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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land degradation is a critical global challenge, threatening biodiversity, food security, and livelihoods. Ecological restoration has therefore become a priority, with aerial seeding emerging as a key method to address issues of scale, accessibility, and efficiency. By dispersing seeds from aircraft or drones, aerial seeding complements ground‐
James Maua +4 more
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Does Fit Always Fit? The Paradox of Brand–Cause Misfit and Authenticity
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Brand–cause research generally treats coherence between a brand and a social cause as a prerequisite for authenticity, leaving unexplained why some moderately misfitting initiatives are judged more authentic than expected. We develop a paradox‐based process account in which authenticity arises not only from coherence but also from consumers ...
Christina Papadopoulou +2 more
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Onboarding and Agency: Responding to Episodic Loneliness in Immersive Services
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Loneliness is a growing concern in long‐duration immersive services, where consumers not only transition into the service but also experience multiple identity transitions and life events while in the service. We argue that loneliness in these settings emerges not only as a chronic experience from a lack of social opportunities, but also ...
Alexandra Zimbatu +3 more
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Conceptualizing the Street‐Level Bureaucrat Construct
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Differences among street‐level bureaucrats—across professions, institutional settings, regions, and countries—are largely overlooked in research. We propose conceptualizing the street‐level bureaucrat construct as a general variable that varies across institutional settings, professions, cultures, times, and locations. We analyze variations in
Faisal S. Cheema +3 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover while also maximising the benefits of forests for people and improving community engagement with the process of ...
Sarah Greenwood +6 more
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Identifying Social Factors Affecting Social and Cultural Alienation among Students Case Study of Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch [PDF]
مسائل اجتماعی ایران, 2018 This study aimed to investigate the social and cultural alienation among students of Islamic Azad University of Sanandaj. Alienation generally means negative orientation of conflicted feelings, feeling of meaninglessness, feeling of being withdrawn from ...
Jamal Adhami
doaj
The role of community‐level institutions in smallholder land restoration
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This review focuses on the role of community‐level institutions in the adoption of land restoration practices by smallholder farmers. Based on a systematic review of 72 peer‐reviewed articles from 33 low‐ and middle‐income countries, the review synthesizes recent empirical evidence on the various roles these institutions play in supporting ...
Daniel Wiegant, Soumya Balasubramanya
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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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Networked communities: an answer to urban alienation? [PDF]
, 2005 Marcus Foth considers whether communication technologies can reduce urban ...
Foth, Marcus
core
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Ecological restoration is an ongoing relational process involving interconnected reciprocal social and biophysical interactions that shift and change over time and space. Conceptual literature proposes that placemaking can deepen and enhance the understanding and implementation of social‐ecological restoration processes as part of broader ...
Ancois de Villiers +3 more
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