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Defining and identifying relevant stakeholders to advance effective conservation
The challenge of defining stakeholders in environmental science and an approach for refining existing definitions. Abstract Stakeholder is a contested term that has spawned a multitude of ad hoc definitions. The ambiguity of these definitions has oftentimes impeded transdisciplinary research in environmental governance and conservation science because ...
Milan Büscher +5 more
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Rewetting drained boreal peatland forests is increasingly promoted as a climate mitigation strategy, yet its effects on carbon (C) and greenhouse gas (GHG) balances remain uncertain. This study quantified CO2 and CH4 fluxes over 2 years before and after rewetting in a low‐productive peatland forest, with and without tree harvest.
Järvi Järveoja +6 more
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Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales
ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
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ABSTRACT The visit to Bogotá of a fééeneminaa (Muinane) friend, Célimo Nejedeka Jifichíu, and in particular, his work in researching and transmitting traditional health knowledge, offer the pretext to navigate the relationship between elements that at first glance seem distant from each other: indigenous imaginaries about otherness, their visions of ...
Giovanna Micarelli
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What Can the State of Nature Justify?
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
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ABSTRACT Permafrost is rapidly degrading in the sporadic zone, including palsa mires in Scandinavia. Peatlands in the area have likely accumulated heavy metals from atmospheric deposition of industrial contaminants in the wider region. As the palsa mire chemical composition is not well known, and in other permafrost regions the permafrost thaw may ...
Joanna Katarzyna Jóźwik +7 more
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There are many excellent descriptions of mirativity in various language grammars, and more recently there has been a flurry of research refining mirativity to include how languages linguistically realize surprise and related concepts such as ...
Tyler Peterson
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This paper studies degrees of mirativity as grammaticalised in the Indo-Aryan language Odia by four light verb constructions, asymmetric complex predicates combining a lexical verb with a (partially) bleached light verb.
Kalyanamalini Sahoo, Maarten Lemmens
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Didn't you know? Mirativity does exist!
This article argues, contra Hill (this volume), that mirativity is an independent linguistic category. It also argues, contra DeLancey (1997), that this category should be defined not only in terms of newsworthiness for the speaker but also in terms of ...
Kees Hengeveld
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Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar
The goals of this paper are two-fold: first, to describe evidentiality and mirativity in Magar, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal; second, to bring this data to bear on relationships between evidentiality, mirativity and epistemic modalities.
Karen Grunow-Hårsta
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