystallizes his argument in simple numerical examples and illustrates by reference to case studies on common property resource management, in particular, cases involving fisheries and irrigation systems. More work is needed to substantiate the author's argument, but his analysis so far supports the argument that equity and efficiency complement rather than oppose each other.

Integrated resource management : agroforestry for development

Abstract: Overview: C.V. Kidd, Food Production. P. Demeny, D. Meadows, and C.V. Kidd, Population Change: Global Trends and Future Implications. Soil and Water Resources: F. Troeh and D. Pimentel, Soil and Land. E. Clark, D. Pimentel, and F. Troeh, Soil Erosion. P. Riley, D. Pimentel, and C.V. Kidd, Water. Productive Sustainable Systems: Agroforestry: R. Winterbottom, Integrated Resource Management Systems--Definition and Assessment. J. Gritzner and D. Pimentel, Examples, Case Studies, and Models. P. Oram and D. Pimentel, Research Challenges: Ecosystems and Economics. L. Fortmann, Social Aspects of Resource Management Systems. E. Boulding, A Sociological Analysis of Alternative Agriculture. Summary: C.V. Kidd, Observations and Conclusions. Appendix: Committee on Population, Resources, and the Environment.

Resource Management in Developing Countries

Abstract: The field of resource management approaches in resource management poverty and its resource management implications in developing countries agricultural land management in developing countries resource management in mountainous environments of the tropics the management of marine and coastal resources the management of urban resources in developing countries perspectives on the future