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2. Factors affecting the perceptions of Iranian agricultural researchers towards nanotechnology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hosseini, Seyed Mahmood (author) and Rezaei, Rohollah (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10593
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(4): 513–524
- Notes:
- 12 pages., via online journal., This descriptive survey research was undertaken to design appropriate programs for the creation of a positive perception of nanotechnology among their intended beneficiaries. In order to do that, the factors affecting positive perceptions were defined. A stratified random sample of 278 science board members was selected out of 984 researchers who were working in 22 National Agricultural Research Institutions (NARIs). Data were collected by using a mailed questionnaire. The descriptive results revealed that more than half of the respondents had “low” or “very low” familiarity with nanotechnology. Regression analysis indicated that the perceptions of Iranian NARI Science Board Members towards nanotechnology were explained by three variables: the level of their familiarity with emerging applications of nanotechnology in agriculture, the level of their familiarity with nanotechnology and their work experiences. The findings of this study can contribute to a better understanding of the present situation of the development of nanotechnology and the planning of appropriate programs for creating a positive perception of nanotechnology.
3. Networked resilience in rural Australia– a role for health promotion in regional responses to climate change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Van Beurden, Eric K. (author), Kia, Annie M. (author), Hughes, Denise (author), Fuller, Jeffery D. (author), Dietrich, Uta (author), Howton, Kirsty (author), and Kavooru, Suman (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Australia: Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10631
- Journal Title:
- Health Promotion Journal of Australia
- Journal Title Details:
- 22: (4) 54-60
- Notes:
- 7 pages., via online journal., Human health is indivisible from ecological health and there is increasing focus on climate change as the major preventable threat to the health of humanity. The direct associations between climate change and population health are well documented, as are potential co-benefits of climate action.1-6 Australia is entering a period of climatic extremes.7,8 The socially stable and agriculturally productive Northern Rivers region of New South Wales is set to experience increasing temperatures, storms, flooding and erosion.9,10 This will likely be compounded by changes in socio/political, environmental, agricultural and economic systems with resultant impacts on social and environmental determinants of health.11,12 How might a rural population of 280,000 respond? In 2007, community resilience to climate change was neither a state nor federal health promotion priority. The former North Coast Area Health Service Health Promotion (NCHP) adopted one promising direction: to foster a collaboration of existing organisations to accelerate regional action on climate change.13-15 The former NSW Department of Climate Change funded the pilot project: Resilience: building health from regional responses to climate change. The project incorporated principles from Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theory with emphasis on the concepts of resilience and