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Knowing when native regeneration is for you, and what you should do about it. The Aotearoa New Zealand context
Forest restoration is an activity that can be readily undertaken to address both the climate and biodiversity crises. In Aotearoa New Zealand, aspirations for large-scale native forest restoration are growing across governmental and private sectors and a considerable focus to date has been on forest establishment by actively planting native trees. In contrast to actively planting trees, considerable proportions of Aotearoa New Zealand have a demonstrated potential for passive tree establishment through natural regeneration processes, subsequent to land use change away from pastoralism or exotic forestry. At a policy and land manager level, knowledge is lacking over the main considerations that should determine whether native restoration will most efficiently be achieved by active tree planting or by natural regeneration. Whether restoration follows active or passive establishment methods (or an intermediate point along the active-to-passive continuum), adequate forest management is essential to achieve high levels of native forest health, functionality, and permanence. We describe a step approach for assessing at a site scale whether forest restoration can most efficiently be achieved via active or passive methods, or combinations of the two. Our assessment covers the main biotic and abiotic factors which explain the probability of native tree establishment. These factors are mean annual rainfall, mean annual air temperature, proximity and composition of adjacent seed sources, landform type, slope aspect, slope, topographic exposure, and the presence of existing woody cover. We then describe the main management interventions that will be required to support successful natural regeneration outcomes and highlight the importance of strategic natural regeneration for achieving large scale restoration for the betterment of both our climate and biodiversity.
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Inside Mathforum.org : analysis of an Internet-based education community
The internet has dramatically transformed social space and time for many people in many different contexts. This dramatic warping of the social fabric has happened slowly over time as digital technologies have evolved and internet speeds have increased. While we are all aware of these changes, the impact is often little understood. There are few monographs about social groups made possible by the internet, and even fewer about educational communities made possible through digital technologies. 'Inside Mathforum.org' details the ways that digital media are used to enhance the practices that teachers and students of mathematics engage in. The book also shows how different kinds of mathematical conversations and interactions become possible through the digital media. Unlike many other educational uses of digital media, the Math Forum's community has provided online resources and sustained support for teachers and students, and it leads the way in showing the power of digital media for education.
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The Migratory Voice of the Land
Diane Glancy, born in 1941, is one of the most prolific and versatile U.S.-American writers today, with award-winning publications across all genres and over five dozen books. On the 35th anniversary of the publication of her first short-story collection, Trigger Dance, which won the Mildren P. Nilon Award in 1990, this forum gathers reflections, reminiscences, and scholarly as well as practice-based approaches to her life and work. Contributors include Margaret Noodin, Daniel Taylor, Béatrice Machet, and Randy Reinholz; and the coda is an original piece written specifically for the forum by Diane Glancy herself, which includes an excerpt from her upcoming play, The Leveret. The texts assembled here think about Glancy’s achievements as a writer, the aesthetics of her non-fictional, poetic, dramatic, and fictional oeuvre, the challenge of translating Glancy’s work into other languages, as well as Glancy’s complex, intersecting identities and multicultural heritage.
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Protest and organization in the alternative globalization era : NGOs, social movements, and political parties
This study looks at the ongoing efforts of the alternative globalization movement, using the mechanism of the World Social Forum, to reconcile contests over political organization.
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Flashlight into Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
This forum grew out of papers presented at the biannual conference of the European Association for American Studies “1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited,” which took place in Munich in April 2024. The number of presentations on Ocean Vuong’s debut novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019)—six in total—indicated that even after the hype about Vuong’s first prose work had simmered down, scholarly interest in and personal affection for the book is ongoing. Recently listed among The New York Times’ “100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” On Earth is considered one of the most powerful and insightful literary contributions to contemporary Asian American fiction. However, despite the attention that the novel generated, comprehensive scholarship is yet to be produced about it. While the format of the forum cannot, of course, suffice as an in-depth contribution to such scholarship, we hope to at least offer a flashlight-like insight into the novel, and to thereby point toward some of the major literary themes and trends of twenty-first-century immigrant literature. Vuong’s second novel will be published in 2025, and we understand our contributions here as a retrospect, a summary, a “cash check” of what we consider some of the most central aspects of Vuong’s seminal work: war, race, queerness, family, trauma, and writing. While working on this forum it became clear that we are all writing from the position of a scholar, as much as we are writing from the position of a fan: what unites our interest in and our readings of On Earth is a sincere admiration for the text, and we hope to speak to those who have already enjoyed Vuong’s work and to spark interest in those who still have it on their “to-read” list.
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