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Interplanetary frontiers: terraforming from an invasion science perspective

Oikos, EarlyView.
The pursuit of a multi‐planetary existence represents one of humanity's greatest frontiers. If applied justly, it offers an opportunity to extend its civilization's lifespan amid escalating sustainability crises on Earth. One approach increasingly gaining traction is terraforming, a hitherto theoretical ecological and evolutionary experiment revolving ...
Teun Everts, Ronaldo Sousa, Phillip J. Haubrock   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovative practices in humanistic and liberal education: a four-in-one "infusive" educational model regarding character, literature, culture, and civilization. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Liu Y, He M, Dou J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing Ecological Civilization Performance: An Application of Systematic Economic-Ecological Accounting (SEEA)

, 2019
China's central authority has included constructing ecological civilization among the top-five development strategies of China, but there is no well-developed tool to assess the the local governments' performances on ecological conservation or provide ...
Wang, Fanyu
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The Mexico City Policy in US Development Policy and Its Backlash‐Frontlash‐Logic

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Mexico City Policy provides for the discontinuation of U.S. government funding for foreign non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide legal abortion services. While Republican administrations have repeatedly pushed for the introduction of the Mexico City Policy after their re‐election, those regulations have been rescinded by ...
Thomas Lange
wiley   +1 more source

When Communication Enables Catastrophe: Nuclear Risk and the Short Lifetimes of Technological Civilizations: A Bayesian Scenario Analysis of Civilizational Survival and the Fermi Paradox. [PDF]

Risk Anal
Alfano V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Transforming a Poaching Hotspot: Embedded NGO Governance Between State and Community in Southern China

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Green governance in action: Energy conservation and carbon reduction effects of ecological civilization pilot zones. [PDF]

iScience
Li C, Wu J, Yang X, Wang L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Chinese Civilization

, 1959
xxiii, 444 hal.; ill ...
Granet, Marcel
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Improvement of water absorption behavior and mechanical properties of woven jute fiber‐reinforced epoxy composites with waste eggshell filler

Polymer International, EarlyView.
This study investigates the influence of waste eggshell powder on the water absorption and mechanical properties of jute fiber‐reinforced epoxy composites. Optimal eggshell filler content (2 wt%) significantly enhances composite performance by reducing water absorption and improving mechanical properties.
Safak Yildizhan, Anand Mohanam, Ranjitha Jambulingam, Vishal Gavande, Won‐Ki Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

City metaphor in the context of wisdom and civilization

, 2016
In today's globalized societies, original, unaffected ideas have lost their influence because with technological developments, almost the whole world can be seen as a single city.
Kayadibi, Saim
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