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Impediments to Best Practice in the Onkaparinga Catchment: A Review of Policies

Consultancy Report 1 for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board. This report considers the institutional framework which shapes the operating environment for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board. The report highlights some of the impediments to Best Practice.Australia;water;natural resource management;catchment

A fire suppression model for forested range of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq herds of caribou

A fire suppression model was developed for forested winter range of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq (formerly Kaminuriak) herds of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in north-central Canada. The model is a balance between total protection, as voiced by some aboriginal people, and a let-burn policy for natural fires advocated by some ecologists. Elements in the model were caribou ecology, lichen recovery after fire, burn history, community priorities for caribou hunting, and fire cycle lengths. The percent ratio of current productive caribou habitat to the goal for that habitat determines whether fire should be suppressed in a specific area. The goals for productive caribou habitat, defined as forests older than 50 years, were scaled by fire cycle length and community priority ranking. Thus, the model is an example of co-management: traditional knowledge combined with science in a joint forum, the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board

Management Boards and Indonesia's Company Innovation Performance

This study aims to investigate the influence of the management board's characteristics on company innovation performance. Management board characteristics are female in the management board, education background, and Chinese ethnicity in the management board. Resources dependency theory is applied to understand the research phenomena. Using 109 companies listed in the Indonesian stock market, multivariate regression analysis was employed. This study also employed five control variables: family ownership, foreign ownership, company profitability, company leverage, and company size. The result shows that female in management board is negatively related to innovation performance. Besides, family ownership, company profitability, company leverage, and company size positively affect innovative performance. &nbsp

Governance Control Mechanisms in Portuguese Agricultural Credit Cooperatives

Over the last decade Portuguese Agricultural Credit Cooperatives (ACCs) have increasingly face survival challenges related to their difficulty in gathering equity. The main source of ACCs equity is the net benefit; thus, understanding how ACCs governance can work on correcting bad economic performance is of crucial importance to overcome this constraint. The main objective of this paper is to describe the governance control mechanisms in the ACCs. Five governance mechanisms are identified: board and chairman change (internal mechanisms), central ACC intervention by an agent or by management board replacement and merger. Empirical analysis proved that the internal governance mechanisms activity is not related to the ACC performance. Additionally: (a) ACCs with a central ACC agent and merged ACCs hold a weaker credit management and a heavy administrative costs structure and profitability problems; and (b) ACCs with a management board replacement by the central ACC hold a weaker credit management and present solvency problems.cooperatives, credit, governance, multinomial logit, Agricultural Finance, D23, L29 ,

Incentives, Policy and Voluntary Approaches to Improve Natural Resource Management in the Onkaparinga Catchment

Consultancy Report 3 for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board. The report lays out a set of recommendations regarding opportunities for consideration in future strategic planning in four areas of interest to the OCWMB.A portfolio of instruments to achieve the Board’s goals are also considered.Australia;water;natural resource management;catchment

Pricing Water - a Tool for Natural Resource Management in the Onkaparinga Catchment

Consultancy Report 2 for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board. This second report focuses on pricing water to manage the catchment water resources in a sustainable manner. A key conclusion of this report is that there are significant opportunities to improve resource use through pricing policy changes.Australia;water;natural resource management;catchment