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Developing Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating Joint Management Effectiveness in Protected Areas in the Northern Territory, Australia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2011
Joint management of protected areas is promoted in many countries around the world. It is considered a means to provide local communities, including indigenous people, with recognition of their cultural practices in the use and management of the natural ...
Arturo Izurieta   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The spatial construction of young people's livelihoods in rural southern Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Young people in southern Africa, in common with young people around the world, are social agents, constructing their own lives, albeit within significant structural constraints.
Ansell, N   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The importance of groundwater for riverine fish faunas in a region of shale gas development in northern Australia

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Northern Australia contains the continent’s largest number of intact river systems, but these are facing increasing pressure as the proposed development of multiple and large-scale industries, including onshore gas, mining, horticulture, and agriculture,
Jenny Davis   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of nutrition education on nutrition knowledge of public school educators in South Africa: A pilot study

open access: yesHealth SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2012
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has not given nutrition education the necessary emphasis that it needs, despite its importance in South African schools.
Wilna H. Oldewage-Theron   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Habitat Heterogeneity in Structuring Mangrove Bird Assemblages

open access: yesDiversity, 2015
Mangrove habitats are under severe land use pressure throughout the world and Australia is no exception. Here we describe the heterogeneity of mangrove habitat and its relationship with mangrove bird diversity.
Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use of a Bayesian belief network to predict the impacts of commercializing non-timber forest products on livelihoods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has been widely promoted as a means of sustainably developing tropical forest resources, in a way that promotes forest conservation while supporting rural livelihoods.
Arancibia, Erik   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Collaborative Measurement of Performance of Jointly Managed Protected Areas in Northern Australia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2013
Responsibility for the management of many protected areas in the Northern Territory, Australia, is shared between the management agency and the aboriginal owners of that land.
Natasha Stacey   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving agricultural soil health with feces-derived compost: a case study in northern Haiti

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science
Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan) may help achieve multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, such as SDG 2, SDG 6, and SDG 13, through circular management of local biogeochemical cycles.
Elena Bischak   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of overweight and obesity among selected schoolchildren and adolescents in Cofimvaba, South Africa

open access: yesThe South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2021
Background: Childhood obesity has become a growing global epidemic. In South Africa, overweight and obesity during childhood and adolescence are rising.
Olufunmilola Otitoola   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamics of bird assemblages in response to temporally and spatially variable resources in arid Australia

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
Bird assemblages in arid Australia are often characterized as being highly variable through time in response to boom and bust dynamics, although the importance of habitat in structuring assemblages at a local‐scale is also recognized.
Bruce A. Pascoe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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