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Green Cities, The Search For Sustainability, And Urban Environmental History, Christopher Wells May 2014

Green Cities, The Search For Sustainability, And Urban Environmental History, Christopher Wells

Christopher W. Wells

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Danwei System In China And Its Impact On The Daily Life Of Urban Residents After Reform, Luo Li Apr 2014

Danwei System In China And Its Impact On The Daily Life Of Urban Residents After Reform, Luo Li

Luo Li

Danwei system is a very unique phenomenon in China’s urban areas.There is no doubt that set up after the establishment of new China, danwei exerted its social function strongly. It is not only being the tool for national integration, but easing the pressure of unemployment and providing social welfare as well. However, there were few researches on Chinese danwei system. People lived and worked in danwei and took the system as granted. With the penetration of reform, the traditional structure of danwei has been profoundly changed, so do the political and social functions,Meanwhile, increasing number of scholars began to realize …


Copyright And Inequality, Lea Shaver Feb 2014

Copyright And Inequality, Lea Shaver

Lea Shaver

The prevailing theory of copyright law imagines a marketplace efficiently serving up new works to an undifferentiated world of consumers. Yet the reality is that all consumers are not equal. The majority of the world’s people experience copyright law not as a boon to consumer choice, but as a barrier to acquiring knowledge and taking part in cultural life. The resulting patterns of privilege and disadvantage, moreover, reinforce and perpetuate preexisting social divides. Class and culture combine to explain who wins, and who loses, from copyright protection. Along the dimension of class, the insight is that just because new works …


Long-Term Ecological Study Of The Ogeechee River Flood Plain, S. Jeffrey Underwood, John T. Van Stan Ii, James S. Reichard, Jacque Kelly, Wei Tu, Douglas P. Aubrey Jan 2014

Long-Term Ecological Study Of The Ogeechee River Flood Plain, S. Jeffrey Underwood, John T. Van Stan Ii, James S. Reichard, Jacque Kelly, Wei Tu, Douglas P. Aubrey

John T. Van Stan II

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Changing Climate And The Altitudinal Range Of Avian Malaria In The Hawaiian Islands – An Ongoing Conservation Crisis On The Island Of Kaua`I, Carter T. Atkonson, Ruth B. Utzurrum, Dennis A. Lapointe, Richard J. Camp, Lisa H. Crampton, Jeffrey T. Foster, Thomas W. Giambelluca Jan 2014

Changing Climate And The Altitudinal Range Of Avian Malaria In The Hawaiian Islands – An Ongoing Conservation Crisis On The Island Of Kaua`I, Carter T. Atkonson, Ruth B. Utzurrum, Dennis A. Lapointe, Richard J. Camp, Lisa H. Crampton, Jeffrey T. Foster, Thomas W. Giambelluca

Richard J. Camp

Transmission of avian malaria in the Hawaiian Islands varies across altitudinal gradients and is greatest at elevations below 1500 m where both temperature and moisture are favorable for the sole mosquito vector, Culex quinquefasciatus, and extrinsic sporogonic development of the parasite, Plasmodium relictum. Potential consequences of global warming on this system have been recognized for over a decade with concerns that increases in mean temperatures could lead to expansion of malaria into habitats where cool temperatures currently limit transmission to highly susceptible endemic forest birds. Recent declines in two endangered species on the island of Kaua’i, the ‘Akikiki (Oreomystis bairdi) …


The Cumulative Effects Of Management On The Population Dynamics Of The Double-Crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax Auritus In The Great Lakes, Alban Guillaumet, Brian S. Dorr, Guiming Wang, Terry J. Doyle Jan 2014

The Cumulative Effects Of Management On The Population Dynamics Of The Double-Crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax Auritus In The Great Lakes, Alban Guillaumet, Brian S. Dorr, Guiming Wang, Terry J. Doyle

Brian S Dorr

Wildlife species have been subject to control efforts throughout human history due to real or alleged human–wildlife conflicts. The Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus in the interior of North America is no exception, with recent population growth leading to increased conflicts and consequently the development of many control programmes. These control programmes are usually conducted at local scales, often with little or no effort to assess their cumulative effects at the population level. We attempted the first comprehensive assessment of the cumulative effects of control at various spatio-temporal scales, focusing on 199 colonies of Double-crested Cormorant monitored during a 29-year period. …


Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis And Ecosystem Processes: Prospects For Future Research In Tropical Soils, Geofrey Soka, Mark Ritchie Jan 2014

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis And Ecosystem Processes: Prospects For Future Research In Tropical Soils, Geofrey Soka, Mark Ritchie

Geofrey Soka

No abstract provided.


Geoecology, Nishanta Rajakaruna, S. Boyd Jan 2014

Geoecology, Nishanta Rajakaruna, S. Boyd

Nishanta Rajakaruna

No abstract provided.