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Reynoso, Jacqueline. "Remapping a Historical Geography." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 47, no. 1 (November 9, 2022): 26–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.47.1.26-36.
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In the past several years, History instructors have increasingly experimented with assignment or project design that moves beyond the confines of the traditional research essay. The resulting assignments are often referred to as “un-essays”— projects purposefully designed to empower students to take an active role in shaping their own research topics and enable them to present their research in ways other than the more conventional paper format. Requiring students to conduct rigorous research, marshal evidence in support of larger claims, and make intentional decisions about organization and audience, un-essays meet most of the same criteria expected of a research paper, but in ways that help address different learning styles. This article centers on a particular student project I assigned that brought together the growing interest in un-essays with the parallel call for more geospatial instruction in the classroom. In the fall of 2019, students in my seminar “All Over the Map: Cartography and Historical Narrative” took on various research projects to re-map a familiar geography in United States history (the Antebellum North), along with the histories we associate with it. They designed different topics to help answer a shared question: was the Antebellum North truly a place that solely promoted freedom? Yet, instead of submitting a research paper reflecting their findings, students and I worked together to re-map the region by creating a digital, interactive map that plotted the histories they elected to narrate about different regions in the Antebellum North. The resulting map, which we titled “The Free North?,” and which was influenced by the pedagogical impulse behind un-essay design, has become a pedagogical tool of its own.
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Meydan, Ali. "The Contribution of Scientific Project Competitions upon High School Students’ Acquiring a Scientific Viewpoint (Geography Lesson Case)." Journal of Education and Learning 6, no. 2 (March 1, 2017): 294. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jel.v6n2p294.
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Scientific research projects competitions for high school students have been held by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) since 1969. Whereas only projects on science were taken into the scope of competition for long years, the projects appropriate to the interdisciplinary approach such as social sciences projects and values education have been started to be included beside science broadening the range since 2000s. In projects, it has been aimed to encourage students studying at high school grade for carrying out studies on basic, social and applied sciences, directing their studies and providing contribution upon the development of current scientific studies. The required qualification is projects’ being originated and developed from own knowledge, skill and original thoughts of the students, and being completed by the support of a counselor.Geography has started to be included in scientific project competitions since 2011. In this research, it was aimed to reveal the importance of secondary education students’ scientific project competitions upon their gaining a scientific point of view depending upon the branch of geography. In the research, case study design as one of the qualitative research methods was used. The study group of the research included 38 geography teachers carrying on their duties in Nevsehir province in 2015-2016 academic year. Semi-structured interview technique was used as data collection tool, and the data were analyzed using content analysis method. Obtained quantitative data were digitized, their frequency and percentage were obtained and interpreted.In the research, it was concluded that participating into scientific project competitions was very beneficial in terms of students, developed viewpoint of students in terms of various aspects, most of the geography teachers considered that the institutions they carried on their duties were adequate for students’ developing projects, teachers considered themselves competent for guiding students during the process of preparing the project, and preparing a project provided significant benefits and experiences for the future of students.
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Nunes, Marco, and António Abreu. "Applying Social Network Analysis to Identify Project Critical Success Factors." Sustainability 12, no. 4 (February 18, 2020): 1503. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12041503.
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A key challenge in project management is to understand to which extent the dynamic interactions between the different project people—through formal and informal networks of collaboration that temporarily emerge across a project´s lifecycle—throughout all the phases of a project lifecycle, influence a project’s outcome. This challenge has been a growing concern to organizations that deliver projects, due their huge impact in economic, environmental, and social sustainability. In this work, a heuristic two-part model, supported with three scientific fields—project management, risk management, and social network analysis—is proposed, to uncover and measure the extent to which the dynamic interactions of project people—as they work through networks of collaboration—across all the phases of a project lifecycle, influence a project‘s outcome, by first identifying critical success factors regarding five general project collaboration types ((1) communication and insight, (2) internal and cross collaboration, (3) know-how and power sharing, (4) clustering, and (5) teamwork efficiency) by analyzing delivered projects, and second, using those identified critical success factors to provide guidance in upcoming projects regarding the five project collaboration types.
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Sahibzada, Shamim A., and Mir Annice Mahmood. "Why Most Development Projects Fail in Pakistan? A Plausible Explanation." Pakistan Development Review 31, no. 4II (December 1, 1992): 1111–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v31i4iipp.1111-1122.
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The need for effective .project planning in the farmework of macro planning has always been very strong in Pakistan as projects form the basis of development. Without the successful execution of projects, it is unlikely that development plans could be implemented effectively. In Pakistan an elaborate machinery for the planning of development projects exists but its prformance has been far from satisfactory. If one has to write the porject history of Pakistan, one wiII come across numerous examples of projects that have failed due to the ineffecient functioning of this machinery. Needless to say these failures have cost the economy billions of rupees, which in a capital-scarce economy like Pakistan, would have made a substantial difference towards economic development had this machinery operated efficiently. The objective of this paper is two fold: first to indentify shortcomings and weak links in the project planning system which are responsible for the failure of most projects. Failure here refers to the lack of implementation in time and within the project's planned budget estimates. And second, to suggest appropriate remedial policy measures. Experience has shown that the process of project planning and implementation in the country has suffered from inherent problems ranging from conceptual differences about the projects, hurriedly prepared feasibility studies deficient in proper technical and. economic underpinnings and the lack of basic information obtained through insufficient investigation and surveys to inadequate project monitoring and almost non-existent in-depth evaluation studies.
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Holloway, Sarah L., and Gill Valentine. "Making an Argument: Writing up human geography projects." Journal of Geography in Higher Education 25, no. 1 (March 2001): 127–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098260020026688.
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Raghuram, Parvati, Clare Madge, and Tracey Skelton. "Feminist Research Methodologies and Student Projects in Geography." Journal of Geography in Higher Education 22, no. 1 (March 1998): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098269886001.
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Nikolsky, Alexey. "What is a Super Combine: Economic Geography and Manufacturing Technique." Bulletin of Baikal State University 30, no. 3 (November 10, 2020): 419–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2500-2759.2020.30(3).419-426.
