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Yasuyuki Todo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The impact of a shade coffee Certification Program on forest conservation using remote sensing and household data
Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2014Co-Authors: Ryo Takahashi, Yasuyuki TodoAbstract:Abstract In recent years, shade coffee Certification Programs have attracted increasing attention from forest conservation and development organizations. The Certification Programs could be expected to promote forest conservation by providing a premium price to shade coffee producers. However, little is known about the significance of the conservation efforts generated by Certification Programs. In particular, the relationship between the impact of the Certification and producer characteristics has yet to be examined. The purpose of this study, which was conducted in Ethiopia, was to examine the impact of a shade coffee Certification Program on forest conservation and its relationship with the socioeconomic characteristics of the producers. Remote sensing data of 2005 and 2010 was used to gauge the changes in forest area. Employing a probit model, we found that a forest coffee area being certified increased the probability of forest conservation by 19.3 percentage points relative to forest coffee areas lacking Certification. We also found that although economically poor producers tended to engage in forest clearing, the forest coffee Certification Program had a significant impact on these producers. This result suggests that the Certification Program significantly affects the behaviors of economically poor producers and motivates these producers to conserve the forest.
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The impact of a shade coffee Certification Program on forest conservation: a case study from a wild coffee forest in Ethiopia.
Journal of environmental management, 2013Co-Authors: Ryo Takahashi, Yasuyuki TodoAbstract:In recent years, shade coffee Certification Programs have attracted increasing attention from conservation and development organizations. Certification Programs offer an opportunity to link environmental and economic goals by providing a premium price to producers and thereby contributing to forest conservation. However, the significance of the conservation efforts of Certification Programs remains unclear because of a lack of empirical evidence. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a shade coffee Certification Program on forest conservation. The study was conducted in the Belete-Gera Regional Forest Priority Area in Ethiopia, and remote sensing data of 2005 and 2010 were used to gauge the change of forest area. Using propensity score matching estimation, we found that forests under the coffee Certification Program were less likely to be deforested than forests without forest coffee. By contrast, the difference in the degree of deforestation between forests with forest coffee but not under the Certification Program and forests with no forest coffee is statistically insignificant. These results suggest that the Certification Program has had a large effect on forest protection, decreasing the probability of deforestation by 1.7 percentage points.
Jay S. Balachandran - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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implementation of a professional society core curriculum and integrated maintenance of Certification Program
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2017Co-Authors: Graham W Carlos, Gaetane Michaud, Andrew M. Luks, Debra Boyer, Paul E. Moore, Jakob I. Mcsparron, Margaret M. Hayes, Jason Poston, Charles Dela S Cruz, Jay S. BalachandranAbstract:Medical professional societies exist to foster collaboration, guide career development, and provide continuing medical education opportunities. Maintenance of Certification is a process by which physicians complete formal educational activities approved by certifying organizations. The American Thoracic Society (ATS) established an innovative maintenance of Certification Program in 2012 as a means to formalize and expand continuing medical education offerings. This Program is unique as it includes explicit opportunities for collaboration and career development in addition to providing continuing medical education and maintenance of Certification credit to society members. In describing the development of this Program referred to as the “Core Curriculum,” the authors highlight the ATS process for content design, stages of curriculum development, and outcomes data with an eye toward assisting other societies that seek to Program similar content. The curriculum development process described is generalizable ...
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Implementation of a professional society core curriculum and integrated maintenance of Certification Program
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2017Co-Authors: W. Graham Carlos, Jason T. Poston, Gaetane Michaud, Charles S. Dela Cruz, Andrew M. Luks, Debra Boyer, Paul E. Moore, Jakob I. Mcsparron, Margaret M. Hayes, Jay S. BalachandranAbstract:Medical professional societies exist to foster collaboration, guide career development, and provide continuing medical education opportunities. Maintenance of Certification is a process by which physicians complete formal educational activities approved by certifying organizations. The American Thoracic Society (ATS) established an innovative maintenance of Certification Program in 2012 as a means to formalize and expand continuing medical education offerings. This Program is unique as it includes explicit opportunities for collaboration and career development in addition to providing continuing medical education and maintenance of Certification credit to society members. In describing the development of this Program referred to as the "Core Curriculum," the authors highlight the ATS process for content design, stages of curriculum development, and outcomes data with an eye toward assisting other societies that seek to Program similar content. The curriculum development process described is generalizable and positively influences individual practitioners and professional societies in general, and as a result, provides a useful model for other professional societies to follow.
Ryo Takahashi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The impact of a shade coffee Certification Program on forest conservation using remote sensing and household data
Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2014Co-Authors: Ryo Takahashi, Yasuyuki TodoAbstract:Abstract In recent years, shade coffee Certification Programs have attracted increasing attention from forest conservation and development organizations. The Certification Programs could be expected to promote forest conservation by providing a premium price to shade coffee producers. However, little is known about the significance of the conservation efforts generated by Certification Programs. In particular, the relationship between the impact of the Certification and producer characteristics has yet to be examined. The purpose of this study, which was conducted in Ethiopia, was to examine the impact of a shade coffee Certification Program on forest conservation and its relationship with the socioeconomic characteristics of the producers. Remote sensing data of 2005 and 2010 was used to gauge the changes in forest area. Employing a probit model, we found that a forest coffee area being certified increased the probability of forest conservation by 19.3 percentage points relative to forest coffee areas lacking Certification. We also found that although economically poor producers tended to engage in forest clearing, the forest coffee Certification Program had a significant impact on these producers. This result suggests that the Certification Program significantly affects the behaviors of economically poor producers and motivates these producers to conserve the forest.
