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Serviceability and ultimate performance of long span timber floor modules [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The advent of engineered wood products (EVVP’s) such as LVL and glulam as well as a new generation of adhesives has provided the means to fabricate large section, long spanning structural members with similar structural properties to that of steel or ...
Zabihi, Z S   +8 more
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Rewilding's technological experiments: Virtual reality and scalable narratives of rewilding in the Scottish highlands

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Depictions of rewilded landscapes reveal the underlying principles shaping the future of rewilding. This paper analyses a virtual reality (VR) model of a rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands that is advertised as a vision of a rewilded nature in 50 to 100 years' time.
Nick Sidwell
wiley   +1 more source

Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing both heritage and resource: A relational approach to forest owners' decision‐making

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The loss of forest habitats calls for a change in the intensity and scale at which forests are managed. With voluntary policies on the rise, there is greater focus on understanding the motivations of private forest owners. While private forest management is likely driven by both economic and non‐economic factors, previous literature has paid ...
Hanna Ekström Pigot
wiley   +1 more source

Longing for nature: Becoming more connected to nature through nostalgia

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Repairing the human–nature relationship is one of the century's defining tasks. In this paper, we were interested in whether nature‐based nostalgia was a significant and unique predictor of higher nature connectedness as a key operationalisation of the human–nature relationship.
Michael L. Lengieza, Rosemary Aviste
wiley   +1 more source

Weaving everyday environmental heritage into modern conservation policy: Insights from Indigenous communities in northern Thailand

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Signatories of global conservation treaties have pledged to support Indigenous peoples' rights and roles in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystems. Movements embracing biocultural concepts (e.g. Indigenous ecological knowledge, cultural ecosystem services) and governance approaches (e.g. sacred natural sites, biosphere reserves) have provided
Marco J. Haenssgen   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ghost sign for Cashmores Timber on Essex Road, 2024.

open access: yes
Ghost sign for Cashmores Timber, reading: 'Cashmores For All Doors, Windows, Timber etc.' and their phone number. A black arrow points to the right down Essex Road. Founded in the 1940s, Cashmores Timber is a family-run, Leicester-based business still in
Hyde, Colin
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Co‐evolution of social learning and plurality of values in the multiple‐use of forests in Sweden

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract In Sweden, where clear‐cut forestry dominates, a growing number of family forest owners and entrepreneurs are exploring and embracing alternative, less intensive forest uses, such as continuous cover forestry, forest tourism, foraging, or craft production.
Jenny Friman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minutes of the organization meeting of the Timber Creek Association of Primitive Baptists.

open access: yes, 1895
Publication of the minutes of the annual session of the Timber Creek Association of Primitive ...
Timber Creek Association of Primitive Baptists
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Bringing social cohesion into forest landscape restoration: Identifying future pathways toward more integrated social‐ecological restoration

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) is increasingly recognized as a key strategy to address land degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change. However, its long‐term success depends not only on ecological outcomes but also on social processes that shape restoration implementation and sustainability.
Hamza Moluh Njoya   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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