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Risks of concealing environmental degradation
Abstract Current practice seeks to conceal the visual impact of land‐use change (i.e., development). Six percent of development impact assessments in Australia and 14% of the World Bank's assessments recommend visual impact mitigation. This mitigation results in, for example, vegetated buffer strips alongside cleared agricultural areas and earthen ...
Matt W. Hayward +8 more
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Water security from Indigenous knowledge perspective: A scoping review
Abstract Water security is a growing field of research in water resources management and has been increasingly examined from the perspectives of Indigenous knowledge. This study presents a scoping review that explores how Indigenous knowledge perspectives on water security are represented in the scientific literature.
Juan Cueva‐Orjuela +4 more
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Forest cover within cattle ranches can strongly shape faunal biodiversity. In Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. We show that butterflies, moths, dung beetles, and birds respond differently to forest cover across habitats (pastures vs. forest fragments) and seasons, as a function of their specialization and resource needs.
Lina Adonay Urrea‐Galeano +6 more
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ABSTRACT This article documents EvalParticipativa's 6‐year effort to democratize evaluation across Latin America through participatory approaches rooted in the region's traditions of Popular Education, Participatory Action Research, and Sistematización de Experiencias.
Pablo Rodríguez Bilella +1 more
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Our study highlights that when acclimatisation periods are too short, the substantial economic and logistical investment in soft‐release protocols may fail to deliver the expected conservation gains. Therefore, defining evidence‐based acclimatisation periods that are long enough to promote settlement, yet compatible with logistical constraints, may ...
Pablo Cisneros‐Araujo +14 more
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ABSTRACT This study explores the production of coherence between Uruguay's agricultural, environmental and water policies amidst growing tensions, which are particularly manifested in conflicts between an expanding agricultural sector and water insecurity for the broader public.
Simon Ryfisch +7 more
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Tracer Hydrology Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities Across Latin America and the Caribbean
Tracer monitoring characteristics across the LAC region: overview of sampled hydrologic systems, commonly used tracers, routine and event‐based sampling strategies, integration with hydrometric measurements, and monitoring durations. ABSTRACT Tracer hydrology in Latin America and the Caribbean has made significant progress in recent decades, largely ...
Ricardo Sánchez‐Murillo +47 more
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Waterbirds distributed in semi‐arid and arid regions seem to have adapted their behaviour to the availability and seasonality of wetlands, increasing their mobility range. The Marbled Duck Marmaronetta angustirostris is a threatened waterbird that shows trans‐Mediterranean movements but these are poorly known.
Irene Pacheco‐Guardiola +6 more
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Escribir en comunidad: Construcción de relaciones y responsabilidad en la producción de conocimiento
ABSTRACT As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and
Jordi Armani Rivera Prince +16 more
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Abstract The migratory phenomenon has had a significant demographic impact in Spain in recent years. Currently, 6.8 million foreign nationals have established their habitual residence in our country, representing 14 % of the total resident population. Within the acculturation process of the immigrant population ‐ through which they adopt the lifestyle ...
Irene Bretón Lesmes +6 more
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