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Risk Management of Daily Tourist Tax Revenues for the Maldives [PDF]
International tourism is the principal economic activity for Small Island Tourism Economies (SITEs). There is a strongly predictable component of international tourism, specifically the government revenue received from taxes on international tourists ...
Bernardo da Veiga +2 more
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Abstract Education, including school education, is widely understood as fundamental to a just response to global climate and ecological crises. We examined the practices of teachers based in England focused on climate change and sustainability education (CCSE).
Elizabeth A. C. Rushton +2 more
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Streptococcus pyogenes is responsible for the severe clinical condition known as type 2 necrotizing fasciitis and toxic shock syndrome (TSS), which are linked to extremely high morbidity and death in both developed and developing countries.
Kannan Subbaram +6 more
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Managing Value-at-Risk in Daily Tourist Tax Revenues for the Maldives [PDF]
International tourism is the principal economic activity for Small Island Tourism Economies (SITEs). There is a strongly predictable component of international tourism, specifically the government revenue received from taxes on international tourists ...
Bernardo da Veiga +2 more
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ABSTRACT This paper proposes Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 film as promising fieldwork tools for addressing problematic temporalities in ethnographic museums and for collaborating with communities of origin. Focusing on the Maria Czaplicka Siberian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, we examine how previous methods of display marginalized the
Anya Gleizer +2 more
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VULNERABILITY AND POVERTY DYNAMICS IN THE MALDIVES [PDF]
Despite rapid economic and social development of the Maldives, the vulnerability of the island population in terms of poverty remains high. Using household panel data for the period 1997/98 Ð 2004 we show that, although the majority of the poor manages ...
Hans de Kruijk, Martine Rutten
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The Global Threat to Manta and Mobula Rays [PDF]
Manta and mobula rays span the tropics of the world and are among the most captivating and charismatic of marine species. However, their survival is severely threatened by growing fisheries pressure driven by demand for the gill rakers that the animals ...
Shawn Heinrichs
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Resettlement as climate change adaptation: what can be learned from state-led relocation in rural Africa and Asia? [PDF]
There is growing interest in helping people in developing countries cope with climate change by reframing population relocation as an adaptation strategy.
Arnall, Alex
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Re‐theorizing the Sexual Minority Closet: Evidence From Queer South Asian Women
ABSTRACT Scholarship generally assumes the closet is a place of safety from the perceived risks associated with coming out. However, this overlooks its function as a source of violence, particularly for those belonging to multiple marginalized communities.
Sonali Patel
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Beyond National Currency: The Plurality of Early Modern Money
ABSTRACT Diversity in money leaps at historians of early modern societies, whether they analyse account books, legal documents, travelogues and diaries, or try to make sense of a sum casually mentioned in a source from the period. The plurality of money objects contrasts with the homogeneous, singular currencies imposed by nation‐states in the 19th and
Sebastian Felten
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