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Marine Protected Dramas: The Flaws of the Brazilian National System of Marine Protected Areas 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger Eduardo A. S. Godoy Peter J. S. Jones Gilberto Sales Beatrice P. Ferreira 《Environmental management》2011,47(4):630-643
This article discusses the current problems and issues associated with the implementation of a National System of Marine Protected
Areas in Brazil. MPA managers and higher governmental level authorities were interviewed about their perceptions of the implementation
of a national MPA strategy and the recent changes in the institutional arrangement of government marine conservation agencies.
Interviewees’ narratives were generally pessimistic and the National System was perceived as weak, with few recognizable marine
conservation outcomes on the ground. The following major flaws were identified: poor inter-institutional coordination of coastal
and ocean governance; institutional crisis faced by the national government marine conservation agency; poor management within
individual MPAs; problems with regional networks of marine protected areas; an overly bureaucratic management and administrative
system; financial shortages creating structural problems and a disconnect between MPA policy and its delivery. Furthermore,
a lack of professional motivation and a pessimistic atmosphere was encountered during many interviews, a malaise which we
believe affects how the entire system is able to respond to crises. Our findings highlight the need for a better understanding
of the role of ‘leadership’ in the performance of socio-ecological systems (such as MPA networks), more effective official
evaluation mechanisms, more localized audits of (and reforms if necessary to) Brazil’s federal biodiversity conservation agency
(ICMBio), and the need for political measures to promote state leadership and support. Continuing to focus on the designation
of more MPAs whilst not fully addressing these issues will achieve little beyond fulfilling, on paper, Brazil’s international
marine biodiversity commitments. 相似文献
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This study reports how Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and informal cultural institutions have conserved key varieties
of the wildgrowing rice, ‘tinni’ (red rice, or brownbeard rice, Oriza rufipogon Griff.), within the Bhar community of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. The study was conducted, using conventional and participatory
methods, in 10 purposively selected Bhar villages. Two distinct varieties of tinni (‘tinni patali’ and ‘tinni moti’) with differing habitats and phenotypic characters were identified. Seven microecosystems (Kari, Badaila, Chammo, Karmol,
Bhainsiki, Bhainsala and Khodailia) were found to support these varieties in differing proportions. Tinni rice can withstand more extreme weather conditions (the highest as well as lowest temperatures and rainfall regimes) than
the ‘genetically improved’ varieties of rice (Oriza sativa L.) grown in the region. Both tinni varieties are important bioresources for the Bhar’s subsistence livelihoods, and they use distinctive conservation approaches
in their maintenance. Bhar women are the main custodians of tinni rice agrobiodiversity, conserving tinni through an institution called Sajha. Democratic decision-making at meetings organized by village elders determines the market
price of the tinni varieties. Overall, the indigenous institutions and women’s participation seem to have provided safeguards from excessive
exploitation of tinni rice varieties. The maintenance of tinni through cultural knowledge and institutions serves as an example of the importance of locally maintained crop varieties in
contributing to people’s resilience and food security in times of rapid social and environmental change. 相似文献
3.
Climate change is a significant environmental, social and environmental problem that has been identified by scientists in
consensus internationally. The Australian Government’s response is considered by environmental non-government organisations
(NGOs) to be inadequate. NGOs are ‘change agents’ of society, and in this role they are agitating to influence political decision-making
on climate change response.
This paper outlines the campaign strategies being used by Australian NGOs to attract public and political attention to the
issue of climate change. Using seven NGOs as case studies, the archival materials of these organisations were accessed and
analysed. Current academic and other literature also was used to reflect on their effectiveness. Four campaign themes and,
within these, fifteen activities were identified.