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The definition of the concept of a «Super Combine» as a production line of the macro-regional level, designed to produce record volumes of a product, is given. The concept refers, on the one hand, to the field of science, i.e. economic geography, and, on the other hand, to the field of technique (production technology). It was first introduced by the author during the development of the project «New Angarstroy: Baikal-Amur Metallurgical Super Combine». The project resumes the traditions of developing complex integration projects for the territorial development of Russia at the macro level, i.e. the level of economic districts and their conjugations, combining numerous constituent entities of the Federation. It is not correct when the subjects of the Federation, competing for investments, serve as units of the all-Russian territorial planning, often offering the same small, local projects with the use of the resources of all-Russian and even global significance, duplicating each other. Every major project of a national scale, such as the Ural-Kuznetsk Combine in the past, which saved the country in the time of Great Patriotic War, and the proposed Baikal-Amur Metallurgical Super Combine of the future, always integrates numerous subjects of the Federation, taking into account their main resources for this all-Russian project.
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Purwanto, Purwanto, Ike Sari Astuti, Rudi Hartono, and Ghada Abd Elsattar Mohammed Oraby. "ArcGIS story maps in improving teachers’ Geography awareness." Jurnal Pendidikan Geografi 27, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 206–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um017v27i22022p206-218.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the use of story maps in increasing sustainable Geography awareness among Geography teachers. The advent of story maps has altered the current Geography education in the digital era. ArcGIS story maps are a type of user-friendly geospatial technology renewal. This story map is believed capable of helping students learn Geography more independently, transforming Geography education. This belief should be reinforced by implementing story maps on their own Geography teachers, who have low Geography literacy rates in general. This action research involved 67 Geography teachers who were members of the East Java Geography Teacher Working Group, with various backgrounds, ages, and teaching experiences. Learning is implemented using blended learning and the in-on-in model. With blended project-based learning, this research was conducted to solve problems related to high school teachers' low Geography awareness. To identify the effects of the treatment, the obtained data were analyzed using a different test with paired t-test. The findings showed that story maps could increase long-term geographic awareness, illustrated by the obtained significant level of more than 0.05. This success is influenced by teachers' knowledge and experience with geospatial technology, as well as their age. Although the ability to create story projects is limited, the use of story maps provides a meaningful experience for teachers to think, reason, and act geographically.
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Nguyen Thanh, Xuan. "UMN mapserver and application to building webGIS." Journal of Science Social Science 66, no. 2 (May 2021): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2021-0031.
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UMN MapServer is one of the open source map servers with long history and the largest number of projects in the world. When having acquired basic knowledge of Cartography and Geographic Information Systems geography students can use open source as MapServer to build webGIS. This paper presents some key features of UMN MapServer and the way to handle it to create webGIS at four levels from lower to higher: (1) display map layers on the web browser, (2) display data and some interact with the map, (3) customize the content from a complete webGIS project, (4) self-design webGIS application. Some suggestions and propositions to enhance the effectiveness of using open source GIS in research and teaching geography are stated.
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Zyrianov, A. I. "Conceptual geography and tourism." Regional nye issledovaniya 72, no. 2 (2021): 24–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2021-2-3.
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Geographical descriptions and geographical comparisons provide a basis for understanding the key features of a place. These classical approaches, revealing the typical and the unique, make it possible to discover the «formula of the place», to understand the rational directions of the development of the territory. Often, territorial development projects are based not on marketing and technical calculations, but on a geographic idea. In this case, we are dealing with conceptual geography, which can significantly change the priorities of society’s development in the future. Conceptual geography is seen as an applied approach, expressed in the practical, economic design of geographical thought. The tourism sector demonstrates a special geographical conceptuality. Tourism is one of the areas of interest for people where the importance of geography is recognized. The most promising planning of tourist routes based on geographical creativity. The tourist industry is especially «genetically» territorial. Objects of tourism and recreation are inherently geographic, organically integrated into the territory, reflecting its features. The article shows the movement from descriptive and comparative geography to conceptual geography on the example of the development of one of the towns of the Perm region. Geographic technologies are actively used in tourism design. The development of conceptual geography through tourism testifies to its special sensitivity, to the ability to show new guidelines for social development.
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Delaney, David. "Legal geography III." Progress in Human Geography 41, no. 5 (May 26, 2016): 667–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132516650354.
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In the past year scholars have extended the reach of legal geography to a number of previously neglected areas of interest. Among these are non-Western, non-common law places; the sphere of the international, particularly the law of war; and the physical, other-than-human worlds. As they ventured into these areas legal geographers have also initiated or strengthened convergences with other critical projects such as political ecology, critical strands of international legal scholarship, legal anthropology, critical physical geography and critical animal studies.
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Buckingham‐Hatfield, Susan. "Student‐community partnerships: advocating community enterprise projects in geography." Journal of Geography in Higher Education 19, no. 2 (July 1995): 143–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098269508709298.
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Katz, Richard. "Using “Petites Projects” to Further Engage Students in Geography." Geography Teacher 10, no. 1 (January 2013): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19338341.2012.758042.
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Nadtoka, Oleksandr F., and Tetiana S. Martyniuk. "ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ПРОЕКТНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ В РОЗРІЗІ ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНО-КОМУНІКАЦІЙНИХ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ НА ЗАНЯТТЯХ ГЕОГРАФІЇ." Information Technologies and Learning Tools 50, no. 6 (January 1, 2016): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.33407/itlt.v50i6.1280.
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The article highlights the use of the information environment in the project activities at the geography lessons. Attention is paid to innovative ICT component. The basic directions of using ICT at the geography lessons are highlighted. It is shown that a joint activity of students in the process of learning contributes to a key and objective (geographical) competence. The optimal combination of ICT and technology of mini-projects in the educational process are analyzed. The practical significance of this publication is to demonstrate the algorithm of using the project activity at the geography lessons and to point out the subject peculiarities of activity-based teaching.
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Klaus-Rosińska, Agata, and Joanna Iwko. "Stakeholder Management—One of the Clues of Sustainable Project Management—As an Underestimated Factor of Project Success in Small Construction Companies." Sustainability 13, no. 17 (September 2, 2021): 9877. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13179877.
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According to contemporary literature, stakeholder management (which is one of the identified clues of sustainable project management) plays a significant role in successfully delivering construction projects. However, the literature focuses on the issues of stakeholder management/analysis mainly for large projects, and the authors could not find any items related to small construction projects. The aim of the article is to present the results of research conducted in small construction companies in the context of stakeholder management of their projects against the background of project success and sustainability. Many researchers have concluded that stakeholder management is one of the success factors of projects (including construction projects). Based on the conducted quantitative research, the needs in the field of stakeholder management of small construction companies’ projects were determined and the approaches used in this area were diagnosed. The research results indicate a low level of maturity of small construction companies in managing project stakeholders, which is a surprising result considering the fact that the literature on the subject emphasizes the importance of taking care of the project stakeholder management area and associating it with the project’s success.
