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Socio-Hydrology: The New Paradigm in Resilient Water Management
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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During the third decade of the 21st century, human societies across the world are facing significant water-related problems, such as ecosystem degradation, groundwater depletion, natural and anthropogenic droughts and floods, water-borne health issues, and deforestation. These problems are exacerbated by climate change, a phenomenon that has been accelerated due to human intervention in natural systems since the industrial revolution. There is an urgent need to better understand the interaction of hydrological systems in terms of climate variability and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to the dynamics and resilience of coupled human–water systems and effective risk management in the area of water resource management. Socio-hydrology is an interdisciplinary field that integrates natural and social sciences and aims to study the long-term dynamics of bidirectional feedback in coupled human–water systems. This book on socio-hydrology aims to compile cross-disciplinary scientific endeavors and innovations in research on the development, education, and application of coupled human–water systems. The articles published in this book represent diverse and broad aspects of water management in the context of socio-hydrology systems around the globe. The articles and ideas presented in this book represent a significant source of references for interdisciplinary water science programs and provide an excellent guide for experts involved in the future planning and management of water resources. This book is dedicated to friends of the Green Water-Infrastructure Academy and those who pursue cross-disciplinary water research, education, and management.


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Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism
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This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empirical data collection techniques, sophisticated methodologies, and acoustic analyses, while also presenting findings that provide robust theoretical implications to a variety of subfields, such as L2 acquisition, L3 acquisition, laboratory phonology, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociophonetics, blingualism, and language contact. These studies in this book further elucidate the nature of phonetic interactions in the context of bilingualism and multilingualism and outline future directions in multilingual phonetics and phonology research.

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Language --- second language acquisition --- phonology --- discrimination --- cross-linguistic assimilation --- obstruent --- affricate --- fricative --- dialect --- English --- Spanish --- L1 attrition --- speech --- foreign accent --- accent perception --- bilingual --- teacher --- bilingualism --- phonetics --- language mode --- cross-linguistic influence --- transfer --- voice onset time --- global accent rating --- American English --- Russian --- voicing --- classroom learning --- first language drift --- perceptual learning --- individual differences --- phonetic sensitivity --- crosslinguistic influence --- Korean --- laryngeal contrast --- vowel inventory --- heritage bilingualism --- early bilingualism --- speech production --- multilingualism --- third language acquisition --- speech perception --- rhotics --- final obstruent devoicing --- Korean Americans --- California Vowel Shift --- second language phonology --- immigrant minority speakers --- sound change --- Spanish-English bilinguals --- gender --- vowels --- vowel centralization --- vowel sequences --- sociophonetics --- competence --- fricative epithesis --- vowel devoicing --- center of gravity --- French --- acquisition --- agentivity --- directionality --- fricative (de)voicing --- Catalan–Spanish contact --- intonation --- language contact --- language attitudes --- social factors --- Basque --- Perceptual Assimilation Model --- second language speech learning --- English /r/ and /l/ --- Japanese --- English as a second language --- categorical perception --- compromise VOT --- voice timing --- performance mismatches --- dynamic phonetic interactions --- acoustic similarity --- perceptual similarity --- non-native discrimination --- non-native categorisation


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Socio-Hydrology: The New Paradigm in Resilient Water Management
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During the third decade of the 21st century, human societies across the world are facing significant water-related problems, such as ecosystem degradation, groundwater depletion, natural and anthropogenic droughts and floods, water-borne health issues, and deforestation. These problems are exacerbated by climate change, a phenomenon that has been accelerated due to human intervention in natural systems since the industrial revolution. There is an urgent need to better understand the interaction of hydrological systems in terms of climate variability and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to the dynamics and resilience of coupled human–water systems and effective risk management in the area of water resource management. Socio-hydrology is an interdisciplinary field that integrates natural and social sciences and aims to study the long-term dynamics of bidirectional feedback in coupled human–water systems. This book on socio-hydrology aims to compile cross-disciplinary scientific endeavors and innovations in research on the development, education, and application of coupled human–water systems. The articles published in this book represent diverse and broad aspects of water management in the context of socio-hydrology systems around the globe. The articles and ideas presented in this book represent a significant source of references for interdisciplinary water science programs and provide an excellent guide for experts involved in the future planning and management of water resources. This book is dedicated to friends of the Green Water-Infrastructure Academy and those who pursue cross-disciplinary water research, education, and management.


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Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empirical data collection techniques, sophisticated methodologies, and acoustic analyses, while also presenting findings that provide robust theoretical implications to a variety of subfields, such as L2 acquisition, L3 acquisition, laboratory phonology, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociophonetics, blingualism, and language contact. These studies in this book further elucidate the nature of phonetic interactions in the context of bilingualism and multilingualism and outline future directions in multilingual phonetics and phonology research.

