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Varied motivations for secondary forest reclearing among landholders make forest persistence challenging

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
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Experiencia turística en el Sendero Laguna Esmeralda, Ushuaia

Estudios Socioterritoriales: Revista de Geografía, 2023
La actividad del senderismo, en su desarrollo como práctica turística, se relaciona con las tendencias turísticas actuales, vinculadas con la vuelta a la naturaleza, la mejora del bienestar psicofísico y la búsqueda de experiencias.
María Lucrecia Villegas, Silvina Adriana Cárdenas Romero, Marisol Vereda   +2 more
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Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha, Anselmo Nogueira, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +3 more
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Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo, Berta Fernández‐Gallego   +1 more
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Los efectos de la productividad sobre la participación en grupos de capital social: Un estudio para firmas pequeñas e informales en Colombia

Revista de Economía del Rosario
No ha habido un consenso en la literatura sobre la relación entre capital social y firmas pequeñas. Se ha pensado que sustituyen bienes públicos a los que no pueden acceder —y hay evidencia anecdótica en el mundo de firmas pequeñas e informales ...
Manuel Felipe Rojas Echeverri
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Using incentive payments to promote human–carnivore coexistence

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract For many large carnivores, minimizing the financial burden they impose on local people is critical to their conservation. Incentive‐based programs that provide people with financial benefits for taking pro‐conservation actions or achieving conservation goals are a promising tool for promoting human–carnivore coexistence. Although the number of
Adam Pekor, Ingela Jansson, Ololotu Munka, William Ole Seki, Sally Capper, Bernard Kissui, Göran Bostedt, Camilla Sandström, Dennis Rentsch, Travis Gallo   +9 more
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Vivienda social y calidad de vida. Programa Chile Barrio: ¿soluciona las necesidades habitacionales de los más pobres?

Urbano, 2002
El gobierno ha anunciado recientemente una ampliación del número de viviendas sociales a construir, con el objeto de crear más empleo. En efecto, el programa 2002-2006 contemplaba la construcción de 489.996 unidades.
Rosita Cahmi Pérez, María de la Luz Domper Rodríguez   +1 more
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What Job Would You Apply To? Findings on the Impact of Language on Job Searches

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether gender‐inclusive language in job advertisements can increase women's interest in applying for male‐dominated occupations. We implemented a discrete choice experiment with 5679 participants in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Each respondent evaluates multiple paired ads for the same job with job content
Ana Maria Diaz, Luz Magdalena Salas, Claudia Piras, Agustina Suaya   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Skills formation is a pressing issue for middle‐income countries given the pace of technological change. In Latin America, scholars point to the hierarchical type of capitalism and its segmentalist skills formation system as the main roadblocks to exiting the middle‐income trap.
Aldo Madariaga, Mariana Rangel‐Padilla
wiley   +1 more source

Etnografía y antropología en la Argentina: propuestas para la reconstrucción de un programa de investigación de lo universal

Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2017
From the beginning of Anthropology in Argentina, ethnologists and folklore specialists conducted various forms of fieldwork. In the 1960s and 1970s, a heterogeneous group of researchers created renewed research styles and approaches closer to the Anglo ...
Sergio E. Visacovsky
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