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Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Indicators of contact visit quality in non‐kinship foster care: An observational checklist

Children & Society, 2023
M. García-Martín, I. M. Bernedo, María D. Salas, Lucía González-Pasarín   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Foster Care vs Kinship Care

, 2019
By Angeliki Liaros, Social Work Advisor: Anjanette Wells Presentation ID: AM_A17 Abstract: The aim of my research is to determine if children fare better educationally, emotionally, and behaviorally in Kinship care compared to ...
Liaros, Angeliki, Wells, Anjanette
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Fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua) in Nigeria: Regional cultivation patterns, landrace diversity, and farmer knowledge for conserving a climate‐resilient indigenous cereal

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua) cereals are valued for their drought resilience, adaptability to poor soils, and cultural importance. In Nigeria, where both species are cultivated, fonio has declined due to labor‐intensive processing, lower yields, and changing livelihood choices. By documenting 21 landraces (15 D. exilis and 6 D. iburua),
Ishaq Muawiyya, Abubakar Bello, George P. Burton, Philippa Ryan, Maria S. Vorontsova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic Review of the Evaluation of Foster Care Programs

Psychosocial Intervention
Objetive: The aim of this study was to conduct an exhaustive synthesis to determine which instruments and variables are most appropriate to evaluate foster care programs (foster, kinship, and professional families). This evaluation includes the children,
Laura Vallejo-Slocker, Nahia Idoiaga-Mondragon, Inge Axpe, Rosalind Willi, Mercedes Guerra-Rodríguez, Carme Montserrat, Jorge F. del Valle   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fostering Remuneration and Unlawful Deductions Foster Care and Money: Social Issues in Paid Parenthood

Social Inclusion
This thematic issue explores the complex and often controversial intersection of foster care and financial compensation. While foster care is often seen as a more inclusive and family‐oriented alternative to institutional care, the role of money in ...
Malin Åkerström, Susanne Boethius
doaj   +1 more source

Barriers and incentives to orphan care in a time of AIDS and economic crisis: a cross-sectional survey of caregivers in rural Zimbabwe

BMC Public Health, 2006
Background Africa is in an orphan-care crisis. In Zimbabwe, where one-fourth of adults are HIV-positive and one-fifth of children are orphans, AIDS and economic decline are straining society's ability to care for orphans within their extended families ...
Goodman Karen J, Matinhure Nelia, Phillips Carl V, Howard Brian H, McCurdy Sheryl A, Johnson Cary A   +5 more
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Co‐Design to Capacity: An Instructional Design Approach for Indigenous Women Empowerment and Sustainable Technology Adoption

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The adoption of rural livelihood technologies is often hindered by a gap between participatory design and user capacity. This study addresses this challenge with a co‐designed lemongrass distillation system in rural India that remained unused due to a lack of community capacity, despite a successful design process.
Aroun Clément Baudouin‐van Os, Raji Pushpalatha, Sruthy Sheela, Renjith Mohan, Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Living Through a Changing Climate: Stress, Trauma, and Gendered Resilience Among Women in Coastal and Northern Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is reshaping everyday life in Ghana through coastal erosion, flooding, erratic rainfall, water scarcity, extreme heat, and agricultural insecurity. This study examines how these changes produce stress, trauma, and gendered resilience among women in Salakope and Choggu Yapalsi, two climate‐vulnerable communities in coastal and ...
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

Interpreting Sustainability: A Cross‐Cultural Exploration Between New Zealand (Western & Indigenous) and Chinese (Urban) Consumers

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability is a globally promoted concept, yet its meaning is often shaped by cultural context. Existing research has largely been informed by Western‐centric understandings of sustainability, leaving limited insight into how sustainability is interpreted across diverse cultural settings.
Caixia (Ivy) Gan, Denise Maria Conroy
wiley   +1 more source