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The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 459-477, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Social innovations are grassroots processes aiming to achieve impacts beyond an individual level and towards a broader societal good. The environmental dimension of impacts refers to any direct change to the environment resulting from social innovation activities, products, or services, which are not addressed by pre‐existing systems.
Valentino Marini Govigli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Space technology: A powerful tool for safeguarding world heritage. [PDF]

open access: yesInnovation (Camb), 2023
Luo L   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Earthquake scenarios and seismic input for cultural heritage: applications to the cities of Rome and Florence [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2015
For historical buildings and monuments, i.e. when considering time intervals of about a million year (we do not want to loose cultural heritage), the applicability of standard estimates of seismic hazard is really questionable. A viable alternative is represented by the use of the scenario earthquakes, characterized at least in terms of magnitude ...
arxiv  

Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 520-531, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Mitigating climate change, preventing mass species extinctions, improving rural livelihoods, and disaster risk reduction are among today's most urgent challenges. To meet these challenges, a large number of social actors need to agree to engage and act collectively on Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR), ensuring its dual goal of restoring ...
Aurélio Padovezi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of Stone Deterioration Patterns with Large Multimodal Models [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
The conservation of stone-based cultural heritage sites is a critical concern for preserving cultural and historical landmarks. With the advent of Large Multimodal Models, as GPT-4omni (OpenAI), Claude 3 Opus (Anthropic) and Gemini 1.5 Pro (Google), it is becoming increasingly important to define the operational capabilities of these models.
arxiv  

Connected Belonging: A relational and identity‐based approach to schools' role in promoting child wellbeing

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With levels of mental health difficulties among young people rising and policymakers focusing on the state's role in promoting young people's wellbeing, educational institutions have become positioned on the front line as key sites to identify and implement wellbeing interventions.
Ceri Brown   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phenotypic diversity in early Australian dingoes revealed by traditional and 3D geometric morphometric analysis

open access: yesScientific Reports
The dingo is a wild dog endemic to Australia with enigmatic origins. Dingoes are one of two remaining unadmixed populations of an early East Asian dog lineage, the other being wild dogs from the New Guinea highlands, but morphological connections between
Loukas G. Koungoulos   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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