Online via Ebsco Host. 2 pages., Report on information sources used by engineering professionals and corporate executives in small and Fortune 500 companies.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08014
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John L. Woods Collection, Produced for Legacy, Inc., in cooperation with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D. C. Prepared by the University of South Alabama. 35 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08060
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John L. Woods Collection, Communication baseline study and action plans for this air improvement project in Cairo, Egypt. Four documents. Pages not numbered.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08065
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John L. Woods Collection, Report of a national survey in support of the GreenCOMM Egypt III project supported by the U. S. Agency for International Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources, Egypt. 144 pages. See GreenCOMM Egypt III Project file (Document D08064).
9 pages., via online journal., Treatment of domestic waste has been one of the major environmental problems in Hong Kong. The Government has a stated policy to advocate the minimization of waste disposal through the encouragement of waste reduction, re-use and recycling. The current study applies Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour to predict behavioural intention and actual behaviour of voluntary use of waste recycling receptacles. A systematic random sample of 173 household members in a public housing estate were interviewed. The results indicated that attitude was the major factor in predicting behavioural intention, followed by behavioural control and social norms. Attitude, subjective norm and perceived control together explained 44% of the variance of behavioural intention. Perception of mass media as a major source of subjective norm was first introduced and tested. Mass communication stood out as one of the major sources of influence in establishment of subjective norms. The study has the implication that more publicity messages should be put on the mass media to promote green behaviours.
13 pages., via online journal., Many rice farmers decide to spray insecticides based on their perception of potential damage and losses caused by pest species. Farmers generally overestimate the seriousness of the rice leaf folder from visible damage and apply insecticides early, and therefore, changing perceptions may help reduce the perceived benefits of unnecessary spraying. Farmers in Long An province, Vietnam, were motivated to ‘test’ a heuristic or rule of thumb, ‘insecticide spraying for leaf folder control in the first 40 days after sowing is not needed’, by the distribution of carefully designed communication media materials. The media reached 97% of the farmers in the study sites. Leaflets, radio drama and posters had the most effective reach. Thirty-one months after the media introduction, the number of insecticide sprays dropped significantly from 3.35 sprays per farmer per season to 1.56. The proportion of farmers spraying at early and late tillering and booting stages was reduced from 59%, 84% and 85% to 0.2%, 19% and 30%, respectively. Those who did not use any insecticides increased from 1% to 32%. Correspondingly, farmers' perceptions of leaf folder damage as indicated in a belief index, decreased significantly from 11.25 to 7.62. The proportion of farmers who believed that leaf folders could cause losses was reduced from 70% to 25%, as did those who believed that early season spraying was required, from 77% to 23%, respectively. Farmers' insecticide spray frequencies and the belief index were significantly correlated and were not significantly different between farmers who had attended farmer field school training and those who had not. The cost (insecticide and labour) saving was the most important incentive for farmers to stop early season spraying as cited by 89% of the farmers. A survey of 12 other districts in Long An showed that 82% of the province's 210000 households were reached. About 20% had not applied any insecticides, 77% had stopped early season spraying and the average number of insecticide sprays was 1.6 (compared with 1.55 in study sites). The approach was readily adopted by extension in 15 provinces that launched their own programmes, extending to the whole Mekong Delta of 2 million farmer households.
Retrieved January 28, 2007, "The notion comprises knowledge about what to do, which is made up of a clear vision and technical knowledge about how to organize the work, hard work, love, and finally an ability and desire to search for and learn whatever may be needed. The aspects of love and learning capacity are usually unacknowledged in Western conceptions of development strategies informed by a so-called systems approach."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25564
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Pages 283-311 in N.G. Roling and M.A.E. Wagemakers (eds), Facilitating sustainable agriculture: participatory learning and adaptive management in times of environmental uncertainty. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 318 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25573
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Pages 13-24 in Stuart Macdonald and Gary Madden (eds.), Telecommunications and socio-economic development. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 444 pages.
Joseph, Richard (author) and Drahos, Peter (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25574
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Pages 99-118 in Stuart Macdonald and Gary Madden (eds.), Telecommunications and socio-economic development. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 444 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25575
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Pages 77-97 in Stuart Macdonald and Gary Madden (eds.), Telecommunications and socio-economic development. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 444 pages.
Jayasuriya, Sisira (author) and Knight-John, Malathy (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Sri Lanka
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25576
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Pages 353-373 in Stuart Macdonald and Gary Madden (eds.), Telecommunications and socio-economic development. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 444 pages.
