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‘Reinventing’ the Beach? Lessons from a Local Development Plan in the French Riviera
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Coastal squeeze is now so tangible both globally and locally that the focus of scientific debate has expanded from the erosion of beaches to the risk of their disappearance. In this context, it is crucial to explore local development plans that aim to preserve the long‐term existence of a beach.
Isabelle Bruno, Grégory Salle
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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GEOUSP: Espaço e Tempo, 2001 La Climatologie, en tant que secteu r de la Géographie, concentre ses attentions sur la surface de la planète où se réalisent les processus atmosphériques, géomorphologiques, hydrologiques et biologiques et où l'homme, organise en societé, produit et am ...
José Bueno Conti
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
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Ingrid Hemmer – allzeit bereit für die Belange der Geographie
Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik, 2021 Wenn es irgendwo brennt im Haus der Geographie, wenn – wie so häufig in den vergangenen Jahren – Stellenkürzungen an Instituten drohen, wenn die Stundentafel für das Schulfach Geographie in einem Bundesland mal wieder von konkurrierenden Fächern unter ...
Werner Gamerith
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GEOUSP: Espaço e Tempo, 2007 Est-il possible d’aborder la nudité par l’angle improbable de la géographie ? La géographie auraitelle quelque chose à dire de plus, de différent sur le sujet ? De prime abord la question sembleincongrue.
Francine Barthe-Deloizy
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Boreas, EarlyView.The relationship between the climate and societal transformation in Maya lowlands has long been debated, particularly the role of drought in shaping the civilization trajectory during the Classic Period. A high‐resolution, multi‐proxy, geochemical record from Lake Kaná, located in the underexplored Uaymil region of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico ...
Haydar B. Martinez‐Dyrzo +5 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Linking differences in personality to demography in the wandering albatross
Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 6, June 2026.Population dynamics are shaped by individual differences. With a good understanding of the relationships between individual differences and vital rates, population models can be improved to yield more realistic and detailed demographic projections. Personality is expected to shape individual differences in performance.
Joanie Van de Walle +7 more
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Les voyages organisés par ordre du roi à Versailles
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2006 This conference will study the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century voyages financed by the French state with a view to acquiring new knowledge on the world outside Europe. This period witnessed radical changes in scientific exploration overseas.
Jan Vandersmissen
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