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Weerasinghe, Gamini, Karthik Soundararajan, and Janaka Ruwanpura. "LEED–PDRI Framework for Pre-project Planning of Sustainable Building Projects." Journal of Green Building 2, no. 3 (August 1, 2007): 123–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.2.3.123.
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Green buildings help in sustainability, in terms of achieving energy efficiency and minimizing the utilization of natural resources. Additional benefits include long-term sustainable building management and maintenance. There is, therefore, compelling motivation for the building of sustainable projects. This inspiration has led to the development of the leadership in energy and environmental design (LEED) rating systems and projects by the United States Green Building Council and the Canadian Green Building Council. Proper building project management (BPM) of such projects is warranted. Pre-project planning is a crucial part of BPM that ensures delivery and performance of construction projects. Pre-project planning is defined as the process that encompasses all the tasks between project initiation and detailed design. There is a positive relationship between comprehensive pre-project planning and enhanced project performance. Given the motivation for environmentally sustainable projects and proper management of constructing such projects, diligent pre-project planning for such projects is required. This paper investigates the use of the LEED rating system in pre-project planning of sustainable construction projects by developing a matrix that combines the LEED and the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) developed by the Construction Industry Institute. The conceptual matrix and its application to a case study demonstrates that the value of linking pre-project planning with LEED to improve the decision making process during planning and designing of building projects to improve sustainability.
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Railienė, Laima. "SUBJECT INTEGRATION: INTEGRATED GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH AND PROJECT WORKS." GAMTAMOKSLINIS UGDYMAS / NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION 9, no. 1 (April 5, 2012): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.48127/gu-nse/12.9.29.
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The article analyses the possibilities and advantages of geography integration trying to develop the educational process in a secondary school. Every teaching strategy style must always be carefully selected, paying attention to students‘ age experience and abilities. Re-cently, abilities‘ use in practice is more emphasized than theoretical knowledge. Geography is the most integrated subject at school. The majority of other subjects‘ knowledge is needed in teaching how to do geography projects and research works. Therefore, subject integration is very important. It allows to select the most important various subjects knowledge and get the most optimal result. Key words: teaching/learning strategy, learning style, research and project activity, subject integration, subject and common competence.
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Cook, Ian. "A new vocabulary for cultural–economic geography?" Dialogues in Human Geography 9, no. 1 (March 2019): 83–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820619831143.
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Ibert et al.’s (2019) article is a welcome stimulus to, and a refocusing on, what seem to us to be reasonably well-established problematics and debates. Its arguments seem familiar to us because of our work, since 2011, on the followthethings.com project. From this perspective, their remit for new cultural–economic geography research doesn’t seem cultural enough (what about cultural geography’s recent ‘turn’ towards creative practice?), the publications drawn upon seem unnecessarily traditional (what about geography’s ongoing ‘turn’ towards digital practice and ‘natively digital’ outputs?), and the research practices needed for the work that is outlined seem undeveloped (what can we learn about capitalism’s ‘dark’ places and strategies of association and dissociation from, among others, creative digital practice?). Digital outputs such as followthethings.com risk being bypassed by more traditional practices of academic review, and our insistence that it should ‘stand on its own’ without accompanying academic papers doesn’t, admittedly, help. So, in this response, we have chosen to engage with the anchor article’s main themes and arguments by sketching out our parallel world of ongoing research in which strategies and vocabularies of dissociation feature strongly. What we conclude is that both of our projects could be seen to be working towards the same goal: to assemble a new vocabulary that is better suited for the analysis of this area of cultural–economic geography. We’d like to collaborate on this with Ibert et al. ((2019) Geographies of dissociation: value creation, ‘dark’ places, and ‘missing’ links. Dialogues in Human Geography.) and anyone else who’s interested.
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Haug, Mikel. "Up the Creek with a Paddle." Mathematics Teacher 91, no. 6 (September 1998): 456–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.91.6.0456.
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Do I have to know how to do any math for geography?” Although Luke was hoping to find a niche where he needed as little mathematics as possible, his question brought to mind all the practical mathematics that I had used in college geography projects. I was motivated to develop an extended hands-on project for my eighth-grade mathematics classes in which they were to determine the probability that a local creek would flood. This project can be easily adapted to almost any secondary-level mathematics class.
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Антон Романович, Сергеев,, and Сукманова, Нина Юрьевна. "METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A SCHOOL PROJECT ON GEOGRAPHY." Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: География и геоэкология, no. 4(40) (December 16, 2022): 133–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.26456/2226-7719-2022-4-133-146.
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Представлены содержательно-методические аспекты формирования исследовательских и информационных компетенций через проектную деятельность на уроках географии. Показана методика составления географического школьного проекта. Представлена схема организации проектной деятельности с применением геоинформационных систем в географии для решения задач географического и экологического просвещения обучающихся. Дан картографический материал, который необходим для составления учебных проектов. Выделены основные этапы составления и реализации проекта для изучения районов (и населённых пунктов) лесохозяйственного типа. Приведен пример составления географического проекта по теме «Анализ трансформации социально-экономического развития леспромхоза пос. Удимский за период 1943-2022 гг.». The paper considers the content and methodological aspects of the formation of research and information competencies through project activities in geography lessons. The methodology of drawing up a geographical school project is shown. The scheme of the organization of project activities with the use of geoinformation systems in geography to solve the problems of geographical and environmental education of students is presented. The cartographic material that is necessary for the preparation of educational projects is given. The main stages of the preparation and implementation of the project for the study of areas (and settlements) of the forestry type are highlighted. An example of drawing up a geographical project on the topic «Analysis the transformation of the socio-economic development of the timber industry of the village» is given. Udimsky for the period 1943-2022.
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Kondysiuk, I. "SPECIFICS OF FORMATION PORTFOLIO OF HYBRID PROJECTS OF MOTOR TRANSPORT ENTERPRISES." Bulletin of Lviv State University of Life Safety 24 (January 5, 2022): 40–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.32447/20784643.24.2021.05.
