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How to Navigate through the Strong Wakes of Geography and Not Sink along the Way. Lessions Drawn from Maurício Abreu

open access: yesEspaço Aberto, 2012
The aim of this text is to recover the essential features of the academic careerof Mauricio de Almeida Abreu, as professor and researcher, within the changing currents of Geography that faced our generation and the research options he chose. Profound and sagacious lessons are available for both new researchers and old concerning how geographical ...
Iná Elias de Castro
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Social Capital and Social Capacity in Rural Ecotourism Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The participation of rural people in ecotourism activity remains the question, whether they genuinely carry the vision of conservation or are forced to engage in meeting economic needs only.
Yuniar, Hefifa Rhesa   +4 more
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Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]) is increasing, which increases leaf‐scale photosynthesis and intrinsic water‐use efficiency. These direct responses have the potential to increase plant growth, vegetation biomass, and soil organic matter;
Anderson‐Teixeira, KJ   +289 more
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Community forestry dominates the recent land greening amid climate change in Nepal

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2023
The Himalaya Plateau including Nepal is ‘greening up’ that has important implications to ecosystem services such as water supply, carbon sequestration, and local livelihoods.
Shenshen Gao, Lang Wang, Lu Hao, Ge Sun
doaj   +1 more source

Geographical Studies on Human Trafficking in China: Progress Review and Governance Implications

open access: yesRedai dili, 2022
The crime of human trafficking is an abnormal (involuntary, passive) phenomenon of population migration (disappearance, persecution); it has attracted great attention from the public and academic community because of its resultant social harm and far ...
Li Gang, Yu Yue, Zhou Junjun, Jin An'nan
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Co-evolution

open access: yesRi-vista: Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio, 2023
The term co-evolution forces us to reflect on the transformation of the meaning of some terms, linked to the profound changes of our time and very relevant for the design disciplines. Starting from the role that some relational models have had within the
Lucina Caravaggi
doaj   +1 more source

The distribution and amount of carbon in the largest peatland complex in Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This work was funded by NERC grants NE/I021217/1 and NE/J50001X/1.Peatlands in Amazonian Peru are known to store large quantities of carbon, but there is high uncertainty in the spatial extent and total carbon stocks of these ecosystems.
Draper, FC   +35 more
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Discussions on the disciplinary system of modern karstology

open access: yesCarsologica Sinica, 2022
As an important part of modern earth science, karstology (karst science) has always been considered as a cross and marginal discipline between geology, geography, environmental science and ecology, but has not established its own independent discipline ...
Junbing PU
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The fusion of multiple scale data indicates that the carbon sink function of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is substantial

open access: yesCarbon Balance and Management, 2023
Background The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the “sensitive area” of climate change, and also the “driver” and “amplifier” of global change. The response and feedback of its carbon dynamics to climate change will significantly affect the content of greenhouse
Jingyu Zeng   +8 more
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Recent divergence in the contributions of tropical and boreal forests to the terrestrial carbon sink [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes (LULCC) have a large impact on the global terrestrial carbon sink, but this effect is not well characterized according to biogeographical region.
Tagesson, Torbern   +13 more
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