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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
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Managing Hedges for Firewood Production
, 2019 Ross Dickinson, a commercial farmer and wood fuel supplier in Dorset, explains "I changed the management of one of my hedges from trimming it every year to letting it grow and coppicing once every 15 years for firewood production. Taking into account the savings on trimming costs, I was able to return a good profit - enough to keep someone employed ...
ROSS DICKINSON, SALLY WESTAWAY
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Ampas Penyulingan Nilam Sebagai Bahan Bakar Alternatif Pada Proses Produksi Minyak Nilam [PDF]
, 2010 Remaining organic waste product of nilam oil distillation is a potential biomass as a fuel substitute for firewood. Utilization of waste distillation during refining is considered not yet optimal.
Sugiarto, S. (Sugiarto) +1 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although there is extensive research on invisible work and its relation to labor market performance, understanding this phenomenon from the perspective of women in multiple hierarchical positions in the Middle East remains limited. This study integrates a situated intersectionality perspective with the literature on invisible work mechanisms ...
Maha Sabbah‐Karkabi, Amit Kaplan
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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
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Parks, people and pixels: evaluating landscape effects of an East African national park on its surroundings [PDF]
, 2010 Landscapes surrounding protected areas, while still containing considerable biodiversity, have rapidly growing human populations and associated agricultural development in most of the developing world that tend to isolate them, potentially reducing their
Binford, Elizabeth +7 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Community participation is recognized as a crucial yet problematic element for addressing many issues in social development. Generating participation, however, is particularly challenging due to existing inequalities within heterogeneous communities, making it difficult for organizations to engage marginalized groups while letting go of their ...
Trish Ruebottom +2 more
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Determinants of primary school enrollment in Haiti and the Dominican Republic [PDF]
, 2010 Education is considered an important means of alleviating poverty and of improving an individual´s job and earnings prospects. Nevertheless, in Haiti and the Dominican Republic school enrollment is far from complete and shows notable regional variation ...
Gönsch, Iris
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Health and heating in the city of Temuco (Chile). Monetary savings of replacing biomass with PV system in the residential sector [PDF]
, 2019 The paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of replacing residential use of wood burning stoves for heating with photovoltaic systems for the generation of electricity using storage batteries (PV + storage systems).
Cansino Muñoz-Repiso, José Manuel +3 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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