Awareness-making (AM) describes a process by which visitors bring with them past experiences and knowledge, all of which help them make sense of museum exhibits. Meaning-making (MM) is when museum visitors' memories transform their museum experience into new knowledge and meaning. This article...
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O'Connor, M. C.; Nelson, K. C.; Pradhananga, A.; Earnest, M. E.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Museum Education, 2020, 45, 2, pp 187-199
The conservation of species at-risk has involved a wide range of recovery methods including population augmentation. Yet, there has been little formal evaluation of the efficacy of this potentially high risk and expensive approach. In the late 1990s, 32 mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)...
Author(s)
Grant, L.; Johnson, C.; Thiessen, C.
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Biodiversity and Conservation, 2019, 28, 10, pp 2727-2743
The Dividalen (Sami: Dieváidvuovdi) valley in Troms county, North Norway, is well known for its old-growth pine forest, a biodiversity hotspot for dead wood-inhabiting fungi and lichens. The majority of the valley is protected within the Upper Dividalen Landscape Conservation Area and National...
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Sjögren, P.; Kirchhefer, A. J.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, UK
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International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services and Management, 2012, 8, 4, pp 338-350
The aim of this paper is to explore some of the theoretical aspects of measuring welfare in an economy with cultural and natural resources using a simple dynamic growth model. We use the concept of a social accounting matrix (SAM) to illustrate how the addition of income flows and net changes of...
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Lundgren, T.; Bostedt, G.
Publisher
Institutionen för Skogsekonomi (Department of Forest Economics), Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, Umeå, Sweden
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Arbetsrapport - Institutionen för Skogsekonomi, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, 2008, No.365, pp 20 pp.
The First Nations Gwich'in community of Tetlit Zheh in the Northwest Territories of Canada has been undergoing a nutrition transition. Studies conducted in the mid-1990s indicated that the majority of the Gwich'in diet consisted of store-bought (market) food, a high proportion of which was...
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Kuhnlein, H. V.; Goodman, L.; Receveur, O.; Spigelski, D.; Duran, N.; Harrison, G. G.; Erasmus, B.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
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Indigenous peoples' food systems and well-being: interventions and policies for healthy communities, 2013, pp 101-120
Density of Sika deer has increased in Japan since the 1970s, and it has caused serious damage to agriculture and forestry since the 1980s. We studied the relationships between Sika deer density, hunting pressure and damage to agriculture in Hyogo Prefecture in 1999-2000. To ascertain the...
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Sakata, H.; Hamasaki, S.; Kishimoto, M.; Mitsuhashi, H.; Mitsuhashi, A.; Yokoyama, M.; Mitani, M.
Publisher
Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan
Citation
Humans and Nature, 2001, No.12, pp 63-72
Predation risk is an important factor influencing the distribution of ungulates and their impact on forest structure. However, simultaneous predation risk by wolves and humans is rarely considered in the analyses of habitat selection by ungulates. We counted ungulate pellets on transects to analyse ...
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Theuerkauf, J.; Rouys, S.
Publisher
Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Forest Ecology and Management, 2008, 256, 6, pp 1325-1332
Tick ecologists throughout Europe provided descriptions of Lyme borreliosis habitats according to a standardised format and data for 105 habitats in 16 countries were received. The data showed that high risk situations, as defined by the presence of large numbers of Borrelia burgdorferi...
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Gray, J. S.; Kahl, O.; Robertson, J. N.; Daniel, M.; Estrada-Peña, A.; Gettinby, G.; Jaenson, T. G. T.; Jensen, P.; Jongejan, F.; Korenberg, E.; Kurtenbach, K.; Zeman, P.
Citation
Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, 1998, 287, 3, pp 211-228