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Weaving everyday environmental heritage into modern conservation policy: Insights from Indigenous communities in northern Thailand

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Signatories of global conservation treaties have pledged to support Indigenous peoples' rights and roles in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystems. Movements embracing biocultural concepts (e.g. Indigenous ecological knowledge, cultural ecosystem services) and governance approaches (e.g. sacred natural sites, biosphere reserves) have provided
Marco J. Haenssgen   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Long Trajectory of Rubber Physics: 3500+ Years and Counting

open access: yesJournal of Polymer Science, EarlyView.
Natural rubber's trajectory is traced from Mesoamerican use of Castilla elastica through vulcanization and the pneumatic tire to macromolecular physics and modern solid‐state refrigeration. Illustrations of C. elastica and an H. brasiliensis plantation frame the historical progression from indigenous material, then industrial crop and on to advanced ...
Gregory B. McKenna
wiley   +1 more source

Drop by Drop: The Impact of Green Certifications on Attributed Improvement in Corporate Water Efficiency

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of green certifications on attributed improvements in corporate water efficiency in Bangladesh, considering the moderating roles of regulatory pressure and consumer awareness. Data from 311 respondents were analyzed to test the hypotheses.
Pinki Debnath   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Good Intentions: A Dual‐Model Analysis of Youth Workforce Sustainability in Depopulating Tourism Regions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Population decline and aging pose growing challenges to economic vitality and labor market sustainability, particularly in remote regions. In Japan, national park‐related municipalities increasingly rely on tourism as a strategy for regional revitalization, yet attracting young residents to participate in the local tourism workforce remains a ...
Huixin Wang, Katsunori Furuya
wiley   +1 more source

Statutory Premarital Haemoglobinopathy Screening, Marriage Decisions, and Affected Births: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

open access: yesCureus
Qumairy FY   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Resilience and Sustainability Through Interlinkages of Gender, Disaster, and Climate Change: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic literature review examines gendered vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and policy translation in climate‐change induced disaster research using an intersectional lens in the Web of Science Database. Peer‐reviewed journal articles published in English between 2014 and 2024 focusing on gender, climate change, and disaster were
Tomo Kawane   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Touching the Tarmac”: Conjuring the Urban Frontier on a Remote Periphery

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anthropologists have demonstrated how the creation of land markets as “frontiers” for global capital requires practices of “conjuring”—the narrative construction of place as desirable for large‐scale investment. This article emphasizes the contingency of this conjuring process in an urbanizing Kenya where land‐selling companies have emerged to
Peter Lockwood
wiley   +1 more source

Letter, John Law to Thomas Law, 1817 April 6

open access: yes
John Law challenges his father's actions when not inviting him and his brother Edmund to their half-sister's marriage what impression that gives to 'Society' as well as the impression it makes on Eliza's husband Mr. Rogers.
Law, John, 1784?-1822
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