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An analysis of methodologies and research papers on project portfolio management in various sectors of the econ-omy. The peculiarities of the subject branch (motor transport enterprises) are analyzed. The expediency of implementation of hybrid projects and development of tools for their management is substantiated. It is established that one of the unsolved management tasks is the task of forming effective portfolios of hybrid projects of motor transport enterprises. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the peculiarities of the formation portfolios of hybrid projects of trucking companies. And on their basis to describe the system relationships between operational, project and portfolio management, which provides quality tools for solving basic management problems of forming effective portfolios of hybrid projects of trucking com-panies. The scientific novelty of the performed researches is the substantiated features of the formation portfolios of hybrid projects of motor transport enterprises and the system interrelations between operational, project and portfolio management are described. As a result of the performed researches, the approach to the formation portfolios of hybrid projects of motor transport enterprises which are based on the account of the specificity of subject branch and system interrelations between operational, project and portfolio management is proved. This approach underlies the development of quality tools for the portfolio management of hybrid projects of trucking companies. It is established that based on the management of separate hybrid projects knowledge on their value and risk which together with the information on a condition of the design environment and features of portfolios of hybrid projects of the motor transport enterprises, is a basis of their qualitative formation is received. The unique characteristics of products (transport services) of individual projects, as well as actions for their creation and knowledge about them, are identified.
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TING, SIM NEE, BEATRICE JARIT, and YEE YONG LEE. "OCCURRENCE AND IMPACT ANALYSIS FOR TIME-RELATED RISKS IN MALAYSIA PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS." JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT 17, no. 6 (June 30, 2022): 104–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.46754/jssm.2022.06.009.
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The public works sector in Malaysia has generally executed construction projects that are highly complex, requiring multiple components and involving a large scale of resources and management. Many construction works are carried out in rural settings with challenges and constraints in terms of site access, transportation and material availability. Hence, the problem of timely delivery of projects persists. It is critical to identify and manage schedule-related risks rigorously to ensure a successful and timely project delivery which is a precursor for the nation’s sustainable development. This study, part of efforts to set up a Malaysia-based risk registry, involves the identification of key risks related to scheduling in Malaysia’s public works infrastructure projects and the analysis of their occurrences and impacts. A total of 111 of 123 projects from the Sarawak state’s Public Works Department are studied via the case study method. The selection of projects was based on whether a project’s completion date was extended due to the occurrences of delay events. The number of occurrences is calculated based on the number of times a delay event occurred in the 111 projects. The impact analysis is carried out based on the total delay over the overall project delay for a project. The findings show that the most frequently occurring risk in the 111 projects is “exceptionally inclement weather”, “whereas risks related to land blockage”, “obstructions by others and approval from other authorities” are risks that caused high severity in terms of delay in schedule. Information obtained from this research is part of key effort for risk data and knowledge retention and dissemination which can be used for further risk analysis for future construction projects.
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NISHIKAWA, Osamu. "The Enlightening Role of Geography: A Proposal for Global Projects." Geographical Review of Japa,. Ser. A, Chirigaku Hyoron 62, no. 11 (1989): 765–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.4157/grj1984a.62.11_765.
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Pulaski, Michael H., Michael J. Horman, and M. Jeya Chandra. "Case Study Validation of the Continuous Value Enhancement Process." Journal of Green Building 1, no. 3 (August 1, 2006): 169–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.1.3.169.
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Sustainable building projects have levels of complexity over conventional building projects that challenge current project management tools at efficiently managing the rigors of sustainable projects. The Continuous Value Enhancement Process (CVEP) is a recently developed tool designed specifically for sustainable building projects. This project management tool enables project teams to systematically generate and evaluate project alternatives for meeting sustainable goals. The goal of this tool is to identify high performance solutions that increase levels of sustainability and improve project performance. CVEP was experimentally implemented and tested on four case study projects to evaluate its ability to support project management decision making in ways that elevate sustainability and project performance. Reported in this paper, the results show CVEP produced first cost and life cycle cost savings. In particular, the study confirms that CVEP has the capability to: 1.) Provide a systematic evaluation process, 2.) Collect high performance building solutions, and 3.) Be applicable to different project types. These results show that it is possible to employ targeted project management techniques, like CVEP, to improve the cost-effective provision of sustainable buildings.
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Novak Mavar, Karolina, Nediljka Gaurina-Međimurec, and Lidia Hrnčević. "Significance of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 7, 2021): 1800. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041800.
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Limiting the increase in CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, and at the same time, meeting the increased energy demand can be achieved by applying carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies, which hold potential as the bridge for energy and emission-intensive industries to decarbonization goals. At the moment, the only profitable industrial large-scale carbon sequestration projects are large-scale carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) projects. This paper gives a general overview of the indirect and direct use of captured CO2 in CCUS with a special focus on worldwide large-scale CO2-EOR projects and their lifecycle emissions. On the basis of scientific papers and technical reports, data from 23 contemporary large-scale CO2-EOR projects in different project stages were aggregated, pointing out all the specificities of the projects. The specificities of individual projects, along with the lack of standardized methodologies specific for estimating the full lifecycle emissions resulting from CO2-EOR projects, pose a challenge and contribute to uncertainties and wide flexibilities when estimating emissions from CO2-EOR projects, making the cross-referencing of CO2-EOR projects and its comparison to other climate-mitigation strategies rather difficult. Pointing out the mentioned project’s differentiations and aggregating data on the basis of an overview of large-scale CO2-EOR projects gives useful information for future work on the topic of a CO2-EOR project’s lifecycle emissions.
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Zhai, Binqing, and Albert P. C. Chan. "Community Participation and Community Evaluation of Heritage Revitalisation Projects in Hong Kong." Open House International 40, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 54–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2015-b0009.
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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between community participation and community evaluation of heritage revitalisation projects in the context of Hong Kong. In 2007, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government introduced a Revitalisation Scheme to conserve and revitalise government-owned historic buildings. Nevertheless, since the announcement of the Revitalisation Scheme, whether the concerned revitalisation projects could benefit the local community, as publicized in the multiple objectives of the scheme by the government, has become a very contentious issue. This issue seriously affects the communities’ attitudes and opinions on the Revitalisation Scheme. This paper will address this issue from the perspective of community participation in heritage revitalisation projects. Based on a recently completed revitalisation project under the Revitalisation Scheme, this paper asserts that there is a positive correlation between community participation and community evaluation of the project’s social impact.
