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Women and forestry : operational issues [PDF]

open access: yes
Women are major actors in forestry throughout the developing world. Women and children are the primary collectors of fuel and fodder for home consumption and for sale to urban markets.
Molnar, Augusta, Schreiber, Gotz
core  

The flexible, the stereotyped and the in‐between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherited tool use specialisation can exhibit flexibility, while tool use that is spontaneously innovated can be limited in its expression and facilitated
Jennifer A. D. Colbourne   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do You See the Forest for All the Trees?

open access: yesSpool
Recent sustainability agendas come with the dual mission of responding to climate change and the loss of biodiversity. One strong trend is the increase in the number of trees in urban environments, initiatives often agglomerated under the label of urban
Caroline Dahl, Dennis Andreasson
doaj   +1 more source

Literature review of the remote sensing of natural resources [PDF]

open access: yes
s of 596 documents related to remote sensors or the remote sensing of natural resources by satellite, aircraft, or ground-based stations are presented.
Fears, C. B., Inglis, M. H.
core   +1 more source

Creating a Northern Agriculture. V. An Agroeuthenics Approach to Development in Alaska. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1976
Grateful acknowledgment is extended to Dr. A. L. Brundage, Chairman of the Publications Committee, for drawing the flow charts in this publication.The growing national concern for a better environment and more rewarding life-style is being reflected ...
Burton, Wayne E.
core  

A sustainable requalification of Bracciano lake waterfront in Trevignano Romano [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper describes the first interventions carried out in accordance with the results of the three years bilateral research SoURCE (Sustainable Urban Cell) performed by CITERA (Inter department Centre for Territory, Building, Conservation and ...
ASTIASO GARCIA, Davide   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic change and employment in the Central North Island, 1986-1996 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This paper examines some dimensions of demographic and economic change in a region which is generally considered to be one of the most productive and affluent parts of New Zealand’s “heartland”.
Bedford, Richard   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The economic performance of urban gardening in three European cities – examples from Ljubljana, Milan and London [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Urban gardening is not a new phenomenon but it has received considerably more practical and academic interest in recent years. Studies on economic aspects such as crop yields, inputs and outputs of production, productivity, gross margins and the ...
Corsi, Stefano   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

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