The results indicate that the notion of whether NGOs are undertaking an ‘revolutionary’ or ‘incremental’ approach, or any
other narrow strategic approach put forward by various scholars is too simple for analysing campaigns: none of the NGOs appear
to intentionally favour one type of strategy. The question raised by this finding is whether the NGOs’ current ‘multi-strategic’
approach is effective. This research contributes to filling the information gap with regard to NGO campaign strategies on
environmental issues, and highlights the need for further research. 相似文献
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Catherine Oelofse 《Local Environment》2013,18(3):261-275
This paper uses a critical realist framework to analyse environmental risk in a local space. It argues that urban risk needs to be understood in terms of the causal mechanisms that shape risk events and the contingent conditions that provide the context within which they occur. It uses a case study of an informal settlement in Hout Bay, South Africa, to explore these ideas. It is an approach that challenges the dominant technical and scientific discourse that usually determines the understanding of risk. The research suggests that the key causal mechanisms that shape risk events in informal settlements are globalisation and urbanisation, poverty and vulnerability, the social construction of environmental problems, gender relations, the rise of civil society organisations, political governance and the spatial distribution of risk. The environmental characteristics of the site, as well as the development of the settlement during the political transformation in South Africa, are the key contingent conditions determining the nature of risk. 相似文献
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Crifasi RR 《Environmental management》2005,36(5):625-639
“A skyscraper is as natural as a bird’s nest” –Alan Watts
For millennia, people have altered freshwater ecosystems directly through water development and indirectly by global change
and surrounding land-use activities. In these altered ecosystems, human impacts can be subtle and are sometimes overlooked
by the people who manage them. This article provides two case studies near Boulder, Colorado that demonstrate how perceptions
regarding these ecosystems affect their management. These examples are typical of lakes and streams along the Front Range
of Colorado that are simultaneously natural and social in origin. Although natural, many of the region’s freshwater ecosystems
are affected by ongoing ecologic, hydrologic, chemical, and geomorphic modifications produced by human activity. People and
nature are both active participants in the production of these freshwater ecosystems. The concept of “hybridity,” borrowed
from geographers and social scientists, is useful for describing landscapes of natural and social origin. Hybrid freshwater
ecosystems are features of the humanized landscape and are derived from deliberate cultural activities, nonhuman physical
and biological processes, and incidental anthropogenic disturbance. Our perceptions of “natural” freshwater ecosystems and
what definitions we use to describe them influences our view of hybrid systems and, in turn, affects management decisions
regarding them. This work stresses the importance of understanding the underlying societal forces and cultural values responsible
for the creation of hybrid freshwater ecosystems as a central step in their conservation and management. 相似文献
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Catherine Oelofse 《Local Environment》2003,8(3):261-275
This paper uses a critical realist framework to analyse environmental risk in a local space. It argues that urban risk needs to be understood in terms of the causal mechanisms that shape risk events and the contingent conditions that provide the context within which they occur. It uses a case study of an informal settlement in Hout Bay, South Africa, to explore these ideas. It is an approach that challenges the dominant technical and scientific discourse that usually determines the understanding of risk. The research suggests that the key causal mechanisms that shape risk events in informal settlements are globalisation and urbanisation, poverty and vulnerability, the social construction of environmental problems, gender relations, the rise of civil society organisations, political governance and the spatial distribution of risk. The environmental characteristics of the site, as well as the development of the settlement during the political transformation in South Africa, are the key contingent conditions determining the nature of risk. 相似文献
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Towards a Duty of Care for Biodiversity 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
The decline in biodiversity is a worldwide phenomenon, with current rates of species extinction more dramatic than any previously
recorded. Habitat loss has been identified as the major cause of biodiversity decline. In this article we suggest that a statutory
duty of care would complement the current mix of policy options for biodiversity conservation. Obstacles hindering the introduction
of a statutory duty of care include linguistic ambiguity about the terms ‘duty of care’ and ‘stewardship’ and how they are
applied in a natural resource management context, and the absence of a mechanism to guide its implementation. Drawing on international
literature and key informant interviews we have articulated characteristics of duty of care to reduce linguistic ambiguity,
and developed a framework for implementing a duty of care for biodiversity at the regional scale. The framework draws on key
elements of the common law ‘duty of care’, the concepts of ‘taking reasonable care’ and ‘avoiding foreseeable harm’, in its
logic. Core elements of the framework include desired outcomes for biodiversity, supported by current recommended practices.
