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Effects Of Web-Based Tutoring Software On Math Test Performance : A Look At Gender, Math-Fact Retrieval Ability, Spatial Ability And Type Of Help., Rena L. Walles
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
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Certification Systems As Tools For Natural Asset Building: Potential , Experience To Date, And Critical Challenges, Michael E. Conroy
Certification Systems As Tools For Natural Asset Building: Potential , Experience To Date, And Critical Challenges, Michael E. Conroy
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Certification systems are becoming important tools to encourage and reward social and environmental responsibility. This paper explores whether these systems, which generally have not been designed for the explicit aim of poverty reduction, can assist poor people, either individually or in community-based and small-to-medium production units, to build their natural assets as a basis for sustainable livelihoods. The paper examines two leading certification systems – the Forest Stewardship Council™ and the Fair Trade Certified™ system – and emerging systems in tourism and mining. The results to date have been mixed. In the forestry sector, poverty reduction benefits of certification have …