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Rivers as Natural Capital Assets: A Quick Scoping Review to Assess the Evidence Linking River Asset Condition to Changes in the Flow of Ecosystem Services

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, Volume 41, Issue 6, Page 1207-1227, July 2025.
ABSTRACT River managers are beginning to adopt natural capital approaches in practice. However, while it is crucial for river management, the link between river asset condition and the flow of ecosystem services is poorly understood. In this study, we conducted a Quick Scoping Review (QSR) of the research into river asset condition and ecosystem ...
Valentina Zini   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drama‐Based Read‐Alouds in Preschool Classroom: Promoting Social Understanding, Social Problem Solving, and Peer Relationships

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, July/September 2025.
ABSTRACT Reading aloud to young children can positively impact their social and emotional development during preschool. However, further exploration is needed to determine how drama‐based read‐alouds (DBRAs) could enhance these benefits. In this sense, this study examined the effects of the DBRA intervention on preschoolers' social understanding ...
Rabia Ozen‐Uyar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Return Fantasies: Martial Masculinity, Misogyny and Homosocial Bonding in the Aftermath of Second World War

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 715-730, July 2025.
Abstract This article explores male popular culture in Australia in the mid‐1940s, particularly men's magazines of the period, to illuminate aspects of the psycho‐sexual dimensions of Australian veterans returning to civil society. The sexual landscape of Australian society had undergone considerable transformation, especially through an increasing ...
Stephen Garton
wiley   +1 more source

‘Edited and Approved by Women for Maximum Benefit of all Readers’: Newsprint Journalism, the International Women's Year and the Remaking of a Gendered National Public in 1970s Ghana

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 731-747, July 2025.
Abstract During the International Women's Year (IWY) of 1975, United Nations bodies made concerted efforts to ensure global awareness and understanding of the IWY aims of equality, peace and development, via the mass media. In this article, we engage with these strategies of global information distribution from the vantage point of Ghana, West Africa ...
Kate Skinner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Field: Race, Gender and Sports in Colonial Ghana

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 621-635, July 2025.
Abstract This article analyses Ghanaian women's sport practice from the late nineteenth century to the late 1950s, from games intertwined with displays of colonial authority to school competitions, physical education and tennis. The article argues that their performances played with changing categorisations of African girlhood and womanhood, especially
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Trauma, Emotion and the Construction of ‘Deserving’ Victimhood in 1970s Britain: How Early Public Recognition of Intimate Partner Violence Harmed Victims

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 501-511, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the crucial role of battered women's emotions – both those emotions that were considered legible (like fear) and those that were less immediately understandable (like shame, self‐doubt and confusion) – in public responses to intimate partner violence in 1970s Britain. I argue that the status of domestic violence as a real
Teri Chettiar
wiley   +1 more source

A wearable real‐time particulate monitor demonstrates that soaking hay reduces dust exposure

open access: yesEquine Veterinary Journal, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 1065-1073, July 2025.
Abstract Background Affordable particulate matter (PM) monitors suitable for use on horses will facilitate the evaluation of PM mitigation methods and improve the management of equine asthma. Objective Calibrate a real‐time wearable PM monitor (Black Beauty [BB]) and compare the PM exposures of horses fed dry or soaked hay.
Kathleen M. Ivester   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural Revitalization in China: Reversing Rural Decline and Eliminating Poverty

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Rapid urbanization in China in the last 4 decades was fuelled by a huge out‐migration of people from the countryside, contributing to rural decline in many areas. Recognition of ongoing rural poverty and the need to modernize the rural economy has given rise to a myriad of policies in the last quarter century supporting rural development ...
Zhongqi Feng, Guy M. Robinson, Yan Tan
wiley   +1 more source

Positive Futures for Urban Agriculture in Asia? A Review

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Many governments in Asia have recently started formulating policies for urban agriculture (UA), despite challenges regarding food safety, land access, and equity. In this paper, we systematically review the literature on the health, economic, social, and political dimensions of UA in South, East, and Southeast Asia. Our review reveals that key
Melody Lynch, Sarah Turner
wiley   +1 more source

Demand‐Side Perspective on the Informal Economy: A Review and Research Agenda

open access: yesInternational Journal of Consumer Studies, Volume 49, Issue 4, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This study presents a focused and cohesive investigation into the demand side of the informal economy through a systematic literature review (SLR) of 76 peer‐reviewed articles. While previous research has predominantly addressed supply‐side dynamics, this study shifts the focus to consumer related factors within informal markets.
Agnieszka Małecka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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