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New paper on Biocultural Heritage in Africa!

2 January 2019 A new open-access publication co-authored by REAL team members Anna Shoemaker and Paul Lane is available from the MDPI journal ‘Land’. Ekblom A, Shoemaker A, Gillson L, Lane P, Lindholm K-L. 2019. Conservation through Biocultural Heritage—Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa. Land 8(1), 5.     Abstract In this paper, we review the potential of biocultural […]

Swedish Research Council funded Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change Project & Publications

  The Vetenskapsrådet (VR, Swedish Research Council) in association with Sida and Formas has funded a multiyear project titled ‘Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change‘ that runs parallel and has overlapping focal areas to the REAL project. The grant forms part of the VR/Sida/Formas Sustainability and resilience – Tackling climate and environmental change  research programme. The […]

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