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Sustainability research and backpacker studies: intersections and mutual insights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The potential for sustainability research and backpacker studies to influence one another is explored in this chapter. Each area of analysis is considered with a particular focus on the conceptual development and style of the work and its current ...
Pearce, Philip
core  

Navigating Ideological Tensions: Pre‐Service Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices of Translanguaging in ESL Classrooms

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how pre‐service teachers (PSTs) in Hong Kong developed beliefs about translanguaging and how they enacted and negotiated these beliefs during teaching practicums in English‐as‐a‐second‐language (ESL) classrooms. Drawing on reflective diaries and follow‐up interviews with nine PSTs, the study found that PSTs’ beliefs were ...
Hanyun (Icey) Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Resource use by threatened, native Bull Trout (Salvelinus confluentus) in the presence of two non‐native salmonids

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction of non‐native species contributes to the global decline of freshwater fishes by disrupting the diet and resources of native species through competition. Despite the potential for non‐native trout (Family: Salmonidae) to compete with native trout, non‐native trout species have been widely introduced worldwide to support ...
Jacqueline Pallard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water temperature and river discharge drive age‐dependent changes in brown trout (Salmo trutta) growth

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Rivers and streams exhibit inherent variability in environmental conditions, particularly in water temperature and stream discharge. These factors can impact fish growth through both direct (i.e., physiological) and indirect (i.e., ecosystem productivity) mechanisms.
Patricia Y. Koh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contrasting population genetic structures of freshwater eels (Anguilla marmorata, A. bicolor, A. mossambica) from Madagascar

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Freshwater eels (genus Anguilla) are of major biological and commercial interest due to their complex catadromous life cycle and as a high‐value fishery resource, but the biology of tropical species is still poorly understood. This study investigates the genetic integrity, diversity and population structure of three species of tropical eels ...
Giada Speranza   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Studies Are Needed to Contextualize Stranding in Hydropeaking River Systems

open access: yes
Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
Raegan Davis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge Work as a Condition of Accumulation in the Pesticide Industry: Syngenta's Defence of Paraquat

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable elements of the backpacker experience

open access: yes, 2014
The aim of this paper is to explore how environmental practices contribute to the backpacker experience at hostels. Discovery of what environmental practices positively or negatively affect the backpacker experience will help when developing sustainable ...
Knowles, Heather
core   +1 more source

Gaining and Gauging Trust Through Small Stories in the Interaction Between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
wiley   +1 more source

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