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Transforming a Poaching Hotspot: Embedded NGO Governance Between State and Community in Southern China

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
wiley   +1 more source

1978 Lone Mountain College Yearbook

open access: yes, 1978
The 1978 Lone Mountain College yearbook documents student life and campus culture at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco during its final year. The yearbook includes portraits, photographs of campus life and events, and material related to student ...
Lone Mountain College
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The burden of cardiovascular disease in Asia from 2025 to 2050: a forecast analysis for East Asia, South Asia, South-East Asia, Central Asia, and high-income Asia Pacific regions. [PDF]

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Summary Background Given the rapidly growing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Asia, this study forecasts the CVD burden and associated risk factors in Asia from 2025 to 2050. Methods Data from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study was used to
Chan, Siew Pang   +54 more
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Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw   +3 more
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Buildings as accidental habitat: Where animals nest, sleep and forage

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Animals have long inhabited human buildings alongside us, but our understanding comes from isolated studies, such as reports of a possum in the roof or a bat in our walls. What we lack is the building's perspective: which building features actually serve as habitat and for whom?
Bethany M. Kiss   +6 more
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Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) Buletin Vol. 7 No. 1 Autumn 2005

open access: yes, 2011
- Election News\ud - Interview with Ismail Khan, Asia-Pacific representative, Mountain Forum\ud - Coordinator’s Notes\ud \ud PROFILE\ud • Mountains of North-East Asia\ud \ud APMN NEWS\ud - Overview of activities and achievements\ud \ud DISCUSSION\ud ...

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Newsletter: Centre for Mountain Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Contents: . Director's Comment . Struther's scholarship report . Research reports . Mountain forum world wide web home page site . News from the Department of Conservation . An interview with Pat Devlin .
Centre for Mountain Studies
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Human–wildlife coexistence and social context: Evidence from farmer communities in southern Sri Lanka

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies on human–wildlife interactions (HWI) often focus on conflict mitigation studies, thus overlooking underlying factors that influence community decisions to coexist with wildlife. To address this knowledge gap, we collected empirical evidence of how community interactions with wildlife are shaped by their social contexts.
Anuradhi Dulangi Jayasinghe   +3 more
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Birds of many feathers? Examining perceptions among US birders following the American Ornithological Society's eponymous renaming decision

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2023, the American Ornithological Society announced it will phase out the English eponymous (honorific) names of 152 bird species in the United States and Canada, some of which are named after historical figures with racist, genocidal, or otherwise violent histories that serve as reminders of ornithology's exclusive origins.
Kirsten Vinyeta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

校長蔡進發榮獲台北成功高中傑出校友

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[[abstract]]亞洲大學(Asia University, Taiwan)校長蔡進發獲選為台北市成功高中傑出校友,5月8日上午返回母校參加99周年校慶大會,接受成功高中校長孫明峯頒發傑出校友成功榮譽獎,表彰蔡校長在國際研究成果豐碩,是位傑出的教育領航員。肯定亞大在他領導下,校譽日隆,今年英國泰晤士報教育特刊「2021新與經濟體大學排名」亞洲大學全球第87名,辦學績優,有目共睹 ...
ASIA University, Taiwan
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