The special relationship between mistletoe, birds and mathematics
How does mistletoe grow? How does mistletoe spread? And, curiously, how does this link to the latest mathematical research?
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Reducing our environmental impact by ending discounted print incentives for journals
Why Cambridge University Press will no longer be offering deeply discounted print as part of new journals agreements.
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The Climate Council: Groundbreaking work or missed opportunity?
The ratification of the Paris Agreement opened a new chapter in Turkey’s climate policies. Followed by the declaration of a net-zero emissions target for 2053, Turkey’s ratification of the agreement came after a six-year delay, with exhausting bilateral post-Paris negotiations.…
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Redux 2022: A Will for Change
As the 2022 ALPSP University Press Redux Conference co-organised with Cambridge University Press draws close, Ben Denne reflects on the importance of this year’s event.
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Redux 2022: Spotlight on Sustainability
As the 2022 ALPSP University Press Redux Conference co-organised with Cambridge University Press draws close, Andri Johnston highlights the sustainability panels at this year’s event.
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Environmental Data Science publishes its first papers
Today marks the release of the first batch of articles in Environmental Data Science (EDS). We are thrilled to celebrate Earth Month with this first release of articles!…
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BABCP: Opting into a sustainable future
How practical changes can result in significant environmental gains.
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Making gratis greener
In 2020 Cambridge reviewed our policy of providing print copies to Editorial Board members of Cambridge-owned journals. In our Q&A with Ella Colvin , Director of Publishing – Journals, reflects on this project and our plans for a greener future.…
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Greater real-world impact, at a reduced environmental cost
Transforming how we operate at conferences, by significantly reducing the number of print copies, as we seek to reduce our global organisation’s carbon footprint.
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Partnering on a sustainable future
Ella Colvin reflects on the many changes affecting our publishing partners and the importance of working together towards a common goal of sustainability.
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Progressing towards a greener future for Journals
A Q&A with Jenny Mathias, Global Marketing and Operations Director
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Dread, the Demonic, and our Current Situation
Leaving aside the raging pandemic, and recognizing that Covid is not unconnected, there are two crises which define our time. First, the global weakening or collapse of democracy and rise of fascism: e.g., Trumpism in the U.S., repressive Indian Hindu nationalism, conservative Catholicism in Eastern Europe, Chinese “authoritarianism” (market Stalinism?), and whatever is going on in Brazil.
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Announcing the launch of Environmental Data Science
Environmental Data Science: a new open access venue for the transformative potential of AI and data science in addressing environmental challenges It’s my pleasure to announce the launch of Environmental Data Science, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the potential of artificial intelligence and data science to enhance our understanding of the environment and to address climate change. …
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Libraries and Sustainability: Beau Case, University of Toledo
This is the third blog in a series in which we ask libraries around the world about their sustainability policies and experiences.…
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Libraries and sustainability: Mariann Løkse, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway
This is the second blog in a series in which we ask libraries around the world about their sustainability policies and experiences.…
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Brazil is not a champion of environmental preservation
The latest paper in our Environmental Conservation Perspectives Collection is Do Data Support Claims That Brazil Leads the World in Environmental Preservation?…
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Appalachia and Laudato Si’: Developing the Connection between the Poor and the Environment
In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis writes that the poor and the environment are connected. The poor suffer physically from environmental degradation and cry out along with the earth, and those with power must heed their cry. An examination of the Appalachian region and its people reveals that each of these three themes needs some development
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Is Extinction Rebellion the answer to our prayers?
Throngs of young (and not so young) people refusing to pretend that the human race is not in the most serious crisis it has ever faced.…
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Are shareholders the new champions of climate justice?
For several decades, individuals and communities affected by climate change – as well as the lawyers, advocates and civil society organizations who represent them – have been using litigation as a strategic tool to hold corporations accountable for climate change-related human rights harms.…
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Making city infrastructure more resilient
The systems that help us heat and cool our homes, provide drinking water, take away our garbage, let us communicate instantly with one another and enable travel — collectively known as infrastructure — will need to be designed differently in the future to become more sustainable and resilient.
