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Policy transfer as a driver of paradigm change? Lessons from a partnership for “eco‐city” development in urban China

open access: yesAsian Politics &Policy, Volume 15, Issue 3, Page 390-407, July 2023., 2023
Abstract This article analyses the impacts of an international cooperation project in the field of “eco‐city” development in China, using a policy transfer perspective. It explores the relationship between policy transfers and paradigm shifts and discussing the thesis of a “Chinese art” of policy transfers, according to which Chinese policymakers ...
Giulia C. Romano
wiley   +1 more source

Macroalgae exhibit diverse responses to human disturbances on coral reefs

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology, Volume 29, Issue 12, Page 3318-3330, June 2023., 2023
Scientists and managers rely on indicator taxa such as macroalgal cover to evaluate the effects of human disturbance on coral reefs, often assuming a universally positive relationship between local human disturbance and macroalgae. We use genus‐level monitoring data from 1205 sites to test this assumption. We found relationships between the division or
Sara E. Cannon   +43 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human health risk assessment of metals and metalloids in mining areas of the Northeast Andean foothills of the Ecuadorian Amazon

open access: yesIntegrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 19, Issue 3, Page 706-716, May 2023., 2023
Abstract Gold mining (GM) is a major source of metals and metalloids in rivers, causing severe environmental pollution and increasing the exposure risks to the residents of surrounding areas. Mining in Ecuadorian Amazonia has dramatically increased in recent years, but its impacts on Indigenous local populations that make use of rivers are still ...
Emily Galarza   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

First national assessment of wildlife mortality in Ecuador: An effort from citizens and academia to collect roadkill data at country scale

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 3, March 2023., 2023
The first national assessment of wildlife mortality caused by road traffic in Ecuador. A comprehensive roadkill dataset with more than 5000 roadkill records in Ecuador that includes threatened and poorly known species. A joint effort of citizens and academia to collect roadkill data at a country scale.
Pablo Medrano‐Vizcaíno   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sensitization to isothiazolinones in the Spanish Contact Dermatitis Registry (REIDAC): 2019–2021 epidemiological situation

open access: yesContact Dermatitis, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 212-219, March 2023., 2023
Sensitization to methylisothiazolinone (MI), methylchloroisothiazolinone (MCI)/MI and benzisothiazolinone (BIT) is still common in Spain, while sensitization to octylisothiazolinone is rare. Sensitization to MI and MCI/MI is probably work‐related, and linked to hand dermatitis, detergents and age over 40.
Carlos Pelayo Hernández Fernández   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

The road to normalization: The importance of the United Arab Emirates' neoliberal foreign policy in the normalization with Israel: 2004–2020

open access: yesDigest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 60-78, Winter 2023., 2023
Abstract The article discusses the question of why and how the normalization between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel took place and managed to evolve into a peace agreement. It offers an additional explanation to the neorealists' scholarly and commonly accepted argument: that it was only the behavior of the revisionist state of Iran that was ...
Daniela Traub   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How is aid used to exert power? Gender equality promotion and migration control in Senegal

open access: yesJournal of International Development, Volume 34, Issue 8, Page 1509-1526, November 2022., 2022
Abstract This article describes how aid‐influence mechanisms previously identified by academic literature (aid conditionality, tied aid, consultants, people‐to‐people exchanges and the support of like‐minded donors) are triggered in a selection of six aid projects implemented by Spain and Germany and involving the EU in Senegal, in the domains of ...
Iliana Olivié
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptación basada en ecosistemas: efecto de los árboles de sombra sobre servicios ecosistémicos en cafetales

open access: yesAgronomía Mesoamericana, 2020
Introducción. El manejo de árboles de sombra en un sistema de producción se considera una práctica de adaptación basada en ecosistemas capaz de proveer múltiples servicios ecosistémicos. Objetivo. Contribuir al entendimiento de los efectos de los árboles
Rogelio Antonio Villarreyna   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exigibilidad de los derechos humanos al agua y al saneamiento [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
ÍndiceBibliografía: p.
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo
core   +3 more sources

¿Por qué se pierde la agrobiodiversidad?: caso de la chagra inga en la Amazonía colombiana

open access: yesMundo Amazónico, 2020
En esta investigación se analizaron las causas sociales, ambientales y económicas que inciden en la pérdida de agrobiodiversidad de las chagras del pueblo indígena Inga en la Amazonía colombiana.
Laura Judith Escárraga Torres   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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