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Assessing the evolutionary distinctiveness of a highly threatened plant group: The urgency to preserve a unique lineage of evolution in Brazil

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Brazil's diverse flora is under several threats, with many unique lineages facing extinction, particularly in biodiverse regions like the Cerrado and campo rupestre. This study sheds light on the conservation needs of Cambessedesia (Melastomataceae), an endemic genus with 95% of its species endangered, using an approach to rank and prioritise species ...
Najla Bastos Scheidegger, Raquel C. Pizzardo, Bruno Vilela, Thuane Bochorny, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shumaq Nunash e identidad en los andes de Pachas – Huánuco

Estudios Culturales
El panorama de la realidad actual de las prácticas culturales ancestrales en Pachas, presenta notablemente la reivindicación simbólica en la vida diaria.
Luis Carlos Paraguay Vilcas
doaj   +1 more source

From transit hub to major supplier of illicit cigarettes to Argentina and Brazil: the changing role of domestic production and transnational tobacco companies in Paraguay between 1960 and 2003

Globalization and Health, 2018
BackgroundParaguay has reportedly been a major transit hub for illicit tobacco products since the 1960s, initially to supply markets in Argentina and Brazil and, more recently, other regional markets and beyond.
R. Iglesias, B. Gomis, Natalia Carrillo Botero, P. Shepherd, Kelley Lee   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spatial distribution and drivers of aboveground forest biomass in Mexico using GEDI and national forest inventory data

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
GEDI LiDAR‐derived biomass models were calibrated using local field data across various forest types in Mexico, resulting in a significant improvement in AGBD estimation accuracy compared to the standard GEDI products. The models reduced biomass estimation errors by over 30% and showed the highest accuracy in areas with moderate slopes and low forest ...
José Luis Hernández‐Stefanoni, Luis A. Hernández‐Martínez, Juan Andres‐Mauricio, Víctor Alexis Peña‐Lara, Karina Elizabeth González‐Muñoz, Fernando Tun‐Dzul, Carlos A. Portillo‐Quintero, Eric Antonio Gamboa‐Blanco, Stephanie George‐Chacon   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficiency of Public Spending on Environmental Protection: The Role of Renewable Energy, Governance and Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution pose a growing threat to ecosystems and human well‐being, prompting a call for action within the framework of the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15).
Pedro José Martínez Córdoba, Ventura Castillo Ramos, Elisabeth Zafra Gómez, Jose Luis Zafra Gómez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Drivers of Food Security in Latin America: A Composite Indicator Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores agrifood security in Latin America and the Caribbean using a composite indicator based on FAO data from 2002 to 2022. Regression and cluster analyses were used to identify influential variables and regional patterns. The results reveal significant variability between countries, with Puerto Rico leading and Haiti trailing ...
Nathalie Hernández‐Pérez, Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz, Alejandro Pérez y Soto‐Domínguez, Luis J. Belmonte‐Ureña   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Systematic Scoping Review of Biogas as an Instrumental Technology for a Circular Economy and a Way Forward to Ensure Sustainable Development in the Context of Global South Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable development (SD) was introduced in 1987 by the Brundtland Commission report. This leads to the induction of the circular economy (CE). Within these two frameworks, biogas technology plays a crucial role in facilitating the transformation of organic waste into energy and organic fertilizer without producing non‐recyclable waste ...
Tewodros Tarekegn Lapiso, Hynek Roubík
wiley   +1 more source

Twenty-eight new and significant departmental reptile records for Paraguay

Acta Zoológica Lilloana
Twenty-eight new distribution records are reported for twenty-seven species of Paraguayan reptiles. Ten of these species are considered threatened at the national level (6 EN, 2 VU, 2 DD).
Paul Smith, José Maciel, Mikel Redin Hurtado, Sergio Galeano, Nicole Stepan, Jean-Paul Brouard, Sergio D. Ríos, Marcela Ferreira Riveros, Rebecca L. Smith, Matthew Owen, Harald Nicolay, Roberto Derna, Alvaro Vera Burró, Tito Lahaye, Pier Cacciali   +14 more
doaj   +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

Presentación

Revista de la Sociedad Científica del Paraguay, 2018
Sociedad Científica del Paraguay
doaj   +3 more sources