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Reducing gender inequalities to create a sustainable care system [PDF]

, 2008
Women mainly provide family care, but as women’s economic opportunities increase they will not continue to bear the costs of providing care unaided. To create a sustainable care system, care and carers must be better supported and more highly valued to ...
Himmelweit, Susan, Land, Hilary
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Speech Duties

AJIL Unbound, 2018
Using the example of harmful speech online, this essay argues that duties to others—a core component of our humanness—require us to consider the impact our speech has on those who hear it.
Molly K. Land
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Low-Complexity Puncturing and Shortening of Polar Codes

, 2017
In this work, we address the low-complexity construction of shortened and punctured polar codes from a unified view. While several independent puncturing and shortening designs were attempted in the literature, our goal is a unique, low-complexity ...
Bioglio, Valerio, Gabry, Frederic, Land, Ingmar   +2 more
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The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2019
The Community Land Model (CLM) is the land component of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) and is used in several global and regional modeling systems.
D. Lawrence, R. Fisher, C. Koven, K. Oleson, S. Swenson, G. Bonan, N. Collier, B. Ghimire, L. Kampenhout, D. Kennedy, E. Kluzek, P. Lawrence, Fang Li, Hongyi Li, D. Lombardozzi, W. Riley, W. Sacks, M. Shi, M. Vertenstein, W. Wieder, Chonggang Xu, A. Ali, A. Badger, G. Bisht, M. Broeke, M. Brunke, S. Burns, J. Buzan, M. Clark, A. Craig, K. Dahlin, B. Drewniak, J. Fisher, M. Flanner, A. Fox, P. Gentine, F. Hoffman, G. Keppel‐Aleks, R. Knox, Sanjiv Kumar, J. Lenaerts, L. Leung, W. Lipscomb, Yaqiong Lu, Ashutosh Pandey, J. Pelletier, J. Perket, J. Randerson, D. Ricciuto, B. Sanderson, A. Slater, Z. Subin, Jinyun Tang, R. Q. Thomas, Maria Val Martin, X. Zeng   +55 more
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Producing Locally Causal Explanations in Qualitative Research by Using a Realist Phenomenological Methodology

International Journal of Qualitative Methods
This article argues that qualitative researchers should focus more attention on producing locally causal explanations for social phenomena. To enable qualitative researchers to achieve this goal, this paper introduces a novel, step-by-step methodology ...
John Land
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A high-resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas

, 2002
We describe the construction of a 10' latitude/longitude data set of mean monthly sur- face climate over global land areas, excluding Antarctica. The climatology includes 8 climate ele- ments —precipitation, wet-day frequency, temperature, diurnal ...
M. New, D. Lister, M. Hulme, I. Makin
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Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

Geoscientific Model Development, 2020
. Human land use activities have resulted in large changes to the biogeochemical and biophysical properties of the Earth's surface, with consequences for climate and other ecosystem services. In the future, land use activities are likely to expand and/or
G. Hurtt, L. Chini, R. Sahajpal, S. Frolking, B. Bodirsky, K. Calvin, J. Doelman, Justin P. Fisk, S. Fujimori, K. Klein Goldewijk, T. Hasegawa, P. Havlík, A. Heinimann, Florian Humpenöder, J. Jungclaus, J. Kaplan, Jennifer Kennedy, Tamás Krisztin, D. Lawrence, P. Lawrence, Lei Ma, O. Mertz, J. Pongratz, A. Popp, B. Poulter, K. Riahi, E. Shevliakova, E. Stehfest, P. Thornton, F. Tubiello, D. V. van Vuuren, Xin Zhang   +31 more
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Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways

Nature Communications, 2020
Despite its small land coverage, urban land and its expansion have exhibited profound impacts on global environments. Here, we present the scenario projections of global urban land expansion under the framework of the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs).
Guangzhao Chen, Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu, Yimin Chen, Xun Liang, Jiye Leng, Xiaocong Xu, Weilin Liao, Yue’an Qiu, Qianlian Wu, Kangning Huang   +10 more
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Protecting a Portion of the Beaver Dam Heath Conservation Focus Area and Initiating Innovative Conservation Financing in Berwick, Maine [PDF]

, 2011
This project permanently protected 28 acres in the Beaver Dam Heath Conservation Focus Area through a bargain sale of the fee simple interest. The Grants Meadow III parcel is 85% wetland.
Great Works Regional Land Trust
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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Land in 2012 and 2013

Land, 2014
The Editor-in-Chief and the editorial staff of Land would like to acknowledge the valuable work of the people listed below who have reviewed papers submitted to the journal during 2012 and 2103.
Land Editorial Office
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