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Language --- second language acquisition --- phonology --- discrimination --- cross-linguistic assimilation --- obstruent --- affricate --- fricative --- dialect --- English --- Spanish --- L1 attrition --- speech --- foreign accent --- accent perception --- bilingual --- teacher --- bilingualism --- phonetics --- language mode --- cross-linguistic influence --- transfer --- voice onset time --- global accent rating --- American English --- Russian --- voicing --- classroom learning --- first language drift --- perceptual learning --- individual differences --- phonetic sensitivity --- crosslinguistic influence --- Korean --- laryngeal contrast --- vowel inventory --- heritage bilingualism --- early bilingualism --- speech production --- multilingualism --- third language acquisition --- speech perception --- rhotics --- final obstruent devoicing --- Korean Americans --- California Vowel Shift --- second language phonology --- immigrant minority speakers --- sound change --- Spanish-English bilinguals --- gender --- vowels --- vowel centralization --- vowel sequences --- sociophonetics --- competence --- fricative epithesis --- vowel devoicing --- center of gravity --- French --- acquisition --- agentivity --- directionality --- fricative (de)voicing --- Catalan–Spanish contact --- intonation --- language contact --- language attitudes --- social factors --- Basque --- Perceptual Assimilation Model --- second language speech learning --- English /r/ and /l/ --- Japanese --- English as a second language --- categorical perception --- compromise VOT --- voice timing --- performance mismatches --- dynamic phonetic interactions --- acoustic similarity --- perceptual similarity --- non-native discrimination --- non-native categorisation


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Socio-Hydrology: The New Paradigm in Resilient Water Management
Authors: --- --- --- ---
Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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During the third decade of the 21st century, human societies across the world are facing significant water-related problems, such as ecosystem degradation, groundwater depletion, natural and anthropogenic droughts and floods, water-borne health issues, and deforestation. These problems are exacerbated by climate change, a phenomenon that has been accelerated due to human intervention in natural systems since the industrial revolution. There is an urgent need to better understand the interaction of hydrological systems in terms of climate variability and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to the dynamics and resilience of coupled human–water systems and effective risk management in the area of water resource management. Socio-hydrology is an interdisciplinary field that integrates natural and social sciences and aims to study the long-term dynamics of bidirectional feedback in coupled human–water systems. This book on socio-hydrology aims to compile cross-disciplinary scientific endeavors and innovations in research on the development, education, and application of coupled human–water systems. The articles published in this book represent diverse and broad aspects of water management in the context of socio-hydrology systems around the globe. The articles and ideas presented in this book represent a significant source of references for interdisciplinary water science programs and provide an excellent guide for experts involved in the future planning and management of water resources. This book is dedicated to friends of the Green Water-Infrastructure Academy and those who pursue cross-disciplinary water research, education, and management.


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Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism
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This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empirical data collection techniques, sophisticated methodologies, and acoustic analyses, while also presenting findings that provide robust theoretical implications to a variety of subfields, such as L2 acquisition, L3 acquisition, laboratory phonology, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociophonetics, blingualism, and language contact. These studies in this book further elucidate the nature of phonetic interactions in the context of bilingualism and multilingualism and outline future directions in multilingual phonetics and phonology research.

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second language acquisition --- phonology --- discrimination --- cross-linguistic assimilation --- obstruent --- affricate --- fricative --- dialect --- English --- Spanish --- L1 attrition --- speech --- foreign accent --- accent perception --- bilingual --- teacher --- bilingualism --- phonetics --- language mode --- cross-linguistic influence --- transfer --- voice onset time --- global accent rating --- American English --- Russian --- voicing --- classroom learning --- first language drift --- perceptual learning --- individual differences --- phonetic sensitivity --- crosslinguistic influence --- Korean --- laryngeal contrast --- vowel inventory --- heritage bilingualism --- early bilingualism --- speech production --- multilingualism --- third language acquisition --- speech perception --- rhotics --- final obstruent devoicing --- Korean Americans --- California Vowel Shift --- second language phonology --- immigrant minority speakers --- sound change --- Spanish-English bilinguals --- gender --- vowels --- vowel centralization --- vowel sequences --- sociophonetics --- competence --- fricative epithesis --- vowel devoicing --- center of gravity --- French --- acquisition --- agentivity --- directionality --- fricative (de)voicing --- Catalan–Spanish contact --- intonation --- language contact --- language attitudes --- social factors --- Basque --- Perceptual Assimilation Model --- second language speech learning --- English /r/ and /l/ --- Japanese --- English as a second language --- categorical perception --- compromise VOT --- voice timing --- performance mismatches --- dynamic phonetic interactions --- acoustic similarity --- perceptual similarity --- non-native discrimination --- non-native categorisation