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Citizen Science: establishing national bird monitoring schemes in Africa
Birds are recognised as faithful indicators of the state of the environment and widely used as such across Europe. Here skilled citizen scientists collect data that feed into national annual statistics, but until now, this model of environmental monitoring has not been tested elsewhere. …
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Vedanta: A New Landmark in Litigating Extraterritorial Torts
The July 2017 issue (6:2) of Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) includes a contribution by Elena Merino Blanco and Ben Pontin examining jurisdictional grounds for hearing foreign tort claims, with reference to recent and ongoing oil pollution nuisance litigation involving Royal Dutch Shell Plc and its Nigerian subsidiary operating in the Niger Delta.…
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Special section: The Human Dimensions of Air Pollution in China
China’s government has proclaimed a “war against pollution” and promised its citizens that problems of air pollution will be solved in the foreseeable future.…
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Uncovering the status of the Arabian tahr, an icon of the Hajar Mountains of Oman and the UAE
Species distribution models are a method used by conservationists to make inferences from limited data sets, in a format that can facilitate conservation management across landscapes. They are particularly suitable for filling gaps in knowledge of scarce populations and those inhabiting inaccessible terrain. The Arabian tahr is one such species. Inhabiting the precipitous cliffs of north eastern Arabia, the species is rarely seen and poorly known.
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Introducing Quaternary Research – an interdisciplinary journal
Quaternary Research has a nearly 50-year, distinguished history of publishing articles of interdisciplinary interest on the evidence for Quaternary climatic and environmental change, as well as its effects on landscapes, ecosystems, and human populations, and many significant articles have been published in the journal over the years.
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Is REDD+ Dead? Why there is still potential for business to save forests
The latest EC Perspectives paper from Environmental Conservation is entitled 'Understanding the demand for REDD+ credits' by Timothy Laing, Luca Taschini and Charles Palmer. In this blog Timothy Laing discusses the research.
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Two glaciers collapse in western Tibet
A glacier near Lake Aru in western Tibet collapsed on 17 July 2016. Now the Journal of Glaciology publishes the first scientific account of this cryospheric disaster in which nine local yak herders were killed. Eyewitnesses reported that the episode lasted only four to five minutes. More than 70 million cubic metres of ice tumbled down a mountain valley, spreading over a distance of 6 kilometres onto the lowland below.
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Du Bois Review presents a special issue on Race and Environmental Equity
The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, a journal based at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, presents a special issue on Race and Environmental Equity.…
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Sustainability in Nutrition? A holistic concept for science and seven principles for education
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for October is from the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and is entitled 'Wholesome Nutrition: an example for a sustainable diet'.
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Breaking the taboo: The case for a greenhouse gas tax on meat consumption
The April 2015 issue (4:1) of Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) includes a contribution by Cordelia Bähr, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich examining the taboo of a greenhouse gas tax on meat consumption, she comments further on this issue in the blog post below.…
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Dietary and physical activity habits in preschoolers
The acquisition of knowledge about healthy behaviours and its development into healthy attitudes, and subsequent healthy habits is especially important during early childhood.…
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REACH hardly reaching into US chemicals regulation reform
In ‘Influence of the EU Chemicals Regulation on the US Policy Reform Debate: Is a ‘California Effect’ Within REACH?’, published in Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) in April 2013, I investigated whether the demanding EU chemicals regulation (REACH) had led the exporting US chemicals sector to lobby its government to follow suit. …
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Habeas Porpoise: The Strange Case of Morgan the Orca
The current issue of Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) includes a contribution by Arie Trouwborst, Richard Caddell and Ed Couzens, examining the legal position of a rescued whale subsequently retained in captivity. …
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Cartographies of Movement
Inspired by the DSA conference call for papers “Cartographies of Movement,” this digital collection showcases Dance Research Journal articles that engage with kinesthetic and epistemological sites of indigeneity. The three subdivisions narrate the general movement of peoples and ideas at sites of origin, across countries, and beyond geographic or imagined borders. Each article in the “Rooted in Indigeneity'' section addresses performance as a means of grounding specific Indigenous cultural beliefs.
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Good news, everyone: Women feel more attractive before ovulation
Evolution has shaped women’s ovulatory cycles to be characterised by complex recurring physiological processes of changing hormones and organ tissue. However, these changes often bring about unwanted aspects – be it premenstrual symptoms such as mood swings, feeling bloated or anxious, menstrual pain, or – still way too often – menstrual shame.…
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Record high sea surface temperatures: a rising threat to seabirds
Global sea surface temperatures are rising and have hit record high values in recent months. This potentially threatens seabirds, their prey and their habitats, both on land and at sea.
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What We Stay Alive For
Writing was refreshing to me because I was communicating again. However, I didn’t fully understand the extent until I watched Dead Poets Society, where the late Robin Williams delivered this moving monologue. He said, “We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Institutional Legacies and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Spending Decisions: The Case of the Freedmen’s Bureau
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
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Experimenting with tablet-making
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Austerity and Young People’s Political Attitudes in the U.K.
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
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On time or with a delay? Transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic in relation to subsidiarity check
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
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