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The “Magic” of Conflict: How Participatory Governance Can Enable Transformative Climate Adaptation
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In many cases, addressing climate risks requires transformative climate adaptation (TCA) that goes beyond small adjustments to existing systems. While scholars increasingly argue that participatory governance is key and should embrace conflict rather than push for consensus to enable TCA, this assumption remains underexplored.
Dore Engbersen +2 more
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Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures [PDF]
, 2012 This presentation was given at the World Oral Literature Project 2012 workshop Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures.Language endangerment is by now a well-known topic, and language documentation one well ...
Drude, Sebastian
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Causative Constructions in Woirata, Kisar Island (Southwest Maluku, Indonesia) [PDF]
, 2015 Woirata (or Oirata, see Van Engelenhoven in this volume) is closely related to Fataluku (Timor-Leste) and belongs to the Timor-Leste subgroup of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family (TAP) together with Makalero and Makasai (Schapper, Huber, and Van ...
Nazarudin, N. (N)
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land is fundamental to livelihoods and ecosystem health but faces mounting pressure from human activities, climate change, and competing development demands. Science–policy interfaces (SPIs)—platforms that connect experts and policymakers—are vital for co‐producing knowledge to inform coherent, sustainable land‐use governance.
Sara Velander +1 more
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Is Yorùbá an Endangered Language?
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2005 The phenomenon of language death is real. The phrase ‘language death’ may sound stark and unwelcome, but its grappling muscles on the throat of the Yoruba language have terrible, unannounced and unnoticed suffocating effects.
Felix Abidemi Fabuni, Akeem Segun Salawu
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Collaborative Documentation and Revitalization of Cherokee Tone [PDF]
, 2015 Cherokee, the sole member of the southern branch of Iroquoian languages, is a severely endangered language. Unlike other members of the Iroquoian family, Cherokee has lexical tone.
Berardo, Marcellino +4 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The interest in putting a price on carbon emissions is increasing in pace with the urgency of climate change. In this article we compare the adoption of one such policy instrument, carbon taxation, in the cases of Sweden and Mexico. We use a theoretical framework that focuses on economic and environmental factors influencing the policy process
Jakob Skovgaard +3 more
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Capturing the diversity of multilingual societies
Physical Review Research, 2021 Cultural diversity encoded within languages of the world is at risk, as many languages have become endangered in the last decades in a context of growing globalization.
Thomas Louf +2 more
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Preserving Endangered Languages [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2007 Abstract Over the last few decades an increasing number of books, scholarly articles and media reports have predicted that as many as 60 to 90% of the world's some 6900 languages may be at risk of extinction within the next 100 years. This article provides an overview of the current state of the world's languages, explains some causes
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Creating Books for Use in Language Revitalization Classrooms: Considerations and Outcomes [PDF]
, 2020 In this paper, I examine the development, implementation, and results of utilizing three types of storybooks in a language revitalization classroom for students ages 5-12 learning Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec, an indigenous language of southern Mexico ...
Nee, Julia
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