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Community participation for forest sustainability and use of forest resources for community development is considered a vital way in all societies. This study was conducted to assess the public views toward sustainable forest management in the area of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, through collecting data from 255 respondents. Views about forest management techniques at different levels were discussed. Three main areas of focus to manage forest resources were: strategic-level management, local-level management, and communication-level management. To provide confidence and to measure factors affecting sustainable forest management, this study applied the structural equation modeling approach and built a model that explained and identified the critical factors affecting sustainable forest management. A quantitative approach via Smart Partial Least Squares version 3.2.8 was used for analysis. The findings of the study show that the R2 value of the model was 0.653, which means that the three exogenous latent constructs collectively explained 65.3% of the variance in sustainable forest management. In this study, the goodness of fit of the model was 0.431, which is considered valid for further analysis. Among the three proposed levels for forest management, the strategic-level-management factor was found the most important of the three variables. This study concluded that for better and sustainable forest management, policies should flow from the strategic level to the local and also focus on communication-level management because all these factors appear to be significant in measuring sustainable forest management. Community engagement and awareness are also found to be an important way for forest resource management.
Sajjad Ali; Dake Wang; Talib Hussain; Xiaocong Lu; Mohammad Nurunnabi. Forest Resource Management: An Empirical Study in Northern Pakistan. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8752 .
AMA StyleSajjad Ali, Dake Wang, Talib Hussain, Xiaocong Lu, Mohammad Nurunnabi. Forest Resource Management: An Empirical Study in Northern Pakistan. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):8752.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSajjad Ali; Dake Wang; Talib Hussain; Xiaocong Lu; Mohammad Nurunnabi. 2021. "Forest Resource Management: An Empirical Study in Northern Pakistan." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 8752.
Background: This study focuses on how educating people through social media platforms can help reduce the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 to manage the global health crisis. The pandemic has posed a global mental health crisis, and correct information is indispensable to dispel uncertainty, fear, and mental stress to unify global communities in collective combat against COVID-19 disease worldwide. Mounting studies specified that manifestly endless coronavirus-related newsfeeds and death numbers considerably increased the risk of global mental health issues. Social media provided positive and negative data, and the COVID-19 has resulted in a worldwide infodemic. It has eroded public trust and impeded virus restraint, which outlived the coronavirus pandemic itself. Methods: The study incorporated the narrative review analysis based on the existing literature related to mental health problems using the non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) approach to minimize the COVID-19 adverse consequences on global mental health. The study performed a search of the electronic databases available at PsycINFO, PubMed, and LISTA. This research incorporates the statistical data related to the COVID-19 provided by the WHO, John Hopkins University, and Pakistani Ministry of Health. Results: Pakistan reported the second-highest COVID-19 cases within South Asia, the fifth-highest number of cases in Asia after Iran, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the 14th highest recorded cases, as of October 14, 2020. Pakistan effectively managed the COVID-19 pandemic in the second wave. It stands at the eighth-highest number of confirmed cases in Asia, the 3rd-highest in South Asia, and the 28th-highest number of established patients globally, as of February20, 2021. Conclusion: The COVID-19 has resulted in over 108.16 million confirmed cases, deaths over 2.374 million, and a recovery of 80.16 million people worldwide, as of February 12, 2021. This study focused on exploring the COVID-19 pandemic’s adverse effects on global public health and the indispensable role of social media to provide the correct information in the COVID-19 health crisis. The findings’ generalizability offers helpful insight for crisis management and contributes to the scientific literature. The results might provide a stepping-stone for conduct future empirical studies by including other factors to conclude exciting developments.
Jaffar Abbas; Dake Wang; Zhaohui Su; Arash Ziapour. The Role of Social Media in the Advent of COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis Management, Mental Health Challenges and Implications. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy 2021, ume 14, 1917 -1932.
AMA StyleJaffar Abbas, Dake Wang, Zhaohui Su, Arash Ziapour. The Role of Social Media in the Advent of COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis Management, Mental Health Challenges and Implications. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy. 2021; ume 14 ():1917-1932.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJaffar Abbas; Dake Wang; Zhaohui Su; Arash Ziapour. 2021. "The Role of Social Media in the Advent of COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis Management, Mental Health Challenges and Implications." Risk Management and Healthcare Policy ume 14, no. : 1917-1932.
Cleaner production is a universally defined policy ascertained by of the United Nations for countries worldwide. Multinational companies diligently emphasize the cleaner production strategy while setting their organizational goals. Keeping in view the importance of cleaner production in the world; this study investigates the vision and mission statements of selective multinational companies working in the BRICS countries. Top five multinational companies from each BRICS country; listed in the stock exchanges were taken and their vision and mission statements were analyzed via content analysis methods. The results of the study indicated that the Russian multinational companies were found to be most focused on the cleaner production strategies in their vision and mission statements. Moreover, the results reveal that the South African companies gave the least attention to the cleaner production as compared to other BRICS countries. This study opened the door for future studies and suggested the researchers to investigate more ineptly while focusing more countries and to expand the topic to know the universal implementation of cleaner production policies.
Talib Hussain; Dake Wang; Sajjad Ali. Competition among BRICS Companies for Cleaner Production Strategies. Journal of Business Strategies 2020, 12, 109 -124.
AMA StyleTalib Hussain, Dake Wang, Sajjad Ali. Competition among BRICS Companies for Cleaner Production Strategies. Journal of Business Strategies. 2020; 12 (2):109-124.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTalib Hussain; Dake Wang; Sajjad Ali. 2020. "Competition among BRICS Companies for Cleaner Production Strategies." Journal of Business Strategies 12, no. 2: 109-124.
This research demonstrated a significant method for measuring tourist behavior in terms of social media use for rural mountain region tourism. This study proposed a quantitative method for establishing tourists’ main activities during the travel process when using social media. This study is potentially unique in its application of a predominantly mathematical analysis to measure tourist intentions, which until now have been evaluated mainly on the basis of qualitative analyses. It is now possible to quantitatively measure the activities and ambitions of tourists in rural mountain region tourism. The data was collected from different respondents in the area of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Pakistan. The researchers visited different areas in GB and interviewed the tourists who use social media for tourism. The results of study showed that the majority of tourists are more interested in using social media at the planning stage. Thus, this study contributes to the literature in the sense that it provides a mathematical and statistical model to measure tourist intentions in sustainable rural mountain region tourism.
Talib Hussain; Benqian Li; Dake Wang. What Factors Influence the Sustainable Tour Process in Social Media Usage? Examining a Rural Mountain Region in Pakistan. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2220 .
AMA StyleTalib Hussain, Benqian Li, Dake Wang. What Factors Influence the Sustainable Tour Process in Social Media Usage? Examining a Rural Mountain Region in Pakistan. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (7):2220.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTalib Hussain; Benqian Li; Dake Wang. 2018. "What Factors Influence the Sustainable Tour Process in Social Media Usage? Examining a Rural Mountain Region in Pakistan." Sustainability 10, no. 7: 2220.