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Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of risk aversion on whole-farm management in Syria [PDF]

open access: yes
This article reports on a study of the impact of risk on farm management practices in northern Syria, focusing particularly on how these are affected by risk aversion and farm size. The study is based on production data from an eight‐year field trial and
Pannell, David J., Nordblom, Thomas L.
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The union of Demeter with Zeus : agriculture and politics in modern Syria. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DX192018 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited ...
Whitaker, James Long, Whitaker, J.L
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Stabilising Routines in Complex Emergencies: How Basic Service Continuity Shapes Perceived Security

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how locally embedded actors describe the relationship between basic service continuity and perceived security in complex emergencies, with particular attention to the stabilisation of everyday routines. Using Proximity‐Predictability‐Attributability (PPA) as an analytic lens, we trace how interviewees relate access to water,
Abdullah Gökhan Yaşa, Orçun İmga
wiley   +1 more source

Coercive control in conflict: implications for Syria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In Coercive Control in Conflict: Implications for Syria, Joanne Hopkins explores how the concept of coercive control can be used to help us understand the continuum of violence experienced by men and women in the Syrian conflict.
Hopkins, Joanne
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Systemic bio‐inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity is declining globally while inequity is growing, and poverty rates are not improving. Global sustainable development and conservation initiatives aim to address biodiversity loss and poverty simultaneously. Through text analysis of global biodiversity policies, we identified a consistent narrative that countries with high ...
Conor Waldock   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Targeting Research for Enhanced Impact on Poverty in Marginal Areas: The Representative Case of the Dry Areas of Syria [PDF]

open access: yes
Agricultural research in marginal dry areas can contribute to reducing poverty through the development of technological, institutional and policy options for poor farmers by addressing diversified opportunities and development pathways.
La Rovere, Roberto, Aw-Hassan, Aden
core   +1 more source

Great power competition in Syria : from proxy war to sanctions war [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the latest phase in the Syrian conflict, roughly from 2015 to the current time, a period when agency has largely passed from Syrians to rival great powers which have become the ultimate shapers of developments, above all Russia and ...
Hinnebusch, Raymond
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Ingen trygg havn for palestinske flyktninger fra Syria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Ingen trygg havn for palestinske flyktninger Kjersti Berg En Palestinsk flyktning fra Syria kan ikke pa° lovlig vis søke trygghet over grensen i nabolandene. Hun møter stengte dører hvor hun vender seg.
Berg, Kjersti G.
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A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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