Search Results - Argument from authority

Argument för grönska by Gunnarsson, Emma

“…This essay examines what some of the Swedish authorities’ argument are for vegetation, what their grounds are for the arguments and why vegetation is important for the human health and experience. …”
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Indigenous Peoples, Representation and Citizenship in Guatemalan Forestry by Larson, A.M.

“…The article finds that both authorities have some strengths as well as important weaknesses, thus supporting arguments for the reinvention of both liberal democracy and tradition in the interest of inclusive citizenship…”
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Forestry, poverty, and rural development: perspectives from the bamboo subsector by Ruíz Pérez, M., Belcher, B., Maoyi Fu, Xiaosheng Yang

“…These observations on bamboo do not reject the standard arguments about forestry as a development leader, However, they do prompt the authors to urge caution in their applications, particularly with regard to assistance for the very poorest.…”
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Strategi för livsmedelssäkerhet : varför behöver Sverige en sådan? by Faijermo, Sofie

Hur kan skogsbad skölja bort stressen hos den urbana människan? by Ajanki, Jenny, Attesson, Johanna

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Contening cultures amongst development actors by Messerschmidt, Don, Gurung, Barun, Biggs, Stephen D.

“…Lewis et al (2003) establish a cogent argument which suggests that serious analysis of the culture of aid organizations, and of the relationships with other actors, matters, and that it is a neglected area of analysis. …”
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Ideology, social theory, and the environment by Sunderlin, William D.

“…This book shows that these polemical debates are governed not so much by access to "facts" as they are by the political ideology of the expert advancing a particular argument. Moreover, the thoughts of these experts tend to be based largely in just one of three competing streams of political thought: the left, the center, or the right. …”
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The broader institutional context of participatory plant breeding in the changing agricultural and natural resources R&D system in Nepal by Biggs, Stephen D., Gauchan, Devendra

“…Th. paper illustrates the argument by using case-study materials from recent experiences in Nepal.…”
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Drops of knowledge : a case study of the private water market in Guayaquil, Ecuador by Biro, Josephine

“…This makes it difficult for individual households to obtain updated information about the quality of the tap water and to trust the authorities and their information. Therefore, the households have to use their own knowledge and draw from their previous understanding of the water problems as well as develop different strategies to reassure that they can obtain potable water. …”

Fullfoder för får by Johansson, Björn

“…An argument given by many farmers to invest in a TMR system is to rationalize the labour. …”
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Los sesgos del contra-consenso eco-alarmista by Easdale, Marcos Horacio

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Splitleverans av mjölk : en studie om svenska mjölkproducenters incitament till splitleverans by Helgesson, Matilda, Svensson, Ellinor

Aspekter på flyttkostnader, fastighetsbildning och fastighetstorlekar by Ekholm, Anders

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Famine in Africa: Causes, responses, and prevention by von Braun, Joachim, Teklu, Tesfaye, Webb, Patrick

“…Researchers differ on how to address this problem effectively, but their arguments are often not informed by empirical analysis from a famine context. …”
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Reinterpreting ecosystem services : a governance perspective on what ’ecosystem services’ mean in practice for different socio-political actors by Calvo Robledo, Ana

“…A governance framework for empirical analysis was applied to qualitative material from five semi-structured interviews. Participants of this study were individual actors from two countries who worked in consultancies, NGOs and local authorities. …”

The impact of NAFTA on the United States by Burfisher, Mary E., Robinson, Sherman, Thierfelder, Karen

“…We describe the main economic arguments posed for and against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) during the U.S. policy debate. …”
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Central Africa’s protected areas and the purported displacement of people: a first critical review of existing data by Maisels, S., Sunderland, Terry C.H., Curran, B., Loebenstein, K. von, Oates, J., Usongo, L., Dunn, A., Asaha, S., Balinga, M., Defo, L., Telfer, P.

“…The same data are used for multiple papers to support the authors’ arguments relating to the human welfare costs of protected area establishment, which is, in turn, being uncritically cited by others also questioning whether such trade-offs are acceptable (e.g., Hutton et al. 2005; Tiani and Diaw 2006). …”
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Are we there yet? The rigorousness of impact evaluations of nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions by Meister, Will

“…To look further into these topics, the author interviewed a judgment sample of individuals from the agriculture-nutrition community. …”
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Out of the shadow of famine: Evolving food markets and food policy in Bangladesh by Ahmed, Raisuddin, Haggblade, Steven, Chowdhury, Tawfiq-e-Elahi

“…The book sets the Bangladeshi case in the larger context of the South Asian subcontinent and other developing countries in Asia. The authors examine the shifting structure of supply and demand in the grain markets, the history of government intervention in those markets, and the more recent changes that altered the arguments for such intervention and led to policy changes. …”
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La institucionalidad del crédito agropecuario en Colombia: un enfoque en el sector ganadero by Díaz, Manuel Francisco, Hurtado, Angie, Enciso, Karen, Burkart, Stefan

“…On both sides there are arguments that blur any attempt at a balance sheet. …”
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