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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

Science in the court. [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 1995
openaire   +2 more sources

Interview with former Michigan Supreme Court Justice James L. Ryan. Part 3

open access: yes, 1990
Michigan Supreme Court Justice James L. Ryan talks about his first days on the Michigan Supreme Court in 1975, the positive chemistry among the judges during his tenure and the debilitating turmoil the court was in prior to his arrival. He also discusses
Ryan, James L., 1932-
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Individualised niches: an integrative conceptual framework across behaviour, ecology, and evolution

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individuals differ. While seemingly trivial, this insight has nevertheless led to paradigm shifts, as three key fields of organismal biology have seen marked changes in key concepts over the past few decades. In animal behaviour, it has become increasingly recognised that behavioural differences among individuals can be stable over time and ...
Oliver Krüger   +27 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interview with former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Thomas E. Brennan. Part 9

open access: yes, 1991
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Thomas Brennan talks about judicial activism and the prospective vs. retrospective changing of Common Law, using humor in writing court opinions, and making decisions by law or by conscience in a judicial context and ...
Brennan, Thomas E., 1929-2018
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Circular Design Strategies Unleashed: Competitiveness and the Journey Towards Circular Manufacturing Businesses

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy (CE) remains hindered by the lack of practical strategies that simultaneously secure competitiveness and deliver sustainability outcomes for manufacturing organisations. While circular design is often cited as a cornerstone of CE, its concrete role in driving competitive advantage and organisational ...
Shamaila Ishaq   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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