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Tóth, Szilárd Tibor. "IN MEMORY OF THE FOUNDER OF THE MARI NATIONAL CARTOGRAPHY AND THE TEACHER OF THE TARTU UNIVERSITY YURI GORDEEV (1973-2020)." Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies 14, no. 3 (October 2, 2020): 565–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2224-9443-2020-14-3-565-571.
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On 19.07.2020 died a geographer and terminologist, a graduate and lecturer at the University of Tartu and the founder of the Mari national cartography Yuri Vitalievich Gordeev (Estonian: Jüri Gordejev). Regional, national and linguistic aspects were main in his activities in geography and cartography. In his master’s thesis, Gordeev dealt with the problems of the national identity of the Eastern Mari. He worked as a lecturer at the Narva College of the University of Tartu and as a teacher of geography at the Narva Pähklimäe gymnasium. During the Narva period were completed his projects started in Tartu. The most important work of Yuri Gordeev is the map of the Republic of Mari El published in 2008, which consists only of Mari toponyms. A year later in 2009 Yuri Gordeev published a map of the Mari pagan groves. Gordeev took part in the projects of the Finnish Finno-Ugrist Seppo Lallukka. He was also involved in the compilation of terminological textbooks.
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FEDІI, O., L. VISHNIKIN, and A. SHUKANOVA. "APPLICATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS." ТHE SOURCES OF PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS, no. 29 (September 10, 2022): 236–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.33989/2075-146x.2022.29.264357.
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The most important condition for training specialists in modern higher education institutions is the possession of information systems and technologies. The article highlights the relevance of training future teachers of geography via using modern geographic information systems. Informatization of society ensures the future development of science, education, production, forms a reality.
For future teachers of geography it is important to be able to apply modern methods of information processing, use databases to develop projects based on modern geographical information systems.
The article analyzed the importance of using software in the educational process on the example of open GIS SAGA and QGIS, the use of resources of EO Browser, Giovanni, Google (GoogleEarth). The specifics of the work of students of geographical specialties is the ability to operate with data that have geo-referenced objects, their mutual location in the territory, consistency between many factors of territorial organization. The result of such activities is a developed geographical map or system project. They demonstrate the patterns of distribution of objects or processes in the territory.
The article identifies competency-oriented approaches in teaching future geography teachers in an information-modernized educational space. Working with open GIS SAGA during the implementation of practical tasks allows you to form general and professional competencies, soft skills – the ability to act collectively and teamwork skills.
The importance of geographic information systems makes it necessary to increase the number of hours in student curricula. The curriculum for the training of specialists is constantly being improved by making suggestions by students, teachers, and stakeholders.
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Sahibzada, Shamim A., and Mir Annice Mahmood. "Arie Kuyvenhoven and L. B. M. Mennes. Guidelines for Project Appraisal. The Hague: Directorate-General for International Co-operation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1985. x + 190 pp.Price: fl. 19.50." Pakistan Development Review 25, no. 2 (June 1, 1986): 200–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v25i2pp.200-204.
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There has lately been an increasing emphasis on methods of evaluating development projects in the developing countries. The traditional focus, which relies on only a financial appraisal of projects, is no longer a favourite topic with project analysts, especially in the public sector. In order to capture the full impact of projects, several methodologies, focusing on the economic and social aspects, have been introduced in the literature during the late Sixties and early Seventies. Moreover, to enhance/facilitate the applicability of these methods to actual projects, the need for Manuals, Guidelines, and Guides of project appraisal has been felt from time to time. Some well known attempts in this area have been made by OECD [2], UNIDO [1; 5], ODA [6] and ODM [7].
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Heyman, Richard. "Libraries as Armouries: Daniel Coit Oilman, Geography, and the Uses of a University." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 19, no. 3 (June 2001): 295–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d13s.
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The author builds on recent work on the history of geographical thought by focusing on the career of American geographer Daniel Coit Oilman, who was the first President of the Johns Hopkins University. It is argued that Oilman's influential work in professionalizing an instrumentalist approach to knowledge production in the new institution of the research university forms an important link between the philosophically oriented geography of Alexander von Humboldt and the geopolitics of Isaiah Bowman. The author extends work in the history of the discipline by showing how geographical knowledge came to be seen in instrumentalist terms not only in the institutional context of geographical societies and European imperial administration-the focus of much of the historical scholarship-but also within the context of an intellectual division of labor that emerged in the second half of the 19th century as the modern research university took shape. It is suggested that a full account of the way in which Humboldt's project was displaced by Oilman's may give us a better understanding of the role that geography might play in moving knowledge production beyond a purely instrumentalist orientation and into more liberatory projects of social justice.
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Hindson, Doug, Mark Swilling, and Colin Appleton. "Peace, reconstruction and the project cycle in urban development projects." Urban Forum 5, no. 1 (March 1994): 93–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03036594.
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Góralska, Renata. "(Adult) education in the perspective of emotional geography. Towards a transdisciplinary approach in andragogy research." Rocznik Andragogiczny 29 (January 25, 2023): 245–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/ra.2022.014.
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The aim of the article is to describe emotional geography, i.e. a research trend located on the borderline between human geography and contemporary affect studies, which focuses on the relationship between emotions and the broadly understood environmental, socio-cultural, spatial, economic, and political context. For this purpose, the author refers to theoretical analyses and research in the area of the so-called affective turn, and to the critical and political theories of emotions. She presents the relationship between education and emotional geography as well as examples of educational research projects on the socio-culturalspatial analyses of emotions and education. She also indicates the methodological implications for educational and andragogy research projects concerning the study of emotions in education, i.e. their transdisciplinary dimension. The presented way of conceptualizing the emotional geography of (in) education is a new look at the functioning of educational institutions and at the practice of lifelong learning. It can be a source of empirical research projects for theorists of education and andragogues.
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Aganyira, K., R. Kabumbuli, V. B. Muwanika, D. Nampanzira, J. R. S. Tabuti, and D. Sheil. "Learning from Failure: Lessons from a Forest Based Carbon and Charcoal Project." International Forestry Review 21, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1505/146554819825863744.
