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, 2012 Guide containing general information on purchasing and using firewood for home heating in New ...
Hohn, Charles M.;
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Impacts of coal smoke on infant mortality: Evidence from industrializing Japan
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the health consequences of coal smoke during Japan's early industrialization. Using fixed‐effects models and a prefecture‐level panel dataset on actual coal consumption and infant mortality from 1899 to 1910, this study finds that higher coal consumption was positively associated with infant mortality.
Tatsuki Inoue
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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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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents a new way of obtaining deep explanations of environmental problems. We expose the production strategies, corporate strategies and state actions that have been taken by firms and state agencies to facilitate the geographical expansion of the wood‐based commodity frontier at the expense of reindeer pastoralists among the ...
David Harnesk, Lars Östlund
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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.Entomological and community‐related risk factors for Chagas disease were assessed through peridomestic sampling, calculation of entomological indices and surveys of community knowledge, attitudes and practices. Forty‐six triatomines, all identified as Triatoma pallidipennis, were collected, and all specimens showed natural infection with Trypanosoma ...
Reyna Vargas‐Abasolo +5 more
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, 2012 Men carrying firewood up to their rural villages, in the mountains near Xela.https://dune.une.edu/sbyrd_guatemala/1013/thumbnail ...
Byrd, Steven Eric
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BioResources, 2023 Short-rotation crop (SRC) systems with woody species have been planted in Costa Rica. However, information about different tree species and spacing is limited. The objective of the present study was to examine biomass production and the physical, energy,
Carolina Tenorio +3 more
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Leveraging over 40 million residential electricity billing records from more than one million meters in Ethiopia, we test whether consumers respond to marginal prices at kink points under an increasing block tariff (IBT). We exploit a unique institutional setting in which two distinct billing systems (manual postpaid and automated prepaid ...
Tensay Hadush Meles, Gunnar Köhlin
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Postural risk assessment of mechanised firewood processing
, 2017 The study assessed the postural risk of mechanised firewood processing with eight machines, representing the main technology solutions available on the market.
Aminti G, De Francesco F, Spinelli R
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Pacific Focus, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the regulatory voids that undermine sovereign marine governance in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, with a focus on the Pirung Wildlife Management Area (WMA). Based on fieldwork conducted in January 2025, including data collected from 50 community members and 25 government officials, the study reveals that ...
Kai Hang +2 more
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