The focus on outcomes provides opportunities for the development of innovative management practices. The framework incorporates
multiple pathways for the redress of non-compliance including tiered negative sanctions, and positive measures to encourage
compliance. Importantly, the framework addresses the need for change and adaptation that is a necessary part of biodiversity
management. 相似文献
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Thomas WH 《Environmental management》2010,45(1):82-92
It has been proposed that indigenous societies can be models for the conservation of biodiversity. However, attempts at implementing
conservation-based development plans are being judged failures. In this article, I argue that these failures can be addressed
by translating indigenous knowledge into context that is mutually intelligible to both indigenous people and conservation
biologists. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnobiological fieldwork, this article uses indigenous knowledge to describe the
relationship of traditional life to biodiversity for the Hewa of Papua New Guinea’s Central Range. The island of New Guinea
is one of the planet’s last bastions of cultural and biological diversity. Using birds as an indicator of diversity, I argue
that more productive conservation policies will emerge when indigenous activities are viewed not as vehicles for establishing
equilibrium with the environment, but as a source of ecological disturbance. Although Hewa traditions currently play a significant
role in shaping this biologically diverse environment, their lifestyle is not necessarily a template for sustainability in
the future. 相似文献
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Stamatis Zogaris Alcibiades N. Economou Panayotis Dimopoulos 《Environmental management》2009,43(4):682-697
Ecoregion delineations have gained increased attention in Europe, especially following the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC
(WFD), which provides the European Union’s first policy-relevant ecoregion map. However, the WFD’s ecoregions were created
through a minor adaptation of Illies’ (Limnofauna Europaea. Gustav Fisher Verlag, Stuttgart, 1967/1978) freshwater zoogeographic
regions, and the map’s specific boundaries have not been widely evaluated with respect to the WFD’s uses or their biogeographic
accuracy. We examined the WFD ecoregion boundaries in Greece and its neighboring Balkan states by comparing them with the
most prominent freshwater biogeographic boundaries as shown by riverine freshwater fish assemblages. Classification and ordination
analyses of 23 river basin fish assemblages helped delineate natural faunal break boundaries in freshwater species assemblage
distributions depicting major biogeographic barriers to aquatic biota dispersal. However, these biogeographic boundaries differ
from those delineated in the WFD map, suggesting boundary errors and inconsistencies in the delineation method of the WFD
ecoregions. We reviewed specific boundary disagreements and produced a map showing the region’s most prominent freshwater
biogeographic boundaries by charting them on watershed borders among the four biotically dissimilar river basin groups in
the southern Balkans. This regional evaluation reveals both a need to reconcile disparate approaches to ecoregion mapping
and to promote the development of a new policy-relevant inland waters ecoregion framework that would support broad-scale water
management and aquatic conservation. 相似文献
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Kepe T 《Environmental management》2008,41(3):311-321
Comanagement has recently become the most popular approach for reconciling land claims and biodiversity conservation in South
Africa and beyond. Following the resolution of land claims on protected areas in South Africa, comanagement arrangements have
been created between the relevant conservation authorities and the land claimant communities who are legally awarded tenure
rights to the land. However, it is doubtful that these partnerships constitute success for the former land claimants. Using
the case of a “resolved” land claim in Mkambati Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape Province, as well as insights from comanagement
literature, this paper identifies and discusses three key possible reasons for the unimpressive performance of comanagement
