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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
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The Italian XVIII legislature: populism, law-making and procedures
Italian Political Science, 2020 The study explores the adjustment of the Italian parliamentary system to the change of balance between political parties. The results of several aspects of the breakdown of the March 2018 parliamentary elections are examined in the use of certain law ...
Chiara De Micheli
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study evaluates the sustainable development of 42 European countries using a multi‐criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach, based on 29 indicators covering the economic, social, and environmental pillars. All three pillars are assessed both individually and in consolidated form to provide a comprehensive view of countries ...
Una Smailbegovic +3 more
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The 18th Sustainable Development Goal
, 2020 This article makes the case for an 18th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on animal health, welfare and rights. We have neglected animal considerations in our discussions on sustainable development - including on the SDGs on food, water, sustainable ...
I. Visseren-Hamakers
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos +2 more
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Historical Overview: The Parliamentary Library from Past to Present [PDF]
, 2010 Parliamentary libraries (also known under various terminologies such as federal libraries, legislative libraries, information resource centers, documentation centers, or reference services) enhance the research and information capacity of parliaments.
Anghelescu, Hermina G.B.
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Leadership Matters: Governors' Pre-K Proposals Fiscal Year 2006 [PDF]
, 2005 Twenty budget-savvy governors recently recommended increased investment in a cost-effective strategy that saves taxpayers money, boosts state economies, and prepares our youngest citizens for future success.
Jennifer V. Doctors, L. Carol Scott
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Making Laws Fit for the Present Day
Italian Political Science, 2020 This article retraces the events of the first Conte government from its difficult birth by contract through to its foreseen death and seeks to establish a connection between the political-institutional aspects of this unprecedented government alliance ...
Valerio Di Porto
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Advances in Juvenile Justice Reform, 2007-2008 [PDF]
, 2009 "Advances in Juvenile Justice Reform" catalogs the wide and impressive array of reforms in the field of juvenile justice that occurred over the last year and a half.
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