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Tropical Forests and Climate Change Mitigation: The Global Potential and Cases from the Philippines [PDF]

open access: yes
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC Fourth Assessment report has highlighted the role of tropical forests in mitigating climate change.
Rodel D. Lasco
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Climate justice and curriculum justice: Young people's accounts of schools' uneven responses to their climate justice activism

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The uneven ways in which climate change is taught (or not) within schools, and the uneven opportunities for students to experience justice‐oriented climate education, are curricular injustices. Recent systematic reviews of Climate Change Education literature note a depoliticising tendency in climate change education, with official curriculum ...
Eve Mayes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neonatal Thermoneutrality in a Tropical Climate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Sub-Saharan African countries are notably among the nations with high neonatal mortality (NNMR) and morbidity rates (WHO, 2009). A number of issues have been previously raised in the literature in attempt to define some of the factors that contribute to these such as level of illiteracy among mothers and short supply of healthcare workers (Amadi et al.,
openaire   +3 more sources

Pl@ntWood: A computer-assisted identification tool for 110 species of Amazon trees based on wood anatomy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
World interest in conservation of tropical forests has increased due to elevated rates of deforestation and climate change issues. Tropical forests are threatened by extensive agriculture and timber trade among other factors; thus, sustainable management
Bonnet, Pierre   +3 more
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Wetlands as environments of early human occupation: A new classification for freshwater palaeowetlands

open access: yesThe Depositional Record, EarlyView.
A new classification for inland freshwater palaeowetlands to be used in the field or core laboratory by sedimentologists, providing examples from the Guadix Basin (southern Spain). Abstract Present wetlands have proven to be delicate, biodiverse ecosystems, that are natural sinks for CO2 and act as good indicators for climate changes.
S. Pla‐Pueyo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prioritisation for adaptation in tropical forest ecosystems : Working paper n°44 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Under natural resource ecosystems shared across communities and nations, the distribution among stakeholders of risks and vulnerability to climate change is likely to be uneven on account of the nature of their stakes in the ecosystems, the degree of ...
Forner, Claudio   +6 more
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Fifty years of research on the Joulters ooid sandbody—Impact on carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis and lessons learned from an invaluable analogue

open access: yesThe Depositional Record, EarlyView.
The Joulters ooid sandbody of northern Great Bahama Bank is a vast expanse of muddy ooid sands partly rimmed by clean ooid sands and formed into a relatively thick layer of significant extent. Knowledge of the development of depositional and diagenetic patterns in the Joulters example has forwarded our general understanding of carbonate sedimentology ...
Harris Paul
wiley   +1 more source

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