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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
wiley   +1 more source

Digital fire technologies and community networks: Cultivating just sociotechnical practices for living with planetary change

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Fires are expanding in frequency and intensity worldwide due to climate change and land‐use transformations. At the same time, fire often plays a regenerative role in ecosystems. Traditional and cultural practices incorporate fire use for landscape management and landscape renewal. In this complex matrix of fire ecologies, digital technologies
Jennifer Gabrys   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sphere sovereignty, solidarity and subsidiarity

open access: yes, 2016
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/tcwet/tcwet_v49_n3_a4 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Emergent media narratives on land conflicts in a global biocultural diversity hotspot

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Land conflicts (LCs) represent major challenges in regions where limited resources are contested by diverse actors. The triple frontier of the bioculturally diverse Alto Paraná Atlantic Forests (APAF) ecoregion concentrates some of the most intense LCs in South America.
Alberto Anticoli   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The monster in the backyard: A cultural analysis of wolf conflict in the American West

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Conflict between people and large carnivores remains among the most persistent problems in conservation, threatening carnivore populations and the communities that live alongside them. Decades of technical and financial research and intervention, from livestock protection tools to compensation programs, have not resolved these conflicts ...
Alex McInturff, Michael L. McInturff
wiley   +1 more source

Plants, people and their shared heritage: A comparative medicinal and wild food ethnobotany of Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians living in the Gjirokaster area, southern Albania

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Traditional knowledge about wild plants connects people to nature and sustains both cultural identity and biodiversity. This study explores how cultural exchange among Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in southern Albania shapes the use and naming of medicinal and food plants.
Evanthia Dina   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Scalable Large Language Model‐Aided Approach for Mining Plant‐Compound Pairs From Scientific Literature

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Understanding plant chemicals is vital for medicine and agriculture, but global data remain fragmented and biased. We developed an AI‐powered tool to automatically extract plant‐compound information from scientific literature at scale and low cost. Our analysis revealed significant knowledge gaps, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. By efficiently
Adam Richard‐Bollans, Francesco Civita
wiley   +1 more source

Vulnerability to Dams of the Last Undammed Large Rivers of Southeast Asia

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The vast majority of large Eurasian rivers are regulated by hydropower dams, but some have survived as free‐flowing rivers so far in the Arctic and along stretches of the Myanmar coast. There, the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) and Salween Rivers, two of the largest rivers of Southeast Asia, provide a huge amount of sediment, nurturing floodplains and
Gruel Charles‐Robin   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonization Processes in User-Generated Content on Ukrainian YouTube During the Russo-Ukrainian War

open access: yesSprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa
This article investigates the processes of cultural decolonization in the Ukrainian YouTube sphere, positioning user-generated content as a significant site of resistance against imperial epistemologies and colonial narratives.
Olha Tkachenko
doaj   +1 more source

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