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Open University of Catalonia
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About: Open University of Catalonia is a education organization based out in Barcelona, Spain. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Collaborative learning & Educational technology. The organization has 1943 authors who have published 4646 publications receiving 64200 citations. The organization is also known as: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya & UOC.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the sociocultural valuation of the ecosystem services of mangroves through a case study in northeastern Brazil, an area highly impacted by shrimp aquaculture is explored.
Abstract: Despite the increasing recognition of the need to conserve mangroves, degradation has continued during the last two decades due to ineffective and non-inclusive decision-making processes exclusively based on economic factors. The purpose of the present study is to give tools to mangrove conservation management and policy, exploring the sociocultural valuation of the ecosystem services of mangroves through a case study in northeastern Brazil, an area highly impacted by shrimp aquaculture. We used a mix of methods to complement ecosystem services identified in the academic literature with those perceived as such by local people. We analyzed these locally perceived mangrove services in relation to community livelihoods, and highlighted that local people identified four additional cultural services related to maintenance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), creation and maintenance of social relationship, personal satisfaction and mental and physical relaxation. This demonstrates that local people have a symbolic relationship with the mangrove forest, which goes beyond the material approach normally used to evaluate ecosystem services. Such findings suggest that the socio-cultural dimension of mangrove services needs to be considered by policy-makers as an indispensable criterion for confronting the key challenges in coastal ecosystems conservation.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide three studies regarding this particular aspect through the evidence present in different destinations: Catalonia, European natural parks and Chile, and highlight the prevalence of altruism in the reasons for being responsible, the introduction of increasingly advanced measures or their impact on different business variables, and the link to financial performance.
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TL;DR: In this article, a cross-reading of research on Smart Cities with theoretical perspectives drawn from the literature on Degrowth is presented, which suggests that Degrowth should not refrain from engaging with urban technological imaginaries in a critical and selective way.
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TL;DR: The results of this study support a biopsychosocial perspective for whiplash disorders and test if fear of movement is a mediator in the relation between catastrophizing and pain‐related disability/depression as has been suggested by the fear‐avoidance model.
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TL;DR: A system that enables wheelchair users to interact with items placed beyond their arm’s length, with the help of Augmented Reality (AR) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies is developed, providing an opportunity for equality improvement.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Andrea Saltelli | 65 | 184 | 31540 |
Jose A. Rodriguez | 63 | 597 | 17218 |
Cristina Botella | 55 | 404 | 13075 |
Fatos Xhafa | 52 | 692 | 10379 |
Jaime Kulisevsky | 48 | 210 | 15066 |
William H. Dutton | 43 | 277 | 7048 |
Angel A. Juan | 41 | 284 | 5040 |
Aditya Khosla | 39 | 61 | 50417 |
Jordi Cabot | 38 | 106 | 5022 |
Jordi Cortadella | 38 | 226 | 5736 |
Antoni Valero-Cabré | 37 | 99 | 6091 |
Berta Pascual-Sedano | 34 | 87 | 4377 |
Josep Lladós | 33 | 271 | 4243 |
Carlo Gelmetti | 33 | 159 | 3912 |
Juan V. Luciano | 33 | 106 | 2931 |