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Charge towards green finance ignores risks of nature commodification: Evidence from the UK's climate and nature recovery policy landscape

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The urgent need for up‐scaled finance has become central to the climate and nature recovery discourses worldwide. With most existing investments coming from public sources, closing the financing gap has become the overpowering argument for calling for private investments into nature restoration and conservation.
Julia Martin‐Ortega   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Bloodlines: A Review of Succession Planning and Generational Continuity in African Family Businesses

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 107 peer‐reviewed articles on succession planning in African family businesses, offering a conceptual reframing of succession as an institutionally embedded process rather than a discrete managerial task. Moving beyond proceduralist and Eurocentric paradigms, the review integrates institutional theory,
Augustine Okeke
wiley   +1 more source

Kinship Terminology

open access: yes, 2015
Kinship terminologies consist of the terms used to reference culturally recognized kinship relations between persons. These terms have been assumed to identify categories of genealogical relations (despite ethnographic evidence to the contrary), and kinship terminologies are classified using differences in genealogical referents of kin terms.
openaire   +3 more sources

Xará: Namesakes in Southern Mozambique and Bahia (Brazil) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In Maputo (Southern Mozambique) and Bahia (Brazil), the most commonly used word to refer to namesakes is xara´ – a word of Amerindian origin. Although the institutions in question diverge considerably in each of these contexts, the two usages come ...
Pina-Cabral, Joao
core   +1 more source

Dynamic Adaptive Label Assignment for Tiny Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the development of unmanned aerial vehicle and satellite technology, the application of tiny object detection in remote sensing images is becoming increasingly widespread. Although significant progress has been made in the accuracy and speed of object detection in recent years, performance declines sharply when general object detectors ...
Shuohao Shi, Qiang Fang, Xin Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Platinum Group Element Traces of CAMP Volcanism Associated With Low‐Latitude Environmental and Biological Disruptions

open access: yesGeophysical Monograph Series, Page 263-304., 2021

Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact

An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jessica H. Whiteside   +3 more
wiley  

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From structure to substance and back: materialities in Australian Aboriginal kinship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
International audienceAustralian Aboriginal kinship studies were formerly interested in the structural properties of systems. This paper shows however that there are several co-existing systems among one and the same language group and that the ...
Dousset, Laurent
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
wiley   +1 more source

A PROBLEM IN KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, 1940
A PROBLEM IN KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY By E. W. GIFFORD· LESLIE A. WHITE, in his on A Problem D R minology,! settles the problem to paper own satisfaction in Kinship Ter­ his with the follow­ ing formulation concerning certain types of kinship systems (p. 569): The type which violates the generation principle is an outgrou:th of the type which does not, and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Reflections on a native title anthropology field school [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Anthropologists play a significant role in the native title system in Australia, especially in undertaking connection research to demonstrate the evidentiary basis of claims. In 2010, recognising the lack of sufficiently qualified anthropologists working
Andrew McWilliam, Jodi Neale
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