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Race, rurality and geographic accessibility to medication for opioid use disorder in the U.S.

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2023
Disparities in geographic access to medication for opioid use disorder (OUD) are well documented. Further, historical implications of systemic racism and of the longstanding War on Drugs in the United States have driven both social and spatial inequities
Penelope Mitchell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human-ecodynamics and the intertidal zones of the Zanzibar Archipelago

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2022
The intertidal zone, covering the nearshore fringe of coasts and islands and extending from the high-water mark to areas that remain fully submerged, encompasses a range of habitats containing resources that are as important to modern populations as they
Patrick Faulkner   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Indian Sundarban Mangrove Forests: History, Utilization, Conservation Strategies and Local Perception

open access: yesDiversity, 2015
Covering approximately 10,000 km2 the Sundarbans in the Northern Bay of Bengal is the largest contiguous mangrove forest on earth. Mangroves forests are highly productive and diverse ecosystems, providing a wide range of direct ecosystem services for ...
Aditya Ghosh   +3 more
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Symbol Emergence in Robotics: A Survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Humans can learn the use of language through physical interaction with their environment and semiotic communication with other people. It is very important to obtain a computational understanding of how humans can form a symbol system and obtain semiotic
Asoh, Hideki   +5 more
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People and pixels in the Sahel: a study linking coarse-resolution remote sensing observations to land users' perceptions of their changing environment in Senegal

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
Mounting evidence from satellite observations of a re-greening across much of the Sahel and Sudan zones over the past three decades has raised questions about the extent and reversibility of desertification.
Stefanie M. Herrmann   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing human well‐being constructs with environmental and equity aspects: A review of the landscape

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2023
Decades of theory and scholarship on the concept of human well‐being have informed a proliferation of approaches to assess well‐being and support public policy aimed at sustainability and improving quality of life.
Erin C. Betley   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soils, landscapes, and cultural concepts of favor and disfavor within complex adaptive systems and ResourceCultures: human-land interactions during the Holocene

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2021
We review and contrast three frameworks for analyzing human-land interactions in the Holocene: the traditional concept of favored and disfavored landscapes, the new concept of ResourceCultures from researchers at University of Tübingen, and complex ...
Bruce R. James   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fit, Interplay, and Scale: A Diagnosis

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2012
Developing institutions to handle human-environment interactions well is important. In relation to that, the theory of resource regimes, and the themes of fit, interplay, and scale - as originating not least in the work of Oran Young - are core. His work
Arild Vatn, Paul Vedeld
doaj   +1 more source

Economic and non-economic loss and damage: a harmful dichotomy?

open access: yesGlobal Sustainability
Non-technical summary Loss and damage is treated as comprising separate ‘economic’ and ‘non-economic’ dimensions in research and policy. While this has contributed to greater awareness and visibility of non-economic values, our empirical insights show ...
Douwe van Schie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Networking Phylogeny for Indo-European and Austronesian Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Harnessing cognitive abilities of many individuals, a language evolves upon their mutual interactions establishing a persistent social environment to which language is closely attuned. Human history is encoded in the rich sets of linguistic data by means
Dimitri Volchenkov   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

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