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Ethnobiology in the City: Embracing the Urban Ecological Moment
More than half the world's human population resides in cities (United Nations Economic and Social Affairs Population Division 2015). Unpacking this singular statistic, it becomes clear that people come to live in urban...
ethnobiology urban environments Cities Biota ecosystems ethnobiologists Demography, Population, and Ecology Environmental Studies Human Geography Nature and Society Relations Place and Environment Urban Studies and Planning
Published by: Ursinus College
Trinucleate uterine epithelial cells as evidence for White-tail Deer trophoblast binucleate cell migration and as markers of placental binucleate cell dynamics in a variety of wild ruminants.
INTRODUCTION: The unicellular trophoblast epithelium of all ruminants so far investigated contains 15-20% binucleate cells with numerous secretory granules. Electron microscope (EM) studies of the domesticated cow, ewe, goat and...
Whose Sense of Place? A Political Ecology of Amenity Development
Patrick T. Hurley
Jan 01, 0001
Using a political ecology framework, this chapter examines the ways in which sense of place and amenity migration contribute to alternative residential development, which relies on uneven use of conservation subdivision features...
exurbanization amenity migration land use trends residential development Environmental Management American West Oregon Wasco County Deschutes County Environmental Studies Nature and Society Relations Other Political Science Place and Environment Urban Studies and Planning
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Saying "No" to (the) Oxygen Capital? Amenity Migration, Counter-territorialization, and Uneven Rural Landscape Change in the Kaz Da?lar? (Ida Mountains) of Western Turkey
Diverse forms of conservation and development are transforming the material landscapes and related livelihoods of communities in rural places around the world. While many studies focus on changing protected area governance and...
amenity migration exurban political ecology reterritorialization counter-territorialization Kaz Da?? National Park Turkey Environmental Studies Nature and Society Relations Sociology of Culture tourism urban studies Urban Studies and Planning
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Locating Provisioning Ecosystem Services in Urban Forests: Forageable Woody Species in New York City, USA
Scholarship on the ecosystem services provided by urban forests has focused on regulating and supporting services, with a growing body of research examining provisioning and cultural ecosystem services from farms and gardens in...
Provisioning ecosystem services urban green infrastructure urban foraging non-timber forest products urban nature Environmental Studies Food Studies Geographic Information Sciences Nature and Society Relations Urban Studies and Planning
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Amenity Migration, Exurbia, and Emerging Rural Landscapes: Global Natural Amenity as Place and as Process
landscape change land use trends exurbanization residential mobility globalization landscape ideology Environmental Policy Environmental Studies Nature and Society Relations Other Political Science Place and Environment Urban Studies and Planning
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Urban Forest Justice and the Rights to Wild Foods, Medicines, and Materials in the City
Urban forests are multifunctional socio-ecological landscapes, yet some of their social benefits remain poorly understood. This paper draws on ethnographic evidence from Seattle, Washington to demonstrate that urban forests...
urban foraging forest justice framework urban ecosystems NTFPs nontimber forest product social benefits Seattle Political ecology health justice food justice Demography, Population, and Ecology Environmental Policy Environmental Studies Nature and Society Relations Other Political Science Place and Environment Urban Studies and Planning
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Gathering, Buying, and Growing Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea): Urbanization and Social Networking in the Sweetgrass Basket-Making Industry of Lowcountry South Carolina
Despite the visibility of natural resource use and access for indigenous and rural peoples elsewhere, less attention is paid to the ways that development patterns interrupt nontimber forest products (NTFPs) and gathering...
African American ethnobotany nontimber forest products suburban natural resource use North American political ecology Mt. Pleasant South Carolina kinship supply chains African American Studies American Material Culture Environmental Studies Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Natural Resource Economics Natural Resources Management and Policy Nature and Society Relations Other Political Science Place and Environment Regional Sociology Urban Studies and Planning
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Urban Foraging and the Relational Ecologies of Belonging
Through a discussion of urban foraging in Seattle, Washington, USA, we examine how people's plant and mushroom harvesting practices in cities are linked to relationships with species, spaces, and ecologies. Bringing a relational...
urban foraging Belonging more-than-human geography nature-society relations Political ecology Seattle Environmental Sciences Environmental Studies Human Geography Nature and Society Relations Other Political Science Regional Sociology Sociology of Culture sustainability Urban Studies and Planning
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Gathering "Wild" Food in the City: Rethinking the Role of Foraging in Urban Ecosystem Planning and Management
Recent "green" planning initiatives envision food production, including urban agriculture and livestock production, as desirable elements of sustainable cities. We use an integrated urban political ecology and human-plant...
human-plant geographies non-timber forest products sustainability urban forestry Urban political ecology museumification Peri-urban NTFP Environmental Sciences Environmental Studies Human Geography Nature and Society Relations Other Political Science sustainability Urban Studies and Planning
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Characterization of co-circulating swine influenza A viruses in North America and the identification of a novel H1 genetic clade with antigenic significance.
