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Communal Land Ownership: Remnant of the Past? : The agricultural communities in the Commune of Canela, Norte Chico (1600-1998)

open access: yes, 2002
Other land property forms than the private are often conceived as residues of the past, residues that paradoxically seem never to pass away. An example is the form of semi-communal land ownership of the agricultural communities of Chile’s Region IV ...
Gallardo Fernández, Gloria L.
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High‐elevation endemic plants predicted to lose habitat from changing climate in Washington State

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise High‐elevation plants face unique challenges from potential climate change impacts that will likely require upslope migration into increasingly smaller suitable habitat. This situation is particularly acute for endemic species that by definition occupy small geographic ranges.
Nicholas L. Gjording   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Historia de la sostenibilidad. Un concepto medioambiental en la historia de Europa central (1000-2006).

open access: yesHistoria Crítica, 2006
This article analyzes the history of the environmental principal of sustainability in agrarian and industrial cultures. Its example is Central Europe between the Middle Ages and the 21st century.
Bernd Marquardt
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The reform of Maori land tenure and the quest for sustainability in New Zealand

open access: yes, 1997
Many of the countries of the Pacific region (including Australia and New Zealand) have a British colonial legacy. This history has had wide implications for the development of the region: economically, politically and socially.
M Jay   +3 more
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Linking community structure and climate vulnerability in desert plant assemblages of southern California

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Desert plant assemblages in southern California provide an opportunity to link patterns of community structure with climate‐driven vulnerability in a rapidly changing environment. California sustains an exceptionally diverse flora of approximately 4300 plant species, with 31% identified as endemic.
Hector Zumbado‐Ulate   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reforming communal land tenure in South Africa – why land titling is not the answer: Critical comments on the communal land rights bill, 2002

open access: yes, 2002
The long-awaited draft Communal Land Rights Bill sets out government’s proposals to resolve urgent land tenure problems in the former ‘homeland’ areas, where most rural South Africans still live, and where land is registered in the name of the state ...
Cousins, Ben
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NO NĀ PUA: Exploring the feasibility of culture‐based social prescribing on firefighters' wellbeing in Hawaiʻi

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Household Returns to Land Transfers in South Africa: A Q-squared analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
The South African land reform programme has been widely criticised for its slow pace as well as its apparent lack of contribution to poverty reduction.
Christine Valente
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