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Farm animal genetic resources in agro ecosystem of north east India

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2019
North Eastern Region of India is the homeland of diverse animal genetic resources and representing a unique agro-ecosystem with integrated subsistence low input tribal production system where farm animals play an important role in improving the socio ...
G KADIRVEL, L ANANDAKUMAR SINGH, MOKIDUR RAHMAN, N MANORANJAN SINGH   +3 more
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Environment as cultural heritage: the Armenian diaspora's willingness-to-pay to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan [PDF]

This paper presents a study of willingness-to-pay of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan, a unique and precious symbol of the Armenian cultural heritage.
Meisner, Craig, Laplante, Benoit, Wang, Hua   +2 more
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Intangible Heritage and Local Development the Case of the Casbah of Algiers

Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
Intangible heritage occupies a central place in society as a witness to the traditions and customs handed down by previous generations. Beyond its cultural dimension, it is an essential means of reinforcing a sense of belonging, sustaining human ...
Necissa Yamina, Merzelkad Rym, Idir Massinissa   +2 more
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Increasing uptake of ecosystem service assessments: best practice check-lists for practitioners in Europe [PDF]

One Ecosystem
Aiming at understanding the role of plural values in decision-making, the IPBES Values Assessment defined nature valuation broadly as including biophysical, economic and socio-cultural assessments, including ecosystem service assessment. IPBES reviews of
David N. Barton, Bart Immerzeel, Luke Brander, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Jarumi Kato Huerta, Conor Kretsch, Solen Le Clech, Paula Rendón, Joana Seguin, Martha Arámbula Coyote, Javier Babí Almenar, Mario Balzan, Benjamin Burkhard, Claudia Carvalho-Santos, Davide Geneletti, Victoria Guisado Goñi, Elias Giannakis, Inge Liekens, Piotr Lupa, Gillian Ryan, Małgorzata Stępniewska, Eszter Tanács, Vince van ‘t Hoff, Franziska Walther, Christos Zoumides, Iwona Zwierzchowska, Ioanna Grammatikopoulou, Miguel Villosalda   +27 more
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Towards an integrated framework for understanding social-ecological interactions: nature’s contributions to people meets cultural ecosystem services

Ecosystems and People
The social and cultural elements of human interactions with nature remain among the least-studied and least understood elements of social-ecological systems.
Kim C. Zoeller, Graeme S. Cumming
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An Expression of Multiple Values: The Relationship Between Community, Landscape and Natural Resource

Rural Landscapes: Society Environment History, 2016
To aid political and institutional decision making in the sustainable use of natural resources the value of ecological, socio-cultural and economic assets has increasingly been communicated in terms of monetary units.
Darrell Smith, Ian Convery, Andrew Ramsey, Viktor Kouloumpis   +3 more
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Valuing conservation and socio-environmental services on an Amazon frontier: the Extractive Reserves of the Terra do Meio

Journal of Political Ecology
In the Brazilian Amazon, forest conservation has relied on the presence of 'traditional communities' and Indigenous peoples to secure legally demarcated protected areas from deforestation and biodiversity degradation. Facing pressures for land-use change
Augusto Postigo, Gabe Schwartzman, Roberto Rezende, Straatman Jeferson   +3 more
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Irish public service broadcasting : a contingent valuation analysis

, 2004
Irish public service broadcasting faces enhanced domestic and international competition and increasingly the Irish public service broadcaster (RTÉ) is being called upon to justify the scale of the television licence fee, its major source of funding. This
Delaney, Liam, O\u27Toole, Francis, O'Toole, Francis   +2 more
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Loving Cultural Heritage Private Individual Giving and Prosocial Behavior [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to analyse patterns of private individual giving to Cultural Heritage institutions in Italy. Based on the emerging economic literature on pro-social behavior, we carried out a Contingent Valuation survey to assess individuals ...
Giovanni Signorello, Enrico Bertacchini, Walter Santagata   +2 more
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A nobilitação urbana no Bairro Alto: análise de um processo de recomposição sócio-espacial [PDF]

Finisterra - Revista Portuguesa de Geografia, 2006
GENTRIFICATION IN BAIRRO ALTO: A SOCIO-SPATIAL RECOMPOSITION PROCESS ANALYSIS. The present-day phenomenon of gentrification must be contextualised in the profound economic changes which have been taking place in the urban spaces of capitalist western ...
Luís Mendes
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