Cultural innovations were boosted under the pressure of epidemic outbreaks in European History
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsOutbreaks of epidemics are human ecological disasters and have caused huge losses of human life and social disturbances in human history. But their impact on human culture has never been systematically and quantitatively studied.
David D. Zhang +4 more
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Launching the Grand Challenges for Ocean Conservation [PDF]
, 2015 The ten most pressing Grand Challenges in Oceans Conservation were identified at the Oceans Big Think and described in a detailed working document:A Blue Revolution for Oceans: Reengineering Aquaculture for SustainabilityEnding and Recovering from Marine
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On the Origin of Frictional Adhesion in Geckos: Small Morphological Changes Lead to a Major Biomechanical Transition in the Genus \u3cem\u3eGonatodes\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2017 The evolutionary history of vertebrate locomotion is punctuated by innovations that have permitted expansion into novel ecological niches. Frictional adhesion of geckos is an innovation renowned for enabling locomotion on vertical and inverted smooth ...
Gamble, Tony +2 more
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Key Environmental Innovations [PDF]
This paper is based on empirical research on a taxonomy of technological environmental innovations. It draws on a databank with over 500 examples of new technologies (materials, products, processes and practices) which come with benign environmental ...
Joseph Huber
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Assessing user experience of context-aware interfaces in a retail store [PDF]
, 2017 Context-awareness is becoming an essential functionality of mobile applications. However, it remains challenging to capture the contextual experience in innovation research, since early-stage technologies have not reached maturity to be implemented in a ...
De Marez, Lieven +3 more
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Développement Durable et TerritoiresThe Canadian economy is a paradigmatic example of the intensive exploitation of natural resources. For several decades, this model has been challenged by the emergence of environmental interests that are struggling to change the production logics ...
Antoine Police
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Ecological innovations in the Cambrian and the origins of the crown group phyla. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2016 Budd GE, Jackson IS.
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Design Matters : CBNRM and Democratic Innovation [PDF]
, 2019 Community-based natural resource management (CBRNM) aims to realize sustainable management of resources and improvements in livelihood. A central focus is the empowerment of indigenous and local communities through customary or devolved rights to common ...
Smith, G., Smith, G.
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Innovations in the organization of ecological (green) tourism: regional peculiarities
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна: Серія ЕкологіяPurpose. To search for new, systematic approaches to the development of ecological tourism in Ukraine, based on strategies of sustainability, innovation and integration with the local socio-economic context. Methods.
N. V. Maksymenko, Ye. S. Korotetska
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SIDATIM: assessing the potential of new biomass crops and valuable timber trees in agroforestry systems [PDF]
, 2018 N/
Paris, P.
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