Protected areas on international borders show uneven conservation outcomes
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Border protected areas (BPAs) are national protected areas that are immediately adjacent to a country's border or span two or more countries; they are characterized by distinctive opportunities and pressures. They play a critical role in protecting carbon‐rich ecosystems, conserving endangered biodiversity, reducing cross‐border environmental ...
Rachakonda Sreekar +10 more
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On the Forming and Reforming of Stability Pacts: From the Balkans to the Caucasus. CEPS Policy Brief No. 4, May 2001 [PDF]
, 2001 [From the Introduction]. The Stability Pact approach overlaps with other forms of regional organisation and cooperation in the EU’s borderlands. In fact the whole of the EU’s periphery is now covered by regional initiatives which see the overlapping of ...
Emerson, Michael.
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Аграрная наука Евро-Северо-ВостокаApplication of modern methods of genetic testing allows to supplement traditional breeding with new ways of predicting economically useful qualities in animals.
A. Yu. Krivoruchko +6 more
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1174. Iris reticulata M.Bieb. subsp. isikgunerae Güner & B.Mathew
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, EarlyView.Summary Iris reticulata subsp. isikgunerae is illustrated and discussed here. The introduction of the type species, Iris reticulata, is investigated, its subspecies are listed, and descriptions given.
Adil Güner, Christabel King, Martyn Rix
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The Caucasus 3 Plus the Baltic 3 and Economic Cooperation with China
Baltic Journal of European studies, 2018 This study analyses China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative for the Baltic and South Caucasus countries. Trade, Foreign Direct Investments and transit potential are taken as main factors for the cooperation. A clash of China and the West in pursuing
Charaia Vakhtang +2 more
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Geolocation reveals wintering sites of near‐extinct Caucasian breeding sea duck
Ibis, EarlyView.We obtained 14 sets of full annual cycle geolocator tracks from 13 individual nesting female Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca from the relict Caucasian population at their last remaining breeding site, Lake Tabatskuri, Georgia. Results showed that females wintered at widespread discrete localities in Ukraine, around the coasts of the Crimean Peninsula and
Nika Paposhvili +3 more
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The European Union's Policy towards Central Asia and South Caucasus: a Coherent Strategy? Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers 1/2012 [PDF]
, 2012 In 2007 the European Union (EU) launched the Eastern Partnership, including the South Caucasus, while simultaneously addressing Central Asia through a “Strategy for a New Partnership”.
Aubert, Laurène
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New data on the systematics and morphology of the weevil genus Otiorhynchus Germar, 1822 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) with description of a new subspecies of the subgenus Pocodalemes Reitter, 1912 [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетеньA new data about type specimens of Otiorhynchus discretus Stierlin, 1861, O. pubifer Boheman, 1842, O. ottomanus Stierlin, 1861, O. lilligi Keskin et Cevik, 2007, O. longipilis Smreczyński, 1970, O. europaeus Stierlin, 1883, O.
G.E. Davidian, Yu.G. Arzanov
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Russia's Wartime Economy: Measuring Regional Inequalities From Outer Space
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study Russia's February 2022 full‐scale invasion of Ukraine as a natural experiment to determine how sudden disruptions to international market access reshape sub‐national economic inequalities. Using remotely‐sensed nighttime lights as a proxy for economic activity, we estimate the economic effects of the war at the national and regional ...
Irakli Barbakadze +3 more
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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