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Indigenous Australians and gambling [PDF]
, 2014 Summary: This paper synthesises information published about Indigenous Australian gambling, and summarises issues and implications for key stakeholders. It is relevant for raising awareness and promoting community education about gambling for Indigenous ...
Helen Breen, Nerilee Hing
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
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Health workforce issues and how these impact on Indigenous Australians
, 2011 Indigenous Australians suffer a disproportionate burden of iII health estimated to be 2.5 times higher than other Australians. A number of complex and multifaceted factors impact not only on health inequity but also imbalance in the health workforce ...
Taylor, K +9 more
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The Native American and Indigenous Studies 2008 Conference and the formation of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association [PDF]
, 2008 The 2008 Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, was held in Athens, Georgia, USA from 10-12th July. The Conference was scholarly and interdisciplinary and was intended for Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars who work in American Indian ...
Fredericks, Bronwyn L.
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Indigenous Knowledge for Development Program : Two Years Down the Road
, 2000 While most African nations adopted economic policies, with a view to modernize society, and transform the productive sectors, indigenous knowledge - that could have supported this process, or offered ...
World Bank
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.American ginseng is a shade‐obligate, North American medicinal plant that is widely traded and used internationally. To meet global demand, ginseng is cultivated in forest farms in the Appalachian region of the USA and field‐based artificial shade farms in two regions: Ontario, Canada and Wisconsin, USA. We conducted social research leveraging in‐depth
Rachel E. Palkovitz +2 more
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Plants back: Re‐envisioning botanical garden collections management for indigenous crops
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Botanical gardens and other ex situ collections play a key role in preventing plant extinctions, yet the needs of Indigenous crop cultivars are not being met by conventional botanical collections management practices. Inspired by Indigenous land care restoration movements centering plant–human–society relationships, we propose a path toward reciprocal ...
Uala Working Group +8 more
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Indigenous Corporate Governance and Social Enterprise
, 2013 Recent media comments by the newly-appointed Chair of the federal government's Indigenous Advisory Council (‘IAC’) has circled around Indigenous corporate governance.
Loban, Heron +2 more
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Climate‐smart land management: Greenhouse gas outcomes and social and economic pathways to adoption
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Climate change poses one of the greatest threats to natural and working lands, reducing the resilience of agricultural and forest productivity. Because land management is a leading source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, climate‐smart management practices are being implemented to reduce net emissions while sustaining yields.
Kristina Bartowitz +13 more
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Indigenous People, Telecommunications and Consumer Protection
, 2013 Indigenous people in their dealings with telecommunications companies (‘telcos’) face a broad range of issues. The role of consumer protection law in safeguarding Indigenous people has been raised at different intervals in the past.1 In the last five ...
Loban, Heron
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