The development of key national policies with respect to rainwater management in Ethiopia: A review

Several national economic and sectoral policies and strategies were developed, adopted and being implemented over the last couple of decades in Ethiopia. These policies and strategies provide frameworks and guides for economic management in a wide range of aspects. There are policies that support and lay a good ground for the development and implementation of RWM interventions. These policies are general like the ones that affect the agricultural sectoral development and specific ones that are important for water sector, environment and natural resources. Five major challenges are quite often mentioned with respect to policy implementation. These are the fact that policies are made without adequate assessment and drawing lessons of existing/old policies (strategies); lack or absence of policy implementation guidelines, laws and regulations; a general lack of policy implementation capacity at all levels; a general lack of proper policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation system that could feed into policy refinement and adjustment; and the challenge of policy coordination and integration (across sectors)

South Carolina Home Economics Association Records - Accession 22

This collection is a valuable source on home economics history in South Carolina during the twentieth century. While there is information on the SCHEA from its beginning in 1914 to 1980, the actual records do not start until 1920. An outline of what the South Carolina Home Economics Association was doing from 1914 to 1920, is provided in the “historical file” (see Box 1, folders 1 to 4). The inclusive dates for a particular series may vary and, for most series, the records are incomplete. The collection contains all the records normally created by an organization, including constitutions, correspondence, minutes, reports, handbooks, etc. A wide variety of research topics could be developed from the records, including the SCHEA’s impact on the legislative process in South Carolina (e.g. the passage of the bill for the enrichment of cornmeal and grits in 1943), its cooperation and relationship with relief agencies in the state and its role in improving child health during the 1930s.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1028/thumbnail.jp

A.H.E.A. Cookbook

Breads -- Desserts -- Main dishes -- Vegetables & salads -- Dormitory & miscellaneous.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sd_cookbooks/1020/thumbnail.jp

South Carolina Association of Vocational Home Economics Teachers Records - Accession 652

The South Carolina Association of Vocational Home Economics Teachers (SCAVHET) Records consists of four scrapbooks and other papers including histories, reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, newsletters, meeting minutes, award certificates, handbooks, memorabilia, and other records relating to SCAVHET. There are also some records relating to the National Association of Vocational Home Economics Teachers, the Future Homemakers of America, and the South Carolina Home Economics Association. Most of the material spans from 1961 through 1994.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1553/thumbnail.jp

Contract design for improving membership commitment in French cooperatives

Diffusion du document : INRA Station d'Economie et Sociologie rurales 65 rue de Saint-Brieuc 35042 Rennes Cedex (FRA)Market deregulation and growing membership heterogenity affect the relationship between cooperatives and their members. We study, using a quantitative model, how French marketing cooperatives can develop for their members a set of contracts adapted to the environment. These contracts should maintain global membership commitment

National Association of Teacher Educators of Vocational Home Economics Records - Accession 394

This collection consists of records related to the National Association of Teacher Educators of Vocational Home Economics (NATEVHE). The collection consists of Constitution and Bylaws, minutes, reports, correspondence, committee lists, program notes, newsletters, financial records, and membership records. The NATEVHE was founded to facilitate colleague relationships among home economics teacher educators. The organization was formerly known as the National Association of Teacher Educators of Home Economics, an affiliate of the American Vocational Association. The name changed in 1980. Throughout the following series description, papers before April 1980 are referred to as NATEHE. In addition to financial records and membership lists, the collection contains a limited quantity of membership lists, reports, program notes, and newsletters.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1501/thumbnail.jp

Determinants of environmental management in the red sea hotels: Personal and organizational values and contextual variables

What motivates firms to adopt environmental management practices is one of the most significant aspects in the contemporary academic debate in which the review of the existing literature yields, with an obvious contextual bias toward developed world, contested theories and inconclusive findings. Providing a unique model that brings together the individual and organizational levels of analysis on firms' adoption of environmental management practices, this study aims to provide a new insight from the context of developing world. Data from 158 Red Sea hotels reveal two identifiable dimensions of environmental management-planning and organization, and operations-that can be explained as originating from different values. Whereas organizational altruism is a powerful predictor of both dimensions, managers' personal values and organizational competitive orientation are only relevant to environmental operations. The evidence also indicates that contextual variables such as chain affiliation, hotel star rating, and size are important to explain hotels' environmental management behaviors. © 2012 ICHRIE