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Payment for environmental services (PES) projects can potentially improve environmental and livelihood outcomes. While pilot projects offer valuable lessons, these are often lost especially if the project fails. Here we assess how and why a forest-for-carbon linked charcoal production project, developed in Central Uganda under the Clean Development Mechanism, failed to achieve its goals (e.g.collaborative establishment of a charcoal production plantation using indigenous species and improved forest protection). We draw upon interviews and focus group discussions with project participants, non-participants and forest authorities. Findings suggest that inadequate project benefits, conflicts over project goals, distrust, poor communication and weak institutional capacity undermined the likelihood of project success. Most shortcomings were evident before the project started. Our conclusion is that projects must invest in recognising and addressing challenges in advance. In addition, good pre-implementation assessments, as well as transparent and accountable decision procedures would improve project outcomes.
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Nikolaeva, Olga N. "PROJECT-BASED METHOD IN GEOGRAPHIC AND CARTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION." Actual Problems of Education, no. 1 (February 26, 2021): 186–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.33764/2618-8031-2021-1-186-192.
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The article discusses the features of using the project-based method in teaching Geography and Cartography. The definition of the project method is given, the structure is presented, the advantages and disadvantages are characterized. The main stages of students and teachers activities are outlined. Various options for projects that can be offered to students are characterized. A case-study of project-based training of senior students in Technosphere Safety is described. Cartographic products created by students as a result of the project activities are presented. Conclusions about the prospects of project-based in geographical and cartographic disciplines are made.
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CONȚIU, ANDREEA, HADRIAN-VASILE CONȚIU, and ALINA TODERAȘ. ""Analysis of Geographical Representations Formed on the Basis of Literary Texts"." Romanian Review of Geographical Education 11, no. 1 (October 2, 2022): 51–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.23741/rrge120224.
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In this research, were analysed the visual representations made by high school students as a result of reading a cult fairy tale and creating a project entitled “Harap-Alb’s journey seen through the eyes of children” in the 10 th grade geography lessons. The projects were carried out by 26 students, who worked in pairs. The geography teacher presented them on the Google Classroom platform the structure of the project (visual and written components), tasks (forming groups, reading fairy tales, making mind maps), instructions and requirements. The aim of this activity was to identify and illustrate ways in which certain cognitive barriers can be removed and through which dynamic and creative thinking can be acquired / encouraged.
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Nunes, Marco, António Abreu, and Célia Saraiva. "Identifying Project Corporate Behavioral Risks to Support Long-Term Sustainable Cooperative Partnerships." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (June 3, 2021): 6347. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13116347.
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Projects are considered crucial building blocks whereby organizations execute and implement their short-, mid-, and long-term strategic visions. Projects are thought, developed, and implemented to solve problems, drive change, satisfy unique needs, add value, and exploit opportunities, just to name a few objectives. Although existing project management tools and techniques aim to deliver projects with success, according to the latest reviewed literature, projects still keep failing at an impressive pace. Among the extensive list of factors that may threaten project success, several articles from the research literature place particular importance on a still underexplored factor that may strongly lead to unsuccessful project delivery. This factor—usually known as corporate behavioral risks—usually emerges and evolves as organizations work together to deliver projects across a bounded period of time, and is characterized by the mix of formal and informal dynamic interactions between the different stakeholders that constitute the different organizations. Furthermore, several articles from the research literature also point out the lack of proper models to efficiently manage corporate behavioral risks as one of the major factors that may lead to projects failing. To efficiently identify and measure how such corporate behaviors may contribute to a project’s outcomes (success or failure), a heuristic model is proposed in this work, developed based on four fundamental fields ((1) project management, (2) risk management, (3) corporate behavior, and (4) social network analysis), to quantitatively analyze four critical project social networks ((1) communication, (2) problem-solving, (3) advice, and (4) trust), by applying the theory of social network analysis (SNA). The proposed model in this work is supported with a case study to illustrate its implementation and application across a project lifecycle, and how organizations can benefit from its application.
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Senczuk, Gabriele, Andrea Criscione, Salvatore Mastrangelo, Filippo Biscarini, Donata Marletta, Fabio Pilla, Denis Laloë, and Roberta Ciampolini. "How Geography and Climate Shaped the Genomic Diversity of Italian Local Cattle and Sheep Breeds." Animals 12, no. 17 (August 26, 2022): 2198. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12172198.
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Understanding the relationships among geography, climate, and genetics is increasingly important for animal farming and breeding. In this study, we examine these inter-relationships in the context of local cattle and sheep breeds distributed along the Italian territory. To this aim, we used redundancy analysis on genomic data from previous projects combined with geographical coordinates and corresponding climatic data. The effect of geographic factors (latitude and longitude) was more important in sheep (26.4%) than that in cattle (13.8%). Once geography had been partialled out of analysis, 10.1% of cattle genomic diversity and 13.3% of that of sheep could be ascribed to climatic effects. Stronger geographic effects in sheep can be related to a combination of higher pre-domestication genetic variability together with biological and productive specificities. Climate alone seems to have had less impact on current genetic diversity in both species, even if climate and geography are greatly confounded. Results confirm that both species are the result of complex evolutionary histories triggered by interactions between human needs and environmental conditions.
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Sizek, Julia. "Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 39, no. 4 (June 23, 2021): 758–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02637758211023504.
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This paper proposes the concept of zombie infrastructure to understand the entangled histories of railroad colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and corporate power in the California desert. I examine debates over the Cadiz project, a contemporary water project that proposes to take water from a California desert aquifer and transport it to the California coast. I argue that the life of the Cadiz project depends on Cadiz Inc.’s ability to revive the legal rights and body of a little-used railroad shortline, thus bringing back a legal infrastructure and corporate power from the late nineteenth century in the service of a new corporation. In so doing, the Cadiz project enlivens the racialized dispossession of land and labor that the railroad initially required. Routing the politics of a contemporary infrastructure project through the railroad and its octopus past, I argue, places the politics of infrastructure at the intersection of laws, monstrosity, and dispossession. Drawing on economic and legal geography, this paper proposes the concept of zombie infrastructure, a concept that builds on what activists call zombie projects in order to show the life and death of infrastructure, and reveals how contemporary capitalists enliven old infrastructures for new purposes.
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Christensen, Kurt Kjærgard. "A Visionary Urban Ecology Project in Hedebygade - 12 Sub-Projects." Open House International 30, no. 4 (December 1, 2005): 25–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-04-2005-b0006.
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The renovation of the Hedebygade urban block started in 1994. With a total of 150 apartments, this project was the largest environmentally sustainable urban renovation project in Denmark or northern Europe. The total cost was €50 million (US$62 million). In addition, the Danish government provided funding for the restoration to be used as an ecological demonstration and experiment project, including 12 individual sub-projects highlighting different aspects of environmentally sustainable renovation.
