Motivations for local climate adaptation in Dutch municipalities: climate change impacts and the role of local-level government [PDF]
, 2009 The local government level is considered to be crucial in preparing society for climate change impact. Yet little is known about why local authorities do or do not take action to adapt their community for climate change impacts.
Berg, Maya M. van den
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Introducing visual participatory methods to develop local knowledge on HIV in rural South Africa [PDF]
, 2017 The authors would also like to acknowledge the field staff at the MRC/Wits Agincourt unit, particularly Ms Rirhandzu Debs and Dr Kerstin Edin from the Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, who facilitated data collection and made ...
Brooks, Chloe +7 more
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The Lived Space: Possession, Ownership, and Land Sales on the Chilean Frontier (Valdivia, 1790-1830)
Historia Crítica, 2018 By looking into sales of indigenous land in the territory of Valdivia between 1790 and 1830, this article discusses how legal interactions were tied to the local spaces of rural habitation.
Manuel Bastias Saavedra
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Two-User Erasure Interference Channels with Local Delayed CSIT
, 2016 We study the capacity region of two-user erasure interference channels with local delayed channel state information at the transmitters. In our model, transmitters have local mismatched outdated knowledge of the channel gains.
Calderbank, Robert, Vahid, Alireza
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Controlling Chaos Through Local Knowledge [PDF]
We propose an duopoly game where quantity-setting firms have incomplete information about the demand function. In each time step, they solve a profit maximization problem assuming a linear local approximation of the demand function.
Ahmad Naimzada, Fabio Tramontana
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Searching in Unstructured Overlays Using Local Knowledge and Gossip
, 2014 This paper analyzes a class of dissemination algorithms for the discovery of distributed contents in Peer-to-Peer unstructured overlay networks. The algorithms are a mix of protocols employing local knowledge of peers' neighborhood and gossip.
A. Montresor +6 more
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Knowledge Loss: Managing Local Knowledge in Rural Uzbekistan [PDF]
Knowledge loss is not a remote phenomenon, unique to one knowledge system. Rather we argue that the loss of knowledge is an issue for other knowledge systems as well.
Evers, Hans-Dieter, Wall, Caleb
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Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual ReviewIn high-mountain regions, climate change adaptation represents a major challenge, both now and in the future, particularly in issues related to water management and the continued degradation and loss of glaciers. While scientific knowledge on the subject
Marcela Brugnach, Sérgio Henrique Faria
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Pond fishing in the Congolese cuvette: a story of fishermen, animals, and water spirits
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2016 In the Congo basin, fishing activities are a major source of protein and of income for many households. Fishermen combine a broad range of fishing methods adapted to the seasonality of the floodplain and the particular features of its habitats.
Marion Comptour +2 more
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Global knowledge/local bodies: Family planning service providers’ interpretations of contraceptive knowledge(s) [PDF]
Contraceptive technologies and the knowledges that are constructed around them are simultaneously global and local. Family planning methods in the context of international development interventions are interpreted and understood as part of the ...
Lisa Ann Richey
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