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Record W158780058

A Case Study on Needs Assessment for Sustainable Rural Development

2013· article· en· W158780058 on OpenAlexaffabout
Israel Dunmade

Bibliographic record

VenueWorld environment · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicRural development and sustainability
Canadian institutionsMount Royal University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeographyThrivingSustainabilitySocioeconomic statusEnvironmental planningSocioeconomicsSustainable developmentEnvironmental protectionEnvironmental resource managementBusinessEnvironmental healthPolitical scienceEnvironmental scienceEcologyMedicineSociologySocial sciencePopulation
DOInot available

Abstract

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The purpose of this project was to identify changes in the ecological, socio-cultural and economic life of selected rural municipalities over several years; to evaluate impacts of econo mic activ ities' on the observed changes; to assess how the observed changes have affected the communit ies' standard of living and their environ ment, and to identify their priorities. Data for the analysis was collected fro m the participants through a combination of survey, reports, soil and water sample analysis, and focus group meetings. Results fro m the study revealed that the towns are suffering fro m environ mental pollution such as noise, odour, and soil and water contaminations fro m past and present economic activit ies. Other problems include stunted growth due to declining industrial/commercial act ivities, flooding, and dissatisfactory intergovernmental relationships. Transformation fro m bedroom co mmun ities to commercially thriving municipalit ies, solving environmental pollution created by past economic activ ities in the area, and engaging various demographic groups in town to participate in socioeconomic and environ mental sustainability projects are among the identified prio rit ies of the communit ies under study. This identification of specific causes of stunted growth, and articulation of priority issues to be tackled for attain ment of sustainable growth in the seven participating towns in Southern Alberta would facilitate finding effective solutions to address specific problems in those communit ies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0100.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.208 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2013
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