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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 575-586, December 2022., 2022 Abstract When gold deposits were confirmed in a community watershed in 2005, water became a politically charged arena for anti‐mining activism. This article follows the outcomes of a 2014 Ecuadorian water law on conflicts over water provisioning. Arguments about water's material properties and social qualities were deployed by government, municipal ...
Teresa A. Velásquez
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Conservation and social outcomes of private protected areas
Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 1098-1110, August 2021., 2021 Abstract Government administered protected areas (PAs) have dominated conservation strategies, discourse, and research, yet private actors are increasingly managing land for conservation. Little is known about the social and environmental outcomes of these privately protected areas (PPAs).
Rachel Palfrey +2 more
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Water theft as social insurance: south‐eastern Spain, 1851–1948†
The Economic History Review, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 721-753, August 2021., 2021 Abstract For centuries, irrigation communities in south‐eastern Spain were socially stable and economically efficient. In this article, we show how these self‐governing institutions persisted by resolving conflicts over scarce resources with flexible punishment for water theft.
Javier D. Donna +1 more
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Making Friends, Building Roads: Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Search for Reliability in Angola
American Anthropologist, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 343-354, June 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Based on fieldwork conducted in 2013–2014 with a provincial‐level Chinese state‐owned construction firm in Luanda, this article examines how Chinese businesses attempted to expand in the aftermath of a booming period of Angolan postwar reconstruction. Chinese entrepreneurs found that business could only be done with the help of local mediators
Cheryl Mei‐ting Schmitz
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Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 533-547, April 2021., 2021 Abstract Studies evaluating human–wildlife interactions (HWIs) in a conservation context often include psychometric scales to measure attitudes and tolerance toward wildlife. However, data quality is at risk when such scales are used without appropriate validation or reliability testing, potentially leading to erroneous interpretation or application of
K. Whitehouse‐Tedd +2 more
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Enabling conditions for the implementation and conservation outcomes of a private nature reserve
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 1, Issue 1, July 2020., 2020 We provide insights into the motivations of one landowner to acquire land and devote it to biodiversity conservation, and on the conditions that contributed to the success of this privately‐funded project. After two decades, the Los Barranquillos Wildlife Refuge has restored habitat, enhanced animal populations, fostered education, contributed to large
Alexandro B. Leverkus +3 more
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Saber, Ciencia y Libertad, 2018 From a clearly identified need in the market linked to value inclusion in financial states, this article will feed the readers about a methodology to value the author´s technological copyright. The model process considered a hybrid methodology based on qualitative and quantitative elements to set a value.
Oscar Manco López +2 more
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Los bienes comunes intangibles en el capitalismo cognitivo.
Recerca: Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 2014 Este texto analizará críticamente la actual fase económica para mostrar la importancia de los bienes comunes intangibles. Sondea la tesis de un nuevo modo de producción «en ciernes», basado en la gestión colaborativa. Analiza los intangibles de acuerdo a
Álvaro Ramis Olivos
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La Propiedad Intelectual y desarrollo: Problemas para la capitalización de activos intangibles
Revista de la Facultad de Jurisprudencia RFJ, 2020 En el presente artículo se abordan cuestiones referentes a la gestión de la Propiedad Intelectual desde la legislación y las políticas públicas y la importancia que tiene en la esfera del desarrollo social en la actualidad, además se habla acerca del poco interés prestado por parte de la academia ecuatoriana al estudio de mecanismos para optimizar ...
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Apuntes Contables, 2023 El presente artículo evalúa la evolución y cumplimiento de los criterios técnicos normativos emitidos por la CGN mediante la resolución 533 de 2015, referidos a la revelación de los estados financieros de las universidades públicas en cuanto a propiedad, planta, equipo e intangibles, aspectos sobre los cuales tienen la obligación de informar de acuerdo
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