Tavis K Anderson, Brian A Campbell, Martha I Nelson, Nicola S Lewis, Alicia Janas-Martindale, Mary Lea Killian, Amy L Vincent
Jun 02, 2015
Antigenic drift EPIDEMIOLOGY Influenza A virus Swine vaccines Zoonotic diseases Animals Cluster Analysis genetic variation Genotype Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins Influenza Virus Influenza A virus molecular epidemiology North America Orthomyxoviridae Infections Phylogeny RNA Viral Sequence Analysis DNA Sequence Homology Swine Swine Diseases
Resistant Place Identities in Rural Charleston County, South Carolina: Cultural, Environmental, and Racial Politics in the Sewee to Santee Area
The cultural and political implications of landscape change and urban growth in the western U.S. are well-documented. However, comparatively little scholarship has examined the effects of urbanization on sense of place in the...
sense of place rural gentrification Political ecology South Carolina Low Country environmental decision-making African American Studies Environmental Studies Nature and Society Relations Other Political Science Place and Environment Urban Studies and Planning
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Finding a "Disappearing" Nontimber Forest Resource: Using Grounded Visualization to Explore Urbanization Impacts on Sweetgrass Basketmaking in Greater Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
Despite growing interest in urbanization and its social and ecological impacts on formerly rural areas, empirical research remains limited. Extant studies largely focus either on issues of social exclusion and enclosure or...
fringe ecologies grounded visualization nontimber forest products NTFPs rural gentrification Urbanization Mt. Pleasant South Carolina Geographical Information Systems GIS African American Studies Environmental Studies Geographic Information Sciences Nature and Society Relations Place and Environment Regional Sociology Urban Studies and Planning
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Urban Foraging: A Ubiquitous Human Practice Overlooked by Urban Planners, Policy, and Research
Charlie M. Shackleton, Patrick T. Hurley, Annika C. Dahlberg, Marla R. Emery, Harini Nagendra
Jan 01, 0001
Although hardly noticed or formally recognized, urban foraging by humans probably occurs in all urban settings around the world. We draw from research in India, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States to demonstrate the...
actors benefits dynamics tenure urban foraging Urban spaces Environmental Studies Food Studies Nature and Society Relations sustainability Urban Studies and Planning
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Uneven Urban Metabolisms: Toward an Integrative (Ex)urban Political Ecology of Sustainability in and Around the City
Expanding cities present a sustainability challenge, as the uneven proliferation of hybrid landscape types becomes a major feature of 21st century urbanization. To fully address this challenge, scholars must consider the broad...
Urban sustainability Urban political ecology exurb exurbia Urbanization global urbanization Environmental Studies urban studies Urban Studies and Planning
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Producing Edible Landscapes in Seattle's Urban Forest
Over the next decades, green infrastructure initiatives such as tree planting campaigns, and ecological restoration will dramatically change the species composition, species distribution and structure of urban forests across the...
green infrastructure urban ecosystems urban food production urban forestry Urban planning Seattle Environmental Sciences Environmental Studies food security Natural Resources Management and Policy Nature and Society Relations Other Political Science Place and Environment sustainability Urban Studies and Planning
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Perceived barriers and facilitators to Risk Based Monitoring in academic-led clinical trials
Caroline Hurley, Carol Sinnott, Mike Clarke, Patricia Kearney, Emmy Racine, Joseph Eustace, Frances Shiely
Sep 12, 2017
BACKGROUND: In November 2016, the ICH published a requirement for sponsors to develop a systematic, prioritised, risk-based approach to monitoring clinical trials. This approach is more commonly known as risk-based monitoring...
ICH-GCP Monitoring Risk-based monitoring Attitude of Health Personnel Clinical Trials as Topic Cost Savings Health Knowledge Attitudes practice Humans Interviews as Topic Patient Safety Perception Practice Guidelines as Topic Research Design Research Personnel Research Support as Topic Risk Assessment Surveys and Questionnaires Terminology as Topic
Perceived barriers and facilitators to Risk Based Monitoring in academic-led clinical trials
Caroline Hurley, Carol Sinnott, Mike Clarke, Patricia Kearney, Emmy Racine, Joseph Eustace, Frances Shiely
Jan 17, 2018
Humans Risk Assessment Attitude of Health Personnel Health Knowledge Attitudes practice Perception Research Design Research Personnel Cost Savings Clinical Trials as Topic Interviews as Topic Terminology as Topic Research Support as Topic Practice Guidelines as Topic Patient Safety Surveys and Questionnaires
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Study within a trial (SWAT) protocol. Participants' perspectives and preferences on clinical trial result dissemination
Emmy Racine, Caroline Hurley, Aoife Cheung, Carol Sinnott, Karen Matvienko-Sikar, William H Smithson, Patricia M Kearney
Jan 18, 2018
INTRODUCTION: Dissemination of results of randomised controlled trials is traditionally limited to academic and professional groups rather than clinical trial participants. While there is increasing consensus that results should...
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