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Residents’ perceptions towards illegal household solid waste disposal: A case of Chegutu, Zimbabwe

Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities
Solid waste management has been a daunting problem in Zimbabwe over the past few years. The research sought to examine residents’ knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards illegal household solid waste disposal in ward 8, Chegutu.
Tatenda Musasa, Amato Chireshe, Steven Jerie, Thelma Machisi, Tapiwa Shabani, Takunda Shabani   +5 more
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Primary producers' positions towards bears and bear conservation: Insights for human–bear coexistence

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract We present primary producers' (farmers', livestock breeders', beekeepers') positions towards bears and bear conservation as documented through semi‐structured interviews within the frame of human dimensions actions of LIFE projects implemented between 2015 and 2022 in Greece.
Tasos Hovardas, Dimitris Bormpoudakis, Giorgos Chatzinakos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

mexicano en el siglo XXI Fragmentation, Failed Condition and Dispossession: the case of the Mexican State in the 21st century

Revista Kavilando, 2018
The concept of accumulation by dispossession orchestrated by criminal organizations is an ideal reflection to explain theft, fraud, depredation, pillage, punishment and enclosure of territories to force populations to cultivate drugs or to take ...
Odín Ávila
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Engaging the public in plant science: Communication facilitators and barriers of scaling up a citizen science campaign

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Volunteers have been involved in nature observations for decades through citizen science initiatives, providing large data sets as well as problem identification that allow a more complete understanding of many natural phenomena. Although communication is a core component in citizen science, the key factors that determine its effectiveness in ...
Kristiina Gibson, Monika Suškevičs, Baiba Prūse, Marta Barberis, Sara A. O. Cousins, Živa Fišer, Margaux Julien, Marianne Kivastik, Marcin Klisz, Attila Lengyel, Zuzana Münzbergová, Radosław Puchałka, Iris Reinula, Froukje Rienks, Julie Koch Sheard, Viktor Siverin, Bojana Stojanova, Sabrina Träger, Tsipe Aavik   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulation and corporate corruption: new evidence from the telecom sector [PDF]

This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business customers and service providers in the telecom sector.
Berg, Sanford V, Jiang, Liangliang, Lin, Chen   +2 more
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The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The Amazon is rapidly approaching an ecological tipping point driven by deforestation, forest degradation and global climate change. These are visible issues that receive increasing political and public attention. However, the accelerating biocultural loss in the Amazon, including the extinction of Indigenous languages, the disruption of ...
Torsten Krause, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Jesica López, Karolin Obert, Juan A. Samper, Ana Maria Vargas   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extractivism, accumulation by dispossession and criminal organizations in Mexico

Revista Kavilando, 2018
The concept of accumulation by dispossession orchestrated by criminal organizations is an ideal reflection to explain theft, fraud, depredation, pillage, punishment and enclosure of territories to force populations to cultivate drugs or to take ...
Marco Antonio Merchand Rojas
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The Federal Criminal Forfeiture Statute: Reining in The Government’s Previously Unbridled Ability to Seize Pretrial Assets [PDF]

, 2018
American organized crime movies are synonymous with a climatic raid and seizure of illegal assets – typically drugs and guns. But what is really encompassed within the Government’s grasp; what are the “illegal assets”?
Francese, Kristyn Fleming
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Digitisation of herbarium specimens to the benefit of research: An African perspective focusing on South Africa and Western Indian Ocean Island states

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper, Hester M. Steyn, Cláudia Baider, Benny Bytebier, Anisha Dayaram, F. B. Vincent Florens, Nivohenintsoa Rakotonirina, Domitilla Raimondo, Marc Sosef, M. Marianne le Roux   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unofficial Economic Activities and Fiscal Discipline in Hungary as Mirrored in Consecutive Enterprise Surveys on Tax Behaviour [PDF]

The paper focuses on a segment of the hidden economy, i. e. on unofficial (unreported) economic activities of registered medium and large enterprises in Hungary.
Andras Semjen, Istvan Janos Toth
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