in reconciling land restitution and conservation. The first one is the origins of the comanagement idea in the conservation
of high value natural resources (e.g., fisheries, forestry), rather than in or including concerns for resource rights. The
second reason is the neglect of key conditions for successful comanagement, as discussed in the comanagement literature. The
final reason is the ambiguity in settlement agreements, including the use of terminology and concepts that reinforce unequal
power relationships, with the state emerging as the powerful partner. This paper concludes that, unless there is a serious
reassessment of the comanagement idea as a way of reconciling land reform and conservation, and a possible review of settlement
agreements that have relied on comanagement, both the integrity of the “successful land claimant’s rights” and that of conservation
remain under threat. 相似文献
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A Combined Park Management Framework Based on Regulatory and Behavioral Strategies: Use of Visitors' Knowledge to Assess Effectiveness 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
KOSTANTINOS PAPAGEORGIOU 《Environmental management》2001,28(1):61-73
In light of the increasing mandate for greater efficiency in conservation of natural reserves such as national parks, the
present study suggests educational approaches as a tool to achieve conservation purposes. Currently, the management of human–wildlife
interactions is dominated by regulatory strategies, but considerable potential exists for environmental education to enhance
knowledge in the short run and to prompt attitude change in the long run. A framework for conservation based on both traditional
regulatory- and behavior-oriented strategies was proposed whereby the level of knowledge that park visitors have acquired
comprises an obvious outcome and establishes a basis upon which the effectiveness of regulatory- and behavior-based regimes
could be assessed. The perceptions regarding park-related issues of two distinct visitor groups (locals and nonlocals) are
summarized from a survey undertaken in Vikos-Aoos national park. The findings suggest a superficial knowledge for certain
concepts but little profound understanding of the content of such concepts, indicating that knowledge-raising efforts should
go a long way towards establishing a positive attitude for the resource. Visitors' poor knowledge of the park's operation
regulation contest the efficiency of the presently dominant regulatory management regime. While geographical distances did
not appear to significantly differentiate knowledge between the two groups, wilderness experience (as certified by visits
to other parks) was proved to be an impetus for generating substantial learner interest in critical park issues among nonlocal
visitors. School education and media were found to be significant knowledge providers. 相似文献
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Maintenance of Forest Biodiversity in a Post-Soviet Governance Model: Perceptions by Local Actors in Lithuania 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Successful biodiversity conservation does not depend on ecologic knowledge alone. Good conservation policies and policy implementation
tools are equally important. Moreover, the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of local actors, directly in charge of operations
in the field, are a key to successful policy implementation. The connections between policy objectives and their implementation
as well as the involvement of local actors’ efforts in implementing policy objectives largely depend on the governance model
in use. This article assesses the knowledge of local actors in relation to the biodiversity conservation objectives and tools
in Lithuanian forest management. As a main framework for this study, the needs assessment approach was applied. The study
used both in-depth open-ended interviews and follow-up telephone interviews. Two state forest enterprises in Lithuania were
selected as the study sites. The findings indicate that policy objectives in the field of forest biodiversity conservation
and the related tools are well known but not well understood by those in charge of forest biodiversity policy implementation.
