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Justice‐centred climate change education and territory

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In a globalised world, education faces challenges that go far beyond professional training, where social responsibility and the inclusion of heterogeneous communities and territories in all levels of education have become a greater focus of the university and of scientific research, setting the stage for more inclusive public policies. Greater
Lennin Florez‐Leiva, Meri Ruiz Cabezas, Cae Rodrigues, Ivan Sánchez Fontalvo   +3 more
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‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined teachers' perspectives on how children benefit from time in nature, how disadvantage shapes access and the role of schools in facilitating such access. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2022 with 25 UK primary school teachers who participated in Generation Wild, a nature connection programme for schools in economically ...
Nicola Parkin, Kersty Hobson, Wouter Poortinga, Mark Stead, Julia Newth, Jonathan Reeves, Merideth Gattis   +6 more
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Do Giant Pandas Prefer Steeper Habitats? A Case Study on Panda Spatial Utilization in the Qinling Mountains, China

Ecology and Evolution
Animal‐trace data from the Third and the Fourth National Giant Panda Survey in the four reserves in the Shaanxi Qinling Mountains (Laoxiancheng, Foping, Changqing, and Huangbaiyuan) suggested that giant pandas unexpectedly have a lower occurrence rate in
Chun Yang, Wanyu Wen, Yuhang Wang, Zhijiao Yang, Changcai Li, Simeng Yang, Xinyu Li, Minghao Gong   +7 more
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A Wetland Field Study [PDF]

The field projects at this site give students an opportunity to investigate a number of wetland characteristics firsthand: surveying wetland vegetation, soils, water quality and wildlife; documenting the wetland from an artist's perspective ...

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A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson, Ellen Wohl, Laura L. Govers, Oscar Franken, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Han Olff, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Maryann S. Watson, Luísa M.S. Borges, Tjisse van der Heide   +9 more
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Early evolutionary history of the seed

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman, Alan R. T. Spencer, Jason Hilton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Large emissions from floodplain trees close the Amazon methane budget [PDF]

, 2017
Wetlands are the largest global source of atmospheric methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas. However, methane emission inventories from the Amazon floodplain, the largest natural geographic source of CH4 in the tropics, consistently underestimate the ...
A Siegenthaler, AA Bloom, AA Bloom, AH Devol, AJ Webb, Alex Enrich-Prast, B Ringeval, C Frankenberg, C Frankenberg, C Wilson, Cassia Mônica Sakuragui, D Bastviken, David Bastviken, Edward R. C. Hornibrook, EM Latrubesse, Emanuel Gloor, F Keppler, GO Martinson, H Rusch, H Schaefer, HO Sawakuchi, Humberto Marotta, JB Miller, JM Melack, John Bharat Miller, KB Bartlett, L Belger, LL Hess, LL Hess, LS Santiago, Luana S. Basso, Luana Silva Braucks Calazans, Luciana V. Gatti, Olaf Malm, R Fisher, Roberta Bittencourt Peixoto, RR Draxler, S Kirschke, S Pitz, SR Pangala, SR Pangala, SR Pangala, Sunitha R. Pangala, Veronika Beck, Vincent Gauci, Wanderley Rodrigues Bastos, ZP Wang   +46 more
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From Ecosystem Threats to Balance Sheets: Biodiversity Risks Exposure and Corporate Cash Policies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how firms strategically respond to biodiversity risk by examining their cash holding decisions. Using firm‐level data from China, we find that firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure significantly increases corporate cash holdings.
Jing Hao, Ran Sun, Brian Lucey, Feng He, Andrew Urquhart   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal dynamics of complex ecological networks: Power-law scaling and implications for conservation planning [PDF]

, 2008
Spatial constraints on the topology of complex networks are just beginning to be appreciated, both theoretically and in concrete examples like the Internet and global air transportation network.
Christopher Wright
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Charting the Course: Real‐World Application of Sustainability and Innovation Principles in the Portuguese Blue Economy Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The blue economy has emerged as a key sector for linking sustainability and innovation, yet existing research has largely overlooked how firms operationalize these processes in practice. This study addresses that gap by asking: How do Portuguese blue economy firms embed sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI) into their strategies, and what ...
Jennifer Nicole Elston, Hugo Emanuel dos Reis Sales da Cruz Pinto, Carla Filipa Sequeira Valente Nogueira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source