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Rights Most Precious: Common Law Female Property Rights from Early Modern England to Colonial Virginia [PDF]

, 2008
According to English common law during the early modern period, women were not granted the legal privilege of exercising property rights. The British institutions of primogeniture, dowry, coverture, and widowhood governed this suppression of women’s ...
Kamp, Amber
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Do Firms Hoard Cash Under Environmental Pressure? Insights From GHG Emissions and Greenwashing Activities

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental accountability has become a global priority, with governments implementing policies like the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. However, many firms continue to operate outside environmentally ethical standards, facing potential regulatory, financial, and reputational risks.
Ones Amri, Davide Calandra, Paolo Biancone, Hasna Chaibi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Truth‐telling in the Australian Curriculum

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Unlike Canada and South Africa, Australia has not completed a national Truth‐telling of First Nations histories. As a consequence, the curriculum is at risk of excluding Truth‐telling, leading to indoctrination of past injustices as part of school learning.
Glenn Auld, Aleryk Fricker, A. Bryan Fricker, Jessamy Gleeson, Genée Marks, Jo Raphael, Roy Rozario, Peta J. White, Brezshia Ashcroft, Robin A. Bellingham, Alessandra D'Arbe, Brianna Damcevski, Jennie Darcy, Kim Davies, Claudia Filipic, Brandi Fox, Paul Garner, Amanda Hall, Shelley Hannigan, Amrita Kamath, Katie Lee, Eun‐ju Lee, Jing Leong, Catherine Milvain, Jonathan Newchurch, Alistair Noble, Joanne O'Mara, Jacqui Peters, Monika Wagner, Yinfeng Wang   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local realities, global discourses and decolonising the curriculum in a post‐92 UK context: Academic voices on enacting decolonial curriculum change

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explored how lecturers in a post‐92 UK university conceptualise and enact decolonial curriculum principles within their teaching and programme design. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with academic staff across multiple disciplines, the research adopts a qualitative, phenomenologically informed approach to examine the interplay
Reece Sohdi
wiley   +1 more source

As Long as There Were Any Roads to Amnesia and Anaesthesia Still to be Explored: Contemporary Artistic Reflections on the Intertwined Memories of British Imperial History, Trees and Place

Angles
This article critically examines contemporary art installations by two British artists responding to two major memory sites of British imperial and national history: 1) Trafalgar Square, one of the biggest squares in central London, a former imperial ...
Laura Ouillon
doaj   +1 more source

Scots in the West Indies in the colonial period: a view from the archives [PDF]

, 2016
No abstract ...
Mullen, Stephen
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Nuestra Comunidad: The Role of Latin American Networks in Supporting Ecologists Throughout Their Careers

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Shersingh Joseph Tumber‐Dávila, Angelique Rosa Marín, Rodrigo Felipe Rodrigues do Carmo, Sergio González‐Mollinedo, Luis Y. Santiago‐Rosario, Coral del Mar Valle Rodríguez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening urban resilience in China through underground infrastructures management: Addressing global climate challenges with technological solutions

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Christia Meidiana, Abdelkader Anouzla, Faissal Aziz, Imran Ali, Joan Cecilia C. Casila, M. Imran Khan, Dongdong Zhang, Meihui Jiang, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman, Md Munir Hayet Khan, Kasun Kumara Dissanayake   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Politicians-in-waiting? : the case for a 'popular' involvement in agitation for representative and responsible government in the Province of Wellington, 1840-1853 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University [PDF]

, 2005
In 2002, I completed my Honours degree dissertation entitled The Interposing Barrier: Perceptions and Expectations of the British Army in New Plymouth in 1855 1 J. A.
Ward, Jaime
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Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa, Sean E. H. Pang, Natalie J. Briscoe, Antoine Guisan, Roberto Salguero-Gómez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source