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A botanical survey of Caño Palma Biological Station (Estación Biológica Caño Palma), Tortuguero, Costa Rica (2010)
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Lewis, T. R., Grant, P., Garcı́a Quesada, M., Ryall, C., & LaDuke, T. C. (2010). A botanical survey of Caño Palma Biological Station (Estación Biológica Caño Palma), Tortuguero, Costa Rica. Brenesia, 73(74), 73-84

The Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica are renowned for their botanical diversity. Despite previous work in Costa Rica’s lowland wet rainforests, remote areas are still ecologically poorly known. Botanical species lists for such areas are often incompl... Read More about A botanical survey of Caño Palma Biological Station (Estación Biológica Caño Palma), Tortuguero, Costa Rica.

Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system? (2010)
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Bellaby, P., Flynn, R., & Ricci, M. (2010). Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system?. Innovation / Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 23(4), 333-348. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2010.545276

Development of sustainable energy has been slow. We compare it with a historical example of rapid innovation - the first factory system. The first factory system in the English Derwent Valley mills in the eighteenth century was based not on new techn... Read More about Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system?.

The writing's in the wall: A review of new preliminary applications of electrical resistivity tomography within archaeology (2010)
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Mol, L., & Preston, P. R. (2010). The writing's in the wall: A review of new preliminary applications of electrical resistivity tomography within archaeology. Archaeometry, 52(6), 1079-1095. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2010.00516.x

Natural processes are known to cause significant damage to archaeological monuments. In fact, the key to understanding the decay of building materials is the internal movement of water through the mineral matrix, which influences the distribution of... Read More about The writing's in the wall: A review of new preliminary applications of electrical resistivity tomography within archaeology.

Landslide-glacier interaction in a neoparaglacial setting at tverrbytnede, jotunheimen, Southern Norway (2010)
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Owen, G., Hiemstra, J. F., Matthews, J. A., & Mcewen, L. J. (2010). Landslide-glacier interaction in a neoparaglacial setting at tverrbytnede, jotunheimen, Southern Norway. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 92(4), 421-436. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0459.2010.00405.x

A tongue-like, boulder-dominated deposit in Tverrbytnede, upper Visdalen, Jotunheimen, southern Norway, is interpreted as the product of a rock avalanche (landslide) due to its angular to subangular boulders, surface morphology with longitudinal ridg... Read More about Landslide-glacier interaction in a neoparaglacial setting at tverrbytnede, jotunheimen, Southern Norway.

Environmental management system vs green specifications: How do they complement each other in the construction industry? (2010)
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Lam, P. T., Chan, E. H., Chau, C. K., Poon, C. S., & Chun, K. (2011). Environmental management system vs green specifications: How do they complement each other in the construction industry?. Journal of Environmental Management, 92(3), 788-795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.10.030

Environmental Management System (EMS) has been one of the important tools for sustainable construction for around two decades. However, many issues concerning sustainable development have not been properly addressed, and there is a need for the intro... Read More about Environmental management system vs green specifications: How do they complement each other in the construction industry?.

Collective purchase: Moving local and organic foods beyond the niche market (2010)
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Little, R., Maye, D., & Ilbery, B. (2010). Collective purchase: Moving local and organic foods beyond the niche market. Environment and Planning A, 42(8), 1797-1813. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4262

The authors draw attention to the creative possibilities offered by collective purchase as a mechanism to move local and organic foods beyond the niche market. The food-buying group and cooperative style of food purchasing has received only scant ref... Read More about Collective purchase: Moving local and organic foods beyond the niche market.

Ethical foodscapes?: Premises, promises, and possibilities (2010)
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Goodman, M. K., Maye, D., & Holloway, L. (2010). Ethical foodscapes?: Premises, promises, and possibilities. Environment and Planning A, 42(8), 1782-1796. https://doi.org/10.1068/a43290

This paper provides an introduction to a special issue on Ethical Food-scapes. The introduction, and the papers and commentaries in the theme issue, engage with the governance of ethical food and ethical foodscapes more broadly. In building on and wo... Read More about Ethical foodscapes?: Premises, promises, and possibilities.