6,344 research outputs found
Data from: Integrating local knowledge to prioritise invasive species management
No full text1. Invasive species management involves complex and multidimensional challenges. There is considerable uncertainty regarding how to identify management strategies that will achieve invasive species control to enhance biodiversity, local economies, and human well-being. Invasive species management on inhabited islands is especially challenging, often due to perceived socio-political risks and unexpected technical difficulties.
2. Failing to incorporate local knowledge and local perspectives in the early stages of planning can compromise the ability of decision-makers to achieve long-lasting conservation outcomes. Hence, engaging the community and accounting for stakeholder perceptions is essential for invasive species management, yet these processes are often overlooked as they can be perceived as too difficult to implement, too costly, and/or too slow for management timeframes.
3. To address this gap, we present an application of invasive species management based on structured decision-making, and INFFER —a cost-benefit analysis tool— on Minjerribah-North Stradbroke Island (Australia). We assessed the cost-effectiveness of six management scenarios, co-developed with local land managers and community groups, aimed at preserving the environmental and cultural significance of the island by eradicating European red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and feral cats (Felis catus). Information was collected in a survey that elicited local stakeholders’ perspectives regarding the significance of the Island, their perception of the benefits of the proposed management scenarios, funding requirements, technical feasibility of implementation, and socio-political risk.
4. We found that low budgets achieve less cost-effective results than higher budgets. The best strategy focussed on controlling European red foxes on Minjerribah. However, our results also highlight the need for more research on feral cat management.
5. This work demonstrates how to use a structured decision support tool, such as INFFER, to assess contesting management strategies. Using appropriate decision support tools is particularly important when stakeholders' perceptions regarding management outcomes are heterogeneous and uncertain
A planning study for the William G. Scott House in Richmond, Indiana
No full textThe William G. Scott House in Richmond, Indiana was built c. 1885 for William G. Scott and his wife, Clara A. Robie McCoy. Mr. Scott, who was a successful executive at the prosperous steam engine manufacturing company Gaar, Scott & Co., was hailed as having one of the most prominent and beautiful homes within the city. The Scott family occupied the house until Mr. Scott's death in 1897, and the property was passed down to several Scott family descendants. In 1921, Richmond's local chapter of the Knights of Columbus purchased the Scott House and converted the building into their clubhouse. The Knights of Columbus continue to own and occupy the property today.The Knights of Columbus made several significant changes to house over the past eighty-two years, including installing a ceramic tile floor on the first floor, creating a Lodge Room on the third floor, remodeling the basement and the kitchen, and building a modern 5,000 sq. ft. meeting hall on the west side of the house. After the new meeting hall was constructed, the Knights of Columbus utilized the new addition most often, rather than the old clubhouse, and the historic Scott House was left vacant and allowed to slip into disrepair.Today, the Knights of Columbus use the Scott House to host "Tea Room Luncheons" featuring traditional Victorian menu items and local entertainment to revitalize public interest in historic architecture and generate funds for the future rehabilitation of the Scott House. The organization is also exploring future uses for the property and identifying additional fundraising opportunities, in hopes of rehabilitating the Scott House and restoring the property to its original elegance and grandeur.The Planning Study for the Scott House contains a history of the property, illustrations, elevation and floor plan drawings, building condition assessments, recommended treatment methods, and suggested maintenance practices. For further reference, the author's building assessment forms and annotated assessment drawings, and the Secretary of the Interior Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties are included as appendices.This project was primarily an academic exercise and intended to help the author learn the process of evaluating the condition of a building, proposing treatment methods and maintenance practices, and writing a preservation planning study. In addition, the report is intended to serve as an outline and reference guide for Knights of Columbus to help direct the organization with the future rehabilitation, preservation, and maintenance of the William G. Scott House.Thesis (M.S.H.P.)Department of Architectur
Belonging and not belonging : understanding India in novels by Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and V.S. Naipaul.
No full textPhDThis thesis is essentially about the "how" and "why" of the Indian
experience as documented in novels by Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
and V S Naipaul. The study points to the difficulty of arriving at any
conclusive definition of the country and its people. I show that
differences in attitudes, responses or behaviour are both overt and
subtle, and depend upon whether the writer or the character identifies
with the situation or community with which he or she interacts. It is
the individual's sense of belonging or not belonging to his or her own
group - be this along racial, cultural or gender lines - that accounts
for the differing perspectives evident in these novels. The points-of-
view of the outsider and the insider can therefore be seen as
mutual comments upon the other.
Since the struggle between belonging and not belonging becomes acute
when the old meets the new, focus is centred on communities
experiencing change. These include the British in India, West-Indian
Indians and westernised Indians. Despite their differences, all three
communities share similar reasons for either an acceptance or
rejection of the 'Other'. The thesis argues that the need for
emotional stability compels allegiance to the traditional group, while
the desire for individuality encourages surrender to the new. The
former nurtures a sense of belonging while, it is argued, that the
latter is perceived as the hallmark of those who do not belong.
