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Irrigation and phytolith formation:an experimental study [PDF]
, 2011 It has been proposed that phytoliths from archaeological sites can be indicators of water availability and hence inform about past agricultural practices (Rosen and Weiner, 1994; Madella et al., 2009). Rosen and Weiner (1994) found that the number of
Jamjoum, Khalil +2 more
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Venture Capital Practices in Saudi Arabia: The Views of Investors
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how venture capital (VC) investors in Saudi Arabia evaluate, negotiate, and support entrepreneurial ventures in a rapidly developing yet institutionally young setting. Drawing on 21 semi‐structured interviews with 24 investors, it offers rare insight into VC practices in the Middle East.
Tibah al‐Harbi +2 more
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Irrigated agriculture, water pricing and water savings in the Lower Jordan River Basin (in Jordan) [PDF]
Farming systems / Irrigated farming / Water conservation / Groundwater / Water policy / Water rates / Water costs / Pricing / Cost recovery / Economic impact / Jordan / Lower Jordan River Basin / Jordan Valley / Amman-Zarqa Basin / Yarmouk ...
Hassan, Yousef +2 more
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Merry Christmas from a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon [PDF]
, 2015 Joelle Eid is a MSc Media and Communications student at LSE. Prior to that, she acted as spokesperson for the World food Programme and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan, covering the Syria crisis.
Eid, Joelle
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Social information about others' affective states in a human‐altered world
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Faced with anthropogenic change, animals now encounter challenges different from their evolutionary past. To cope with such challenges, animals may use social information about others' affective states to guide their decisions. Considering affective states of wild animals could have important implications for animal welfare and wildlife conservation ...
Luca G. Hahn +4 more
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Land, 2017 Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) has been introduced into Jordan through the MEDSCAPES project. The purpose of this project was to streamline landscape studies and integrate them into the land use planning practices in Jordan.
Taleb Odeh +5 more
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Resilience is still conceptualised as gender‐neutral in research and policy discussions. However, a gendered resilience framework suggests that gender roles and intra‐household dynamics are intricately linked with household resilience. This manuscript aims to analyse the effect of gender role attitudes on climate change resilience.
Bekhzod Egamberdiev +3 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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The cost of irrigation water in the Jordan Valley
, 2016 Jordan is one of the most water-stressed countries in the world. Its annual renewable resources of 145 cubic meters per capita are far below the threshold of severe water scarcity of 500 cubic meters.
C. Berg +4 more
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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