Carbon sequestration scenarios in Portugal: which way to go forward?

Assessing carbon storage and sequestration is key for defining effective conservation actions to mitigate climate change. Forest species changes have direct impacts on carbon stocks and may lead to undesirable climate trade-offs. In this paper, we measure aboveground biomass (AGB) and the impact of forest changes on climate regulation through three land policy scenarios by 2030 in continental Portugal. We found that a High intervention scenario, supported by an important increase in "Other coniferous trees" class, will provide 29.5% more of carbon sequestration, whereas a Low intervention scenario, in which there is a moderate increase in all forest classes, will result in an increase of 5.7%. A business as usual (BAU) scenario, supported by an increase in eucalyptus forests and a decrease in autochthonous species, will decrease carbon sequestration (-2.7%), particularly Lisboa, Algarve and North regions. Economic valuation shows that the High intervention scenario will generate the highest economic outcome for climate regulation by 2030. This study provides a spatial-based methodology for monitoring carbon sequestration and new insights about the impact of policies for Green House Gas (GHG) mitigation, supporting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals achievement.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Which way to go? Some complicated crossroads facing design culture in Aspen

| Born in 1951 thanks to the efforts of the businessman and philanthropist Walter Paepcke, the annual International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA) proved to be a highly influential experience for the development of design culture during the second half of the 20th century. A closer look at its history allows for a better understanding of the ever-shifting directions of the design debate throughout the years, as well as of its connections with other fields of practice and knowledge production such as architecture, visual arts, sociology, and philosophy. This contribution will try to dig into the main issues at stake in the first two decades of the conference, and into the uses and implications of keywords such as technology, business, responsibility, environment. More broadly, the aim is to shed light upon some of the crossroads design culture was faced with in an epoch that proved to be crucial for its own development

Which Way to the Wheat Field? Women of the Radical Right on Facebook

At what rates and in what capacity do women participate in extreme far-right ( radical right ) political online communities? Gathering precise demographic details about members of extremist groups in the United States is difficult because of a lack of data. The purpose of this research is to collect and analyze data to help explain radical right participation by gender on social media. We used the public Facebook Graph API to create a large dataset of 700,204 members of 1,870 Facebook groups spanning 10 different far-right ideologies during the time period June 2017 - March 2018, then applied two different gender resolution software packages to infer the gender of all users by name. Results show that users inferred to be women join groups in some ideologies at a greater rate than others, but ideology alone does not determine leadership opportunities for women in these groups. Furthermore, our analysis finds similarities between historical women\u27s organizations such as the 1920s Women\u27s Ku Klux Klan and contemporary online wheat field groups designed specifically for women

Which way to bishopric? : origin and careers of polish bishops in the 13th century

The paper on the Polish episcopacy of the 13th century aims at giving a brief characterization of the career pattern, which readily lead to the office of ordinary bishop in the ecclesiastical province of Gniezno, between 1180 and 1320. Focusing on the specific social, territorial and institutional factors supporting Episcopal promotion, it also considers the issue of the importance of secular authority influence.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologi

Which way does your beard point tonight? Ginsberg\u27s quest to resurrect Whitman\u27s America

Throughout his poetry, Allen Ginsberg is in continual dialogue with Walt Whitman. This thesis focuses on prominent differences in the evolving American character which made these two kindred spirits nevertheless different from each other. In Whitman\u27s time the United States was concerned with the expansion of, and pushing back of, borders of all kinds. To Whitman, America was a collection of states less concerned with dominating the world than with welcoming it in, in every possible respect. By contrast, Ginsberg\u27s America had gained a position of unimaginable world power. Yet to maintain that power, Cold War America had to close itself off from many people, ideas, and possibilities that might threaten its newfound prominence. Through his dialogue with Whitman, Allen Ginsberg chides America for such narrow-minded thinking and reintroduces Cold War America to what it used to be

Which Way to Magna Hungaria? The Application of Social Stratigraphic Mapping and Analysis to an Ethnic Origin Theory

This dissertation provides the results of a study that reflected on how the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the past was handled by researchers in the late 18th and 19th centuries – a period in history noted for extensive and profound political, social and economic changes all across Europe and the world. It pondered how living and working in an environment of major change may have impacted the researchers and their interpretations of archaeological data. The study examined this issue of ‘environmental’ impact on knowledge creation and dissemination through the prism of a case study on the impact of personal and professional influences on scholarly research within the field of ethnogenetic determination in Hungary. The study considered the processes by which one ethnogenetic theory - the ‛Finno-Ugric Uralian’ ethnogenesis theory (abbreviated to Uralic theory) - came to dominate scholarship in Hungary about the origins of its largest single ethnic group – the Magyars. Applying a new technique called ‛Social Stratigraphic Mapping and Analysis’ (an adaption of the Knowledge Management technique of ‘Social Network Analysis’), the associations of the scholars were profiled using historical biographical data coupled with psychological profiling, to determine those factors – personal, institutional and temporal – that may have affected their views and caused them to adopt a stance on the issue of Magyar ethnogenesis. The study found evidence of manipulation of data and biased views both in the reporting of the data, and in the treatment of the scholars themselves, and that the data manipulation and treatment of the scholars not only impacted on the reporting of the artefact assemblages in the period but has had a lasting impact on Hungarian research into ethnogenesis since that time