The central tenet of European farmland ecology is that agricultural intensification during the 20th century was largely responsible for dramatic declines in species abundances. However, this time, human rural settlements were also undergoing radical changes through modernization, with undocumented biodiversity impacts important wildlife habitat. We performed first ever large-scale study to dise...

In the context of implementation rural revitalization strategies in China, limited attention has been paid to landscape patterns traditional villages that are located vulnerable environments. This study explores land-use dynamics and Enshi Prefecture, China. Based on a spatiotemporal analysis land use metrics, we analyzed prefecture environment surrounding 73 villages. The results show that, fr...

The article is about the politics of birth control in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). I will map abortion and contraception policies and discourses during and after state socialism, with Russia, Poland and Romania as main cases. Furthermore, historical and contemporary constructions of birth control in these countries are contrasted to western European debates, in order to denaturalise implic...

It is difficult to imagine a student approaching the history of the Early Church who would not, at an early stage of his involvement with this subject, be struck by the observation that he is dealing with an age of innumerable controversies. From every new page of any textbook he (or she, for that matter) is greeted by yet another name of yet another conflict that appears to have all but torn a...

Socioscientific controversies are “extended argumentative engagements over socially significant issues ... comprising communicative events and practices in and from both scientific and nonscientific spheres” (Stewart, 2009, p. 125). While global warming is not controversial among the vast majority of climate scientists, socioscientific controversies over global warming abound in various media, ...

This study comprises 669 national and local traditional villages in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Using ArcGIS software platform, nearest neighbor index, coefficient of variation, kernel density tools are used to describe distribution characteristics villages; imbalance index method Gini equilibrium municipalities geographical subdivisions. demonstrates that Guangxi’s spatially distribu...

This study determines the nature of village economics in the town of Biharamulo, Tanzania, and in four surrounding villages. This study also identifies the links between the villages and the town and the extent of differences between village households. Town population in 1993 was 20,000 persons, or 1020 households, of which 29.4% were female-headed. Only 7.1% of village households were head...

industrial towns with whatever purpose, can reduce the problems in rural areas, providing employment and income for rural people and the welfare of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages to be effective. evaluation of the impact of the creation of industrial zones and rural employment status of workers, especially rural workers, the main objective of this research. this study seeks to answ...

Drinking water quality was assessed in selected villages from Kongwa, Mufindi and Iringa rural districts between March August 2020. Ten three were involved the study: Kongwa (4 villages), (3 villages). Methods used data gathering observation, in-situ, ex-situ measurement of parameters. A total 150 samples collected different sources (a bore hole, a well, spring, river) analyzed using standard m...

investigation and preparing of wind erosion intensity maps are the main objectives of this research. in this research, the working unit map was prepared and then nine effective factors in wind erosion according to irifr.e.a model are determined at each of seven homogeneous units. according to the results, active sand dunes and landuse change showed the highest value with the rate of annual sedi...