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Data integration advances reproductive phenology research across temporal, spatial and taxonomic scales

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Climate change is altering plant reproductive phenology; however, a scarcity of long‐term, systematic monitoring hinders our ability to quantify and predict these responses in many parts of the world. We addressed this gap by demonstrating how data integration can be used to produce a synthesised record of reproductive phenology observations (flowering
Ella Cathcart‐van Weeren   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eating in the City: A Review of the Literature on Food Insecurity and Indigenous People Living in Urban Spaces

open access: yesSocieties, 2016
Indigenous people often occupy different overlapping or co-existing food environments that include market-based foods, land and water based foods, and combinations of the two. Studying these food environments is complicated by the cultural and geographic
Kelly Skinner   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Residents of towns and villages in Arctic Alaska live on “the front line of climate change.” Some communities face immediate threats from erosion and flooding associated with thawing permafrost, increasing river flows, and reduced sea ice protection of ...
Hamilton, Lawrence C.   +4 more
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State‐Level Politics in Forest Governance: The Role of the Narrative‐Policy Nexus in the Brazilian Amazon

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
wiley   +1 more source

The collision of feminisms, sexuality, and trafficking in persons in the Caribbean—A place for Kempadoo

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
wiley   +1 more source

Mental health problems of children and adolescents, with and without migration background, living in Vienna, Austria

open access: yesChild and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2019
Background Compared to their indigenous peers, migrant children and adolescents are at increased risk for mental health problems. The aim of our study was to compare psychological disorders of children and adolescents with Turkish migration background ...
Maria Teresa Gutmann   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enabling pastoralist management of rangelands to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Rangelands cover 54% of the global terrestrial area and are threatened by land conversion and degradation, which erodes their global value and weakens the livelihoods of pastoralists who manage them. Sustainable Development Goal Target 15.3 on Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) provides a framework for sustainable rangelands management, but countries ...
Mounir Louhaichi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coffee production crisis and migration, in a context of poverty and marginalization. The case of indigenous producers in Huehuetla, Puebla [PDF]

open access: yesRa Ximhai, 2013
Because of coffee prices crisis in Mexico, mainly for indigenous producers, a labor expulsion process between their family members, like the case of indigenous coffee growers in Huehuetla municipality, Puebla.
Alejandro Ortega Hernández   +1 more
doaj  

Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2017
James Taylor Carson reviews Gregory D. Smithers's The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).
James Taylor Carson
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of International Migration and Remittances [PDF]

open access: yes
We use original 2005 survey data from Fiji and Tonga on remittances and household income to estimate the combined impact of migration and remittances on the composition of household income. A two-stage methodology is followed.
Gareth Leeves, Richard P.C. Brown
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