To improve the situation, a transition toward adaptive learning and participatory governance as a means of facilitating conservation
efforts is proposed. 相似文献
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Avoiding percolation of water into refuse is the key function of landfill covers. ‘Phytocapping’ has been considered as an
effective, economical and environment-friendly technique for landfill remediation. In this technique, trees are established
on a layer of soil cap placed over the refuse. Soil cover acts as a ‘storage’ and trees act as ‘bio-pump and filters’. For
effective functioning of this technique, it is critical that an ‘optimum’ depth of soil is placed over the refuse, and ‘suitable’
plant species are used as plant cover. Preliminary results of a phytocapping trial (using 21 tree species and two depths of
soil layers) show that the established trees can remove more water than that received via rainfall and rainfall interception
can reduce up to 20% of the rain reaching the soil in a 1.5 year old plantation. The study is also trialling an US numeric
model ‘STOMP’ (Subsurface Transport over Multiple Phases), to calculate daily water balance, to identify suitable plant species
and to optimise thickness of the soil cover to be used in phytocapping. 相似文献
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This paper offers a field tested community environmental policing model to address the pressing environmental management challenges of reducing e-waste burning in informal e-waste hubs, and enforcement against informal polluting industries more broadly. This is based on our intervention to reduce e-waste burning in a substantial informal e-waste hub in the West Bank, Palestine, a 45 km2 region in which an estimated 5–10 metric tonnes of cables are burnt daily, causing serious environmental and public health consequences. In analogous e-waste hubs in the global South, environmental management solutions have focused on economically attractive alternatives to replace cable burning or policies that integrate informal recyclers with formal e-waste management systems—achieving little success. Our paper describes a two-pronged intervention in Palestine’s e-waste hub, which reduced e-waste burning by 80% through a combination of economically competitive cable grinding services and an “active” community environmental policing initiative that lowered barriers to and successfully advocated for governmental policing of e-waste burning. Our discussion of this intervention addresses the community environmental policing literature, which has documented few successes stories of real improvements to the enforcement of environmental violations. We argue that existing strategies have relied on “passive” approaches comprised of monitoring and reporting environmental violations to advocate for change. Our strategy offers a template to improve outcomes through a more “active” approach, moving from monitoring environmental violations through understanding the rationale and dynamics of violators, identifying environmental policing barriers, and implementing a feasible and persuasive strategy to overcome them. 相似文献
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Three geomorphic considerations that underpin the design and implementation of realistic and strategic river conservation
and rehabilitation programs that work with the nature are outlined. First, the importance of appreciating the inherent diversity
of river forms and processes is discussed. Second, river dynamics are appraised, framing the contemporary behavioral regime
of a reach in relation to system evolution to explain changes to river character and behavior over time. Third, the trajectory
of a reach is framed in relation to downstream patterns of river types, analyzing landscape connectivity at the catchment
scale to interpret geomorphic river recovery potential. The application of these principles is demonstrated using extensive
catchment-scale analyses of geomorphic river responses to human disturbance in the Bega and Upper Hunter catchments in southeastern
Australia. Differing implications for reach- and catchment-scale rehabilitation planning prompt the imperative that management
practices work with nature rather than strive to ‘fight the site.’ 相似文献
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Prévot-Julliard AC Clavel J Teillac-Deschamps P Julliard R 《Environmental management》2011,47(3):315-321
To garner support for biodiversity from the World’s human population, conservation biologists need an open-minded, integrated
conservation strategy. We suggest that this strategy should include efforts to (1) preserve existing high quality, diverse
ecosystems, (2) remediate impaired systems, (3) balance the needs of people and ecological resources, and (4) engender appreciation
of nature and its services. We refer to these four key tenets as reservation, restoration, reconciliation, and reconnection.
We illustrate these concepts by presenting the debate surrounding the management of exotic species from an unusual perspective,
the benefits of exotic species. By this example we hope to encourage an integrated approach to conservation in which management
strategies can be flexible, adjusting to society’s needs and the overall goals of conservation. 相似文献
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Sibekile Mtetwa 《Natural resources forum》1999,23(1):31-42