Energy, transport and waste management : a review of Maltese policies to combat climate change

As the year 2020 draws closer, European Member States strive harder to reach their individual mandatory targets for the share of renewable energy in their total final energy consumption. Malta has joined the European Union in May 2004 and has since then, worked towards achieving the required compliance of national energy policies to the relevant EU Directives. Malta has also prepared a number of documents dealing with the main three sectors affecting climate change namely, energy, transport and waste management. Besides, Malta has to achieve 10% share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption by 2020, as well as 10% share of bio fuels in the transport sector. Moreover, Malta should also reduce its electricity consumption in public buildings by 9% by 2016. Within the scope of climate change, Malta has no obligations within the Kyoto Protocol but this could change when Malta applies to become an Annex 1 Member at the Conference of Parties meeting in December 2009 in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, within the European Union Emission Trading System (EU-ETS), only the emissions from Malta’s two power stations fall under this system. The Commission has decided that Malta’s emissions for the period 2008-2012 should not exceed 2.1 Million tonnes of Carbon Dioxide (European Allowance Units EAUs) per year. This is already proving to be a hard challenge to meet, given the projected increase in electricity demand. This paper outlines the current efforts that would contribute towards achieving the renewable energy targets and curbing of carbon dioxide emissions, mainly focusing on energy, transport and waste management. Three different scenarios are also presented for the plausible contribution of different renewable energy sources in the energy mix. It is noted that a number of important plans and policies have been drafted during 2009 and have still to be transposed to national legislation. However, the race against time has already started and it would clearly require a strong political will to drive Malta towards a cleaner energy mix, achieve the RE binding targets and avoid paying non-compliance penalties.peer-reviewe

Estimating the returns to UK publicly funded cancer-related research in terms of the net value of improved health outcomes

© 2014 Glover et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.Background - Building on an approach developed to assess the economic returns to cardiovascular research, we estimated the economic returns from UK public and charitable funded cancer-related research that arise from the net value of the improved health outcomes. Methods - To assess these economic returns from cancer-related research in the UK we estimated: 1) public and charitable expenditure on cancer-related research in the UK from 1970 to 2009; 2) net monetary benefit (NMB), that is, the health benefit measured in quality adjusted life years (QALYs) valued in monetary terms (using a base-case value of a QALY of GB£25,000) minus the cost of delivering that benefit, for a prioritised list of interventions from 1991 to 2010; 3) the proportion of NMB attributable to UK research; 4) the elapsed time between research funding and health gain; and 5) the internal rate of return (IRR) from cancer-related research investments on health benefits. We analysed the uncertainties in the IRR estimate using sensitivity analyses to illustrate the effect of some key parameters. Results - In 2011/12 prices, total expenditure on cancer-related research from 1970 to 2009 was £15 billion. The NMB of the 5.9 million QALYs gained from the prioritised interventions from 1991 to 2010 was £124 billion. Calculation of the IRR incorporated an estimated elapsed time of 15 years. We related 17% of the annual NMB estimated to be attributable to UK research (for each of the 20 years 1991 to 2010) to 20 years of research investment 15 years earlier (that is, for 1976 to 1995). This produced a best-estimate IRR of 10%, compared with 9% previously estimated for cardiovascular disease research. The sensitivity analysis demonstrated the importance of smoking reduction as a major source of improved cancer-related health outcomes. Conclusions - We have demonstrated a substantive IRR from net health gain to public and charitable funding of cancer-related research in the UK, and further validated the approach that we originally used in assessing the returns from cardiovascular research. In doing so, we have highlighted a number of weaknesses and key assumptions that need strengthening in further investigations. Nevertheless, these cautious estimates demonstrate that the returns from past cancer research have been substantial, and justify the investments made during the period 1976 to 1995.Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK, the National Institute of Health Research, and the Academy of Medical Sciences