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Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis Explores Diverse Domestic Goose Management Practices in Medieval and Postmedieval Russia

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka, Clément Massé, Arthur O. Askeyev, Igor V. Askeyev, Oleg V. Askeyev, Jouni Aspi, Dilyara N. Shaymuratova, Laura Kvist   +7 more
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Mobility of Labor and Services across the Baltic Sea after EU Enlargement: Trends and Consequences. CES Working Paper No. 161, 2008 [PDF]

, 2008
The enlargement of the EU/EEA area on 1 May 2004 to comprise 28 countries – including eight Central and Eastern European countries, in 2007 followed by Bulgaria and Romania – was a milestone.
Dolvik, Jon Erik.
core  

Presidents between National Unity and Ethnic Divisions : Public Trust across the Baltic States

, 2023
The Baltic presidents have in common that they are supposed to embody the ‘nation’ and to provide an image of their countries abroad. But can the president embody the people if “the people” itself is divided?
Sedelius, Thomas,, Duvold, Kjetil,, Sedelius, Thomas, Duvold, Kjetil   +3 more
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From the brink of extinction to regulation: northern Europe's white‐tailed eagles now face density dependence and climate constraints after rapid population growth

Oikos, EarlyView.
Population growth reflects the combined influence of regulation and density‐independent factors operating through demographic processes. Under exceptional circumstances (e.g. populations recovering from near‐extinction), growth may initially be weakly regulated but typically slows as negative density dependence (NDD) sets in.
Bård‐Jørgen Bårdsen, Elisabeth Hansen, Jan Ove Bustnes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Russia’s role in the Baltic States’ Investment

Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2016
The aim of this article is to determine the modern role of Russia in the investment space of the Baltic states and to assess the current stage of integration of Russian and the Baltic states’ economies.
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pestich
doaj   +1 more source

Demystifying Non‐Western Administrative Traditions: An Empirical Comparison of Administrative Systems in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
wiley   +1 more source

Trauma research in the Baltic countries: from political oppression to recovery

European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2016
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of traumatic stress studies from the three Baltic countries—Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia—and reveal how specific social context contributes to the topics relevant in traumatic stress field in the region ...
Evaldas Kazlauskas, Paulina Zelviene
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating conservation performance payments alongside human–wildlife conflicts: The Swedish lynx and wolverine protection policies

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines.
Josef Kaiser, Thomas Hahn, Tobias Krueger, Dagmar Haase   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Status and future of seed conservation of threatened plants in the post‐2020 era

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Ambitious targets have been set to backup seeds of threatened plants by the global strategy for plant conservation (GSPC), but it is unclear in how far these targets have been met and how seed collection should be organized to meet future challenges. Here, we provide an overview of the status of 44 countries in achieving seed conservation targets.
Andreas Ensslin, Adelaide Clemente, Udayangani Liu, Elke Zippel, Carla Pinto‐Cruz, Carolina Sanchez Romero, Simone Schneider, Agustí Agut Escrig, Charlotte Allender, Külli Annamaa, Marina Antic, Bertille Asset, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Oz Baranzani, Anamaria Barata, Philippe Bardin, Joze Bavcon, Anabela D. F. Belo, Marina Belovarska, Karim Benkhelifa, Christian Berg, Karl‐Georg Bernhardt, Marcin Beza, Kristina Bjureke, Sina Bohm, Peter Borgmann, Josep Borrell, Stéphane Buord, Jocelyne Cambecedes, Francesca Carruggio, Angelino Carta, Pedro Casimiro, Ted Chapman, Iveta Cicova, Regis Crisnaire, Antonia Cristaudo, Lucia De la Rosa, Maîte Delmas, Gergana Desheva, Valter Di Cecco, Luciano Di Martino, Katia Diadema, Lara Dixon, Denise Dostatny, Marie Duval, Roland K. Eberwein, Mikel Etxeberria‐Okariz, Caroline Favier, Nick Fenby, Mariana P. Fernandes, Inmaculada Ferrando‐Pardo, Pablo Ferrer, Noémie Fort, Luigi Forte, Catia F. Freitas, Agnese Gailite, Katarzyna Galej‐Ciwis, Rosa Maria Garcia, Ana Irene García‐del Bao, Catherine Gautier, Bronislovas Gelvonauskis, Gian Petro Giusso del Galdo, Miguel Angel González Pérez, Johan Gourvil, Luisa Gouveia, Thierry Helminger, Brais Hermosilla Lorenzo, Laetitia Hugot, Marko Hyvärinen, Ignac Janžekovič, Andreas König, Nikos Krigas, Emilio Laguna, Ludivine Lapébie, Denis Larpin, Maja Lazarević, Dikla Lifshitz, Vincent Lipa, Carlos Lobo, Ulrike Lohwasser, Sandrine Loriot, Sara Magrini, Francesca Mantino, Mauro Mariotti, Evi Matiatou, Lubomir Mendel, Marine Millet, Mari Miranto, Andrea Mondoni, Santiago Moreno Vázquez, Valeria Negri, Peter Nick, Maciej Niemczyk, Humberto Nobrega, Pawel Olejniczak, Małgorzata Pałucka, Katerina Papanastasi, Ioanna Papanikolaou, Miguel A. A. Pinheiro de Carvalho, Marco Porceddu, Sotirios Porevis, Peter Poschlod, Lorenzo Raggi, Sarmite Rancane, Leonid Rasran, Blanka Ravnjak, Stéphane Rivière, Axelle Roumier, Anna Rucińska, Felix Schlatti, Marco Schmidt, Guy‐Xavier Seznec, Manuela Sim‐Sim, Ana Luisa Soares, Nora Stoeckl, Silvia Strajeru, Gitana Stukeniene, Andrej Šušek, Andreas Titze, Sarah Trinder, Zlatina Tsvetanova, Theo Van Hintum, Nils Van Rooijen, Magdalena Vicens Fornés, Mariacristina Villani, Silvia Villegas, Fiona J. White, Sabine Zachago, Elena Zappa, Vince Zsigmond, Sandrine Godefroid   +130 more
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The Chinese Factor in the Baltic States’ Security

Journal on Baltic Security, 2021
Abstract Based on representative primary sources as well as authoritative academic and think tank analyses, this article aims to evaluate the role that Asia's emerging superpower came to play in the Baltic trio's security, with particular emphasis on its harder aspects and most recent developments, which marked a certain shift in the ...
openaire   +4 more sources