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The Wayqecha Amazon Cloud Curtain Ecosystem Experiment: A new experimental method to manipulate fog water inputs in terrestrial systems

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution
Fog makes a significant contribution to the hydrology of a wide range of important terrestrial ecosystems. The amount and frequency of fog immersion are affected by rapid ongoing anthropogenic changes but the impacts of these changes remain relatively ...
Daniel B. Metcalfe   +15 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Civic engagement among adolescents: Spanish adaptation and validation of the civic engagement scale. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Community Psychol
Abstract The aim of this research was to adapt and validate the Civic Engagement Scale (CES) developed by Doolittle & Faul for the Spanish adolescent population while providing empirical support for its psychometric properties. After administering the instruments to 965 adolescents from high schools, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to ...
Ayllón-Salas P   +2 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 3, Page 546-558, September 2023., 2023
Abstract The concept of transparency is now an unescapable reference in public, professional, and private life. As transparency‐making has recently transmuted from a progressive instrument to counter corruption into a new universal ideological formation, it is time to problematize the concept of transparency and its uses.
Alexander Koensler
wiley   +1 more source

Prioritizing species conservation programs based on IUCN Green Status and estimates of cost‐sharing potential

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 3, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Over 1 million species around the world are at risk of extinction, and conservation organizations have to decide where to invest their limited resources. Cost‐effectiveness can be increased by leveraging funding opportunities and increasing collaborative partnerships to achieve shared conservation goals. We devised a structured decision‐making
Natasha A. Lloyd   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An evaluation of the role of US consumer's institutional trust for food eco‐label preferences

open access: yesWorld Food Policy, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 50-71, May 2023., 2023
Abstract Demand for sustainable food products has continued to grow in the past decade. Consumers have not only expressed more interest in environmentally friendly products, but producers have been willing to expand and market sustainable products. As a signal, eco‐labels are intended to communicate about specific environmental product properties from ...
Samantha L. Mosier
wiley   +1 more source

Foster carers' perceptions of the long‐term effectiveness of the Fostering Changes programme

open access: yesJournal of Family Therapy, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 138-153, May 2023., 2023
Abstract The present article reports foster carer perceptions of the long‐term effectiveness of a carer‐focussed training intervention – the Fostering Changes (FC) programme. Five foster carers who completed FC at a not‐for‐profit child and family agency in New Zealand were interviewed 13–15 months post‐training about their experiences and perceptions ...
Loren Whitehead   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods for land‐use‐change modeling in a deforestation frontier

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 36, Issue 6, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Development and implementation of effective protected area management to reduce deforestation depend in part on identifying factors contributing to forest loss and areas at risk of conversion, but standard land‐use‐change modeling may not fully capture contextual factors that are not easily quantified.
Katherine Siegel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economías inflamables en tiempos de COVID‐19: La reventa de gasolina en la frontera de Venezuela–Brasil

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 37-56, June 2022., 2022
Resumen La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis.
Morelia Morillo Ramos, Eva van Roekel
wiley   +1 more source

Soluciones relacionadas con el entorno alimentario para prevenir la obesidad infantil en América Latina y en la población latina que vive en Estados Unidos

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen El entorno alimentario es un factor importante que contribuye a las dietas poco saludables en la niñez y, por tanto, a las crecientes tasas de obesidad. Los países de Latinoamérica han recibido el reconocimiento internacional por su liderazgo en la implementación de políticas dirigidas a distintos aspectos del entorno alimentario.
Ana Clara Duran   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

El entorno construido en los programas diseñados para promover la actividad física entre las niñas, niños y jóvenes latinos que viven en Estados Unidos y América Latina

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen Prevenir la obesidad entre los jóvenes latinos que viven en Estados Unidos y en países latinoamericanos requiere reconocer la especificidad de los contextos y las interacciones entre actividad física (AF) y entorno construido (EC). El objetivo de este artículo es avanzar en la agenda de investigación sobre el EC y la AF con el fin de prevenir ...
Olga L. Sarmiento   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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