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Traditional Indigenous medicine in North America: A scoping review.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND:Despite the documented continued use of traditional healing methods, modalities and its associated practitioners by Indigenous groups across North America, it is presumed that widespread knowledge is elusive amongst most Western trained health
Nicole Redvers, Be'sha Blondin
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Analysis Of Community And Practitioner Perceptions Of Biopori-Based Water Treatment Technologies In The Context Of Flood Resistance

JGEET: Journal of Geoscience, Engineering, Environment and Technology
This study explores the differences in perception between communities and practitioners regarding biopori-based water management technology in the context of flood management in Passeno Village, Baranti District, Sidenreng Rappang Regency, South Sulawesi
Rahmawati, Nurhapsa, Ahmad Fahmi
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Perspectives of artist–practitioners on the communication of climate change in the Pacific [PDF]

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2018
Purpose – This study aims to investigate the role of the visual arts for communicating climate change in the context of the Pacific islands, through the perspectives of artists and climate change practitioners.
Stuart Capstick, Sarah Hemstock, Ruci Senikula +2 more
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Brief Communication: The dark side of risk and crisis communication: legal conflicts and responsibility allocation [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2015
Inadequate, misinterpreted, or missing risk and crisis communication may be a reason for practitioners, and sometimes science advisors, to become the subjects of criminal investigations.
A. Scolobig
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‘The place where you should have been born’—Conservation practitioners sacralising wilderness and developing a sense of belonging in the Manu National Park, Perú

People and Nature
The management of protected areas is often portrayed as an enterprise guided by objective knowledge and technical criteria, a claim that situates conservation practitioners in positions of power relative to other actors in these spaces. Challenging these
Eduardo Salazar Moreira
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Developing a contextually relevant ECD milestone guide for South African practitioners

South African Journal of Childhood Education
Background: Two hundred and fifty million children under five in low- and middle-income countries are at risk of not achieving their developmental potential.
Keren Charge +7 more
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An international perspective on the use of community engagement by conservation practitioners to support the management of inhabited islands

Conservation Science and Practice
Successful island conservation is critical to achieving global biodiversity targets, but significant gaps remain in our understanding of how to effectively engage island communities in conservation efforts. Social and political factors often play a major
Alexandra H. Nance, Rohan H. Clarke, Carly N. Cook +2 more
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A Risk-Based Approach to Shelter Resilience following Flood and Typhoon Damage in Rural Philippines

Geosciences, 2018
The Philippines is exposed to numerous typhoons every year, each of which poses a potential threat to livelihoods, shelter, and in some cases life. Flooding caused by such events leads to extensive damage to land and buildings, and the impact on rural ...
Victoria Stephenson, Andrew Finlayson, Luisa Miranda Morel +2 more
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Using practical wisdom to facilitate ethical decision-making: a major empirical study of phronesis in the decision narratives of doctors

BMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Medical ethics has recently seen a drive away from multiple prescriptive approaches, where physicians are inundated with guidelines and principles, towards alternative, less deontological perspectives.
Mervyn Conroy +5 more
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Equitable Implementation of Green Infrastructure: An Analysis of the City of Vancouver

Canadian Planning and Policy, 2023
As climate change continues to pose a threat to human health, cities have turned to nature-based solutions, such as green infrastructure (GI), to lessen the impacts of climate change felt by communities.
Nicole Jang, Andreanne Doyon
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