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Growing trees on farms: Navigating the goals and values of farmers
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Agricultural landscapes represent critical contexts for advancing policy objectives related to tree cover expansion. This paper explores how farmers' values influence their willingness or ability to grow trees on farms. Research is based on 49 interviews and two focus groups with farmers in England and draws on two social science research ...
Stephen McConnachie +7 more
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Digitalising biodiversity: Exploring perceptions on risks and opportunities
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Digitalisation is transforming biodiversity conservation, offering new opportunities for research, governance and public engagement. Herbarium digitisation, for example, enables large‐scale access to plant data, supporting conservation, restoration and sustainable use.
Björn‐Ola Linnér +9 more
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Seven Immigration Myths and Facts [PDF]
, 2011 The AFL-CIO prepared Seven Immigration Myths and Facts addressing current immigration ...
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Recent advances in fluorescent materials innovation and film‐based sensing application
Responsive Materials, EarlyView.This review systematically summarizes recent advances in high‐performance film‐based fluorescent sensors (FFSs), specifically covering the innovative strategies for engineering porous sensing films, and the sensitive and rapid detection for diverse target analytes. Current challenges for the further development of the sensors are discussed, guiding the
Xinyu Gou, Junxia Peng, Yu Fang
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Supporting Healthy Communities Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 Calls on state and local policy makers to use stimulus funding to make neighborhoods conducive to and safe for physical activity, build healthier schools, improve access to healthy foods, and prevent disease in low-income, rural, and minority ...
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Prisoners' Perceptions and Their Agency on Sustainability Transformation in Finland
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability transformation is essential for our time, requiring the involvement of all citizens. Several prisons worldwide have developed various sustainable development (SD) programs for prisoners. However, it remains unclear how prisoners perceive SD, which can be a significant obstacle to their agency. This study explores the perceptions
Sirpa M. Manninen, Teija Makkonen
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Social SciencesBackground: The United States has the highest number of immigrants in the world, with over 46 million foreign-born residents as of 2022. A growing number of migrants originate from Latin America, driven by factors such as economic instability, food ...
Fei Luo, John C. Kilburn
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Review of Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland [PDF]
, 2008 Female serial killers, women suicide bombers and the increasing number, and escalating violence, of girl gangs in the late twentieth century force us to question powerful cultural stereotypes that women are inherently nonaggressive.
Pattinson, J.S.
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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
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Research on penalty gradient optimization for food safety crimes
Shipin yu jixieThis study addresses the widespread issues of "substituting fines for criminal penalties" and "imbalance in sentencing" in the punishment of food safety crimes. It delves into the root cause, which lies in the critical gap between the Criminal Law of the
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