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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul +2 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In rural Thailand, unclear and unregulated property rights of state forestlands have led, for decades, to conflicting land claims between state agencies and villagers. To solve this problem, on the one hand, grassroots activists proposed the communal land title bill so that local people could obtain formal recognition of their land rights and ...
Chusak Wittayapak, Ian G. Baird
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page i-xiv., 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.
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Zhongguo dizhi zaihai yu fangzhi xuebaoLandslide hazard assessment is a crucial component of regional landslide disaster risk warning and control. The distributed slope stability quantitative evaluation model SINMAP (stability index mapping) is widely used in landslide hazard assessment ...
Weimin YIN +5 more
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Protected areas on international borders show uneven conservation outcomes
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Border protected areas (BPAs) are national protected areas that are immediately adjacent to a country's border or span two or more countries; they are characterized by distinctive opportunities and pressures. They play a critical role in protecting carbon‐rich ecosystems, conserving endangered biodiversity, reducing cross‐border environmental ...
Rachakonda Sreekar +10 more
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Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.250,000 observations of 7 annual, 11 biennial and 4 flexible lepidoptera species in the Alps and over 150,000 observations of 5 biennial species from Scandinavia were analysed. Maps show distinct patterns of different species that fly predominantly in odd or even years in the researched areas.
Robert Birch +3 more
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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United Kingdom is an asymmetric polity, in part because it is a multi‐national state brought together by conquest and voluntary union. The 1998 devolution settlements for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland were conceived and implemented in the context of UK membership of the European Union (EU).
David Heald
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Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Climate‐only models predict severe habitat contractions by 2100, especially in the Amazon, Cerrado and Caatinga, while southern and coastal Atlantic Forest areas remain refugial. Including artificial light at night increased projected stability and apparent suitability gains, especially in central and eastern South America.
Janderson Batista Rodrigues Alencar +3 more
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International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the intersection of the informal and circular economies and its implications for business, management and organization (BMO) scholarship and practice. Informal circularity, practices of collecting, reusing, repairing, recycling and repurposing materials outside formal economic, legal and regulatory arrangements, constitutes
Tulin Dzhengiz +3 more
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