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Monuments and Memory in Africa
This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. The book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this ...
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.It remains unclear how many plant species are not yet recorded by science. We illustrated the process by which species of the pineapple family in tropical America have been newly described to science to date, and we estimated how many species may still await scientific discovery in this group.
Georg Zizka +4 more
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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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Atlantis, 2021 This paper discusses the recent backlash against public monuments spurred by Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in North America and elsewhere following the killing by police of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man in the United States.
Christiana Abraham
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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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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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An exploratory study of the implications of free admission to museums and monuments : perceptions and effects on visiting behaviors. [PDF]
What perceptions of free admission to museums and monuments do French visiting and non-visiting audiences have ? What are the consequences of such perceptions on individuals' perceptions, visit-planning and behavior patterns in museums and monuments ...
Caroline Urbain +4 more
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How Brazilian Public Universities Are Operationalizing The SDGs: Strategic Plans Analysis
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the importance of universities for Sustainable Development, only a handful of studies have evaluated the implementation levels of SDGs in HEIs in Latin America. To fill this void, this study examines the strategic plans of 70 Brazilian public universities, which account for 92.8% of Federal Universities.
Carolina Grano +6 more
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