East Africa and oceanic exchange networks between the first and fifteenth centuries by Philippe Beaujard

“…As the various articles of this issue of the Journal Afriques show, although the East African coast has been oddly neglected by authors such as K. …”
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Estrutura e funcionamento das paisagens da área de proteção ambiental do estuário do rio Curu/CE by Maria Rita Vidal, Abraão Levi dos Santos Mascarenhas

“…This paper analyses the structure and operation of Protection Area (APA) landscapes in the Curu River Estuary, on the west coast of Ceará state, in Northeastern Brazil. The analysis was built on the theoretical and methodological basis of Landscape Geo- Ecology. …”
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Sugarcane Borer, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by John L. Capinera

“…It apparently was introduced into Louisiana about 1855, and has since spread to the other Gulf Coast States. It inhabits only the warmer portions of these states, however. …”
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Conflitos e contradições no município de Ferros: o mineroduto Manabi by Bruno von Sperling, Profa. Dra. Doralice Pereira

“…One of these projects belongs to the Manabi company, which, since 2012, intends to extract ore in the region and transport it through a pipeline, to a port in Espírito Santo state’s coast, from where it would be exported. The focus of the present article is to analyze the hierarchical social relations in some communities in Ferros county, which turned to get more complex since Manabi announced they intentions to build its pipeline there.…”
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Sugarcane Borer, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by John L. Capinera

“…It apparently was introduced into Louisiana about 1855, and has since spread to the other Gulf Coast States. It inhabits only the warmer portions of these states, however. …”
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Architectural decoration of the eastern frontier by Михаил Базилевич, Алина Иванова

“…Based on the materials of field surveys and archival data, the authors have made the first attempt to comprehensively understand the historical process of architectural design of Vladivostok as a key Russian port on the Pacific coast. The surviving and lost buildings of the naval department, which were erected in the city and its environs at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are considered. …”
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Nona Nenovska, Gouvernance des biens communs et spécificités du rapport social à la nature en Bulgarie : le cas de l’aire marine protégée de Kaliakra by Nona Nenovska

“…This thesis studies the local governance of the Kalikara Marine Protected Area, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The main focus of this research is on the formal/informal institutional arrangements for this area. …”
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Coastal Yorubaland: Habitability, Inhabitance, and Inheritances by Toyin Falola

“…For thousands of years, people have been living along the coast, experiencing interactions with the sea: they were shaped by the lagoon and sea, and they in turn shaped the coastline and waterways. …”
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La lutte internationale contre la piraterie au large de la Somalie depuis 2008 by Alban Sciascia

“…Basing on a diversified body of knowledge and on an analysis of the powers at play, we will questioning about the deeper motives of the States attendees that allow the deployment of an international coalition of the Somali coast. After having summed up this point, we will take an interest on the implementation, limits and consequences of this cooperation.…”
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Ho Chi Minh Ville, des inondations à la submersion… by Georges Vachaud, Nicolas Gratiot, Tien Dung Tran Ngoc

“…Most of the mega-cities in South-East Asia located on the coast are subject to both very strong demographic growth and increased flood risks resulting from a combination of poorly controlled urban development, increased monsoon rainfall intensity, rising sea levels and subsidence. …”
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Thirteen Years of Counting Migration in Batumi: Observations and Their Importance for Raptor Conservation in Russia by Olga O. Zaitseva, Bart Hoekstra, Wouter Vansteelant

“…One of the most important autumn migration bottlenecks for birds of prey in the Western Palearctic is situated in South-Western Georgia, between the east coast of the Black Sea and the range of Lesser Caucasus. …”
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Fort-de-France et Pointe-à-Pitre : deux villes américaines ? by Christophe Charlery

“…We will follow the process of dissemination of a standard type of building that was developed in England during the 18th century and that spread from 1790 to the 1820’s along the East Coast of the former Anglo–American colonies, between Boston and New Orleans. …”
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Object lessons: the question of cultural property in the age of repatriation by Michael E. Harkin

“…Object lessons: the question of cultural property in the age of repatriation. Northwest Coast material culture has become increasingly identified as cultural property, a quasi-legal concept that denotes objects of a collective patrimony. …”
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Les « associations villageoises de jeunesse » en pays bété, Côte d’Ivoire by Léo Montaz

“…This article examines the “village youth associations” that exist throughout Bété country, in the western centre of the Ivory Coast. In this lineage society strongly structured by primogeniture, the emergence of youth as an autonomous political category raises questions about the restructuring of the powers that run through the entire region. …”
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Entre Mochica et Lambayeque : retracer les identités de la période Transitionnelle dans les empreintes du quotidien by Sâm Ghavami

“…Following the collapse of the Mochica socio-political structure in the 9th century AD, the affluence of new stylistic identities of Huari influence redefined the socio-cultural landscape of the north coast of Peru. This article proposes to assess the nature of the relationships that the archaeological sites of San José de Moro and Huaca Bandera would have maintained during the Transitional Period, through a comparative analysis of domestic ceramics. …”
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Le séisme de Pisco du 15 août 2007 : entre urgence et reconstruction by Robert D'Ercole, Jérôme Chandes, Hugo Perfettini, Laurence Audin

“…More than three months have passed since the earthquake, on the Peruvian coast, 200 km south of Lima, killed more than 500 people. …”
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La pédagogie des compétences dans le primaire catholique ivoirien by Rodrigue N’sanman

“…When you look at the results, the catholic primary school system of the Ivory Coast Republic seems to rank at the top. Despite precarious and unsatisfactory conditions, teachers are earnestly zealous at work. …”
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A Terrific New World: Polar Space in the Narrative, Journals and Letters of John Franklin’s First Arctic Expedition (1819-22) by Nicoletta BRAZZELLI

“…Franklin’s first exploration of the Northern coast of Canada captured the public imagination thanks to his Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-22, published in 1823, which conveys the drama of an expedition plagued by harsh weather, bad planning, starvation and even murder. …”
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A lost element of the layout of the Southern Cultures arboretum. by Soltani Galina Alexandrovna, Panova Nadezhda Aleksandrovna

“…Petersburg Arnold Regel designed and brought into reality a magnificent park on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus at the beginning of the 19th century. …”
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Coastal Armoring Impacts on Beaches and Sea Turtles by Martha Monroe, Ray Carthy, Melissa Hill

“… Close to 19.6 million people live in Florida, and 76.5% of them, or approximately 15 million, live on the coast. Florida’s coasts are attractive despite the increasing risks from sea-level rise and more frequent climatic events such as hurricanes and coastal flooding. …”
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