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Do Consumers Respond to Marginal Prices at Kink Points? Evidence From 40+ Million Electricity Bills in Ethiopia

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
wiley   +1 more source

The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
wiley   +1 more source

Prioritizing Inclusive Practices for Rural Women Smallholder Farmers Participation in Climate Change Adaptation and Ecological Education in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Climate Resilience and Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2026.
Rural women smallholder farmers face climate change impacts alongside sociocultural barriers, limited resources, and restricted decision‐making power. A mixed‐methods review and participatory workshops identified 16 adaptation strategies and 13 inclusion practices, highlighting variation in stakeholder priorities. Organizational membership emerged as a
Bruno Enagnon Lokonon, Clarisse Houénafa Dete, Bruno Amèdjiko Tchede, Massogblé M. Lucrèce Atindehou, Aurel Babatoundé Fridolin Hansinon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spinning the Past Forward: Recording, Archiving, and (Re‐)listening to Siberian Phonograph Cylinders From the Jesup North Pacific Expedition

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved ...
Dmitry Arzyutov, Veronika Trotter, Vera Solovyeva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the feasibility of the socioeconomic benefits of Colophospermum mopane under climate change in north-central Namibia

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Colophospermum mopane (C. mopane) is a drought-tolerant deciduous tree that provides essential ecosystem services for local communities. Despite its socioeconomic importance, the feasibility of these benefits under changing climatic conditions remains ...
Andreas Nikodemus, Miroslav Hájek, Diana Carolina Huertas Bernal, Nia Novita WIrawan, Edward Muhoko, Penelao Nangolo, Albertina Ndeinoma, Rosemary Shikangalah   +7 more
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Comparative Study of Expected Ecosystem Services and Tree Species Diversity in Residential Plots of Polluted and Unpolluted Neighborhoods in the Copper City of Lubumbashi

Plant-Environment Interactions, Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Natural ecosystem loss and deterioration in the quality of the urban environment due to rapid urbanization associated with soil pollution by mining activity have become a huge dilemma in the mining city of Lubumbashi (DR Congo). This study aimed to assess the importance attributed to trees through the expected services, species choice and ...
Jacques Kilela Mwanasomwe, Serge Langunu, Franck Mpetemba wa Kalala, Gilles Colinet, Mylor Ngoy Shutcha   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating the Potential of Merchantable Timber and Firewood of Sengon in the Community Forest of Bateh Village, Magelang

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika, 2012
The potential of merchantable timber and firewood of Sengon (Paraserienthes falcataria) in Desa Bateh community forest were estimated by developing allometric equations method.
Ris Hadi Purwanto, Abdul Rachman Suryo Pratomo   +1 more
doaj  

Thermal Performance Evaluation of a Single-Mouth Improved Cookstove: Theoretical Approach Compared with Experimental Data

Energies
This work aims to address the knowledge gap in the thermal efficiency performance of a locally made cookstove in Mali. Despite the fact that the thermal efficiency of cookstoves is a crucial aspect of cooking, the performance of commercially produced ...
Hamed Atajafari, Birendra Raj Pathak, Ramchandra Bhandari   +2 more
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The loss of an Indigenous‐maintained She‐Oak woodland in southeast Australia

Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, August 2026.
A 2600‐year multi‐proxy palaeoecological record (pollen, charcoal, and sediment) from Balfour Swamp, east Gippsland, reveals the persistence of an open, grassy She‐Oak woodland maintained by GunaiKurnai. This vegetation community, resilient to climatic variability and fire, was lost following the disruption of Aboriginal land management and replaced by
Anthony Romano, Patrick Kennedy, Harriet Magee, Russell Mullet, Gunai Kurnai Land Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Michael‐Shawn Fletcher   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food without fire: Environmental and nutritional impacts from a solar stove field experiment

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 108, Issue 4, Page 1121-1144, August 2026.
Abstract Over 80% of the population in rural Sub‐Saharan Africa relies on biomass cooking fuel, a substantial source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. We use a field experiment in Zambia to investigate the impact of solar stoves on biomass fuel use and cooking habits.
Laura E. McCann, Jeffrey D. Michler, Maybin Mwangala, Osaretin Olurotimi, Natalia Estrada Carmona   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source