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Suivi des inégalités en matière de vaccination : manuel pratique
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ISBN: 9789240022317 Year: 2021 Publisher: Genève : Organisation mondiale de la Santé,

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Immunization Programs --- Socioeconomic Factors --- National Health Programs --- Health Priorities --- Programmes de vaccination --- Facteurs socioéconomiques --- Programmes nationaux de santé --- Priorités en santé --- Priorities, Health --- Health Priority --- Priority, Health --- Priorités en matière de santé --- Health Program, National --- Health Programs, National --- National Health Program --- Program, National Health --- Programs, National Health --- Programme national de santé --- National Health Insurance --- Health Insurance, National --- Insurance, National Health --- National Health Insurance, Non-U.S. --- National Health Insurance, Non U.S. --- Health Services, National --- Health Service, National --- National Health Service --- Service, National Health --- Services, National Health --- National Health Services --- Assurance maladie nationale --- Assurance santé nationale --- Assurance maladie nationale non américaine --- Assurance santé nationale non américaine --- Services de santé nationaux --- Service de santé national --- Programmes gouvernementaux --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Facteurs socio-économiques --- Standard of Living --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Land Tenure --- Tenure, Land --- High-Income Population --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Inequalities --- Inequality --- Niveau de vie --- Régime foncier --- Ténure foncière --- Population à hauts revenus --- Population à revenu élevé --- Population à revenus élevés --- Inégalités --- Immunization Program --- Program, Immunization --- Programs, Immunization --- Programmes d'immunisation --- Vaccination Campaign --- Campaign, Vaccination --- Campaigns, Vaccination --- Vaccination Campaigns --- Vaccination Promotion --- Promotion, Vaccination --- Promotions, Vaccination --- Vaccination Promotions --- Vaccination Awareness --- Awareness, Vaccination --- Awarenesses, Vaccination --- Vaccination Awarenesses --- Government Programs --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Economics --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Characteristic


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Protected Areas in Forest Conservation: Challenges and Opportunities
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Forest ecosystems are important habitats for a vast number of species worldwide. These ecosystems are degrading faster than they are regenerating, due to the increased demand for natural resources. In order to protect these ecosystems, the designation of Protected Areas (PAs) has become the primary policy tool for forest conservation. The articles included in this book explore challenges and opportunities within forest PAs, focusing on four main themes. The first theme refers to current initiatives in forest management across the world, reflecting the efforts of several organizations in halting deforestation. Major challenges are also identified, reflecting the declining rates of forest coverage across the world. A second theme refers to policy planning processes withing existing governance frameworks focusing, in particular, on the level of engagement of local stakeholders. A third theme of the book refers to social equity and how the impacts of forest PAs are distributed among different users. A final theme in the SI refers to potential solutions in order to halt the loss of biodiversity within forest ecosystems. Several directions are proposed by the authors that can be useful for policy makers and practitioners, especially in the context of the 30 by 30 targets.

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Humanities --- Social interaction --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- biodiversity --- ecosystem services --- West Africa --- incentives --- Sustainable Development Goals --- participation --- co-management --- forest users --- benefits --- ACA --- Nepal --- urban forest --- institutional design --- land use planning --- Serbia --- governance --- forests --- environment --- Malawi --- Photovoice --- conservation --- policy --- community-based forest management --- participatory forest management --- biodiversity conservation --- nature conservation policy --- operational environment --- legal --- economic and social factors --- evaluation framework --- protected areas --- Natura 2000 network --- conservation estate --- conservation planning --- bottomland hardwood forest --- deforestation --- isolation --- buffer areas --- Tanzania --- social network analysis (SNA) --- cooperation and conflict networks --- stakeholders’ involvement --- participatory process --- Natura 2000 management Programme --- anthropology --- land use and access --- flexibility --- Bakweri --- Mount Cameroon National Park --- reserve network --- large trees --- snags --- coarse woody debris --- regression model --- habitat conditions --- strict protection --- managed forests --- tree cover loss --- global forest --- State Forests --- nature protection --- financing --- decision making --- responsibility --- implementation of protective measures --- Poland --- silviculture --- timber distribution --- benefit-sharing --- elite --- community forestry --- abiotic dispersal --- animal dispersal --- distance–decay --- forest fragmentation --- sacred forest --- sacred grove --- South Gondar Administrative Zone --- conflict --- national parks --- management --- pandemic --- public health --- wellbeing --- n/a --- stakeholders' involvement --- distance-decay


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Protected Areas in Forest Conservation: Challenges and Opportunities
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Forest ecosystems are important habitats for a vast number of species worldwide. These ecosystems are degrading faster than they are regenerating, due to the increased demand for natural resources. In order to protect these ecosystems, the designation of Protected Areas (PAs) has become the primary policy tool for forest conservation. The articles included in this book explore challenges and opportunities within forest PAs, focusing on four main themes. The first theme refers to current initiatives in forest management across the world, reflecting the efforts of several organizations in halting deforestation. Major challenges are also identified, reflecting the declining rates of forest coverage across the world. A second theme refers to policy planning processes withing existing governance frameworks focusing, in particular, on the level of engagement of local stakeholders. A third theme of the book refers to social equity and how the impacts of forest PAs are distributed among different users. A final theme in the SI refers to potential solutions in order to halt the loss of biodiversity within forest ecosystems. Several directions are proposed by the authors that can be useful for policy makers and practitioners, especially in the context of the 30 by 30 targets.

