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Lewis Coastal Chapel-Sites Survey: Topographic Survey 2005 [PDF]

, 2006
This report describes the results of topographic surveys undertaken for the second year of the Lewis Coastal Chapel-sites Survey (LCCS) on four chapel-sites on the Isle of Lewis in 2005.
Barrowman, Rachel C, Hooper, Janet
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Crack Development in Compacted Loess Subjected to Wet–Dry Cycles: Experimental Observations and Numerical Modeling

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Loess, a typical soil widely distributed in China, exhibits engineering properties that are highly sensitive to environmental changes, leading to increased erosion and the development of surface cracks.
Yu Xi, Mingming Sun, Gang Li, Jinli Zhang   +3 more
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Coastal area management in South Asia: a comparative perspective (Background Paper prepared for South Asia Workshop on Fisheries and Coastal Area Management, 26 September-1 October 1996, Madras, India) [PDF]

, 1996
Most of the world's fisheries and fishing communities are supported by coastal areas. Consequently, the well-being and future of the fishery sector depend on the health of the coastal ecosystem.
Sharma, Chandrika
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How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa, Jennifer Smith‐Merry, Kuo‐yi Jade Chang   +2 more
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Investigation on the wind erosion resistance of aeolian sand solidified by enzyme mineralization combined with fiber reinforcement

Scientific Reports
Sandstorms can lead to atmospheric pollution, soil degradation and health damage, which the origin of frequent outbreaks is that traditional methods cannot effectively solve the solidified of aeolian sand.
Jia Liu, Lujing Yuan, Gang Li, Jing Qu, Jinli Zhang   +4 more
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kyllie Cripps   +4 more
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Lower genetic diversity in the limpet Patella caerulea on urban coastal structures compared to natural rocky habitats

, 2009
Human-made structures are increasingly found in marine coastal habitats. The aim of the present study was to explore whether urban coastal structures can affect the genetic variation of hard-bottom species.
Abbiati, Marco, Airoldi, Laura, Bertozzi, Francesca, Costantini, Federica, Fauvelot, Cecile   +4 more
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Retooling Waterfront Governance in the New York-New Jersey Harbor: Case Studies from Waterfront Cities [PDF]

, 2013
Who is in charge of the waterfront? Everybody and nobody. The scramble of commissions and task forces in the wake of Superstorm Sandy brought the challenge of waterfront governance into sharp relief.

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