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Cultivating Sustainable Coffee: Persistent Paradoxes [PDF]
, 2008 This chapter discusses the relationship and interconnections among changing the livelihoods of farmers, initiatives for sustainable coffee, and the production of shade-grown coffee.
Bacon, Christopher M. +2 more
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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The Predictive Power of Interest Rates Spread for Economic Activity [PDF]
Since the 1980s, economists argued that the spread between the long-and short-term interest rates is a good predictor of future economic activity. Developing Estrella (2006) study, I investigate the ability of the interest rate spread to predict USA and ...
Raffaele Passaro
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The collective application of shorebird tracking data to conservation
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Addressing urgent conservation issues, such as the drastic declines of North American migratory birds, requires creative, evidence‐based, efficient, and collaborative approaches. The abundance of over 50% of monitored North American shorebird populations has declined by over 50% since 1980. To address these declines, we developed a partnership
Autumn‐Lynn Harrison +71 more
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Effects of political identity activation and inaccurate metaperceptions on attitudes toward wolves
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Polarization between groups can undermine durable conservation outcomes. Activating group identities (i.e., an individual's sense of self derived from membership in a group) can exacerbate differences, especially when people hold inaccurate perceptions of their peers and rivals.
Alexander L. Metcalf, Justin W. Angle
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Contested meanings: The Italian media and the UltraS [PDF]
, 2010 Despite their presence in Italian football stadiums, the UltraS have been the subject of limited empirical research. I use the capital S to identify neo-fascist oriented fans to distinguish them from the wider football supporters ultra’ (Testa and ...
Testa, A
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Achieving global conservation policy goals requires the ability to set and measure progress toward science‐based targets for biodiversity. The species threat abatement and restoration (STAR) metric was developed to enable actors to set science‐based targets for species.
Louise Mair +17 more
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Decentralization of territorial policy in Italy - the coherence with the model of multi-level governance and the effects on responsibilities of public spending [PDF]
The past twenty years have seen the communitarian system of multi level governance (MLG) being established as a model of territorial policies governance.
Bagarani, Massimo +2 more
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Is Europe Cascading into Fascism?: Addressing Key Concepts including Gender and Violence [PDF]
, 2018 Is Europe cascading into fascism? The answer to this question matters for understanding the opposition to gender equality projects in Europe. The article addresses some of the key concepts needed to answer this question.
Walby, S.
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