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Assessing the accuracy of field‐based versus laboratory methods for determining the age of roe deer

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Accurate age determination in roe deer Capreolus capreolus is essential for selective harvesting and informed population management, yet field‐based methods widely used by hunters remain imprecise. This study compared field‐based and laboratory age determination methods in 204 harvested roe deer, categorized by sex and habitat type (forest versus open ...
Michael Manton, Mantas Sablinka, Darius Hardalau, Gediminas Brazaitis, Ovidiu Ionescu   +4 more
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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

Variation in Soil Microbial Carbon Utilization Patterns Along a Forest Successional Series in a Degraded Wetland of the Sanjiang Plain

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The Sanjiang Plain hosts the largest freshwater wetland in Northeastern China and plays a critical role in regional climate stability. However, climate change and human activities have degraded the wetland, forming a successional gradient from the ...
Zhaorui Liu, Wenmiao Pu, Kaiquan Zhang, Rongze Luo, Xin Sui, Mai-He Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Brownfield Recovery as a Sustainable Economic Catalyst Through Repurposing, Circular Material Flows, and Community-Inclusive Urban Planning in Hazaribagh, Dhaka

Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs
This paper examines the sustainable viability of repurposing as a community-inclusive approach for brownfield recovery in Hazaribagh, Dhaka, a former leather-processing hub shaped by industrial relocation, environmental degradation, and top-down ...
Faizah, Shayer Ghafur, Dipannita Nandi
doaj   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source

River basins as socio-ecological systems: linking levels of societal and ecosystem metabolism in a Mediterranean watershed

, 2016
River basin modeling under complexity requires analytical frameworks capable of dealing with the multiple scales and dimensions of environmental problems as well as uncertainty in the evolution of social systems. Conceptual and methodological developments can now be framed using the wide socio-eco-hydrological approach. We add hierarchy theory into the
Cabello Villarejo, Violeta, Willaarts, Barbara A., Aguilar Alba, Mónica, Moral Ituarte, Leandro del   +3 more
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ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The operational municipal solid waste management policy focuses on identifying waste generation behavior across multiple levels in mega cities, a case study

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The results of an effort to create a thorough framework that efficiently arranges and combines quantitative data characterizing the performance of Urban Waste Management Systems (UWMS) across a range of scales and dimensions are presented in this study ...
Hamed Alimoradiyan, Ahmad Hajinezhad, Hossein Yousefi, Mario Giampietro   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source