Since 1984, the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam has chartered its post-independence course through its proclaimed ideological compass of MIB (Melayu, Islam, Beraja). All three pillars of MIB – Malay culture, the religion of Islam, and the institution of an absolute Monarchy - are traditional, long standing Bruneian features, which have been expertly crafted in the last two decades to act as the filter by which modernisation and development can occur.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2008Brunei Darussalam
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The case of Uganda
Peer-reviewed publicationPolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2008Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, UgandaAgriculture is vital to the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa: two-thirds of the region’s people depend on it for their livelihoods. Nevertheless, agricultural productivity in most of the region is stagnant or declining, in large part because of land degradation. Soil erosion and soil nutrient depletion degraded almost 70 percent of the region’s land between 1945 and 1990; 20 percent of total agricultural land has been severely degraded. If left unchecked, land degradation could seriously threaten the progress of economic growth and poverty reduction in Africa.
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The determinants of enactment, awareness, and compliance with community natural resource management regulations in Uganda
Peer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Eastern Africa, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda -
Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJune, 2008
The paper moves from the necessity of understanding the implications of landscape changes, as it is a very important issue for the sustainable planning of rural areas.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationAugust, 2008
In this paper, 1) a delineation of main theoretical, methodological and applicative issues of landscape ecology, 2) a comparison between landscape and ecosystem ecology, 3) a critical overview of actual limits of landscape ecology, are depicted.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJune, 2008Chile
Cuando la expansión de Santiago se efectuó sobre los sectores rurales circundantes y también, en los últimos decenios, en polígonos altos en busca de mejores condiciones ambientales y de calidad de vida, también impensadamente, se efectuó hacia áreas de mayor riesgo. La ciudad ha cuadruplicado su superficie en los últimos 50 años y se acerca al límite de su capacidad de carga, presionado por la ocupación de áreas morfodinámicamente inestables.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationOctober, 2008Italy
Cet article étudie la confrontation des constructions identitaires locales et du tourisme culturel dans le Salento, une région des Pouilles où, depuis une dizaine d’années, des politiques culturelles et un marketing territorial avisés ont relancé le tourisme. Ce processus a vu le jour à partir de la revalorisation de la langue locale d’origine grecque (le griko) et de la patrimonialisation de la tradition ethnologique du tarentisme et de la musique qui accompagnait le rite d’autrefois, la pizzica.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationApril, 2008
Durante el año 2003 en la comuna de Peñalolén se produjo un conflicto urbano entre los integrantes de una comunidad ecológica y los habitantes de una toma¹ de terreno. Esta situación reactivó la discusión acerca de la segregación urbana y la voluntad de integración en la ciudad de sectores social y culturalmente diversos.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2008
Predominan en el medio académico y político las nociones "naturalistas" sobre la segregación social del espacio en las ciudades latinoamericanas. Las desigualdades o el "clasismo", hechos fuertes y persistentes, harían de la segregación algo inevitable; y de las propuesta para controlarla, algo ilusorio. En contraposición, los autores del artículo argumentan que no existen impedimentos culturales, sociológicos ni económicos para reducir la segregación.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationFebruary, 2008
Topography and relief variability play a key role in ecosystem functioning and structuring. However, the most commonly used concept to relate pattern to process in landscape ecology, the so-called patch-corridor-matrix model, perceives the landscape as a planimetric surface. As a consequence, landscape metrics, used as numerical descriptors of the spatial arrangement of landscape mosaics, generally do not allow for the examination of terrain characteristics and may even produce erroneous results, especially in mountainous areas.
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