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A Generic Approach to Creating a National Soil Security Strategy

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil is a living and non‐renewable resource that underpins our very existence. It produces our food, filters our water, stores vast amounts of carbon, cycles essential nutrients, and sustains the rich tapestry of biodiversity on which our planet depends.
Alex McBratney   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Governance Arrangements Shape Community Empowerment in Rural Ecotourism? Evidence From Wuyuan, China

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how governance arrangements shape community empowerment in rural ecotourism in China. Drawing on the six dimensions of the community empowerment framework (CEF), the study analyses qualitative data from semi‐structured interviews with 30 villagers across four ecotourism‐oriented cases in Wuyuan.
Huihui Liu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

High Ancient Genetic Diversity of Human Lice, Pediculus humanus, from Israel Reveals New Insights into the Origin of Clade B Lice. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2016
Amanzougaghene N   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Global Forestation Network: Orchestrating the Financing and Development of Tree Planting Programs

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces the ‘global forestation network’ (GFN)—an arrangement of actors that shape afforestation, reforestation, and forest restoration activities worldwide. These activities typically involve planting trees, and are motivated by supporting biodiversity, local communities, and climate change mitigation. At the GFN's core sit the ‘
Benjamin S. Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

A Bayesian Spatial Disaggregation Approach for Fine‐Scale Mapping of Water Access Disparities

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access to clean water remains a critical challenge for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. While national statistics agencies report water access at coarse municipal scales, this data obscure critical hotspots where vulnerable populations lack essential services.
Ivan Lizarazo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investing Aura: Making Value at an Emirati Art Center

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines the politics and processes of establishing value for artworks, highlighting the continued belief in Walter Benjamin's idea of aura and describing the value aura generates as “auratic value.” Focusing on an artist residency program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the country's arts boom, I analyze contestations ...
Beth Derderian
wiley   +1 more source

Bias Polarity Switching (BiPS): A Transient Method for Probing Interfacial Carrier Dynamics

open access: yesSmall Methods, EarlyView.
Bias Polarity Switching combines optical excitation with rapid bias reversal to probe near‐interface carrier accumulation, trapping, detrapping, and extraction together with bulk carrier transport. The method provides access to defect kinetics and contact‐related transport processes, offering a complementary approach for investigating semiconductor ...
Marián Betušiak   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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