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    Training wicked scientists for a world of wicked problems

    Humanity faces a number of wicked problems, from global climate change and the coronavirus pandemic to systemic racism and widening economic inequality. Since such complex and dynamic problems are plagued by d...

    Nicholas C. Kawa, Mark Anthony Arceño in Humanities and Social Sciences Communicati… (2021)

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    Using Rich Pictures to Model the ‘Good Life’ in Indigenous Communities of the Tumucumaque Complex in Brazilian Amazonia

    The primary objective of this paper is to examine how socio-ecological modeling efforts can use participatory visual methods to bridge cultural and linguistic differences among research participants and resear...

    Iuri T. Amazonas, Nicholas C. Kawa, Vitor Zanetti, Iori Linke in Human Ecology (2019)

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    Household Agrobiodiversity Management on Amazonian Dark Earths, Oxisols, and Floodplain Soils on the Lower Madeira River, Brazil

    Smallholder farmers play a critical role in the maintenance of global agrobiodiversity. However, the social and environmental factors that shape agrobiodiversity and its management in rural smallholder communi...

    Nicholas C. Kawa, José A. Clavijo Michelangeli, Charles R. Clement in Human Ecology (2015)

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    Crop Diversity on Anthropogenic Dark Earths in Central Amazonia

    A recent archaeological survey demonstrates that one of the most durable of all forms of pre-Columbian landscape transformation, Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE; soils formed by pre-Columbian settlement), are wides...

    James Angus Fraser, André B. Junqueira, Nicholas C. Kawa, Claide P. Moraes in Human Ecology (2011)

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    Useful Species Richness, Proportion of Exotic Species, and Market Orientation on Amazonian Dark Earths and Oxisols1

    Useful Species Richness, Proportion of Exotic Species, and Market Orientation on Amazonian Dark Earths and Oxisols Anthropogenic soils of Amazonia, known as Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE), are environments with elev...

    Nicholas C. Kawa, Daniel Rodrigues, Charles R. Clement in Economic Botany (2011)