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Ethical challenge of desertification in Northern Nigeria
, 2016 Desertification is an urgent environmental problem that is faced by Northern Nigeria. As an environmental problem it creates a lot of challenges for the human community.
Ikeke, Mark Omorovie
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin +3 more
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Carsologica SinicaAs a kind of land degradation phenomenon, rocky desertification is one of the main ecological problems in karst areas in Southwest China. The key to the effective control of rocky desertification is to explore the distribution law and influence mechanism
Yanjun CHEN +5 more
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Desertification network for NGOs
, 2014 The Desertification Action Centre of UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) has just established a network of NGOs to help in its fight against deforestation and desertification in Asia, including the Pacific islands. An electronic..
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Desertification: prevention and restoration
, 2009 Approaches and strategies to prevent and reverse desertification can be broadly grouped as prevention, mitigation, and restoration. Desertification is framed within multiscale, coupled human–environmental dynamics, and so must be the approaches for ...
Bautista S, Previtali F., ZUCCA, Claudio
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Environmental justice in education for climate action: Case studies from Perú and Uganda
Children &Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper draws on participatory research with secondary school learners in Perú and Uganda that shows how environmental and social (in) justices are interwoven and embedded in young people's experiences of the natural world. These experiences contrast with learners' accounts of environmental education in secondary schooling, in which the ...
Rachel Wilder +3 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationNotwithstanding the overall improvement in the ecological condition of the Qilian Mountains, there are localized occurrences of grassland degradation, desertification, and salinization.
Xiaowen Chen +4 more
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LU-CDM, A Conceptual Model of Desertification [PDF]
, 2008 This paper presents a generic system dynamic model to simulate and analyze a desertification system and its stability for different desertification syndromes.
Helldén, Ulf
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Children &Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the ways in which ‘forest school’, an educational approach where children engage in creative and play based activities in a ‘natural’ environment, can contribute towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) by promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and by helping address biodiversity loss. Drawing on data
Hannah Hogarth
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