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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Overexploitation of wildlife is pervasive in many tropical regions, and in addition to being a significant conservation and sustainability concern, it has received global attention given discussions over the origins of zoonotic disease outbreaks.
Franklin T. Simo +8 more
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Techniques for railway restructuring [PDF]
This report was sponsored by the Union of African Railways, as part of a Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Project task aimed at defining what is involved in restructuring railways so that they behave more like market driven enterprises.
Huff, Lee W., Thompson, Louis S.
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Investigation to enhance sustainable improvements in high speed rail transport [PDF]
, 2006 Transport systems are essential for the life of modern societies and economies. A sustainable transport system can shape a sustainable development pattern and socio-economic attributes of urban centres and regions.
Brunello, Lara +2 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The expansion of grey wolves (Canis lupus) across the western United States, including on public lands used for extensive livestock grazing, requires tools and techniques for reducing wolf–livestock conflict and supporting coexistence. We examined approaches used on forested lands managed by the U.S.
Robert M. Anderson +3 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines.
Josef Kaiser +3 more
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Position of railway passenger transport companies on current liberalized transport market
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 Market liberalization is a great contemporary trend in many fields of economy. Liberalized transport market, where the transport demand is meeting with transport offer, is evolving dynamically.
Záhumenská Zdenka +2 more
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Justice in coexistence: Pastoralism and large carnivores on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The conflict between livestock husbandry and large carnivore conservation presents significant challenges in grassland ecosystems worldwide. Achieving sustainable coexistence among herders, livestock and large carnivores requires reconciling diverse perspectives and interests through equitable, inclusive and fair processes that address both ...
Yufang Gao, Yue Yu
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Railway transport services in the age of globalization [PDF]
The fall of the Berlin Wall confirmed the victory of the capitalist system over the communist system. The emergence and evolution of globalization have already produced significant changes in the world economy.
Shinji Nauru, Sorin George Toma
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Heuristic methods for routing and scheduling [PDF]
, 2001 A locomotive assignment is one of the subproblems in railway scheduling domain. In this report present general mathematical model of this specific subproblem and describe how methods known from other problems domain like traveling salesman problem ...
Kocjan, Waldemar
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