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Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.Small mammal survey tools are needed at airports to help inform aircraft strike‐risk management. We evaluated thermal optics and tracking tunnels as small mammal survey tools. We conclude that thermal optics would not be a viable survey tool for mouse‐sized mammals (19‐41 g) at airfields and other thick grass habitats unless grass height was maintained
Aaron B. Shiels +4 more
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Organization Profile: Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons [PDF]
, 2010 The following article examines the Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons, which was created in March 2000. Since its inception, RECSA has provided its member states with support in the creation of National Focal Points on small-arms control and
JOURNAL, CISR
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that the current debate over defence spending in the United Kingdom is fundamentally flawed. Too much emphasis is being placed on preparing for a form of warfare with Russia that is unlikely to occur. As this article points out, the Russians actually want to avoid a traditional battlefield confrontation with NATO.
Rod Thornton
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Combating the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons: Enhancing Controls on Legal Transfers [PDF]
, 2001 YesA prerequisite for effective international action to prevent and combat the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons (SALW) is that states develop a common understanding of what constitutes the legal trade and therefore what is illicit .
Saferworld
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SMALL AND LIGHT WEAPONS PROLIFERATION, VIOLENT CRIMES, AND NATIONAL SECURITY [PDF]
, 2019 Small arms and light weapons are becoming endemic in Nigeria, and the rate of accumulation is increasing with their concomitant destabilizing effect. The thesis of this paper is to examine the role small and light weapons proliferation play in promoting ...
David, Ekong Imeh +1 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
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U.S. Policy on Small Arms and Light Weapons [PDF]
, 2018 This article reviews the development of U.S. policy on controlling the prolif- eration of small arms before, during, and after the 2001 United Nations Con- ference on the Illicit Trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects.
Bondì, Loretta
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Small Arms/Light Weapons and Physical Security in Misrata, Libya [PDF]
, 2012 During November 2011 DanChurchAid performed a small arms/light weapons field assessment in Misrata, Libya. In this article, DCA outlines this assessment and explains why SA/LW risk education is a valuable and appropriate response to this ...
Forbes, Adam
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Combating the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in small arms and light weapons
, 2023 Until quite recently, the threat of nuclear war and the proliferation of heavy weapons dominated the global security debate. However, since the beginning of the 1990s, the small arms and light weapons discourse has displaced the nuclear debate as the
Arabian, Lara S.
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