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Cadastral reform of indigenous land information and environmental sustainability in New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
New Zealand’s cadastral system has come under scrutiny in recent years, A sharp rise in the number of land claims by the country’s indigenous Maori, accompanied by historic environmental legislation, have prompted milk for cadastral reform.
Morad, Munir, Jay, Grace Mairi M.
core  

The situated professional: Preservice teachers' profiling of globally competent teachers and visions of their ‘possible professional self’

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In response to globalisation, teacher education programmes worldwide are tasked with preparing globally competent teachers (GCTs). Prevailing conceptions of global competence are largely derived from Western‐centric humanistic, neoliberal and transformative narratives, creating a complex landscape for teacher identity formation.
Ji Ying
wiley   +1 more source

Deriving RRR Elements from the Integration of Land Registration and Spatial Planning

open access: yesLand
Integrating Rights, Restrictions, and Responsibilities (RRR) information within land administration presents a significant challenge. Currently, land rights management and spatial planning in Indonesia are handled by separate institutions within land ...
Gabriel Triwibawa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Land Administration and Land Titles Registration in Ghana. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
The various communities now comprised in the State of Ghana were, before their absorption into the Gold Coast under British colonial rule, separate independent polities. Boundaries between such traditional states were neither abolished, defined nor demarcated.
openaire   +1 more source

Reframing Colonial Korea's Forests Through Protection Forests: The Forests of Joseon (1938)

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This study examines The Forests of Joseon (1938), a forestry survey compiled by Tokumitsu Nobuyuki under Japanese colonial rule, as a key site of epistemic negotiation between imperial forestry science and Korean indigenous knowledge. Focusing on bíbo forests—geomantic forests believed to regulate energy flow between mountains and villages—the paper ...
Soyeong Park, Jeong‐Hann Pae
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Plant Parasitism: Hydnora Africana and European Scientific Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century**

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article will analyze the uncertainties around collecting and classifying Hydnora africana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Emerging from the distinctive dryland ecologies of South Africa, Hydnora was interpreted as strange and cryptic by Europeans primarily because it is a root parasite—a complex floral trait that was little understood.
Katherine Arnold
wiley   +1 more source

A Manual on Land Registration

open access: yesCalifornia Law Review, 1919
A. M. Kidd, Arthur Gray Powell
openaire   +3 more sources

What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green Ambiguity Shapes Sustainable Investing

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green Exchange‐Traded Funds (ETFs) have experienced strong growth in recent years, reflecting increasing investor attention toward sustainability. However, these funds rely on a wide range of environmental metrics that are often weakly aligned, raising concerns about the meaning of greenness in sustainable investing.
Rita Laura D'Ecclesia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elaborating the Motivations and Attitudes Driving Interest in Voluntary Biodiversity Credits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global biodiversity loss has prompted the search for new sources of conservation finance, such as voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs). However, despite optimistic market projections, current uptake of VBCs is limited. Adopting an interpretive approach, we analyse 21 semistructured interviews with early market actors (buyers, sellers ...
Gamze Yakar‐Pritchard   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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