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An interdisciplinary framework for evaluating 19th century landscape paintings for ecological research

open access: yesEcosphere, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023
Abstract As we contemplate the future of forest landscapes under changing climate conditions and land‐use demands, there is increasing value in studying historic forest conditions and how these landscapes have changed following past disturbances. Historic landscape paintings are a potential source of data on preindustrial forests with highly detailed ...
Dana R. Warren   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

GOD AND A WORLD OF NATURAL EVIL: THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE IN HARD CONVERSATION

open access: yesZygon®, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 1124-1134, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This is the text of the 2022 Boyle Lecture. After some acknowledgements, it introduces the theological problem of the suffering of nonhuman creatures in the natural world as described by evolutionary science. It sets aside the neo‐Cartesian objection that this suffering should not be considered real.
Christopher Southgate
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the toxicity of peracetic acid to early Atlantic salmon Salmo salar life‐stages

open access: yesAquaculture Research, Volume 53, Issue 14, Page 5097-5104, October 2022., 2022
Abstract Bacterial and fungal pathogens in recirculating aquaculture and egg incubation systems can cause elevated mortality and decreased production. Peracetic acid (PAA) is a relatively low‐cost, safe, and effective disinfectant; however, its toxicity to early life stages of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) has not been assessed. The 24‐h LC50 value
Natalie Redman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endangerment and lament in the Covid Pandemic: Ways out of two theological impasses

open access: yesDialog, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 360-368, December 2021., 2021
Abstract The essay analyses two causes of the eloquent silence of many churches during Corona: That it has become unthinkable for many theologians that while humans pose a threat to nature, nature itself threatens humans in turn. In addition, a conception of God that assumes only the suffering companion and human acts of solidarity blocks the ...
Günter Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptual Access Reasoning (PAR) in Developing a Representational Theory of Mind

open access: yesMonographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Volume 86, Issue 3, Page 7-154, September 2021., 2021
Abstract An important part of children's social and cognitive development is their understanding that people are psychological beings with internal, mental states including desire, intention, perception, and belief. A full understanding of people as psychological beings requires a representational theory of mind (ToM), which is an understanding that ...
William V. Fabricius   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sabbath, Psalms and Eucharist: Christopher Southgate considers Christian perspectives on the climate emergency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Green Christian via the URL in this record In this brief article I want to explore what resources Christian thought might offer the climate emergency, and those challenged by ...
Southgate, C
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Barriers to employment of Australian cancer survivors living with geographic or socio‐economic disadvantage: A qualitative study

open access: yesHealth Expectations, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 951-966, June 2021., 2021
Abstract Background Opportunities for cancer survivors’ employment can both reflect and perpetuate health inequities, as employment is an important social determinant of health. Socio‐economic and geographic disadvantage is associated with greater difficulty finding work, but little is known about work needs of Australian cancer survivors living with ...
Emma Kemp   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of bird assemblages in response to temporally and spatially variable resources in arid Australia

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 9, Page 3977-3990, May 2021., 2021
Arid‐zone bird assemblages in natural areas were contrasted with areas where resources were enhanced by artificial irrigation over 8 years under average to dry conditions and including a time of very high rainfall. Rainfall was important in structuring bird assemblages and a comparative smoothing of fluctuations in the composition and abundance of ...
Bruce A. Pascoe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Must We Love Non‐Human Animals?

open access: yesNew Blackfriars, Volume 102, Issue 1099, Page 322-338, May 2021., 2021
Abstract Drawing especially on Aquinas and Pope Francis, the paper argues that Christians are indeed called to love non‐human animals. Human love (amor) for non‐human animals follows from the Trinitarian example of divine love (amor), and includes affection, dilection, benevolence, and thus charity as friendship.
John Berkman
wiley   +1 more source

To what extent can de-extinction be theologically and morally justified? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
No longer condemned to the realms of science-fiction, de-extinction projects across the globe continue to excavate the very real possibilities for restoring lost creatures to the biosphere.
Richards, G
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