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Monitoring the distribution, abundance and demography of species is vital to ensure that conservation efforts are appropriate and effective. Monitoring enables evaluation of responses to natural or human disturbance, highlights the need for management interventions and enables t…

We use household-level panel data to estimate how population density impacts agricultural intensification and farm income in Ethiopia. We hypothesize that increases in population density affect agricultural intensification and farm income directly through information flows, inst…

The Sicán polity (AD 750 - 1375) developed in the middle La Leche Valley on the north coast of Peru. This dissertation presents the results of a comprehensive program of fullcoverage high-resolution pedestrian survey, with systematic surface collections and architectural mapping…

The S l o w Growth Institute is proposed as a mostly unprogrammed place and will be located among divided spaces. The ‘in-between’ is investigated through two scales: a historical line where buffer zones from South Africa’s history of separation and still evident in our social f…

Mammalian carnivores play complex and sometimes keystone roles in structuring terrestrial ecosystems and facilitating biodiversity by driving trophic cascades that link predators to prey to plant communities. Carnivores have emerged as excellent ecological models that provide ev…

British Hong Kong was a “borrowed place living on borrowed time”, Richard Hughes, an Australian journalist, wrote in 1968. This thesis attested that the “1997 Question”, i.e. the perplexity stemming from the expiry of the New Territories Lease in 1997, had a considerable impact …