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Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Buildings in 2020
, 2021 Peer review is the driving force of journal development, and reviewers are gatekeepers who ensure that Buildings maintains its standards for the high quality of its published papers [...
Buildings Editorial Office Buildings Editorial Office
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract In 2023, the American Ornithological Society announced it will phase out the English eponymous (honorific) names of 152 bird species in the United States and Canada, some of which are named after historical figures with racist, genocidal, or otherwise violent histories that serve as reminders of ornithology's exclusive origins.
Kirsten Vinyeta +3 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Ecological restoration is an ongoing relational process involving interconnected reciprocal social and biophysical interactions that shift and change over time and space. Conceptual literature proposes that placemaking can deepen and enhance the understanding and implementation of social‐ecological restoration processes as part of broader ...
Ancois de Villiers +3 more
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Green Light District: Energy renovation of monumental buildings
, 2021 By 2050 the municipality of Amsterdam plans to become climate neutral. The historic city center of Amsterdam poses a challenge in this ambition, as it is home to numerous monumental buildings.
van Hattum, Sophie (author)
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Nature‐based solutions for protected area governance: A systematic review
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Nature‐based solutions (NBSs) have been introduced as an effective approach for climate change resilience and a set of actions to conserve, restore and sustainably manage natural or modified ecosystems, while simultaneously providing benefits to human well‐being and biodiversity.
Ghader Arabi +2 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Overharvesting of wild edible plants poses a growing threat to plant populations worldwide, particularly for slow‐growing species with limited regeneration. We quantified fruit extraction from the third‐largest known population of Jubaea chilensis—an endangered palm endemic to Chile—modeled the critical harvest threshold, and assessed consumer ...
Sebastián Cordero +7 more
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Base Isolation for large monumental buildings
, 2014 Italy is one of the countries with the highest number of historical and monumental buildings. At the same time is a country of moderate/high seismic risk.
MARTINELLI, LUCA +3 more
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Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
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Las sales solubles en el deterioro de rocas monumentales. Revisión bibliográfica
Materiales de Construccion, 1994 This paper points out the importance of soluble salts in the deterioration/conservation of monumental stones. The most frequent salts in monuments as well as their sources are referred.
C. M. Grossi, R M. Esbert
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