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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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Prenatal Screening for Common Aneuploidy in Southeast Asian Countries: A Systematic Review of Challenges and Opportunities

Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Southeast Asian (SEA) countries face persistent challenges in equitable healthcare delivery. Given the high prevalence of aneuploidy, increasing use of advanced prenatal screening technologies, and challenges reported in other regions, this study aimed to identify and assess existing policies and guidelines as well as the enablers and barriers
Rapphon Sawaddisan, Lucinda Freeman, Erin Turbitt, Alison McEwen   +3 more
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Burma, Kipling and Western Music: The Riff from Mandalay

, 2017
For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma perceived in and by the Western world, and how did people in countries like the United Kingdom and United States form their views?
Selth, Andrew
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Repositories of biocultural diversity: Toward best practices for empowering ethnobotany in digital herbaria

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement As herbaria digitize millions of plant specimens, ethnobotanical information associated with them is becoming increasingly accessible. These biocultural data include plant uses, names, and/or management practices of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs).
Robbie Hart, Viviane Fonseca‐Kruel, Eduardo Dalcin, Estevão da Silva Luís Alexandre, Matthew Pace, Michaela Schmull, Leonardo Beltran‐Rodríguez, Miguel Murguía‐Romero, Diana G. Flores‐Camargo, Cristina Mapes‐Sánchez, Mark Nesbitt, Carolina Romero, Andrew Townesmith, Jan Salick, Alex McAlvay, Kenneth R. Otero‐Walker, Michael J. Balick, Jacob Golan, Bruce Hoffman, Kelsey Leonard, Giulia Mattalia, Guillaume Odonne, Aurora Prehn, Ina Vandebroek   +23 more
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Blood money: A grounded theory of corporate citizenship; Myanmar (Burma) as a case in point

, 2009
Corporate Citizenship as a social phenomena spans a growing body of corporate initiatives, nascent policy frameworks, and global civil society action.
Black, Nicola Mary
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Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
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Determinants of academic performance of armed forces schools: perceptions of teachers of Ghana armed forces basic schools

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The purpose of the study was to investigate the determinants of academic performance in armed forces basic schools from the perspectives of teachers in Ghana Armed Forces basic schools.
Eric Sefa Boye, Douglas Darko Agyei
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Communist Party of Burma Pamphlet

, 1981
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Kachin Independence Party
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Ecological and Technological Insights to Enhance Rice Production: A Machine Learning Approach for Sustainable Agriculture in Granma, Cuba

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid the quest for sustainable agriculture, this study explores key ecological and technological factors influencing crop production under climate change. We conduct a comprehensive assessment of temperature, biomass, farmer education, renewable energy devices, greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on rice yields in Granma, Cuba, from ...
Afzal Ahmed Dar, Zhi Chen, Sergio RodrIguez‐Rodríguez, Fariborz Haghighat, Chunjiang An, Roberto Alejandro García Reyes, Beatriz González‐Rosales   +6 more
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Carbon VIX, Climate Risk and Financial Stability New Evidence From Developing Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of the carbon VIX and climate risk on financial stability through the banking Z‐score in developing economies. Using the Dynamic Panel Threshold Model of 106 developing countries from 2012 to 2022, the results reveal that both carbon VIX and climate risk exert a significant negative influence on banking ...
Alanoud Al‐Maadid, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Kamal Si Mohammed, Omer Salih Mohammed Abker   +3 more
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