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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although several environmental challenges exist globally, land degradation is the greatest threat and risk factor wedging human livelihoods. Despite widespread awareness of climate change, little empirical evidence exists on land degradation and its impacts on livelihoods in semi‐arid agroecological systems.
Philip Aniah +3 more
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"Jinja" Perusahaan sebagai Pusat "Shaen"
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2003 This paper demonstrates that jinja as the center of shaen functions to remind every worker of the existence of shaen in order to make her feel the power and authority of the sacred being near them, in time and space surrounding them to protect business ...
Ike Iswary Lawanda
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw +3 more
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Past, present and future of local crop evolution
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales +6 more
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Sacred Spaces and Sacred Places
, 2008 This is an unrefereed publication with a print-on-demand publisher in German, VDM Verlag. They do not edit or submit the manuscripts they receive to scientific review. The book does not therefore have the same "weight" as a refereed scholarly publication, but publishing in this way offers me a good way of making my research and teaching notes on this ...
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THE SACRED SPACE OF THE ETHNOREGIONAL ALTAI CULTURES
Russian Studies in Culture and SocietyGoal. The article is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of the sacred (sacred, revered, especially significant) space of the «other world» of a Person - a representative of the ethnic group of the Greater Altai, where images and substantial ...
Vera S. Gorshkova
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios +7 more
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Sacred Spaces in a World of Movement
ReligionsIn the social sciences, the mobilities paradigm studies people in movement in contrast to a sedentary paradigm that treats dwelling as being at peace and at home.
Tianyin Xia
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2005 The topic presented in this paper addresses the methodology of researching the sacred space and place. Since religious believes represent one of the most important anthropological fields, also the sacred places represent a heterogeneous theme, much ...
Boštjan Kravanja
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