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Crisis Preparation, Capacity Building, and Community Resilience: Lessons From Maui

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 Maui wildfires provide a unique context to explore the impact of nonprofit crisis networks taking a proactive role in community crisis response, leveraging resources, expertise, and networks. The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation (HCF) has been a key player in Maui's local response, providing critical support, mobilizing volunteers, and ...
Lauren Azevedo, Kaila Witkowski, Ratna Dougherty, Christa Remington   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Familiarity and aggression shape long‐term associations and mortality risk in a solitary ungulate

Oikos, EarlyView.
Periodic social interactions are important to animal fitness, even in solitary species. For solitary species, these interactions can be unexpected and shaped by previous encounters. Despite being aggressive and largely solitary, black rhinoceroses Diceros bicornis are commonly seen in groups, suggesting they may engage in more social behaviours than ...
Rachel M. Stein, Adrian M. Shrader
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Investigating conservation performance payments alongside human–wildlife conflicts: The Swedish lynx and wolverine protection policies

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, Thomas Hahn, Tobias Krueger, Dagmar Haase   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recreational land use contributes to the loss of marine biodiversity

People and Nature
Coastal areas are at the centre of human–nature relationship, shaped by recreation, tourism and aesthetic values. However, socioeconomic drivers of biodiversity change in coastal areas have received less attention. Soft sediment seafloors support diverse
Elina A. Virtanen, Niko Kallio, Marco Nurmi, Susanna Jernberg, Liisa Saikkonen, Louise Forsblom   +5 more
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More pumas (Puma concolor) does not change perceptions: The mismatched response of ranchers to the presence of a top carnivore

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Human‐wildlife conflicts (HWCs) are one of the most critical conservation challenges worldwide. Large carnivores are frequently at the centre of these conflicts because of the perceived and real threats they pose to livestock and human safety.
Esperanza C. Iranzo, Omar Ohrens, Cristina Mata, Juan Traba, Pablo Acebes, Benito A. González, Fernando R. Tortato, Rafael Hoogesteijn, Dania Goic, L. Mark Elbroch, Juan E. Malo   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le visits home dei soldati italo-americani durante la Campagna d’Italia (1943-1945). Tra turismo di guerra, homecoming e diaspora tourism

Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2018
During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers of Italian origin were enrolled in the US Armed Forces. Among those who fought in the Italian Campaign (1943-1945), many used their leaves to visit the country and its natural and ...
Francesco Fusi, si è laureato in Scienze Storiche presso l’Università di Firenze e ha conseguito il Dottorato di ricerca in Storia presso l’Università di Pisa. Tra i suoi principali ambiti di studio vi sono la storia politica ed elettorale dell’Italia contemporanea, l’antifascismo, la Resistenza e la Seconda guerra mondiale. Collabora e ha collaborato con l’Istituto Storico Toscano della Resistenza e dell’età contemporanea ed è vincitore del Franklin Research Grant (2017-2018) dell’American Philosophical Society di Philadelphia. Tra le sue ultime pubblicazioni: L’Italia centrale. Estate 1944 in FULVETTI, Gianluca, PEZZINO, Paolo (a cura di), Zone di Guerra, Geografie di Sangue. L’Atlante delle stragi naziste e fasciste in Italia (1943-1945), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017, pp. 267-280; (con PRETELLI, Marco), Fighting alongside the Allies in Italy: The War of Soldiers of Italian Descent against the Land of their Ancestors, in SICA, Emanuele, CARRIER, Richard (edited by), Italy and the Second World War: Alternative Perspectives, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp 299-324.
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Community and Resilience among Sherpas in the Post-Earthquake Everest Region [PDF]

, 2017
In this article, I examine how residents of the Mount Everest region of Nepal responded after two major earthquakes occurred on April 25th and May 12th, 2015.
Sherpa, Pasang Y
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A review of high nature value farming systems in Europe: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, drivers, innovations and future prospects

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Farming systems of high natural and cultural value represent approximately 30% of farmlands in the European Union and are associated with a high species and habitat diversity and/or the presence of species of European conservation concern. This study aims to synthesize the existing knowledge on the assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem ...
Elsa Varela, Marion Jay, Lukas Flinzberger, Chaima Mobarak, Tobias Plieninger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A “LITORALIZAÇÃO” DE CAMOCIM (CE) E O TERITÓRIO USADO DA PRAIA DE MACEIÓ - CE / THE “LITORALIZAÇÃO” OF CAMOCIM (CEARÁ STATE) AND THE USED TERRITORY OF THE MACEIO BEACH – CEARÁ STATE

Revista Geográfica Acadêmica, 2008
This article discusses the litoralização process in Camocim municipality (Ceará State). It focuses theactions aimed to develop the tourism in recent years. Maceio beach is a major locus of these actions thatturn the uses of the territory.
José Arilson
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Housing and Real Estate Trends among Americans Retiring in Mexico's Coastal Communities [PDF]

, 2010
For years, U.S. and Canadian retirees have flocked to Mexico as an alternative overseas retirement destination that was affordable, offered desirable weather and was close to their communities of origin in North America. These attributes have made Mexico
Anne McEnany, Richard Kiy
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