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What's Wrong with Processed Food?

Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. The topics include what processed food is, genetically-modified foods, functional foods, and the impacts of processed foods.
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Kaplan, David M.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Post-Fledging Habitat Selection by the Slender-Billed Parakeet (Enicognathus Leptorhynchus) in a Fragmented Agricultural Landscape of Southern Chile

Description: This article contains an examination of habitat selection by radio-tracked juvenile Slender-billed Parakeets (Enicognathus leptorhynchus) at multiple spatial scales in a fragmented agricultural landscape of southern Chile.
Date: June 22, 2011
Creator: Carneiro, Ana Paula B.; Jiménez, Jaime E. & White, Thomas H., Jr.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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The road to biocultural ethics

Description: Article discussing biocultural ethics. As a child, Ricardo Rozzi visited indigenous communities in the high Andes with his grandfather and was enchanted by their close relationship with the natural world. Later, he and his wife would return to the region to explore the traditional ecological knowledge of the world's southernmost indigenous people.
Date: May 1, 2011
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- & Massardo, Francisca
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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A Tribute to Carlos Augusto Angel Maya

Description: This article offers a tribute to Carlos Augusto Angel Maya. The authors explain Maya's life and work and his legacy of infinite value for the community of environmental thought in Colombia, in Latin America, and throughout the world.
Date: 2011
Creator: Noguera de Echeverri, Ana Patricia & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Comparative Assessment of Peer Review (CAPR): EU/US workshop on peer review: Assessing "broader impact" in research grant applications

Description: This is the report of a workshop focusing on the use of broader societal impacts criteria as part of the review process at the European Commission. There is both a historical account and some thinking about how 'impact' ought to be incorporated into Horizon 2020 (the funding scheme formerly known as FP8). Since the US NSF is also currently rethinking the details of its merit review process, and since there is an interesting comparison between NSF's and the EC's approaches to impact, the authors… more
Date: December 2010
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Media and Communication

Description: This book chapter discusses media and communication. As core features of humanity, communication and media clearly predate academic disciplines. They are in this sense non-disciplinary. Yet, they have for centuries been the subject of inquiry by those concerned to understand and improve human correspondence. This chapter surveys the historical development and present form of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary studies of media and communication.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Briggle, Adam & Christians, Clifford G.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species

Description: This book chapter discusses a research project to promote biocultural conservation in Cape Horn, Chile. In an effort to achieve the goal of transdisciplinary integration, the authors used the strategy of identifying a charismatic species, since doing so serves to motivate people towards biodiversity conservation, to communicate ecological concepts, and to integrate both the ecological and social dimensions of sustainability.
Date: March 11, 2010
Creator: Arango, Ximena; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Massardo, Francisca & Ibarra, J. Tomás
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

Dear Facebook

Description: This book chapter is written in the form of a break-up letter from the author to the social networking website, Facebook. It discusses social networking, technological changes, urbanization, globalization, media technology, and philosophical ideas about society.
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Date: 2010
Creator: Briggle, Adam
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Estación Biológica Senda Darwin: Investigación ecológica de largo plazo en la interfase ciencia-sociedad

Description: This article discusses Senda Darwin Biological Station and the work of the scientists who study the anthropological role in ecological processes there.
Date: 2010
Creator: Carmona, Martín R.; Aravena, J. C.; Bustamante-Sanchez, Marcela A.; Celis-Diez, Juan L.; Charrier, Andrés; Díaz, Iván A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Fenología de Tayloria dubyi (Splachnaceae) en las turberas de la Reserva de Biosfera Cabo de Hornos

Description: This article proposes a methodology for phenological studies of Tayloria dubyi (Splachnaceae) in the peatlands of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jofre, Jocelyn; Massardo, Francisca; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Goffinet, Bernard; Marino, Paul; Raguso, Robert A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park: Methodological approaches to broaden the ways of integrating the social component ("S") in Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Sites

Description: This article discusses field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation methods at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve in Chile.
Date: 2010
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Anderson, Christopher B.; Pizarro, J. Cristóbal; Massardo, Francisca; Medina, Yanet; Mansilla, Andrés O. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park: Methodological approaches to broaden the ways of integrating the social component ("S") in Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Sites [Material Complementario]

Description: This article discusses field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation methods at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve in Chile.
Date: 2010
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Anderson, Christopher B.; Pizarro, J. Cristóbal; Massardo, Francisca; Medina, Yanet; Mansilla, Andrés O. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Filosofía ambiental de campo y conservación biocultural en el Parque Etnobotánico Omora: Aproximaciones metodológicas para ampliar los modos de integrar el componente social ("S") en Sitios de Estudios Socio-Ecológicos a Largo Plazo (SESELP)

Description: This article discusses field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation methods at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in Chile's Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve.
Date: 2010
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Anderson, Christopher B.; Pizarro, J. Cristóbal; Massardo, Francisca; Medina, Yanet; Mansilla, Andrés O. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Senda Darwin Biological Station: Long-term ecological research at the interface between science and society

Description: Article discussing long-term ecological research at the interface between science and society at the Senda Darwin Biological Station (SDBS).
Date: 2010
Creator: Carmona, Martín R.; Aravena, J. C.; Bustamante-Sanchez, Marcela A.; Celis-Diez, Juan L.; Charrier, Andrés; Díaz, Iván A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Invasive American mink Mustela vison in wetlands of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, southern Chile: what are they eating?

Description: This article discusses invasive American mink Mustela vison and its ecological effect in wetlands of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, southern Chile.
Date: January 28, 2009
Creator: Ibarra, J. Tomás; Fasola, Laura; MacDonald, David W. (David Whyte); Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- & Bonacic, Cristián
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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