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Can Restoration of the Commons Reduce Rural Vulnerability? A Quasi-Experimental Comparison of COVID-19 Livelihood-based Coping Strategies among Rural Households in Three Indian States

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2022
India has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of a larger quasi-experimental impact assessment, we assess the pandemic’s effects on household coping behavior in 80 villages spread across four districts and three states (n = 772).
Karl Alan Hughes   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of statistical approaches to predicting norovirus laboratory reports before and during COVID-19: insights to inform public health surveillance

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Social distancing interrupted transmission patterns of contact-driven infectious agents such as norovirus during the Covid-19 pandemic. Since routine surveillance of norovirus was additionally disrupted during the pandemic, traditional naïve forecasts ...
Nikola Ondrikova   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Professional Agency in the Ecology of Wrongdoing

open access: yes, 2018
This study offers an account of individual agency within a constructivist view of professional wrongdoing. The main contribution is a model in which the neglected role of individual professionals is foregrounded, offering the basis for testable propositions about future misconduct.
Harrington, Brooke   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

From Parasite to Symbiont: Cyborg Identity, Ecological Agency and Posthuman Freedom in Suarez’s Daemon and Freedom™

open access: yesHumanities
This article examines Daniel Suarez’s techno-thrillers Daemon (2006) and Freedom™ (2010) as works of speculative fiction that critically engage with themes of posthuman identity, algorithmic governance, and ecological agency.
Ozden Dere
doaj   +1 more source

Enactivism and Ecological Psychology: The Role of Bodily Experience in Agency [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
This paper considers some foundational concepts in ecological psychology and in enactivism, and traces their developments from their historical roots to current preoccupations. Important differences stem, we claim, from dissimilarities in how embodied experience has been understood by the ancestors, founders and followers of ecological psychology and ...
Popova, Yanna B.   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

An exploration into the links between coaching practices, coaching cultures, and the emergence of ecological agency in schools

open access: yesInternational Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring
This study explores the relationship between coaching practices, coaching cultures, and ecological agency in schools. Using a phenomenological approach, it examines the experiences of nineteen teachers to understand how coaching influences teacher agency.
Jasmine Miller, Joe Cowley
doaj   +1 more source

Distribution of a Foliage Disease Fungus Within Canopies of Mature Douglas-Fir in Western Oregon

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Nothophaeocryptopus gaeumannii is a common native, endophytic fungus of Douglas-fir foliage, which causes Swiss needle cast, an important foliage disease that is considered a threat to Douglas-fir plantations in Oregon.
Yung-Hsiang Lan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A social-ecological approach to conservation planning: embedding social considerations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Many conservation plans remain unimplemented, in part because of insufficient consideration of the social processes that influence conservation decisions. Complementing social considerations with an integrated understanding of the ecology of a region can
Pressey, Robert L.   +11 more
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Operationalizing agency in livelihoods research: smallholder farming livelihoods in southwest Ethiopia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2022
Livelihoods are activities and practices in which social and environmental factors interlink, and they play a key role in achieving human well-being and environmental conservation.
Aisa O. Manlosa
doaj   +1 more source

Automated Experimentation for Ecological Networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
BackgroundIn ecological networks, natural communities are studied from a complex systems perspective by representing interactions among species within them in the form of a graph, which is in turn analysed using mathematical tools.
Lurgi, M.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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