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2 April 2022
Sanctioning Tchaikovsky: Taking the War a Tad Too Far?
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31 March 2022
Incorporating economics into fishery policies: Developing integrated ecological-economics harvest control rules
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Publication date: June 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 196 Author(s): Renato Rosa, Tiago Costa, Rui Pedro Mota
30 March 2022
Uncovering well-being ecosystem services bundles (WEBs) under conditions of social-ecological change in Brazil
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This research examines the interplay of a 3-dimensional well-being approach of coastal communities and the ecosystem services upon which they depend, and the implications for marine protected area (MPA) governance. We use the concept of well-being ecosystem services bundles (WEBs) to refer to the links among ecosystem services and social well-being as experienced by fishing
30 March 2022
New Seed Bank to Support Agriculture of the Future
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A technician dressed to withstand the freezing temperatures holds a tray of seeds in the Seeds of the Future gene bank. The last phase of the process consists of storing the bags of classified seeds in a room with a temperature of -18 degrees Celsius, awaiting shipment to those interested in using them, from the
29 March 2022
South Sudan: Oil Underground, Blood on the Surface
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Widespread sexual violence against women and girls in conflict is being fueled by systemic impunity, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan reports. Credit: Jared Ferrie/IPS By Baher KamalMADRID, Mar 29 2022 (IPS) While several politicians -and media– have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan as a “civil war”
29 March 2022
Half of Tory backbench MPs have joined party’s green group
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Conservative Environment Network has 133 MPs in its ranks, while Net Zero Scrutiny Group has 19 publicly named members Half of Conservative backbench MPs are now in the party’s green group, after the former minister Jeremy Hunt announced he had joined. The Conservative Environment Network (Cen) now has 133 MPs, leading green-minded Tories to claim
29 March 2022
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean
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Worldwide climate change will influence the spatial distribution and status of exploited fish stocks, often in uncertain ways with cascading effects on the social-ecological systems depending on them. Likewise, changes in sociopolitical conditions influencing consumer demand, fuel, and fish prices may jeopardize the viability of fisheries. Predicting whether existing management systems can adapt to these
28 March 2022
Afghanistan’s Girls’ Education is a Women’s Rights Issue
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Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait, is welcomed by teachers and students at a girls’ primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan. Sherif led the first all-women UN mission to Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover to meet with the new de facto education authorities in October 2021. She has called on the de facto authorities to
27 March 2022
Property developers fight NSW bid to make houses more energy-efficient and climate-resilient
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Environmentalists call changes ‘everything you could ever dream about’ but industry says they ‘undermine the economics of delivering housing’ Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Property developers in New South Wales are fighting against the introduction of a wide-ranging planning policy aimed at ensuring houses are more energy-efficient and climate-resilient, which
26 March 2022
What caused the damage to Essex’s lovely Mersea Island
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The climate crisis is not the only factor in erosion of the coastline, as a history project has shown Mersea Island in Essex, which covers seven square miles, has beautiful scenery and rich history. In summer it is popular for holidays but is threatened by a combination of rising sea level and winter storms, which