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The Amazon Forest Preservation by Clarifying Property Rights and Potential Conflicts: How Experiments Using Fit-for-Purpose Can Help

Land, 2021
The burning and the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon forest, which has been recently highlighted by the international press and occurs mostly on public or undesignated land, calls for an in-depth examination. This has traditionally been the main way
Bastiaan Reydon, Mathilde Molendijk, Nicolas Porras, Gabriel Siqueira   +3 more
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Islamic Finance: Fit for Purpose or Mere Replication?

Journal of Islamic Economics, 2023
The form versus substance issue is not a new phenomenon in Islamic finance. Beyond question, one of the verses emphasising the superiority of substance over form is surah al-Baqarah: ‘Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the ...
İlkay Kaya
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EU Transparency as ‘Documents’: Still Fit for Purpose?

Politics and Governance, 2021
In this thematic issue, the question whether EU decision making might be characterised by an excess of transparency stands central. This contribution addresses an issue that precedes such questions of quantity: that of transparency’s qualities, i.e., its
Maarten Hillebrandt
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Best practices for the development and fit-for-purpose validation of biomarker methods: a conference report

AAPS Open, 2022
This conference report summarized a full-day workshop, “best practices for the development and fit-for-purpose validation of biomarker methods,” which was held prior to the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) PharmSci360 Congress ...
Joel Mathews, Lakshmi Amaravadi, Steven Eck, Lauren Stevenson, Yow-Ming C. Wang, Viswanath Devanarayan, John Allinson, Kelly Lundsten, Michele Gunsior, Yan G. Ni, Marc-Olivier Pepin, Audrey Gagnon, Curtis Sheldon, Paul C. Trampont, Virginia Litwin   +14 more
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Fit-For-Purpose Applications in Colombia: Defining Land Boundary Conflicts between Indigenous Sikuani and Neighbouring Settler Farmers

Land, 2021
One of the most difficult types of land-related conflict is that between Indigenous peoples and third parties, such as settler farmers or companies looking for new opportunities who are encroaching on Indigenous communal lands.
Laura Becerra, Mathilde Molendijk, Nicolas Porras, Piet Spijkers, Bastiaan Reydon, Javier Morales   +5 more
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Geospatial Tool and Geocloud Platform Innovations: A Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration Assessment

Land, 2021
The well-recognized and extensive task of mapping unrecorded land rights across sub-Saharan Africa demands innovative solutions. In response, the consortia of “its4land”, a European Commission Horizon 2020 project, developed, adapted, and tested ...
Mila Koeva, Mohammed Imaduddin Humayun, Christian Timm, Claudia Stöcker, Sophie Crommelinck, Malumbo Chipofya, Rohan Bennett, Jaap Zevenbergen   +7 more
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Air pollution measurement errors: is your data fit for purpose? [PDF]

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2022
When making measurements of air quality, having a reliable estimate of the measurement uncertainty is key to assessing the information content that an instrument is capable of providing, and thus its usefulness in a particular application.
S. Diez, S. E. Lacy, T. J. Bannan, M. Flynn, T. Gardiner, D. Harrison, N. Marsden, N. A. Martin, K. Read, K. Read, P. M. Edwards   +10 more
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Crowdsourced Geospatial Infrastructure for Coastal Management and Planning for Emerging Post COVID-19 Tourism Demand

Tourism and Hospitality, 2021
In recent years, the use of crowdsourcing has positively transformed the way geographic information is collected, stored and analyzed. Many countries have promoted and funded research into the potential of using crowdsourcing in various fields of ...
Efthimios Bakogiannis, Chryssy Potsiou, Konstantinos Apostolopoulos, Charalampos Kyriakidis   +3 more
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Evaluating Some Major Assumptions in Land Registration: Insights from Ghana’s Context of Land Tenure and Registration

Land, 2020
A discussion of the assumptions that underlie efforts to register land enables us to not only evaluate their validity across different contexts, but most importantly, to further understand how the low incidences of land registration might derive from ...
Zaid Abubakari, Christine Richter, Jaap Zevenbergen   +2 more
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Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration in Violent Conflict Settings

Land, 2021
According to the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency, there were 79.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide by the end of 2019. Evictions from homes and land are often linked to protracted violent conflict.
Clarissa Augustinus, Ombretta Tempra
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