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Tropical Forests and Sustainability: The Role of Multilateral Financing in Latin America

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The challenge of slowing deforestation and degradation in the tropical regions of Latin America requires financing mechanisms (public and private) that can enable actions to preserve and sustainably manage forest integrity. This paper begins by examining the strategy implemented by the World Bank to protect forest cover in tropical countries ...
Ángela Andrea Caviedes Conde, Encarnación Moral Pajares, Leticia Gallego Valero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Avian hissing sounds: occurrence, mechanism, ontogeny, function and phylogeny. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Thys B, Eens M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Fair and Equitable Land Access (FELA) by Development Projects: Enhancing Governance for Sustainable Development Outcomes When Projects Displace People

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth, Susanna Price, Frank Vanclay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alternative social and reproductive niches linked to intra-sexual color variation in a facultatively protogynous North American annual killifish, Millerichthys robustus. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Domínguez-Castanedo O, Reichard M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Evaluating the Role of Social Capital for the Design of Sustainable River Governance Strategies: The Case of Tagus River

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of social capital in designing and implementing more effective governance strategies to improve the state of the Tagus River's significantly deteriorated middle reach (Spain). We employed social network analysis (SNA) to evaluate the bonding, bridging and linking social capital and the quality of stakeholder ...
Leticia Blázquez, Juan A. García, José M. Bodoque   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Qualitative assessment of combat-related injury patterns and injury prevention in Ukraine since the Russian invasion. [PDF]

BMJ Mil Health
Lawry LL, Mani V, Hamm TE, Janvrin M, Juman L, Korona-Bailey J, Maddox J, Berezyuk O, Schoenfeld AJ, Koehlmoos TP.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Perspectives on Climate Change in Education for Sustainability: Linking Concepts and Skills for a Practical Ecological Transition

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Hard’ natural sciences have extensively been used to provide evidence that climate change is happening and climate action is needed. If the contribution of our economic activities to disturbing our climate systems is now largely accepted, the way in which we design and operationalise ‘climate action’—how we transition to more sustainable ...
Sandrine Simon
wiley   +1 more source

Dingo movement depends on sex, social status and litter size. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Alting BF, Pitcher BJ, Campbell-Ward M, Jordan NR.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Policy statement of the government of the Czech Republic [PDF]

, 1998
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Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source