Fresh water has become a very topical, emotive and sensitive issue in Zimbabwe following the recent continued droughts in conjunction with lack of finance to expand water resources development. Heated debates have arisen over the availability, allocation, distribution, disbursement and conservation of this precious resource. A great deal of inefficiency has also resulted from Government Ministries or Departments playing all the roles, from policymaking to supply operations. Government authorities often make the mistake of controlling day-to-day management of water and sewage services. In fact, greater accountability results when Government authorities focus on policymaking, establishing regulatory regimes that provide incentives for achieving goals and sanctions for serious failures, while giving sufficient autonomy to entities responsible for investment and operations to control outcomes. It is becoming more and more evident throughout the world that provision of water, as opposed to the planning and allocation of the water resource, should be handled by commercial undertakers. Indeed, Zimbabwe and its neighbours are currently involved with changing the status of their water departments to corporate entities; Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia have already commercialised or are currently in the process of commercialising their freshwater supply services. 相似文献
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Micaelle Snia de Alcntara Camilla Marques de Lucena Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena Denise Dias da Cruz 《Environmental management》2020,65(3):420-432
The development of conservation strategies for nontimber forest products requires the characterization of the management systems and ethnoecological knowledge of the used species, as well as the analysis of the biological impacts of these processes. This study aimed to evaluate management systems and extractivist areas and related ethnoecological knowledge of Dimorphandra gardneriana (fava d’anta) in the semiarid region of Ceará, Northeast of Brazil. Fava d’anta produces fruits with high concentration of bioflavonoids, substances with various pharmacological properties, being exploited by extractivist communities in the mosaic of protected areas in Chapada do Araripe, Ceará. Ethnoecological knowledge has been concentrated on collectors who have been in activity for a longer time and/or plant the species. We identified three management systems that can impact in different ways on fava d’anta populations, depending on the area and level of human interference with the species. The extractivists respect the zoning of protected areas and do not enter in the full protection area, choosing areas with the highest tree density. The different systems produce a mosaic that creates different extraction opportunities and modifications to the local landscape and to fava d’anta populations. Factors that may have effects on the conservation of the species are the lack of supervision and overexploitation of the resource in native areas, while the factors that affect the health of extractivists are the infrastructure of the work and exposure to wild environments. 相似文献
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Saproxylic (dead-wood-associated) and old-growth species are among the most threatened species in European forest ecosystems,
as they are susceptible to intensive forest management. Identifying areas with particular relevant features of biodiversity
is of prime concern when developing species conservation and habitat restoration strategies and in optimizing resource investments.
We present an approach to identify regional conservation and restoration priorities even if knowledge on species distribution
is weak, such as for saproxylic and old-growth species in Switzerland. Habitat suitability maps were modeled for an expert-based
selection of 55 focal species, using an ecological niche factor analyses (ENFA). All the maps were then overlaid, in order
to identify potential species’ hotspots for different species groups of the 55 focal species (e.g., birds, fungi, red-listed
species). We found that hotspots for various species groups did not correspond. Our results indicate that an approach based
on “richness hotspots” may fail to conserve specific species groups. We hence recommend defining a biodiversity conservation
strategy prior to implementing conservation/restoration efforts in specific regions. The conservation priority setting of
the five biogeographical regions in Switzerland, however, did not differ when different hotspot definitions were applied.
This observation emphasizes that the chosen method is robust. Since the ENFA needs only presence data, this species prediction
method seems to be useful for any situation where the species distribution is poorly known and/or absence data are lacking.
In order to identify priorities for either conservation or restoration efforts, we recommend a method based on presence data
only, because absence data may reflect factors unrelated to species presence. 相似文献
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Pamela D. McElwee 《Environmental management》2010,45(1):113-131
This article examines the use of forests in a protected area by nearby agriculturalists in central Vietnam. Research indicates
that the majority of rural farmers interviewed who lived near a state designated protected area were receiving both subsistence
and cash incomes from forest-based activities, primarily from the collection of forest products. However, much of the collection
of forest produce was officially illegal, as it occurred in state protected forests, and interdiction efforts were on the
increase. Yet, little attention has been paid in Vietnam to the need for income substitution for households who lose access
to forest produce as a result of conservation enforcement, particularly in the case of farmers who live near, but not in,
protected areas; their resources use has been ‘invisible’ due to a lack of attention and research on the topic. This misunderstanding
of the importance of forests to rural farmers has the potential to result in households facing adverse welfare and livelihood
outcomes as protected areas boundaries are tightened, and local communities face increased opportunity costs due to stricter
conservation enforcement. The article concludes that substitution for loss of income due to conservation activities would
best be achieved through carefully targeted interventions to specific high-impact and high-dependency households. Additionally,
investments in new sources of wage labor and other low capital-input activities, rather than in agriculture, would likely
be of most benefit. 相似文献