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Digitisation of herbarium specimens to the benefit of research: An African perspective focusing on South Africa and Western Indian Ocean Island states

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Should insurance risk avoidance be reformed and would reform be of a right of equitable rescission or a right sui generis? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article explores the distinction between the alternative explanations for the remedy of insurance risk avoidance in the event of breach of the duty of utmost good faith.
Harris, BE
core  

Regulatory Framework and Public Policies for Sustainability in the Construction Sector

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the role of public policies in promoting socially responsible practices in the construction sector, with a particular focus on their contribution to climate neutrality and the decarbonization of the building stock. European agreements exert increasing pressure to transform the construction sector, reinforcing the transition
Olga González‐Morales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Armed guards on vessels : insurance and liability

open access: yesPoredbeno Pomorsko Pravo, 2011
The Paper examines the insurance and liability issues resulting from the use of armed guards on board vessels. The study begins with an overview of the available data on key economic fi gures representing the projected overall annual costs of modern ...
Mišo Mudrić
doaj  

Using Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision-Making as a Human-Centered AI Approach to Adopting New Technologies in Maritime Education in Greece

open access: yesInformation
The need to review maritime education has been highlighted in the relevant literature. Maritime curricula should incorporate recent technological advances, as well as address the needs of the maritime sector.
Stefanos I. Karnavas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contrasted effects of diversity and immigration on ecological insurance in marine bacterioplankton communities. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
The ecological insurance hypothesis predicts a positive effect of species richness on ecosystem functioning in a variable environment. This effect stems from temporal and spatial complementarity among species within metacommunities coupled with optimal ...
Thierry Bouvier   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategic Design of Public Food Procurement to Leverage Positive Food Systems Outcomes: A Framework of Actions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is substantial potential for the procurement of food by public institutions to contribute to Sustainable Development across multiple environmental, social, and economic outcomes. In this study we used theories of policy instrumentation and learning to analyse global guidance for designing public food procurement instruments to leverage ...
Erica Reeve   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protecting & Indemnity (P&I) osiguranje i obvezno osiguranje prema međunarodnim pomorskim konvencijama : [book review]

open access: yesPoredbeno Pomorsko Pravo, 2022
From the text: ''In 2021, a book entitled Protecting & Indemnity (P&I) Insurance and Compulsory Insurance under International Maritime Conventions was published as a private edition by Marija Pospišil, PhD, an expert in the field of marine insurance law ...
Adriana Vincenca Padovan
doaj  

The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ugovor o pomorskom osiguranju prema Pomorskom zakoniku

open access: yesUporedno pomorsko pravo, 1994
U radu se iznose i analiziraju odredbe Pomorskog zakonika o ugovoru o pomorskom osiguranju. Pravna reforma hrvatskoga pomorskog prava bila je prilika da se norme bivšeg Plovidbenog zakona o plovidbenom osiguranju poprave i usklade s najnovijim razvojem ...
Drago Pavić
doaj  

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