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Essential oil crops for sustainable agriculture - A review

2009

Multifunctionality and diversification of farming systems, integration of agricultural practices both inter se and with the non-agricultural productive systems operating on the territory, biodiversity safeguards, and reduction in off-farm inputs, are key factors for all modern development strategies in agricultural areas. Such issues are valid worldwide, but are especially true in areas in which the cultivation of the more widespread and “classical” crops is constrained by factors of varying degree and importance. In Mediterranean areas, where many environmental and economic factors often reduce rural areas to marginal conditions, the search for new crop opportunities has become one of the …

Back to Basics: The Relative Importance of Transformational and Fair Leadership for Employee Work Engagement and Exhaustion

2016

This study contributes to the literature on the supervisors’ role in employee well-being by drawing on two separate lines of research: transformational leadership and organizational justice. The purpose of the study was to investigate the unique contributions of transformational and fair leadership (justice behaviours of supervisors) on work engagement and exhaustion among employees within the framework of the Job Demands-Resources model (Bakker and Demerouti, 2007). In determining the unique contributions, we additionally acknowledged the role of work characteristics. A questionnaire study was conducted among Finnish municipal employees in a variety of occupations (N = 333, 87% women). The…

Multiculturalism as a problem in the era of globalization

2013

URBAN REGENERATION PROCESSES IN RIGA

2013

ANOTĀCIJA Pilsētas revitalizācijas process ir nozīmīga tēma mūsdienu pilsētu ģeogrāfijas pētījumos, un to raksturo dažādas formas un izpausmes. Rīgā kopš Latvijas valstiskās neatkarības atjaunošanas ir notikuši dažādi pilsētu pārmaiņu procesi. Svarīga loma šajos pilsētas pārmaiņu procesos ir pilsētas revitalizācijas procesiem, kuru rezultātā tiek revitalizētas un atkārtoti izmantotas degradētas teritorijas, tādējādi veicinot ilgtspējīgu pilsētas attīstību. Promocijas darba „Pilsētas revitalizācijas procesi Rīgā” mērķis ir izvērtēt pilsētas attīstības procesus, analizējot pilsētas revitalizācijas izpausmes Rīgā. Pētījuma ietvaros tika izstrādāta atbilstoša metodika pilsētas revitalizācijas p…