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Locally-established marine protected areas (MPAs) have been proven to achieve local-scale fisheries and conservation objectives. However, since many of these MPAs were not designed to form ecologically-connected networks, their contributions to broader-scale goals such as complementarity and connectivity can be limited. In contrast, integrated networks of MPAs designed with systematic conservation planning are assumed to be more effective—ecologically, socially, and economically—than collections of locally-established MPAs. There is, however, little empirical evidence that clearly demonstrates the supposed advantages of systematic MPA networks. A key reason is the poor record of implementation of systematic plans attributable to lack of local buy-in. An intermediate scenario for the expansion of MPAs is scaling up of local decisions, whereby locally-driven MPA initiatives are coordinated through collaborative partnerships among local governments and their communities. Coordination has the potential to extend the benefits of individual MPAs and perhaps to approach the potential benefits offered by systematic MPA networks. We evaluated the benefits of scaling up local MPAs to form networks by simulating seven expansion scenarios for MPAs in the Verde Island Passage, central Philippines. The scenarios were: uncoordinated community-based establishment of MPAs; two scenarios reflecting different levels of coordinated MPA expansion through collaborative partnerships; and four scenarios guided by systematic conservation planning with different contexts for governance. For each scenario, we measured benefits through time in terms of achievement of objectives for representation of marine habitats. We found that: in any governance context, systematic networks were more efficient than non-systematic ones; systematic networks were more efficient in broader governance contexts; and, contrary to expectations but with caveats, the uncoordinated scenario was slightly more efficient than the coordinated scenarios. Overall, however, coordinated MPA networks have the potential to be more efficient than the uncoordinated ones, especially when coordinated planning uses systematic methods. shp - verde_puregion_governanceShapefile presenting the governance areas for each planning unit used in the model simulations and results described in the paper. The file can be used to present the data included in the paper to create maps.shp - verde_puregion_habitatsShapefile describing the area of habitats present within each planning unit. This file was used in the data analysis for the models described in the paper. This area of habitat described in the file are in square metres.DataZip folder containing processed data, model results and source code of the models described in the paper. The excel sheets can be used as attributes in the SHP files provided to create maps. The text file included in the folder is the the source code for the models and can be used and edited in MatLab.

Appendix 14 provides a brief description and other data about 708 of the ASAGE sites documented in the ten Study Areas. It does not provide specific latitude / longitude coordinates, so as not to facilitate looting of these sites, although the spatial data are available to bona fide researchers.

The beautiful focus of this film is a quilt made in c.1890 in Swaledale and its journey through the generations of a family and on to the Quilters’ Guild collection in the early twenty-first century. It conveys how textiles hold powerful emotions for their makers and the relatives who have inherited them, and communicates the pleasures of hand quilting in the past and today. It also shows how inherited objects offer insights into our history, reflecting on the way inherited quilts provide insights into changing regional patterns of women’s work and lives. With Deborah McGuire and Joanne Begiato.

Studies of place and landscape abound in the anthropological literature. This thesis aims at synthesising archaeological and anthropological approaches to explore how archaeological sites contribute to a sense of place and national identity in the Republic of Ireland. I take a multi-sited approach to discuss three archaeological places: the Hill of Tara, a prehistoric earthwork in County Meath, the Rock of Cashel, a Medieval ecclesiastical site in Country Tipperary, and Dublin city as a commemorative place for the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. These sites provide a way to examine how archaeological places support intangible ideas of place that are also mediated through a phenomenological experience of tangible sites. In focusing on the way that narratives are woven into and of place, I examine how meta-narratives of the Irish nation are experienced, contested and integrated through archaeological places. In this thesis I contend that the temporal and material qualities of archaeological sites are core features that define the narratives told of place, and that narrative and place are mutually constitutive, each structuring the experience of the other.

Data entered into a single Excel spreadsheet and organised by columns (122) and rows (360). The items (questions) are organised as identified above – each column represents a descrete question and the rows the individual responses to these questions. The question needs to be linked to each set of responses for that question. The responses should be linked to the appropriate gender, age, income level and years a supporter to have meaning. A copy of the original survey is available in the thesis identified above This data was collected using an online survey instrument, SurveyMonkey, which was promoted to members of an English Rugby Premiership club via the club’s web site. Participants were invited to follow a link embedded into an online story promoted on the web site. This data set represents those responses submitted by participants identifying as fans of the participating club. Data Processing: SPSS and AMOS were used to conduct all analysis as identified in the thesis. The primary method of analysis was structural equation modelling (SEM)., Code List: 122 questions presented in columns with 314 columns representing individual responses There is one file comprising 43,920 individual data entries Data was collected using SurveyMonkey. Fans were invited by the club to participate in the study; a link was embedded into the online story that took participants to an external web site hosting the survey.

