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Forging Just Climate Policies: Reconciling Justice Perceptions in Deliberative Mini‐Publics
ABSTRACT Demands for ambitious climate measures have been accompanied by calls for a just transition, implying policies that take into account aspects of social justice in climate change mitigation. In many countries, deliberative mini‐publics, such as Citizens' Assemblies and Citizens' Juries, have been convened to develop recommendations for socially
Katariina Kulha
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In 1985, members of the Applied Reindeer Research Project at the University of Alaska Fairbanks obtained and reviewed a Scandinavian instructional video1 on reindeer herding in Norway.
Dieterich, Robert, Thompson, Bill
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A Middle and Late Devensian sequence from the northern part of Kents Cavern (Devon, UK)
Abstract 1920s/30s excavation of a Middle Devensian sequence in the northern part of Kents Cavern recovered important Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic archaeological material, including Britain's oldest known Homo sapiens remains. Questions remain about this material, including how it came to be in the cave.
Rob Dinnis+11 more
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Background Reindeer herding and husbandry is a traditional and important livelihood in Fennoscandia, and about 200,000 semi-domesticated reindeer are herded in Finland.
Morten Tryland+6 more
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Factors influencing calf survival are predation, insects, weather, diseases, and-ultimately-dam condition. In addition, reindeer calves on the Seward Peninsula are also subjected to annual herding and handling.
Chetkiewicz, Cheryl-Lesley B., M.S.+1 more
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ABSTRACT A Late Upper Paleolithic (LUP) site containing Ahrensburgian‐type stone tools has been discovered at South Cuidrach, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Together with a group of intertidal stone circular alignments also recently discovered on the island, this new evidence for the occupation of northern Scotland also represents the most northerly LUP site ...
Karen Hardy+5 more
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Assessing the Significance of Model Selection in Ecology [PDF]
Model Selection is a key part of many ecological studies, with Akaike's Information Criterion the most commonly used technique. Typically, a number of candidate models are defined a priori and ranked according to their expected out-of-sample performance.
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Comparative chemical and botanical analyses of the reticulo-rumen content (RR) and the fill of the digestive system were carried out in free-living Norwegian reindeer {Rangifer t. tarandus) on South Georgia (SG) in summer (mean body mass (BM) = 74 kg, n -
Svein D. Mathiesen+2 more
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The American Woodcock Singing‐Ground Survey (SGS) may not cover all available woodcock breeding range, particularly in more northern regions. Using SGS data collected in Canada between 2000 and 2019, we evaluated the relationship between 16 landscape covariates and male woodcock occurrence and abundance and we developed a predictive map to identify ...
Kristin Bianchini+3 more
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Community knowledge exchange in research leads to innovation and action in the Arctic
Indigenous peoples from Arctic communities who are engaged in various aspects of science, research, and community work have much to share with one another.
Shari Fox+31 more
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