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Ertel, Anna, Vladimir Latun, Ivan Bogachev, and Ludmila Nedoseka. "Organization of network educational projects in the training of teachers of geography." E3S Web of Conferences 210 (2020): 18025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202021018025.
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Qualitative changes based on the development of information technologies affect all aspects of people's lives today, including school educational practical training. The article discusses the possibilities of using network educational projects in teachers training based on shared access services and modern digital educational platforms. The use of network educational projects in teaching practice makes it possible to achieve new educational results in the context of the globalization of education competition in various countries. The spread of "network" culture affects the organization of professional training for teachers, diversification of educational programs and educational institutions, the effectiveness of the organization of lifelong learning, education coverage of all participants in the educational process. The use of network educational projects in the practice of a geography teacher changes his role in organizing the educational process of mastering educational programs in geography.
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Davydiuk, Mykola. "Сontribution of Vladimir Markovich Fridland to the development of comparative-geographic approach." Physical Geography and Geomorphology 96, no. 4-6 (2019): 64–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/phgg.2019.4-6.07.
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The paper is devoted to the outstanding soviet geographer and soil scientist, Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1964), Professor (1968) Vladimir Fridland (1919–1983). A prominent place in his research works was taken by geospatial comparative-geographic studies. V. Fridland took part in many research projects in various parts of the world, including his motherland. From the actualistic and evaluative positions, the paper considers the important (at present) results from the seminal works of V. Fridland, which he had obtained using a wide range of methodological tools and research techniques, including comparative-geographical approach. V. Fridland also made an important contribution to the formation and development of natural geography. He enriched theoretical, methodological and applied aspects not only of soil science, but of geography in general. In his work of 1956, the scientist convincingly, in a concise comparative form and causal relationship, highlighted the natural conditions of the USSR and outlined their foreign analogues. In his influential work of 1964, V. Fridland had investigated the weathering processes, types of weathering, genesis and geography of soils in Northern Vietnam. In the 1970s, the pioneering scientist created a new research area – the doctrine of the structure of soil cover. Through field research in many regions of the Earth, the scientist has used and improved the approaches and methods of many natural sciences, including comparative one. V. Fridland successfully and productively used in scientific research almost the entire range of comparative-geographical methods. V. Fridland was the first one in the soviet geography to identify comparative method as an approach.
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Woźniak, Monika. "Sustainable Approach in IT Project Management—Methodology Choice vs. Client Satisfaction." Sustainability 13, no. 3 (January 31, 2021): 1466. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13031466.
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Major elaborations on sustainable development relating to the general economic sphere of various issue-related areas. Surprisingly little explicit guidance presenting this topic from the organizational side exists. To fill this gap, this paper attempts to propose and verify the concept of a sustainable approach to IT project management by involving the client at the stage of choosing the project management methodology. The research scope constitute IT projects, the subject of which was the development of software commissioned by the organization. The study aims to assess how the internal perspective of sustainability in IT projects, manifested in the matching of IT project management methodology to the client, affects the overall client’s satisfaction with the IT project, its products, and results. In the study, 64 IT projects implemented in Polish SME organizations were analyzed throughout their life cycle. The study has proved that introducing and improving the internal perspective of sustainability in IT projects, by matching an IT project management methodology to the client type is one of the key factors determining the level of client satisfaction and thus the assessment of the project’s success. The evaluation was made using the Servperv method by developing a measurement instrument dedicated to the IT project management area. Researches can use the proposed approach and the Servperv measuring tool to carry out similar analyses with different sample groups across other countries. The software industry can find results valuable and useful with regard to the IT project management improvement.
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Wirth, James P., Arnaud Laillou, Fabian Rohner, Christine A. Northrop-Clewes, Barbara Macdonald, and Regina Moench-Pfanner. "Lessons Learned from National Food Fortification Projects: Experiences from Morocco, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam." Food and Nutrition Bulletin 33, no. 4_suppl3 (December 2012): S281—S292. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15648265120334s304.
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Background Fortification of staple foods has been repeatedly recommended as an effective approach to reduce micronutrient deficiencies. With the increased number of fortification projects globally, there is a need to share practical lessons learned relating to their implementation and responses to project-related and external challenges. Objective To document the achievements, challenges, lessons learned, and management responses associated with national fortification projects in Morocco, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. Methods Independent end-of-project evaluations conducted for each project served as the primary data source and contain the history of, and project activities undertaken for, each fortification project. Other sources, including national policy documents, project reports from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and other stakeholders, industry assessments, and peer-reviewed articles, were used to document the current responses to challenges and future project plans. Results All projects had key achievements related to the development of fortification standards and the procurement of equipment for participating industry partners. Mandatory fortification of wheat flour was a key success in Morocco and Uzbekistan. Ensuring the quality of fortified foods was a common challenge experienced across the projects, as were shifts in consumption patterns and market structures. Adjustments were made to the projects' design to address the challenges faced. Conclusions National fortification projects are dynamic and must be continually modified in response to specific performance issues and broader shifts in market structure and consumption patterns.
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Auchterlonie, Paul. "DigiIslam Projects." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 36, no. 1 (April 2009): 145–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13530190902749721.
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Voženílek, Vít. "Geoinformatic literacy: indispensability or nonsense?" Geografie 107, no. 4 (2002): 371–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie2002107040371.
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(Geo)information technologies have impacted most scientific fields. Geography takes part in this progress and educates new generation of decision makers which will be able to apply the latest scientific outcomes in many branches of science, society and landscape. This situation strongly requires geoinformatic literacy. The geoinformatic literacy consists of geographic, cartographic and informatic literacy. There are two main ways of applying geoinformatic literacy in geographic practice - awareness and using. A current multidisciplinarity in geographic applications requires awareness of fundamental knowledge of geoinformatics and their technologies. Geographers need either to understand GI-experts (involved in projects) or to process procedures of geoinformation technologies (GIS, GPS, remote sensing, geostatistics etc.).
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Smyrnov, Ihor, and Olha Liubitseva. "Olena Stepaniv Contribution to the Development of Transport Geography and Geologistics in Ukraine." Bulletin of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Series in Tourism 4, no. 1 (June 24, 2021): 74–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.31866/2616-7603.4.1.2021.235151.