This dataset is part of Sarah Colley's research project Mediated Messages: Archaeology Communication and Digital Technology (2010-2015) which investigates philosophical and ethical questions raised by using digital communication technology in archaeology and cultural heritage practice (e.g. Colley 2013, 2015). In 2011 Colley interviewed thirty Australian-based archaeologists and cultural heritage professionals about their use of digital technology and their communication with professional peers; television, radio and newspaper journalists; public relations and online media practitioners; public and government organisations; businesses; and members of the wider public including Indigenous community members and traditional owners. The research provides insights into e.g. remediation political economy, technology design, representation, authenticity and digital literacy. Changing communication technologies impact on peoples' understanding of and reactions to physical remains of the human past in ways that have broader social political and economic implications.

This archive contains indicative distribution maps and profiles for T4.5 Temperate subhumid grasslands, a ecosystem functional group (EFG, level 3) of the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (v2.1). Please refer to Keith et al. (2020) and Keith et al. (2022) for details. The descriptive profiles provide brief summaries of key ecological traits and processes, maps are indicative of global distribution patterns, and are not intended to represent fine-scale patterns. The maps show areas of the world containing major (value of 1, coloured red) or minor occurrences (value of 2, coloured yellow) of each ecosystem functional group. Minor occurrences are areas where an ecosystem functional group is scattered in patches within matrices of other ecosystem functional groups or where they occur in substantial areas, but only within a segment of a larger region. Given bounds of resolution and accuracy of source data, the maps should be used to query which EFG are likely to occur within areas, rather than which occur at particular point locations. Detailed methods and references for the maps are included in the profile (xml format).

