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Agricultural and Food Economics, 2023 Agriculture is a major source of food and income for poor and rural households living in developing countries; yet, agricultural systems are increasingly threatened by changing climate conditions that compromise their productivity and resilience.
Maria Teresa Trentinaglia +2 more
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Environmental indicators for the urban environment : a literature review [PDF]
, 2000 A vast body of literature exists on the genesis and evolution of environmental indicators of all varieties. This document attempts to track the somewhat complicated progress of urban environmental indicators, where they are in usage and to what avail. It
Convery, Frank J. +2 more
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Recent Contributions of Agricultural Economics Research in the Field of Sustainable Development
Agriculture, 2018 Sustainable development is more often considered by media, public opinion, and politicians to be the main goal our society should attempt to pursue in the coming years. To this aim, academic researchers have made sustainability one of the main objects of
Danilo Bertoni +7 more
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ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY AND THE TIMING OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY [PDF]
Natural Resource Modeling, 2004 ABSTRACT. This paper shows that the timing of an investment to reduce the emissions of a stock pollutant under environmental uncertainty depends on the specification of uncertainty, on its level, and on the presence of a lower reflecting barrier for the stock pollutant.
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International Journal of Forestry ResearchNontimber forest products (NTFPs) are widely recognized for their roles in supporting the livelihoods and cultural practices of forest-dependent communities and their contributions to ecological conservation.
Zenebe Girmay Siyum +4 more
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Network governance and the Urban Nexus of water, energy, and food: lessons from Amsterdam
Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2019 Background Silo-thinking stands for one-dimensional and sectorial policy and decision-making in which natural resources managers do not reflect on interrelations between different sectors involved in the management of resources. Nexus-thinking stands out
Moises Covarrubias +2 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The process of internalization of the Shiga toxin A subunit via formation of a complex with the Shiga toxin B subunit, which specifically binds to the Gb3 receptor. The peptide is designed to act as a carrier of drugs into cancer cells. Here, we explored the potential of peptides derived from the catalytic A subunit of Shiga toxin (STxA) to be drug ...
Giulia Opassi +6 more
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Environmental Justice and Roma Communities in Central and Eastern Europe
, 2009 This is the pre-peer-reviewed version of the following article: Harper, Krista, Tamara Steger, and Richard Filcak. 2009. Environmental Justice and Roma Communities in Central and Eastern Europe.
Steger, Tamara +2 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers of cachexia and sex‐specific cancer in senior dogs. In 25 client‐owned dogs, four circulating miRNAs (miR‐15a, miR‐15b, miR‐16, miR‐140) were downregulated in cachexia, with miR‐16 the strongest individual biomarker (AUC = 0.899).
Soon‐Seok Park +6 more
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Ecology and Society, 2016 Several of the world's largest deltas have recently been conceptualized as social-ecological delta systems. Although such conceptualizations are valuable in emphasizing complex interaction between social actors and ecological processes in deltas, they do
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