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The impact of a shade coffee Certification Program on forest conservation: a case study from a wild coffee forest in Ethiopia.
Journal of environmental management, 2013Co-Authors: Ryo Takahashi, Yasuyuki TodoAbstract:In recent years, shade coffee Certification Programs have attracted increasing attention from conservation and development organizations. Certification Programs offer an opportunity to link environmental and economic goals by providing a premium price to producers and thereby contributing to forest conservation. However, the significance of the conservation efforts of Certification Programs remains unclear because of a lack of empirical evidence. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a shade coffee Certification Program on forest conservation. The study was conducted in the Belete-Gera Regional Forest Priority Area in Ethiopia, and remote sensing data of 2005 and 2010 were used to gauge the change of forest area. Using propensity score matching estimation, we found that forests under the coffee Certification Program were less likely to be deforested than forests without forest coffee. By contrast, the difference in the degree of deforestation between forests with forest coffee but not under the Certification Program and forests with no forest coffee is statistically insignificant. These results suggest that the Certification Program has had a large effect on forest protection, decreasing the probability of deforestation by 1.7 percentage points.
Peter Zimmerer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a role based qualification and Certification Program for software architects an experience report from siemens
International Conference on Software Engineering, 2010Co-Authors: Frances Paulisch, Peter ZimmererAbstract:In this experience report, we describe the motivation, experience, lessons learned, and future directions of a software engineering curriculum used at a large international company. The "Curriculum for Software Engineers" project, which developed the content and a role-based qualification and Certification Program, was started at Siemens in 2006. This paper includes an overview of various kinds of Certification in the software engineering area and why we chose the knowledge- and experience-based type of Certification. The experience report part focuses mainly on the "certified senior software architect" role, as this role has the longest history and participants from many different business units and countries.
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ICSE (2) - A role-based qualification and Certification Program for software architects: an experience report from Siemens
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE '10, 2010Co-Authors: Frances Paulisch, Peter ZimmererAbstract:In this experience report, we describe the motivation, experience, lessons learned, and future directions of a software engineering curriculum used at a large international company. The "Curriculum for Software Engineers" project, which developed the content and a role-based qualification and Certification Program, was started at Siemens in 2006. This paper includes an overview of various kinds of Certification in the software engineering area and why we chose the knowledge- and experience-based type of Certification. The experience report part focuses mainly on the "certified senior software architect" role, as this role has the longest history and participants from many different business units and countries.
Debra Boyer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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implementation of a professional society core curriculum and integrated maintenance of Certification Program
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2017Co-Authors: Graham W Carlos, Gaetane Michaud, Andrew M. Luks, Debra Boyer, Paul E. Moore, Jakob I. Mcsparron, Margaret M. Hayes, Jason Poston, Charles Dela S Cruz, Jay S. BalachandranAbstract:Medical professional societies exist to foster collaboration, guide career development, and provide continuing medical education opportunities. Maintenance of Certification is a process by which physicians complete formal educational activities approved by certifying organizations. The American Thoracic Society (ATS) established an innovative maintenance of Certification Program in 2012 as a means to formalize and expand continuing medical education offerings. This Program is unique as it includes explicit opportunities for collaboration and career development in addition to providing continuing medical education and maintenance of Certification credit to society members. In describing the development of this Program referred to as the “Core Curriculum,” the authors highlight the ATS process for content design, stages of curriculum development, and outcomes data with an eye toward assisting other societies that seek to Program similar content. The curriculum development process described is generalizable ...
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Implementation of a professional society core curriculum and integrated maintenance of Certification Program
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2017Co-Authors: W. Graham Carlos, Jason T. Poston, Gaetane Michaud, Charles S. Dela Cruz, Andrew M. Luks, Debra Boyer, Paul E. Moore, Jakob I. Mcsparron, Margaret M. Hayes, Jay S. BalachandranAbstract:Medical professional societies exist to foster collaboration, guide career development, and provide continuing medical education opportunities. Maintenance of Certification is a process by which physicians complete formal educational activities approved by certifying organizations. The American Thoracic Society (ATS) established an innovative maintenance of Certification Program in 2012 as a means to formalize and expand continuing medical education offerings. This Program is unique as it includes explicit opportunities for collaboration and career development in addition to providing continuing medical education and maintenance of Certification credit to society members. In describing the development of this Program referred to as the "Core Curriculum," the authors highlight the ATS process for content design, stages of curriculum development, and outcomes data with an eye toward assisting other societies that seek to Program similar content. The curriculum development process described is generalizable and positively influences individual practitioners and professional societies in general, and as a result, provides a useful model for other professional societies to follow.