All data for Sloan et al 2019 Plos OneThe following summarily describes GIS data files produced in for the following article: Sloan, S., Campbell, M.J., Alamgir, M., Lechner, A., Engert, J., Laurance, W.F. Trans-national conservation and infrastructure development in the Heart of Borneo. 2019. PLoS One. References to sections, figures, and header titles below are with respect to this article. These data are free to use for non-commercial purposes, provided that the source article above is duly cited. ------------------------------------------------ Heart of Borneo.shp The boundary areas of the Heart of Borneo conservation region. ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Intact Forests Currently.shp Intact Forests After Planned Roads.shp Intact forest areas are as described in Section 2.1.4 (Intact Forest Patches). 'Current' patches are those unaffected by planned roads of the Sabah Structure Plan 2033, as per Figure 1. Patches 'after planned roads' are those considered bisected by the planned new and upgrade roads (see 'Roads_of_Sabah_Structure_Plan.shp' below), buffered by 1 km, as described in Section 2.1.1 (Counts and areas of protected areas). ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Protected Areas.shp These were defined by the World Database on Protected Areas and supplemented by additional ‘totally protected’ forest designations of the Sabah Forestry Department (e.g., protection forest reserves, virgin jungle reserves, wildlife reserves and conservation sanctuaries). See Section 2.1.3 (Protected areas). The field [Int_HoB] notes with yes/no values whether a given protected area intersects the Heart of Borneo region defined by 'Heart of Borneo.shp'. ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Linages_2km_After_Planned_Roads.shp Linkages are connections of < 2 km long, between intact forest patches defined after planed roads are developed (as described above and represented by 'intact_forest_patches_2km_can_cross_rds.shp). These post-development intact forest patches exclude patches of < 10 ha (see Section 2.2 Intact forest structural connectivity). Linkages merely show which patches are connected to which where 2 km is the dispersal distance specified (Section 2.2). This file is as presented in Figure 6 and Figure S3 of the article. ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Roads_of_Sabah_Structure_Plan.shp Roads digitised from the Sabah Structure Plan 2033, as described in Section 2.1.2 (Planned road infrastructure development). The field [Type] labels roads by type, as described by legend of the Sabah Structure Plan. The field [Class] is a simplified road classification derived on the basis of [Type]. In the [Class] field, roads that are 'planned new roads' or 'planned upgrade roads' represent the planned roadways analysed in the article, as per Figure 1 and Figure 4. ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ intact_forest_patches_2km_can_cross_rds.shp intact_forest_patches_2km_cannot_cross_rds.shp Intact forest patches as presented in Figure 4. These are as described by Section 2.1.4 (Intact forest patches), excluding patches of < 10 ha as described in Section 2.2 (Intact forest structural connectivity), used to model structural forest connectivity according to two scenarios (Section 2.2): (i) linkages of < 2 km between patches can cross planned roadways, and (ii) linkages of < 2 km between patches cannot cross planned roadways. Planned roadways are as defined above for 'Roads_of_Sabah_Structure_Plan.shp'. These two intact forest patch files are spatially identical but differ with respect to their attribute data, which describes the connectivity of the forest patches, due to the fact that each file pertains to a different connectivity scenario (above). The field [id] presents a nominal unique identification value for each intact forest patch. For the first of the two files above (can cross roads), the field [top15_e2km] codes intact forest patches with a nominal integer value, as per Figure 4a and 4b. Each unique value represents a single network of intact forest patches that are inter-connected with each other by a particular set of 15 inter-patch linkages of highest importance to connectivity in scenario (i), as described below for the file 'edges_2km_can_cross_rds.shp. For the second of the two files above (cannot cross roads), the field [top15Be2km] codes intact forest patches with a nominal integer value, as per Figure 4c and 4d. Each unique value represents a single network of intact forest patches that are inter-connected with each other by a particular set of 15 inter-patch linkages of highest importance for scenario (ii), as described below for the file 'edges_2km_cannot_cross_rds.shp. ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ patch_nodes_2km_can_cross_rds.shp patch_nodes_2km_cannot_cross_rds.shp Centroid 'dots' at the center of each intact forest patch described immediately above, for the same two scenarios (i) and (ii) as described immediately above, as depicted in Figure 4. In both files, the field [top15_edge] codes with a 1 value each node (i.e., intact forest patch as described immediately above) that is connected to another node/patch via those 15 inter-patch linkages noted immediately above and described below, according to either scenario (i) or (ii) as appropriate. The fields [area] and [perimeter] as pertain to the intact forest patch represnted by a node and are therefore the same as in the files 'intact_forest_patches_2km_can_cross_rds.shp' and 'intact_forest_patches_2km_cannot_cross_rds.shp'. The units are in square meters and meters, respectively. ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ edges_2km_can_cross_rds.shp edges_2km_cannot_cross_rds.shp Lines (aka 'edges') depicted partially in Figure 4b and 4d, connecting intact forest patches according to scenario (i) or (ii), respectively. Each edge line features in these files graphically represents the inter-patch connections formed by the much shorter linkages of < 2km, which span the distance between the boundary of one intact forest patch and another, nearby intact forest patch. These linkages are as described in Section 2.2 (Intact forest structural connectivity) Each edge feature represents a single connection between two patches that are connected to each other via a linkage of < 2 km, according to scenario (i) or (ii) (Section 2.2). For each such pairwise inter-patch connection, the fields [id1] and [id2] code the ID values of the two intact forest patches so connected. The field [id] concatenates the values of [id1] and [id2] into a single unique ID field for each edge feature. These values of [id1] and [id2] are those ID vales described above for the intact forest patches in files 'intact_forest_patches_2km_can_cross_rds.shp' and 'intact_forest_patches_2km_cannot_cross_rds.shp' The field [d_IIC_Gr] codes the delta-IIC value of each edge feature. The delta-IIC value is a measure of the connectivity importance of each edge feature, as described in Section 2.2 (Intact forest structural connectivity). The field [top15_diic] codes with a 1 those 15 edge features that: (a) for the applicable scenario (i) or (ii), have the 15 greatest delta-IIC values; and (b) pertain to inter-patch linkages with a distance dispersal distance of < 2 km (Section 2.2). ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------------Sloan et al 2019 Plos One.zip The Heart of Borneo initiative has promoted the integration of protected areas and sustainably-managed forests across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei. Recently, however, member states of the Heart of Borneo have begun pursuing ambitious unilateral infrastructure-development schemes to accelerate economic growth, jeopardizing the underlying goal of trans-boundary integrated conservation. Focusing on Sabah, Malaysia, we highlight conflicts between its Pan-Borneo Highway scheme and the regional integration of protected areas, unprotected intact forests, and conservation-priority forests. Road developments in southern Sabah in particular would drastically reduce protected-area integration across the northern Heart of Borneo region. Such developments would separate two major clusters of protected areas that account for one-quarter of all protected areas within the Heart of Borneo complex. Sabah has proposed forest corridors and highway underpasses as means of retaining ecological connectivity in this context. Connectivity modelling identified numerous overlooked areas for connectivity rehabilitation among intact forest patches following planned road development. While such ‘linear-conservation planning’ might theoretically retain up to 85% of intact-forest connectivity and integrate half of the conservation-priority forests across Sabah, in reality it is very unlikely to achieve meaningful ecological integration. Moreover, such measure would be exceedingly costly if properly implemented – apparently beyond the operating budget of relevant Malaysian authorities. Unless critical road segments are cancelled, planned infrastructure will fragment important conservation landscapes with little recourse for mitigation. This likelihood reinforces earlier calls for the legal recognition of the Heart of Borneo region for conservation planning as well as for enhanced tri-lateral coordination of both conservation and development.

The data, R code and Netlogo model used in "Forager mobility, lithic discard probability, and the patterning of raw material transport distances in the archaeological record".