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Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Compared to monocultures, agroforestry can promote biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and climate resilience, whilst maintaining or enhancing production and profits. Despite this, uptake in temperate regions remains low. Knowledge gaps amongst land managers are a primary barrier to uptake, but little is known about which aspects of ...
Amelia S. C. Hood, Verena Scherfranz, Rosy E. Scholes, Erika Degani, Tom Staton, Alexa Varah, Lena Schaller, Alice L. Mauchline   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Historical Landscape under Threat: Contestation and Preservation of Malta’s Pastoral Droveways

Heritage
Landscapes have been shaped and reshaped by humans to meet the changing needs of shifting subsistence strategies and demographic patterns. In the Mediterranean region, a widespread subsistence strategy that has left a major imprint is pastoralism, often ...
Gianmarco Alberti, Reuben Grima, Nicholas C. Vella, Kurt Xerri, David E. Zammit   +4 more
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Documenting the History of Inca Precious Metal Production using Geochemical Techniques from Lake Sediments in the Andahuaylas Region of Peru [PDF]

, 2011
The process of studying heavy metal concentrations in lake sediments in order to reconstruct pollution history has been used in a variety of environments and locations.
Kane, Molly Mae
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The role of trust in wildlife damage response systems: One step towards coexistence between livestock farming and large carnivores?

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wildlife damage to livestock and crops is the primary cause of conflict and a major barrier to human–wildlife coexistence across Europe and beyond. Data on such damages play a key role in understanding and shaping these conflicts. Policy responses have emphasised prevention and compensation to support extensive husbandry practices; however ...
Katrina Marsden, Marion Jay, Albin Blaschka, Kari Langöen, Yorgos Mertzanis, Tasos Hovardas, Valeria Salvatori, Laura Schwarz, Liam Singer, Xenia Wietlisbach   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pastoral mladih i obiteljski pastoral

Kateheza : časopis za vjeronauk u školi, katehezu i pastoral mladih, 2011
In the first part of the article the author talks about the family relying on the texts of the magisterium. The Author also talks about the family which needs to be understood and accompanied and the family that accompanies. Thus the author proposes pastoral truth, holiness and mercy.
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Moving the Maasai: A Colonial Misadventure [PDF]

, 2006
The history of the Maasai moves, land alienation and resistance in colonial British East Africa. In 1904, in order to make way for white settlers in what was to become Kenya, the Maasai were forcibly moved into two reserves, robbing them of the best ...
Hughes, Lotte
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Beyond our backyard: Unravelling how social‐ecological fit drives the formation of inter‐regional collaborative networks for water governance in the Yellow River Basin

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The societal and biophysical permeability across human‐demarcated jurisdictions within watersheds necessitates collaboration among administrative regions. The effectiveness of such collaboration is partly determined by the degree to which institutional arrangements align with underlying social and ecological interdependencies, a concept ...
Fang Wang, Haibin Chen, Liqun Shao, Shuai Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Common animals: sedentary pastoralism and the emergence of the commons as an institution

Frontiers in Human Dynamics
Animal husbandry was of fundamental consequence in the planning and development of larger and more permanent communities. Pastoralism is often assumed to be highly mobile when considering social institutions and political formations, despite the ...
Katherine Kanne, Mark Haughton, Ryan Lash   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel [PDF]

, 2014
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.A large literature proposes that preferences for exaggerated sex typicality in human faces (masculinity/femininity) reflect a long evolutionary history of sexual and ...
Boyette, AH, Clark, AP, Cuthill, IC, Fried, RL, Gibson, MA, Hewlett, BS, Honey, PL, Huang, Z, Jamieson, M, Jankowiak, W, Josephson, SC, Liebert, MA, Penton-Voak, IS, Purzycki, BG, Scott, IM, Shaver, JH, Snodgrass, JJ, Sosis, R, Sugiyama, LS, Swami, V, Yu, DW, Zhao, Y   +21 more
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Dynamics and model representation of two contrasting extreme precipitation events in the Sahel

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
Hovmöller diagrams of the two investigated extreme precipitation events in Mali are shown for (i) IMERG observations, and ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic model (ICON) runs with parameterization of explicit convection (ii) enabled and (iii) disabled. This work highlights that the commonly perceived benefit of using explicit convection in a state‐of‐the‐art ...
Souleymane Sanogo, Marlon Maranan, Andreas H. Fink, Beth J. Woodhams, Peter Knippertz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source