Tensions arise when both these needs demand to be met. What I show to
be ironic in this struggle between belonging and not belonging is that
those things which individuals overtly reject are often unexpressed
parts of their personal pysche. The barrier between "them" and "us" is
therefore very fragile
The oral nature of the Homeric simile
No full textThis work, by Dartmouth Professor Emeritus William Scott, centers on Homer\u27s similes as compositions derived from, and dependent on, an oral tradition.
About the Author
William C. Scott is emeritus professor of classics at Dartmouth College. His other publications include The Artistry of the Homeric Simile, Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater, Plato\u27s The Republic with Richard W. Sterling, and Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater.
About the Electronic Publication
This electronic publication of The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile was made possible with the permission of the author. The University Press of New England created EPUB and PDF files from a scanned copy of the book.
Rights Information
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License © William C. Scot
Kevin Scrivens photograph, Greenford Fair, 1984.
No full textC. Ives' Atkinson tractor photographed 31 March 1984. Digitisation and record funded by the Pilgrim Trust
Kenilworth : a romance
No full textby the author of "Waverley", "Ivanhoe", &c [Walter Scott]Bd. 1: 321 Seiten, [1] Blatt ; Bd. 2: 343 Seiten, [2] Blätter ; Bd. 3: 348 Seite
Where Oliver Fits by C. Atkinson
No full textAtkinson, Cale. Where Oliver Fits. Toronto, Tundra Books, 2017.
Oliver is a unique little puzzle piece with a cute round head smattered with blue and orange. He wants to be part of a bigger picture and goes on a journey to find where he fits. As he finds different puzzles, he discovers that the other puzzle pieces are not like him at all. Some puzzle pieces complain that he does not have enough of the right colour to fit properly. Others say that he is not the right shape. Determined to find his place in the world, he decides that he needed to be more like others in order to be accepted.
He uses creative strategies to change his shape and colour, however, after continuing to be rejected, he becomes desperate enough to create a disguise to finally fit into a puzzle. Although he finally finds his fit, Oliver begins to question whether or not it was right to pretend he was someone else and learns that it is better to be himself.
This is a wonderful story of imagination. Children learn through the eyes of Oliver that it is better to be one’s true self rather than changing to fit in. The illustrations are bright, colourful, and capture all the conflicting emotions that Oliver goes through. Designed for children ages 3-7, this book provides a good moral lesson in a fun and creative way.
Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Janice Kung
Janice Kung is a Public Services Librarian at the University of Alberta, John W. Scott Health Sciences Library. She obtained her undergraduate degree in commerce and completed her MLIS degree in 2013. She believes that the best thing to beat the winter blues is to cuddle up on a couch and lose oneself in a good book
Scott Fitzgerald's women: a view of the flapper as a projection of the author's anima
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1979
Footloose in Jacksonian America: Robert W. Scott and his Agrarian World
No full textIn the fall of 1829, young Robert Wilmot Scott rode away from Frankfort, Kentucky, on a trip that would take him through nine states. His journal entries about those travels present a vivid picture of Jacksonian America and of the prominent people of that era. Excellent pen portraits of James and Dolly Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, James Buchanan, Sam Houston, Edward Everett, John C. Calhoun, John Randolph, John Quincy Adams, and others show Scott to be a careful and detailed observer. Present at the famous Webster-Hayne debate, he gives a rich account of that discussion and its personalities.
But not only people attracted Scott’s observations. In visits to Richmond, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, among other places, he gave close attention to public buildings, universities, theaters, churches, and manufacturing establishments. His comments on culture and industry detail the quickening pulse of a burgeoning nation, and compare favorably with more familiar accounts by James Silk Buckingham or Thomas Hamilton.
In the second half of this work, author Thomas D. Clark traces the later life of this fascinating diarist. Scott became master of a model Kentucky plantation, “Locust Hill,” and proved to be an important agricultural reformer. He was active, as well, in education and in politics. In outlining the career of this agrarian, Dr. Clark has made an important contribution to the study of southern agriculture and the men who shaped it. Scott, in his diary comments, made his own contribution to history by offering fine insights about the world in which he lived.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1122/thumbnail.jp
Interview with James C. Scott: Egalitarianism, the teachings of fieldwork and anarchist calisthenics
No full textJ
ames C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University
where he directs the Program in Agrarian Studies. Author of foundational books on
the fields of Agrarian studies and Social Movements (but with a wider resonance in other
domains of social sciences), namely The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence
in Southeast Asia (1977), Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985),
and Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990), Scott recently published
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2009). His work
has been a major source of inspiration for the four of us and we therefore invited him to visit
Portugal in order to discuss some of the key-elements of his research.James C. Scott visited Portugal to participate in the research activity of the fct project
“The Making of State Power in Portugal 1890-1986” (ptdc/his-his/104166/2008). Besides the
financial support of fct, Scott’s visit also benefited from the financial support of fla
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