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Humanities --- Social interaction --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- biodiversity --- ecosystem services --- West Africa --- incentives --- Sustainable Development Goals --- participation --- co-management --- forest users --- benefits --- ACA --- Nepal --- urban forest --- institutional design --- land use planning --- Serbia --- governance --- forests --- environment --- Malawi --- Photovoice --- conservation --- policy --- community-based forest management --- participatory forest management --- biodiversity conservation --- nature conservation policy --- operational environment --- legal --- economic and social factors --- evaluation framework --- protected areas --- Natura 2000 network --- conservation estate --- conservation planning --- bottomland hardwood forest --- deforestation --- isolation --- buffer areas --- Tanzania --- social network analysis (SNA) --- cooperation and conflict networks --- stakeholders’ involvement --- participatory process --- Natura 2000 management Programme --- anthropology --- land use and access --- flexibility --- Bakweri --- Mount Cameroon National Park --- reserve network --- large trees --- snags --- coarse woody debris --- regression model --- habitat conditions --- strict protection --- managed forests --- tree cover loss --- global forest --- State Forests --- nature protection --- financing --- decision making --- responsibility --- implementation of protective measures --- Poland --- silviculture --- timber distribution --- benefit-sharing --- elite --- community forestry --- abiotic dispersal --- animal dispersal --- distance–decay --- forest fragmentation --- sacred forest --- sacred grove --- South Gondar Administrative Zone --- conflict --- national parks --- management --- pandemic --- public health --- wellbeing --- n/a --- stakeholders' involvement --- distance-decay


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Protected Areas in Forest Conservation: Challenges and Opportunities
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Forest ecosystems are important habitats for a vast number of species worldwide. These ecosystems are degrading faster than they are regenerating, due to the increased demand for natural resources. In order to protect these ecosystems, the designation of Protected Areas (PAs) has become the primary policy tool for forest conservation. The articles included in this book explore challenges and opportunities within forest PAs, focusing on four main themes. The first theme refers to current initiatives in forest management across the world, reflecting the efforts of several organizations in halting deforestation. Major challenges are also identified, reflecting the declining rates of forest coverage across the world. A second theme refers to policy planning processes withing existing governance frameworks focusing, in particular, on the level of engagement of local stakeholders. A third theme of the book refers to social equity and how the impacts of forest PAs are distributed among different users. A final theme in the SI refers to potential solutions in order to halt the loss of biodiversity within forest ecosystems. Several directions are proposed by the authors that can be useful for policy makers and practitioners, especially in the context of the 30 by 30 targets.

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biodiversity --- ecosystem services --- West Africa --- incentives --- Sustainable Development Goals --- participation --- co-management --- forest users --- benefits --- ACA --- Nepal --- urban forest --- institutional design --- land use planning --- Serbia --- governance --- forests --- environment --- Malawi --- Photovoice --- conservation --- policy --- community-based forest management --- participatory forest management --- biodiversity conservation --- nature conservation policy --- operational environment --- legal --- economic and social factors --- evaluation framework --- protected areas --- Natura 2000 network --- conservation estate --- conservation planning --- bottomland hardwood forest --- deforestation --- isolation --- buffer areas --- Tanzania --- social network analysis (SNA) --- cooperation and conflict networks --- stakeholders’ involvement --- participatory process --- Natura 2000 management Programme --- anthropology --- land use and access --- flexibility --- Bakweri --- Mount Cameroon National Park --- reserve network --- large trees --- snags --- coarse woody debris --- regression model --- habitat conditions --- strict protection --- managed forests --- tree cover loss --- global forest --- State Forests --- nature protection --- financing --- decision making --- responsibility --- implementation of protective measures --- Poland --- silviculture --- timber distribution --- benefit-sharing --- elite --- community forestry --- abiotic dispersal --- animal dispersal --- distance–decay --- forest fragmentation --- sacred forest --- sacred grove --- South Gondar Administrative Zone --- conflict --- national parks --- management --- pandemic --- public health --- wellbeing --- n/a --- stakeholders' involvement --- distance-decay

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