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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Overharvesting of wild edible plants poses a growing threat to plant populations worldwide, particularly for slow‐growing species with limited regeneration. We quantified fruit extraction from the third‐largest known population of Jubaea chilensis—an endangered palm endemic to Chile—modeled the critical harvest threshold, and assessed consumer ...
Sebastián Cordero +7 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Tiny, leafless fairy lanterns are easily overlooked on the forest floor. Thismia abei, endemic to Japan, persists in small, unstable populations and is listed nationally as Critically Endangered. Our recent work has revealed another, less obvious form of obscurity.
Kenji Suetsugu +2 more
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Kirsten Pai Buick, Professor of Art History, University of New Mexico
Panorama, 2018 At the heart of “American democracy” and “American freedom,” there is a shameful rot, which public monuments “labor” to paper over in order to present our struggles and conflicts as resolved and settled.
Kirsten Pai Buick
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Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
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Dell Upton, Distinguished Professor of Architectural History, University of California, Los Angeles
Panorama, 2018 A monument leads an unhappy life. The best it can hope for is to molder quietly under a mantle of pigeon droppings, for when the people or events it celebrates attract a critical eye, its travails begin. Because a monument holds up its subject to memory,
Dell Upton
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Colorado's geologic, pedologic, topographic, hydrological, and climatic contrasts create strong but under‐synthesized opportunities for sustainable agritourism. This review investigates how geodiversity, and the broader environmental heterogeneity within which it operates, can be used to diversify farm income, strengthen place‐based visitor ...
Bonface O. Manono
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Panorama, 2018 Confederate Monuments and the Inevitable Forces of Change Contrary to popular perception, monuments are not immutable or unchanging edifices; instead, there can be adjustments and adaptations according to the circumstances of their environments.
Sarah Beetham
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability has remained the main goal of the policy agenda in G7 economies, where the current priority of energy policy reforms is to minimize reliance on fossil fuels, which have significant environmental impacts, and to transition to cleaner energy sources.
Xintong Li +4 more
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Visibility of selected public monuments in Belgrade area [PDF]
Nasleđe, 2018 The article analyzes a number of significant public monuments in Belgrade, in the context of their compromised visibility and presentation in their surroundings, with common problems being inappropriately planted vegetation facing the front side of the ...
Ristanović Aleksandra M.
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Renée Ater, Associate Professor Emerita, American Art, PhD, The University of Maryland
Panorama, 2018 In the context of the recent Confederate memorial debates, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, directly challenges the heroic narrative of the Confederacy as an honorable struggle and the idea that slavery was a benevolent
Renée Ater
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