Community Fisheries Management Handbook

This handbook is a unique product. It is the first "field guide" to community-based fisheries management focused specifically on fisheries, such as those of the Northwest Atlantic, that are already highly regulated by governmental authorities, with licensing and other requirements that limit access and effort. While a variety of resource materials are available on community-based natural resource management, almost all of these are written by practitioners working in the South (developing countries) and rely on case studies and techniques that have been tested in less industrialized tropical fisheries. Therefore, this handbook is one of the few publications about community-based management in 'Northern' fisheries.The need for this handbook was identified by participants working on an initiative on the Atlantic coast of Canada, "Turning the Tide: Communities Managing Fisheries Together" (www.turningthetide.ca). Turning the Tide works for improved fisheries management through community-based approaches, and through cooperative efforts among aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities. To that end, it has brought together fishermen and their communities to share information and ideas on community-based management, through events such as community forums and study tours. Participants recognized the need for a handbook on community-based fisheries management that is relevant to their own fisheries and that can be used as a tool to provide information and support for practitioners, as well as to document current practices and insights obtained, and to promote and raise public awareness about community-based fisheries management. The stories and insights in the handbook are those of Turning the Tide participants and their allies from around the Atlantic Region – the Atlantic coast of Canada and the north-eastern North America-United States – who shared this information during Turning the Tide activities, and in individual and group interviews, and who reviewed the materials used in producing this handbook. The various tools and ideas explored here are currently being applied in the region, and so the handbook demonstrates how community-based approaches to fisheries management are working today

Structa saxo (founded upon a rock): the genesis and development of A.F.B. Broadhurst's English-style preparatory boarding school for boys Saint Peter's School, Cambridge, New Zealand, 1936-1978

This thesis explores the genesis and development of St Peter's School, Cambridge, originally founded as a small preparatory boarding school in 1936. Though there are relatively few such schools in New Zealand they have through encouragement of certain attitudes an impact disproportionate to their number of pupils. Little has been written about such institutions and this is an historical study of one of the most interesting. A brief introductory survey of the main developments in the New Zealand education system including the dominance of the State in elementary schooling and the continuing demands for independent and alternative schools provides a general background to the study. The second chapter looks at the social and educational influences upon the Englishman who founded St Peter's school. A.F.B. Broadhurst, born in to a wealthy merchant family, was educated at a progressive preparatory school, West Downs, followed by Winchester and Oxford. He served in a variety of postings in the First World War, but eventually returned to teach at West Downs School. Confirmed in his choice of vocation and convinced of the excellence of educational methods and philosophy of West Downs, Broadhurst determined to found his own school, and bought a property for this purpose near Cambridge, New Zealand. Chapter three details the establishment of the school to Broadhurst’s specifications. It was built with his private wealth and basically to his own design, incorporating many modern amenities. The founder recruited The Rev. J.M. Beaufort as joint headmaster and as chaplain; together they recruited staff and Beaufort's local reputation helped to draw in pupils and staff. Broadhurst's insistence on his proprietorial rights was a strong factor in the departure of Beaufort. To perpetuate the school, Broadhurst ‘gave’ it to a Trust, but retained effective control. Chapter four surveys the Broadhurst philosophy: small classes, progressive teaching methods, a start soon after a boy's eighth birthday and boarding. These were all important and Broadhurst gave direction to the life of the school. Hobbies were emphasised, self - discipline was encouraged. His "whole man" philosophy included aesthetic and spiritual development and was expressed through music and the school chapel especially. Chapter five, which begins with the retirement of Broadhurst in 1960, discusses the problems of succession to the headmastership, the numerical and physical decline of the school and its revival under D.J. Thornton, headmaster 1960 (Term III) to 1978. Thornton and the Trustees made changes with the introduction of day boys, more contact with the Cambridge community, greater competition in academic and sporting aspects, and most importantly the creation of a secondary department in the 1970's. The Conclusion gathers evidence from the study: concepts and patterns previously discussed are considered. Some specific points about St Peter's School are made and general observations on the place of preparatory schools in New Zealand and the exiguousness of detailed studies of these, complete the final chapter of this thesis

AR-quiver approach to affine canonical basis elements

AbstractThis is the continuation of [Y. Li, Affine quivers of type A˜n and canonical bases, math.QA/0501175]. We describe the affine canonical basis elements in the case when the affine quiver has arbitrary orientation. This generalizes the description in [G. Lusztig, Affine quivers and canonical bases, Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. 76 (1992) 111–163]

FireGrid: Integrated emergency response and fire safety engineering for the future built environment

FireGrid is researching the development and integration of modelling, sensors, Grid, HPC, and C/C technologies. It will stimulate further research, in new safety systems and strategies, in new sensor technologies, in improved modelling techniques and in Grid technologies and operation. By integrating previously uncoupled tools, FireGrid will allow true performance-based design for the built environment. It will introduce a new emergency response paradigm, using scenarios planned and stored in advance in conjunction with super-real-time simulation. Deployment of FireGrid will reduce costs and save lives

Global Development and Climate Change: A Game Theory Approach

The increasing concern with climate change is one of the main issues of our time, and thus we aim to theoretically and mathematically analyse its causes. However our approach follows a different stream of thought, presenting the reasoning and decision-making processes between technical and moral solutions. We have resorted to game theory models in order to demonstrate cooperative and non-cooperative scenarios, ranging from the traditional to the evolutionary within game theory. In doing so we are able to glimpse the development of modern society and a paradigm shift regarding human control over nature and to what extent it is harmful to the sustainability of our environment and the survival of future generations. Merging different fields of knowledge, we present a theoretical-philosophical approach, combined with empirical-mathematical solutions taking into account the agent-based behaviour guided blindly by instrumental rationality