Pipe Spring National Monument (N.M.), interim interpretive plan, second draft (1977) B1; Master plan (1978) B2; Development concept plan, environmental assessment (EA) B3; Statement for management (1981) B4; Record of decision, draft development concept plan and Finding of no significant impact (FONSI) (1982) : environmental impact statement.

Mode of access: Internet.

Great Basin National Park, Nevada : draft, general management plan, development concept plans, environmental impact statement.

"D-32"--P. [3] of cover.

Environmental assessment for development concept plan : park road corridor, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

"March 1982."

Alternatives workbook for the south slope development concept plan : Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

Mode of access: Internet.

General management plan, development concept plan, environmental assessment : Hot Springs National Park, Garland County, Arkansas.

Mode of access: Internet.

Environmental assessment, proposed development concept, Lukeville, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona /

On cover: Environmental assessment for proposed development concept plan, Organ Pipe Cactus, Lukeville, National Monument, Arizona.

Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico : final general management plan/development concept plan, environmental impact statement.

"NPS D-10B"--P. [3] of cover.

Final environmental impact statement, general management plan/development concept plan for Natural Bridges National Monument /

"NPS D-18A"--P. [3] of cover.

Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska : entrance area and road corridor development concept plan.

"NPS D-244B"--P. [3] of cover.

Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico : summary : final general management plan/development concept plan/environmental impact statement.

Mode of access: Internet.

Sustainable Development Action Plan at ISEP - From Concept to Engineering Practice

Some of the main challenges in Incorporating Sustainable Development practices into Engineering Education reside in establishing the bridge between concept and application. In particular the relation between value creation and the knowledge economy, innovation and entrepreneurship, as the main vehicles to a relevant application of the sustainable development concept, is not yet part of the majority of the engineering curricula in schools. Porto Polytechnical Engineering School (ISEP), a Global Reporting Initiative training partner in Portugal, as just presented its Sustainable Development Action Plan, with the main objective of creating a new kind of engineers, with Sustainable Development at the core of their degrees. The plan has several issues like publish an annual sustainability report, sustainable buildings, minimization of energy consumption and water policy, waste management, sustainable mobility, green procurement, EMAS certification, research and postgraduate activity and promotion of lectures and seminars in Sustainable Development.

Enhancing the development of military capabilities by a systems approach

The political environment of security and defence has changed radically in the Western industrialised world since the Cold War. As a response to these changes, since the beginning of the twenty-first century, most Western countries have adopted a ‘capabilities-based approach’ to developing and operating their armed forces. More responsive and versatile military capabilities must be developed to meet the contemporary challenges. The systems approach is seen as a beneficial means of overcoming traps in resolving complex real -world issues by conventional thinking. The main objectives of this dissertation are to explore and assess the means to enhance the development of military capabilities both in concept development and experimentation (CD&E) and in national defence materiel collaboration issues. This research provides a unique perspective, a systems approach, to the development areas of concern in resolving complex real-world issues. This dissertation seeks to increase the understanding of the military capability concept both as a whole and with in its life cycle. The dissertation follows the generic functionalist systems methodology by Jackson. The methodology applies a comprehensive set of constitutive rules to examine the research objectives. This dissertation makes contribution to current studies about military capability. It presents two interdepen dent conceptual capability models: the comprehensive capability meta-model (CCMM) and the holistic capability life cycle model (HCLCM). These models holistically and systematically complement the existing, but still evolving, understanding of military capability and its life cycle. In addition, this dissertation contributes to the scientific discussion of defence procurement in its broad meaning by introducing the holistic model about the national defence materiel collaboration between the defence forces, defence industry and academia. The model connects the key collaborative mechanisms, which currently work in isolation from each other, and take into consideration the unique needs of each partner. This dissertation contributes empirical evidence regarding the benefits of enterprise architectures (EA) to CD&E. The EA approach may add value to traditional concept development by increasing the clarity, consistency and completeness of the concept. The most important use considered for EA in CD&E is that it enables further utilisation of the concept created in the case project.

Investigating Concept Mapping and Stimulated Recall to Reveal Academic Teacher Beliefs and how they are enacted through learning designs for the Web

Increasingly, academic teachers are designing their own web sites to add value to or replace other forms of university teaching. These web sites are tangible and dynamic constructions that represent the teachers thinking and decisions derived from an implicit belief system about teaching and learning. The emphasis of this study is to explore the potential of the research techniques of concept-mapping and stimulated recall to locate the implicit pedagogies of academic teachers and investigate how they are enacted through the learning designs of their web sites. The rationale behind such an investigation is that once these implicit belief systems are made visible, then conversations can commence about how these beliefs are transformed into practice, providing a potent departure point for academic development.

Implementa????o de uma pol??tica ambiental no ??mbito do Plano de Desenvolvimento Sustent??vel do Rio Grande do Norte

Num contexto marcado pela difus??o e consolida????o do conceito de desenvolvimento sustent??vel e como desdobramento do Projeto ??ridas ??? estrat??gia de desenvolvimento sustent??vel para o Nordeste brasileiro ???, ?? promulgado, em 1997, o Plano de Desenvolvimento Sustent??vel do Rio Grande do Norte ??? P.D.S./R.N. Constatado o insatisfat??rio grau de cumprimento de suas a????es, este trabalho busca identificar e analisar os fatores que dificultam a implementa????o do P.D.S./R.N., fazendo recorte de uma de suas pol??ticas ??? a pol??tica ambiental. O pressuposto assumido pelo presente trabalho ?? o de que a dificuldade de implementa????o da pol??tica ambiental, contida no P.D.S./R.N., deve-se, de um lado, ?? inefici??ncia do Estado e, de outro, ?? baixa capacidade de articula????o dos atores sociais. Em contraposi????o aos fatores identificados como dificultadores do processo de implementa????o da pol??tica ambiental, s??o sugeridos aspectos pass??veis de aumentar as possibilidades de sucesso de uma pol??tica dessa natureza.

Estudio de gestión de la finca La Esperanza, municipio de Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua

El presente proyecto tiene como finalidad el análisis de la Finca la Esperanza, en la localidad de Pueblo Nuevo, en la República de Nicaragua. En dicho análisis se estudian parámetros edáficos, calidad de agua y económicos, con el objetivo de poder plantear una propuesta de mejora en los rendimientos de la finca tanto a nivel económico como ambiental. La iniciativa de realizar este estudio surge de las necesidades del propio agricultor, que plantea el desarrollo rural sobre la base de actividades respetuosas con el medio. Las estrategias a los problemas sociales originados por la producción agraria industrial, como el éxodo rural, la pérdida de la agricultura convencional, la nueva función de los espacios agrarios de la sociedad, etc., se formalizaron en el denominado Desarrollo Sostenible. A nivel de finca cualquier concepción de sustentabilidad necesita que el agrosistema sea considerado como un ecosistema, en el que la investigación y la producción busquen no solamente altos rendimientos sino la optimización del sistema como un todo. Tal propósito requiere armonizar una viabilidad económica con otras variables, como estabilidad ecológica y equidad social. Para ello, los principios básicos de un sistema sostenible son: la conservación de los recursos renovables, la adaptación del cultivo al ambiente y el mantenimiento de un moderado pero sostenible nivel de producción. Como resultado de los análisis y observaciones hechas a lo largo de la estancia en la finca, se propone un plan de actuación de 10 años de duración en los cuales se procura alcanzar no únicamente unas cuotas máximas de rendimiento sino también la supervivencia de los recursos, base de la familia Videa Vanegas, propietarios.