Gender differences in the perceived impacts of coastal management and conservation
Gender influences the ways that people are involved in and rely on coastal resources and spaces. However, a limited understanding of gender differences in this context hinders the equity and effectiveness of coastal management and conservation.
Sarah J. Harper +10 more
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Biodiversity through Domestication
It is not widely known that Melanesia became a centre of horticulture and arboriculture about 8,000 years ago: taro (Colocasia esculenta, Cyrtosprema chamissonis, Alocasia macrorrhiza); sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a close relative called sayur ...
Wulf Schiefenhövel
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Sharing Global Governance: The Role of Civil Society Organizations [PDF]
This report explores the multiple roles and potential of CSOs in international policymaking and examines the strengths and weaknesses of CSOs and state-based organizations in global governance.
Peter Walkenhorst, Tom Fries
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Archaeological possibilities for feminist theories of transition and transformation
Archaeology takes up material fragments from distant andrecent pasts to create narratives of personal and collective identity. It is, therefore, a powerful voice shaping our current and future social worlds.
Marshall, Yvonne
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Political settlements: the history of an idea in policy and theory [PDF]
This paper explores how the concept of ‘political settlement’ in statebuilding arose, identifies its essential elements, the level of consensus around them, and tests out some of its normative content.
Sue Ingram
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Nesting conservation priorities by geographic scale: preliminary lessons from the application of percent thresholds to the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas for Marine Turtles in Melanesia [PDF]
N. De Silva, D. K. Bass
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Cytological studies on mosses from Papua New Guinea : 1., introduction and the family Orthotrichaceae. [PDF]
Chromosome numbers with information on meiotic behaviour are recorded for the first time for the following taxa in the family Orthotrichaceae from Papua New Guinea - Desmotheca apiculata (Dozy & Molk.) Lindb. ex Card.
Ramsay, Helen P. +2 more
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Introduction to Pentecostal Witchcraft and Spiritual Politics in Africa and Melanesia [PDF]
Knut Rio +2 more
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Community assembly of coral reef fishes along the Melanesian biodiversity gradient.
The Indo-Pacific is home to Earth's most biodiverse coral reefs. Diversity on these reefs decreases from the Coral Triangle east through the islands of Melanesia.
Joshua A Drew, Kathryn L Amatangelo
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Negotiating social identity through material practices with stone. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen [PDF]
Pip Rath, Nina Kononenko
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