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Localizing Efforts to Prevent Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Aid: Evolving Experiences of Power and Agency in Lebanon

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efforts to address gender‐based violence in humanitarian settings increasingly call for recognition of and funding to local women‐led organizations and women's rights organizations for long‐term response. The Empowered Aid initiative seeks to address sexual exploitation and abuse by working with local organizations as well as the refugee women
Jihan Kaisi, Fatima Mahmoud, Hope Harriet, Jessie Weber, Alina Potts   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Trinom Migration – FDI – Competitiveness. Case Study: Romania (2004-2015) [PDF]

Oradea Journal of Business and Economics, 2017
In the context of a global economy, increasingly competitive, the battle for the competitive advantage has become harsh. The attractiveness of countries which influence the international migration, generate opposite or complementary effects in the ...
Ana Maria Talmaciu (Banu), Laura-Mariana Cismaş   +1 more
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Understanding contingency in wolf‐mediated livestock predation across a mosaic of land uses: An agent‐based modelling approach

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The return of grey wolves to multi‐use landscapes in North America and Europe raises concerns over accompanying risks of livestock predation. While local‐level risk factors have received attention, it is difficult to explore the role that landscape‐scale variables, such as landscape connectivity, play in driving livestock losses.
Vivian F. Hawkinson, Oswald J. Schmitz, Kristy M. Ferraro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Projections of Net Migration to the United States [PDF]

, 2006
[Excerpt] Immigration projections are subject to a large degree of uncertainty even in the near term. In fact, the two agencies\u27 projections for net migration in 2010 range, under plausible alternative assumptions, from as low as 150,000 to more than ...
Brauer, David A.
core   +1 more source

Disentangling conservation asymmetries through socio‐economic transboundary factors across the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest of South America

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecoregions are often defined based on homogeneous biophysical and ecological conditions and are optimal spatial units for designing conservation strategies. However, transboundary ecoregions such as the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest (APAF) experience asymmetrical conservation outcomes, understood here as cross‐border differences, resulting from ...
Lía Montti, N. Ignacio Gasparri, Ahuvit Trumper, Claudia Amicone, Alberto Anticoli, Sarah L. Burns, Sergio Casertano, Ana Eleuterio, Marie‐Joe Gennerich, Lukas Giessen, M. Virginia González, Manuel Santos Silva, Fabricio Vázquez, Santiago J. E. Velazco, Alberto Yanosky, Gustavo A. Zurita, María Piquer‐Rodríguez   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A quasi-experiment [PDF]

Does the emigration of highly-skilled workers deplete local human capital? The answer is not obvious if migration prospects induce human capital formation.
Michael Clemens, Satish Chand
core   +1 more source

Open‐land‐derived agroforestry and effects of abandonment of management of the main crop on ecosystem services and woody plant diversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Tropical forests are rapidly declining. One promising strategy to reverse the loss of tropical forest is the establishment of agroforestry on open land. We combined interviews with biodiversity surveys to learn general lessons from success and nonsuccess stories of the establishment of open‐land‐derived coffee agroforests in one of the world's ...
Lucas M. Fonzaghi, Kristoffer Hylander, Thiago S. de Melo, Ayco J. M. Tack   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lebanese Emigrants' Confidence in the Voting Behavior of Resident Lebanese In the 2022 Parliamentary Elections

SSRN Electronic Journal
Over the past half-century, an increasing number of countries have granted their citizens residing abroad the right to participate in homeland domestic elections through Out-of-Country Voting (OCV). Lebanon is one of these countries. It had its first OCV parliamentary elections in 2018 and has just completed its second OCV in 2022.
openaire   +1 more source

Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B.
Christopher Kreuzer, Geoff S. Ridley, Nathan E. C. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combined effects of canola plant density and insecticide management strategies on flea beetle abundance, canola defoliation, and yield across the Canadian prairies

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Increasing canola plant density reduced flea beetle abundance per plant and increased yield, independent of region or insecticide use, highlighting its potential as a component of integrated pest management. Abstract The crucifer flea beetle, Phyllotreta cruciferae (Goeze), and the striped flea beetle, Phyllotreta striolata (Fabricius) (Coleoptera ...
Shayla Woodland, Héctor A Cárcamo, Tyler Wist, Jennifer Otani, John Gavloski, Rob W Duncan, Tharshinidevy Nagalingam, Alejandro C Costamagna   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source