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Addressing and adapting to contemporary coastal management issues in the central Philippines [PDF]

, 2010
With arguably the world’s most decentralized coastal governance regime, the Philippines has implemented integrated coastal management (ICM) for over 30 years as one of the most successful frameworks for coastal resource management in the country ...
Combest-Friedman, Chelsea, Gonzalez, Cirse, Lucas, Ethan, Pittkin, Turner, Schleit, Kathryn   +4 more
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foodborne illness from tuba-tuba seeds among school-aged children, Philippines: a call for community education

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response
Objective: On 2 September 2023, the Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit of the Department of Health’s Center for Health Development in Calabarzon, Philippines, received a report of foodborne illness due to the ingestion of tuba-tuba (Jatropha ...
Darren H Venturina, Apple Charm A Agulto, Alireza S Faiyaz MF, Ray Justin C Ventura, Mariz Zheila C Blanco-Payuyo, John Bobbie Roca   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Confession, Hybridity, and Language in Gina Apostol’s Gun Dealers’ Daughter [PDF]

, 2016
In Gun Dealers’ Daughter, Gina Apostol creates multiple tensions reflecting the relationship between the United States and the Philippines and among different linguistic codes.
Myers, Cecilia Nina
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Change and Transformation in Asian Industrial Relations [PDF]

, 2002
Authors argue that industrial relations systems change due to shifts in the constraints facing those systems, and that the most salient constraints facing IR systems in Asia have shifted from those of maintaining labor peace and stability in the early ...
Erickson, Christopher L., Kuruvilla, Sarosh   +1 more
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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
wiley   +1 more source

A Literal ‘Till Death Do Us Part’: The Difficulties of Severing Marital Ties in the Philippines with No Divorce and the Court’s Struggle to Ease the Journey

Asian Journal of Law and Policy
The Philippines, aside from the city-state of the Vatican, remains the only country in the world where divorce is not allowed to sever marriage and marital ties. Current law only allows certain remedies – annulment and declaration of nullity of marriage –
Florian Kim Dayag
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental, Social, and Governance Factors as Tools for Improving Market Efficiency: A Study on Equity Misvaluation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated whether superior environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices enhance corporate value and market efficiency under various economic theories. Using a multi‐country panel of 31 economies from 2015 to 2022, we find that both ESG performance and disclosure improve intrinsic value and mitigate equity misvaluation ...
Xinyu Wang, Siyu Shen, Jun Xie, Hidemichi Fujii, Alexander Ryota Keeley, Shunsuke Managi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The AFP's Institutional Responses to Armed Conflict: a Continuing Quest for the Right Approach [PDF]

How does the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) deal with the armed conflicts in the country? As the institution tasked to defend the country against internal and external threats, the AFP has come up with various operation plans, through the ...
Hernandez, Carolina
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Corporate criminal liability: similarities and differences between Spain and Philippines [PDF]

, 2018
This paper focuses on the topic of corporate criminal liability and the common and opposite aspects that regimes of Spain and The Philippines have. On the one hand, in Spain, criminal liability of legal persons has suffered a deep reform with the organic
Fernández Díaz, Carmen Rocío
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