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Prospects and perils in the geospatial turn of conservation

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation has embraced advances in big data and related digital technologies as key to preventing biodiversity loss, especially in the identification of areas of conservation priority based on spatial data, which we call the big geospatial data turn.
Jocelyne Shimin Sze, Laura Aileen Sauls
wiley   +1 more source

At the Intersection of Emotions and Cartography - Emotional Cartographies

open access: yes, 2019
Triggered by “unseen”, “invisible”, or “silent” emotionalscapes, the representation of “immateriality” as material, the paper looks at theories, practices and meanings, the correlation between “emotional” and “spatial”. How landscape-rooted affective elements can be (non) spatially represented?
openaire   +2 more sources

Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
wiley   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

Progress in cartography, EROS program [PDF]

open access: yes
During the past 7 years the Interior Department EROS (Earth Resources Observation Systems) program with NASA sponsorship has conducted cartographic research based on high altitude aerial and space photographs.
Colvocoresses, A. P., Mcewen, R. B.
core   +1 more source

A teacher educator's return to P‐12 world language teaching: Transforming practices, perspectives, and identities

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract After working at a university as a language teacher educator for 20 years, I returned to the P‐12 setting to coteach an inclusive high school Spanish class. The purpose of this return was to relearn to teach and to better understand current challenges in language education, student engagement, and inclusive instruction.
Beth Wassell
wiley   +1 more source

ENTANGLING KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review essays situates Alain Corbin's Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries within current discussions of knowledge and ignorance related to intellectual history, the history of science, and the history of knowledge.
Vera Keller
wiley   +1 more source

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