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Varied motivations for secondary forest reclearing among landholders make forest persistence challenging

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1943-1956, June 2026.
Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
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Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation in Informal Settlements: A Gendered Perspective From the South African Multidimensional Poverty Index

open access: yesPoverty &Public Policy, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Rapid urbanisation and persistent socio‐economic inequality continue to entrench multidimensional poverty within South Africa's urban informal settlements, with women and female‐headed households experiencing disproportionate deprivation. This study analysed primary household survey data collected in 2023 from 322 households across three ...
Adrino Mazenda   +3 more
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Phylogenetic analysis and the recognition of a new genus for Mexican Crassulaceae segregated from Echeveria

open access: yesTAXON, Volume 75, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract Systematic knowledge of the Mexican Crassulaceae is slowly progressing as data from new DNA regions and species sampling efforts increase. We compiled and generated new rbcL, matK, rps16, ITS/ITS2, and ETS DNA sequences and performed an updated phylogenetic reconstruction for a group of 131 Mexican Crassulaceae terminals from 11 of the 13 ...
Luis Emilio de la Cruz‐López   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Masters and Slaves in Empty Spain: A Philosophical–Political Reading of Rural Depopulation

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 263-276, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Rural depopulation in Spain reveals not only demographic decline but also the persistence of unequal power structures. Drawing on the classical elite theories of Pareto, Mosca, and Michels, alongside Hegel's master–slave dialectic, this article offers a socio‐philosophical and political interpretation of the phenomenon.
Leandro Sebastián Fervier   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reformismo y municipios

open access: yesBAETICA. Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea, 2015
Este artículo -complementario a una comunicación presentada a un Congreso-, aborda una faceta del "Reformismo Borbónico" inicial, a partir de la consideración de las teorías reflejadas por una amplia base bibliográfica, contrastadas con la realidad que aparece en una documentación archivística de carácter estatal, pero referida al control municipal.
openaire   +2 more sources

Hechtia mixtecana sp. nov. (Hechtioideae; Bromeliaceae), from Oaxaca, Mexico

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2026, Issue 5, May 2026.
Botanical explorations carried out in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, led to the discovery of a new Bromeliaceae: Hechtia mixtecana,which is here described and illustrated. The new taxon is compared with the morphologically similar Hechtia fragilis, Hechtia lyman‐smithii, and Hechtia minuta.
Rodrigo Alejandro Hernández‐ Cárdenas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

GESTIÓN MUNICIPAL DEL AGUA EN GUATEMALA: CO-RESPONSABILIDAD LOCAL ANTE UN ESTADO AUSTENTE. BALANCE Y LECCIONES DE LA EXPERIENCIA DE PROMUDEL.

open access: yesRevista Iberoamericana de Estudios Municipales, 2013
La  principal  competencia  de  los  municipios  guatemaltecos  es  gestionar  el  agua  y  clorarla,  lo  que  ocurre  de  manera   deficitaria,   generando   una   alta  contaminación,  y  enfermedades  por  diarreas,  desnutrición  y  mortalidad ...
Esteban Valenzuela Van Treek
doaj   +1 more source

Agrarian counterpoint

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 171-182, May 2026.
Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
wiley   +1 more source

La nueva reforma de la Administración Local: principales cuestiones planteadas en el marco de su racionalización y sostenibilidad

open access: yesRevista de Estudios de la Administración Local y Autonómica, 2014
El presente trabajo tiene por objeto analizar el alcance de la reforma de la Administración local operada por la nueva Ley 27/2013, de 27 de diciembre, de racionalización y sostenibilidad de la Administración Local, a través de la cual se persigue la ...
Juan Calvo Vérgez
doaj   +1 more source

Trabajo y relaciones laborales en los enclaves minero-metalúrgicos de la Amazonia

open access: yesEuropean Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2008
:  Labour and labour relations in the enclaves of metallurgical mining in the AmazonThis article is based upon an empirical study of  life and labour conditions in the metallurgical  mining enclaves of the eastern Amazon region.
Josep Pont Vidal
doaj   +1 more source

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