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Peculiarities of life, military, the diplomatic activity of Doctor of Sciences in Geography, O. I. Stepaniv, as well as her scientific achievements as a Ukrainian geographer and geologist, are revealed. Olena Stepanov was the first woman in Ukraine and the world – a military officer in the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (Ukrainski Sichovi Striltsi, USS) and the Ukrainian Galician Army (Ukrainska Halytska Armiia, UHA) during the First World War and the Ukrainian Liberation War of 1917–1921, a diplomatic official of the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic and the Ukrainian People’s Republic. Having a doctorate in geography and history, she made a significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian geographical science, including economic and social geography, as well as transport geography and modern understanding of geologistics. The last two areas of geographical science are most fully disclosed in her work “Modern Lviv”, which provides a comprehensive description of the transport infrastructure of Lviv and Lviv region and its importance in the transport system of Ukraine, in particular, emphasizes the central position of Lviv as a transport and logistics hub on the trans-European way connecting the Baltic and Black Seas; identified the main transport routes of Lviv region, important on a national scale; in addition to the main roads, regional and local ones were identified and characterized. The characteristics of transport routes were combined with the indication of the most significant industrial enterprises of Lviv region; tourist and recreational areas and centres which were located on the ways of transport routes were indicated, as well as the tourist specialization of these centres (in textbooks on the geography of transport of the Soviet era, it was not mentioned at all); such transport and logistics indicators as road congestion, traffic intensity on them were used, as well as their historical names were given and their significance in the past was revealed. O. I. Stepaniv’s scientific works remain relevant today. This applies not only to the problems of the geography of transport communication in modern Lviv but also to current issues of international logistics, in particular, Ukraine’s participation in the Baltic-Black Sea transport and logistics integration system. O.I. Stepaniv’s scientific works on transport geography are of direct importance to the most modern EU project in the field of transport and logistics – the Three Seas Initiative (TSI). The recent TSI Summit in Tallinn (October 19–20, 2020) highlighted the impact of the TSI on the entire Baltic-Adriatic Black Sea region. TSI is open to countries – strategic partners of the EU, including Ukraine. Although the latter is not a member of the EU, it was invited to the first TSI summit in 2016 andis currently an active participant in many projects under this Initiative, without having formal membership in the TSI. Ukraine should continue to cooperate with TSI, especially with Poland, in such important infrastructure projects as the Gdansk-Odesa highway, the railway Viking project, the development of gas infrastructure within the North-South corridor (involving Ukrainian underground storage facilities of “blue fuel”), etc.
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Booker Nielsen, Mark. "Identifying Challenges and Drivers for Deployment of Centralized Biogas Plants in Denmark." Sustainability 14, no. 13 (June 30, 2022): 8021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14138021.
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There is an increasing need to accelerate the diffusion of biogas technology, to contribute to handling grand societal challenges. It is thus concerning that around 30% of all biogas projects are abandoned. Previous studies have found that challenges for deployment of bioenergy technology are mainly economic and financial challenges, market and infrastructure challenges, regulatory and administrative challenges, local opposition, site selection challenges and ecological aspects. Very few studies have however tried to understand how these different types of challenges specifically affect individual biogas projects. Also, no previous studies have identified where these challenges occur in the different phases of a project’s lifecycle (conceptualization, planning, and execution). A lack of understanding that limits the ability of both public institutions and project owners to ensure the success of biogas projects. The aim of this study is to fill this knowledge gap and provide a unique insight into the often very complex and long project lifecycle for the realization of centralized biogas projects. Results based on five comprehensive longitudinal case studies of attempts to realize centralized biogas projects, all taking place between 2008–2020 in Denmark, provide insight into how projects are specially affected by these different types of challenges, and shows that both successful and abandoned projects typically faced an array of challenges that project owners need to overcome. The study also from a bottom-up perspective provides insight into the implementation of national policies and initiatives assigned to the accelerated deployment of biogas technology in Denmark between 2008–2020 as well as critical factors at the local level driving the development.
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Ghorbani, Mohammad Kazem, Hossein Hamidifar, Charalampos Skoulikaris, and Michael Nones. "Concept-Based Integration of Project Management and Strategic Management of Rubber Dam Projects Using the SWOT–AHP Method." Sustainability 14, no. 5 (February 22, 2022): 2541. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14052541.
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The utilization of rubber dams for water supply and irrigated agriculture is becoming an emerging practice in developing countries. In this study, based on the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis, a variety of standards and processes in project management (PM) are integrated within the framework of the strategic management (SM) of an organization responsible for the management of new small-scale hydraulic infrastructures, e.g., rubber dam projects. The most important internal and external factors in PM and organizational SM of rubber dam projects in Iran are initially identified, adapted, and integrated. Thereafter, the factors are weighted, evaluated, and analyzed using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and combined SWOT–AHP methods. Based on the results, the total weighted scores of the internal and external factors are 2.353 and 2.718, respectively. Hence, the derived main strategy of the organization is WO. This means that the weakness factors can be reduced through the opportunities available for projects. Finally, a new methodology called “strategy matrix” resulting from “priority matrix” is proposed to prioritize and determine the organization’s possible strategies. The outputs demonstrate the first three priorities as a mix of the main strategy alternatives, e.g., W1O1, W7O1, and W9O1. The organization, hence, is proposed to use the economic benefits of rubber dam projects to further monitor organizational units, the project’s resource management, and the project’s stakeholder management (not the project’s stakeholders). The proposed research could be conceived as a pilot for sustainable management in developing countries, where strategic project management can produce important operational benefits.
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Olson, Elizabeth. "Geography and ethics III: Whither the next moral turn?" Progress in Human Geography 42, no. 6 (October 2, 2017): 937–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132517732174.
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The 20 years since geography’s ‘moral turn’ have generated a robust field of scholarship around diverse ethical engagements. However, as geographers continue to build articulate claims to care and justice in and beyond the academy, the role of ‘the moral’ has often been resigned to the margins of our theories and empirical work. In my third and final progress report on geography and ethics, I suggest that new approaches toward moral geographies and economies are already signaling directions for geography’s next moral turn. Some of these approaches use more traditional theoretical and empirical options to explain and raise challenges for confronting harmful moral projects endorsed by states. But other more critical and controversial shifts are also evident in the speculative ethics of post-humanism which destabilize and reassemble what we think we know about moral status and moral agency.
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Whipple, R. T. M. "Evaluating development projects." Land Development Studies 5, no. 2 (May 1988): 91–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640828808723952.
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