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Aftermath of the Forest Carbon Credit Crisis as Experienced by Restoration and Conservation Organisations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2023, The Guardian reported on several scientific studies denouncing the role of certain forest carbon credits in mitigating climate change. Subsequently, credit prices on the voluntary carbon market (VCM) plummeted—providing a quantitative indication of its impact.
Benjamin S. Thompson, Sara Löfqvist, Felicia H. M. Liu, Jack L. Harris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competing 18th-Century Pacific Cartographies

, 2010
No abstract available."Competing 18th-Century Pacific Cartographies." Paper delivered at Pacific Spaces.
Rainer F. Buschmann
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Historiosophy & Eros in Russian anacreontics

SHS Web of Conferences, 2018
“Love is the eminence grise of history”, – once one of the greats of the past said. Few doubt that history is driven by human, more or less conscious interests – economic, political, religious, etc.
Petrov Alexej, Dubskikh Angelina, Butova Anna   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investing Aura: Making Value at an Emirati Art Center

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines the politics and processes of establishing value for artworks, highlighting the continued belief in Walter Benjamin's idea of aura and describing the value aura generates as “auratic value.” Focusing on an artist residency program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the country's arts boom, I analyze contestations ...
Beth Derderian
wiley   +1 more source

How National Security Drives the Coevolution of International Relations and International Business Policy: Evidence From the Belt and Road Initiative

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this study investigates how national security drives the coevolution of China's political risk management support for multinationals and competing countries' reactions. A competing country is a nation‐state that is neither the home nor host country of a multinational but perceives the ...
Shuang Li, Xueli Huang, Fuming Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England Volume 2 New Essays

This collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences.
Rivers, Isabel.
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Belle of 18th Century Dover exhibit

, 1951
This negative shows the Belle of 18th Century Dover exhibit at the Delaware State Museum in Building 2.
Department of State, Delaware Public Archives; Dickens, C.W.
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Searching for Jewish Ancestors before They Had a Fixed Family Name—Three Case Studies from Bohemia, Southern Germany, and Prague

Genealogy
Anyone who traces their Jewish ancestors back to the 18th century and even further back in history encounters the challenge of looking for ancestry without the clue that a fixed family name provides.
Thomas Fürth
doaj   +1 more source

The winter 2023/2024 floods in the UK: a hydrological appraisal

Weather, EarlyView.
From October 2023 to March 2024, the UK saw a succession of named storms and low‐pressure weather systems, leading to widespread exceptional river flows throughout. Peak flow records were broken in several catchments, but this event was most notable for its duration and spatial footprint, which resulted in major impacts.
Eugene Magee, Rachael Armitage, Wilson Chan, Gayatri Suman, Amit Kumar, Lucy J. Barker, Stephen Turner, Jamie Hannaford, Catherine Sefton   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The most high, puissant and noble pince, John Churchill, Duke and Earl of Marlborough ... [picture] /

Plate from: The history of England / Paul Rapin de Thoyras, Nicolas Tindal trans.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an9483672; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK3445 ...
Sheppard, Robert, 18th century.
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