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Can culture be solely inferred from the absence of genetic or environmental factors ? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Rendell & Whitehead's minimalist definition of culture does not allow for the important gaps between cetaceans and Inimans. A more complete analysis reveals important discontinuities that may be more instnictive for comparative purposes than the ...
Ripoll, T, Vauclair, J
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Promotion of environmental knowledge as a condition for the formation of ecological culture

open access: yesЮг России: экология, развитие
Aim. To study the importance of promoting environmental knowledge, to identify its role in the formation of environmental culture in modern Russian society and to analyse the main problems of regulating the process of formation of environmental culture ...
G. N. Komkova   +2 more
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Blackfish Lessons on Environmental Sustainability, Food, and Indigenous Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay, “Blackfish Lessons on Environmental Sustainability, Food, and Indigenous Culture,” examines Yup’ik interventions into understanding the place of human-nonhuman animal relations in regard to ecological sustainability.
Swensen, Thomas
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METHODOLOGY FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL FORMATION OF THE STUDENTS OF THE CAREER OF AGRONOMY / METODOLOGÍA PARA LA FORMACIÓN AMBIENTAL DE ESTUDIANTES DE AGRONOMÍA

open access: yesDidasc@lia: didáctica y educación, 2012
The deficiencies that persist in the students graduated in Agronomic Engineering to face the challenges of a sustainable agriculture, lead to energize the environmental formation of these so that they develop knowledge, abilities and values ...
Adelaida Almaguer Álvarez   +3 more
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Effect of competitive cues on reproductive morphology and behavioral plasticity in male fruitflies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Phenotypic plasticity will be favored whenever there are significant fitness benefits of responding to environmental variation. The extent and nature of the plasticity that evolves depends on the rate of environmental fluctuations and the capacity to ...
Bretman, Amanda   +3 more
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Hotspots, Heat Vulnerability and Urban Heat Islands: An Interdisciplinary Review of Research Methodologies

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 2020
As a result of ongoing global warming, approximately 30% of the world's population lives in areas where the temperature reaches the death risk threshold at least 20 days a year. The distribution of heat and vulnerability, however, varies in a city; where
Changchang Wang, Hsiao-Tung Chang
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Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The aim of this article is to assess the relationships between majority (South) and minority (North) world environmental groups by focusing on one of the largest transnational environmental organisations: Friends of the Earth International (FoEI):1 1 ...
Doherty, BJA
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Corporate environmental assessment by a bank lender : a social constructionist perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Over the last decade evidence has emerged which suggests that lenders are considering environmental impact of corporate borrowers as part of their lending decisions. Environmental consideration by lenders may considerably influence the level of financial
Coulson, A.B.   +1 more
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The impact of voluntary environmental protection instruments on company environmental performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In the last decade there has been increasing emphasis on the use of voluntary environmental protection tools such as corporate environmental reporting (CER) and environmental management systems (EMSs).
Annandale, D.   +2 more
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Phytoremediation concept: biomass production and growth of Populus deltoides under compost leachate irrigation

open access: yesJournal of Forest Science, 2015
Compost leachate is produced by conversion of municipal waste to compost. It contains significant amounts of organic materials, nutrients, soluble salts and small amounts of some heavy metals.
T. Abedi, Sh. Moghaddami
doaj   +1 more source

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