Search Results - "Chesterman, S."

Parallel lasers and digital photography to estimate limb size of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda by Sandel, Aaron A., Derby, Riley N., Chesterman, Nathan S., McNamara, Allison, Dudas, Madelynne M., Rawat, Ishita

“…How animals grow and when they stop growing are key variables for understanding life history evolution. Although theoretically straightforward, it is…”
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Inclusive, Cross-Sectoral and Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Resilience Planning and Decision-Making in a Devolved Context by Neely, C. L., Bourne, M., Chesterman, S., Vågen, T.-G., Lekaram, V., Winowiecki, L. A., Prabhu, R.

“…Successfully achieving the sustainable development goals requires addressing complex, interrelated, wicked problems across multiple scales and contexts and…”
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Roads to interdisciplinarity – working at the nexus among food systems, nutrition and health by Picchioni, F, Aurino, E, Aleksandrowicz, L, Bruce, M, Chesterman, S, Dominguez-Salas, P, Gersten, Z, Kalamatianou, S, Turner, C, Yates, J

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Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, livelihoods and ecosystem service provision in drylands by Stringer, L.C., Dougill, A.J., Thomas, A.D., Spracklen, D.V., Chesterman, S., Speranza, C. Ifejika, Rueff, H., Riddell, M., Williams, M., Beedy, T., Abson, D.J., Klintenberg, P., Syampungani, S., Powell, P., Palmer, A.R., Seely, M.K., Mkwambisi, D.D., Falcao, M., Sitoe, A., Ross, S., Kopolo, G.

“…► Knowledge gaps and opportunities for carbon storage in drylands are assessed. ► Data, modelling and process-based knowledge on C stores and fluxes is…”
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The effects of trainings in soil and water conservation on farming practices, livelihoods, and land-use intensity in the Ethiopian highlands by Chesterman, Nathan S., Entwistle, Julia, Chambers, Matthew C., Liu, Hsiao-Chin, Agrawal, Arun, Brown, Daniel G.

“…•Farmers that attend trainings use soil conservation methods more than non-attendees.•Farmers that attend trainings report higher incomes from farming than…”
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Evidence and Ecology of Historic Human Settlements in Kibale National Park, Uganda by Chesterman, Nathan S., Angedakin, Samuel, Mbabazi, Godfrey, Tibisimwa, James, Sandel, Aaron A.

“…Ecosystem conservation often focuses on protecting wild places, but many remote forests and expansive savannahs have a deep human history of ecosystem…”
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Investigation of Prx1 protein expression provides evidence for conservation of cardiac‐specific posttranscriptional regulation in vertebrates by Chesterman, Elizabeth S., Gainey, Georgina D., Varn, Allyson C., Peterson, Richard E., Kern, Michael J.

“…Gene targeting experiments have defined that the homeobox gene Prx1 is essential for normal craniofacial, limb, and vascular development. Although its RNA…”
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'We Can't Spy ... If We Can't Buy!': The Privatization of Intelligence and the Limits of Outsourcing 'Inherently Governmental Functions' by Chesterman, Simon

“…Though it lags behind the privatization of military services, the privatization of intelligence has expanded dramatically with the growth in intelligence…”
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Roads to interdisciplinarity – working at the nexus among food systems, nutrition and health: 1st annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 20–24 June 2016 by Picchioni, F., Aurino, E., Aleksandrowicz, L., Bruce, M., Chesterman, S., Dominguez-Salas, P., Gersten, Z., Kalamatianou, S., Turner, C., Yates, J.

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Erratum to: Roads to interdisciplinarity – working at the nexus among food systems, nutrition and health: 1st annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 20–24 June 2016 by Picchioni, F., Aurino, E., Aleksandrowicz, L., Bruce, M., Chesterman, S., Dominguez-Salas, P., Gersten, Z., Kalamatianou, S., Turner, C., Yates, J.

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Erratum to: Roads to interdisciplinarity – working at the nexus among food systems, nutrition and health by Picchioni, F, Aurino, E, Aleksandrowicz, L, Bruce, M, Chesterman, S, Dominguez-Salas, P, Gersten, Z, Kalamatianou, S, Turner, C, Yates, J

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Spatial assessments of soil organic carbon for stakeholder decision-making – a case study from Kenya by Vågen, Tor-Gunnar, Winowiecki, Leigh Ann, Neely, Constance, Chesterman, Sabrina, Bourne, Mieke

“…Land degradation impacts the health and livelihoods of about 1.5 billion people worldwide. Given that the state of the environment and food security are…”
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Legality Versus Legitimacy: Humanitarian Intervention, the Security Council, and the Rule of Law by CHESTERMAN, SIMON

“…This article sketches out the nature of legal responses to humanitarian intervention in general and the Kosovo intervention in particular, with particular…”
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Comparative analysis of Prx1 and Prx2 expression in mice provides evidence for incomplete compensation by Chesterman, Elizabeth S., Kern, Michael J.

“…The family of paired‐related homeobox genes to which Prx1 and Prx2 belong plays an integral role in limb and craniofacial development, as evidenced by both…”
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Bush, the United Nations and Nation-building by Chesterman, Simon

“…Would greater UN involvement have avoided any of the mistakes made by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in administering Iraq? Three of the most…”
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Great Expectations: UN Reform and the Role of the Secretary-General by CHESTERMAN, SIMON

“…Part of a symposium on the report, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, issued 14 Dec 2004 by the UN's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges &…”
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East Timor in Transition: Self-Determination, State-Building and the United Nations by Chesterman, S.

“…This article addresses the work of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and the particular question of when and how political…”
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Blue Helmet Blues by CHESTERMAN, SIMON

“…A review essay on books by (1) Trevor Findlay, The Use of Force in UN Peace Operations (Oxford: Oxford U Press, 2002); & (2) Marrack Goulding, Peacemonger…”
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Are Sanctions Meant to Work? The Politics of Creating and Implementing Sanctions Through the United Nations by Chesterman, Simon, Pouligny, Béatrice

“…Chesterman and Pouligny discuss the politics of creating and implementing sanctions through the UN Security Council. These include the political context of the…”
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Evidence and Ecology of Historie Human Settlements in Kibale National Park, Uganda by Chesterman, Nathan S., Angedakin, Samuel, Mbabazi, Godfrey, Tibisimwa, James, Sandel, Aaron A.

“…Ecosystem conservation often focuses on protecting wild places, but many remote forests and expansive savannahs have a deep human history of ecosystem…”
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