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  • 100 Years of Immigration, 25 Years of Dekasegi Return Migration: Globalization and Cultural Diversity in Japan Part 2 

    Oba, Junko; Nemoto, Naoko (2016-06-15)
    This lecture examines the recent massive "return migration" of Japanese Brazilian immigrant workers to their ancestral homeland of Japan and the problems and challenges of nurturing cultural diversity in Japanese society ...
  • 100 Years of Immigration, 25 Years of Dekasegi Return Migration: Globalization and Cultural Diversity in Japan  Part 1 

    Oba, Junko; Nemoto, Naoko (2016-06-15)
    This lecture delineates a history of one hundred years of Japanese immigration to Latin America, especially Brazil with the largest concentration, as a precondition for the recent return migration of people of Japanese ...
  • 2003 Linnedalen Main Weather Station Data 

    Unknown author (2009-07-14)
    2003 Meteorological data from the Main Weather station in the Linne Valley (78.02710 N, 13.85025 E, 25m elev ASL). The station is an Onset data logger H21-001 and Onset sensors (see http://www.onsetcomp.com). The station ...
  • 2004 Linnedalen Main Weather Station Data 

    Unknown author (2009-07-14)
    2004 Meteorological data from the Main Weather station in the Linne Valley (78.02710 N, 13.85025 E, 25m elev ASL). The station is an Onset data logger H21-001 and Onset sensors (see http://www.onsetcomp.com). The station ...
  • 2005 Linnedalen Main Weather Station Data 

    Unknown author (2009-07-14)
    2005 Meteorological data from the Main Weather station in the Linne Valley (78.02710 N, 13.85025 E, 25m elev ASL). The station is an Onset data logger H21-001 and Onset sensors (see http://www.onsetcomp.com). The station ...
  • 2006 Linnedalen Main Weather Station Data 

    Unknown author (2009-07-14)
    2006 Meteorological data from the Main Weather station in the Linne Valley (78.02710 N, 13.85025 E, 25m elev ASL). The station is an Onset data logger H21-001 and Onset sensors (see http://www.onsetcomp.com). The station ...
  • 2007 Linnedalen Main Weather Station Data 

    Unknown author (2009-07-14)
    2007 Meteorological data from the Main Weather station in the Linne Valley (78.02710 N, 13.85025 E, 25m elev ASL). The station is an Onset data logger H21-001 and Onset sensors (see http://www.onsetcomp.com). The station ...
  • 2008 Linnedalen Main Weather Station Data 

    Unknown author (2009-07-14)
    2008 Meteorological data from the Main Weather station in the Linne Valley (78.02710 N, 13.85025 E, 25m elev ASL). The station is an Onset data logger H21-001 and Onset sensors (see http://www.onsetcomp.com). The station ...
  • 2009 Linnedalen Main Weather Station Data 

    Unknown author (2009-07-14)
    2009 Meteorological data from the Main Weather station in the Linne Valley (78.02710 N, 13.85025 E, 25m elev ASL). The station is an Onset data logger H21-001 and Onset sensors (see http://www.onsetcomp.com). The station ...
  • Analysis of Varved Sediment and Weather Relationships in Lake Linnè, Svalbard 

    Wei, Jeremy (2012-07-03)
    The recent debate involving climate change has become increasingly important in the past decade. Arctic environments are important locations for study as they are particularly sensitive to climate variations. Proglacial ...
  • Anaphoric Judgement of Nouns in Japanese 

    Nemoto, Naoko; Tawa, Wako (2016-06-15)
    English possesses articles to indicate which nouns are definite or indefinite, while Japanese lacks such a class of words. This lecture discusses how the context in which nouns are used plays a great role for anaphoric ...
  • Area Expansion Versus Effective and Equitable Management in International Marine Protected Areas Goals and Targets 

    Noella J. Gray; Lisa M. Campbell (Marine Policy, 2019)
    This paper draws on the published literature on marine protected areas (MPAs) and marine protected areas targets to argue that the MPA target (14.5) will dominate in the pursuit, measurement, and evaluation of the much ...
  • “As Far as Possible and as Appropriate”: Implementing the Aichi Biodiversity Targets 

    Shannon M. Hagerman; Ricardo Pelai (Conservation Letters, 2016)
    Past shortfalls to meet global biodiversity targets have simultaneously prompted questions about the relevance of global environmental conventions, and sparked renewed ambition, for example, in the form of the Aichi ...
  • Assembling Global Conservation Governance 

    Catherine Corson; Lisa M. Campbell; Peter Wilshusen; Noella J. Gray (Geoforum, 2019)
    As the configuration of global environmental governance has become more complex over the past fifty years, numerous scholars have underscored the importance of understanding the transnational networks of public, private ...
  • Barbara Bosworth's Triptychs 

    Herbert, Robert L. (2016-02-15)
    This essay is a close study of the landscape triptychs of the past fifteen years by the renowned photographer Barbara Bosworth. Her three-part photographs are only one portion of her output, but the author became fascinated ...
  • Blue Economy and Competing Discourses in International Oceans Governance 

    Jennifer J. Silver; Noella J. Gray; Lisa M. Campbell; Luke W. Fairbanks; Rebecca L. Gruby (Journal of Environment and Development, 2015)
    In this article, we track a relatively new term in global environmental governance: “blue economy.” Analyzing preparatory documentation and data collected at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (i.e., Rioþ20), ...
  • Boundary Objects and Global Consensus: Scalar Narratives of Marine Conservation in the Convention on Biological Diversity 

    Noella J. Gray; Rebecca L. Gruby; Lisa M. Campbell (Global Environmental Politics, 2014)
    The global number of marine protected areas (MPAs) has increased dramatically in recent years, resulting in a ªvefold increase in area covered since 2003.1 Like terrestrial protected areas, MPAs are deªned by the International ...
  • Building Research Data Services at Mount Holyoke College 

    Adamo, Julie; Baker, Nick; Burke, James; Glackin, Mary; Oelker, Sarah (University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium., 2017-04-06)
    Objective: Mount Holyoke College ranks high among liberal arts colleges in faculty research activities and has just initiated a new program in Data Science. In this context, and given the recent growth in the use of very ...
  • Business, Biodiversity and New 'Fields' of Conservation: The World Conservation Congress and the Renegotiation of Organisational Order 

    Kenneth Iain MacDonald (Conservation and Society, 2010)
    Biodiversity conservation, in practise, is defined through the institutionalised association of individuals, organisations, institutions, bodies of knowledge and interests. Events like the World Conservation Congress (WCC) ...
  • Calibrating annual sedimentation in a glacial lake Lake Linné, Svalbard, Norway 

    Snyder, Sydney (2012-07-03)
    This study will focus on the most recent depositional year, fall 2010 through summer 2011. The study is a continuation of previous projects and investigates modern sedimentation in Lake Linné in order to formulate a ...