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Drone photogrammetry reveals contrasting body conditions of dugongs across the Indo‐Pacific

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
The monitoring of body condition has gained traction as a way to provide early warning signals of population decline, prompting conservation actions. However, the environmental and anthropogenic drivers of body condition variations are rarely investigated.
Camille Goudalier, David Mouillot, Léa Bernagou, Taha Boksmati, Caulvyn Bristol, Harry Clark, Sekar M.C. Herandarudewi, Régis Hocdé, Anna Koester, Ashlie J. McIvor, Dhivya Nair, Muhammad Rizki Nandika, Louisa Ponnampalam, Achmad Sahri, Evan Trotzuk, Nur Abidah Zaaba, Laura Mannocci   +16 more
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Aspects of conflict in the contemporary Papua New Guinea Highlands

, 2002
To the foreign observer, Papua New Guinea is readily associated with violent gang crime, tribal fighting and electoral violence. In the Highlands region, high-powered weapons render tribal fighting increasingly problematic, particularly in provinces ...
McLeod, Abby, Weiner, James, Yala, Charles   +2 more
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“It Looks as if They Threw the Entire Periodic Table Into the River”: A Decolonial Perspective for Chemistry Education in the Context of Environmental Injustices

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article I explore the case of the Mariana dam disaster in 2015 in Brazil seeking to contribute to reflections about the role of chemistry and chemistry education in environmental injustices. Drawing on stories about this disaster shared in the Dead River Podcast (2024), on wider literature and on other cases of environmental injustices
Haira E. Gandolfi
wiley   +1 more source

Managing the Gulf of Papua Prawn Fishery: Sustainability, Maximum Returns and Cooperation between Commercial Fishing and Indigenous Fishing Communities [PDF]

, 2015
In many fisheries around the world, harvesting capacity is excessive and fish stocks are under threat. The Gulf of Papua prawn fishery (GPPF) presents a different set of management challenges.
Kompas, Thomas, Kuk, Ron
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Sustainable Development Investment Decision: Do Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Behavioral Biases Factors Matter?

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the critical factors involved and evaluates how environmental, social, and governance (ESG), along with behavioral biases, impacts sustainable investment decision making. The researchers employed purposive sampling with random sampling methods to gather data from retail investors; the data is then analyzed in two stages.
Anshita Bihari, Manoranjan Dash, Kamalakanta Muduli, Anil Kumar, Sunil Luthra, Arvind Upadhyay   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change and Women's Barriers to Credit: Global Firm‐Level Analysis of Gender Bias and Climate Risk Policy Thresholds

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this present study is to assess how climate risk mitigates the positive incidence of the female CEOs on credit access. Using the Climate Physical Risk Index (CPRI), we perform an empirical analysis on firm‐level data from over 38,500 firms in 130 countries observed over the period 2006–2020. We find that female entrepreneurs are
Simplice A. Asongu, Cherif Abdramane
wiley   +1 more source

Australia-Papua New Guinea emerging leaders dialogue: outcomes report [PDF]

Presents the outcomes of a dialogue involving twenty-two emerging leaders from Papua New Guinea and Australia, from across the business, government, media and non-government sectors.
Jenny Hayward-Jones
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Thermal Conductivity of Papua New Guinea Balsa Wood Measured using the Needle Probe Procedure

, 2014
A study was undertaken with the aim to determine thermal properties of balsa wood grown in plantations in Papua New Guinea. Thermal conductivity values were measured using the needle probe procedure according to ASTM D5334 (2008).
N. Kotlarewski, B. Ozarska, Benson K. Gusamo   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Self‐regulation, corruption, and competitiveness in extractive industries: Making transparency pay

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Self‐regulation is often proposed as a substitute for government regulation. We examine a setting in which a subset of firms voluntarily committed to transparency standards despite immediate competitive disadvantages, not merely to preempt regulation but to succeed under future mandatory rules they helped enact through ...
Shirley Tang, Daniel W. Elfenbein, Tatenda Pasipanodya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pontoniinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidea) associated with bivalve molluscs from Hansa Bay, Papua New Guinea [PDF]

, 1999
Eleven species of Pontoniinae (Decapoda: Caridea) are recorded as associates from large bivalves in Hansa Bay, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Nine species are recorded as new to the fauna of Papua New Guinea.
de Grave, S.
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