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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia
ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
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This study reveals unprecedented burning in tropical peatlands during the 20th century, mainly expressed in the Indomalayan and Australasian regions, emphasising regional variability in peatland burning and its links to modern human activities. Before this period, tropical peatland burning largely followed changes in global temperature and was ...
Yuwan Wang +45 more
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Prevention, social emancipation, and paradigmatic transition: a 40-year interdisciplinary Brazilian trajectory on accidents and disasters. [PDF]
Porto MF.
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ABSTRACT Urban agriculture (UA) in slums represents a vital yet under‐researched strategy for enhancing food security and community resilience in marginalised urban areas. This systematic review of 104 studies reveals stark contrasts in theoretical approaches: Global North scholarship frames UA through lenses of racial capitalism and gentrification ...
Silva Namalwa, Yan Tan, Jungho Suh
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New occurrences, mean infestation intensity and prevalence of parasitic isopods (Isopoda, Cymothoida, Bopyridae) associated with Macrobrachium amazonicum (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from the mouth of the Amazon River. [PDF]
Duarte SS, Lima JF, Viana LA.
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An annotated checklist of freshwater Copepoda (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) from continental Ecuador and the Galapagos Archipelago. [PDF]
Corgosinho PHC +6 more
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ABSTRACT In light of the increasing adoption of sustainable urban drainage measures for flood control, driven by advances in the urban drainage field and, particularly, in downtown São Paulo, by the significant challenge associated with implementing large detention reservoirs due to the scarcity of open spaces within the watershed, this study ...
Filipe Chaves Gonçalves +1 more
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A Pandemia da Covid-19 e os Pequenos Produtores Rurais: Superar ou Sucumbir?
Futemma C +5 more
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ABSTRACT Flooding remains one of the most critical natural hazards threatening livelihoods, infrastructure, and ecological systems in Ethiopia's highland landscapes. This study presents a rigorously integrated, multi‐criteria flood risk assessment that combines the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) with GIS‐based spatial modeling to delineate ...
Degfie Teku +3 more
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Summary According to the enemy release hypothesis (ERH), the fitness of exotic plants and their capacity to become invasive in their area of introduction may partly be attributable to the loss of their natural enemies. Invasive species may also benefit from modifying soil attributes and thereby creating a positive soil–plant feedback.
Lynda S. C. Guerrero +3 more
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