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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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STRATIFIED ADAPTATION: Infrastructure, Elevation, and Cascading Floods in the Urban Mekong Delta
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Flood‐prone cities in the global South are increasingly the target of infrastructure projects aimed at building climate ‘resilience’. At the same time, residents of these cities take adaptation to flooding into their own hands. In this article we examine the interrelationship between household‐scale and urban‐scale flood mitigation projects in
Lizzie Yarina +3 more
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GIS-based multi-criteria landslide susceptibility assessment in the Northwestern Himalaya, Jammu and Kashmir, India. [PDF]
Sci RepJasrotia AS +6 more
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Old and recent landslides of the Barranco de Tirajana basin, Gran Canaria, Spain
, 1999 The head of the Barranco de Tirajana (BdT), on Gran Canaria island (Spain) is a large natural depression that occupies 35 km(2). Its origin and evolution is due to the activity of large landslides which have been occurring since the Quaternary until the ...
Lomoschitz, Alejandro
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Measuring Agricultural Wages Amidst Conflict: Evidence From Myanmar
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Violent conflict is globally on the rise, and an increasing body of literature analyses its impacts on agricultural production and food security. Yet the quality of data collected in conflict zones is sometimes questioned and remains underexplored. This paper addresses this gap by examining two types of reporting bias—recall and question order
Andrew Laitha +3 more
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Opium Cultivation Imperilling Endangered Species in Northern Laos
Animal Conservation, EarlyView.To avoid government eradication efforts, farmers in northeastern Laos shifted opium cultivation deep into a national park, causing a > 1000% increase in protected forest cleared for the crop between 2018 and 2022. This displacement directly threatened endangered species like white‐cheeked gibbons, elephants, and dholes by causing a rise in hunting ...
Jay White +3 more
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Robust automated detection of small-scale rainfall-induced landslides in Italy Using SegFormer and high-resolution satellite imagery. [PDF]
Sci RepRiche A +3 more
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Hazard and risk assessment of earthquake-induced landslides-case study
Landslides as secondary seismic effects are causing some patterns of soil failure that are often considered among the most destructive ones. In fact, the impact from triggered landslides has sometimes exceeded damage directly related to strong shaking ...
Sheshov, Vlatko +2 more
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