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Epilogue: Patmos
Having completed my journey aboard Pontoporia, I returned to my refuge on Patmos, to try to make some sense of what I learned during the journey....
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Southern Mediterranean: From Paleochora to Carloforte
It took me more than 3 days, under the push of a moderate wind from the northwest, to cover the 540 nautical miles separating Crete from Lampedusa,...
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Pillars of Hercules: From Carloforte to Tarifa
The visit to Carloforte, one of the last places where bluefin tunas are fished with the ancient method of the tonnara, allowed me to explore this...
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Sailing Across a Wounded Sea
The capacity of humans to destroy their environment is playing out like a Greek tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea. After having coexisted with a...
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Ionian Sea: From Otranto to Corinth
With Otranto and Italy left in my wake, I crossed the deep blue Ionian Sea under the push of a brisk north-westerly, and the ride was inebriating. I...
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Levantine Sea: From Rhodes to Paleochora
As I ventured into the eastern dead end of the Mediterranean Sea, I first landed in Cyprus after having sailed over deep waters, strewn with enormous...
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Aegean Sea: From Corinth to Rhodes
I crossed the Corinth Canal and entered the Aegean Sea—the “prince of all seas”. Here lies the boundary area, natural and cultural, between the...
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Adriatic Sea: From Venice to Otranto
On a day in early June, I took to the sea aboard Pontoporia and motored out of the lagoon of Venice to begin my journey by sailing down the Adriatic...
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Introduction: Mediterranean Stories Worth Telling
The Mediterranean is a sea of great natural value that underwent two major misadventures imperilling its integrity and balance. The first occurred 6...
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Venice
Venice, the quintessential water city where my journey as a human began, is the departure port for my adventure aboard Pontoporia. Growing up at the...
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Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals: From Tarifa to Sanremo
Before pointing Pontoporia’s bow east again towards home, I made a brief foray into the Atlantic Ocean in the hope of encountering orcas. A...
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Vom Referat bis zur Abschlussarbeit Wissenschaftliche Texte perfekt produzieren, präsentieren und publizieren
Diese praxisnahe Anleitung bietet punktgenau dosiert Erste (und letzte) Hilfe beim Erstellen schriftlicher Arbeiten im Studium der...
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Nature Conservation A Critical Introduction
Many things happen in nature reserves that are contradictory at first glance. For example, flower meadows are mown down during maintenance work, even...
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Reduction of Food Loss and Waste: The Challenges and Conclusions for Actions
The simultaneous coexistence of food loss and waste and prevalence of hunger, undernourishment and malnutrition represents a failure of contemporary...
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The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation for Transforming Food Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
Food systems (FS) incorporate nutrition, health, resource use, biodiversity, transformation, jobs and livelihoods, all of which ideally should be...
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Diversification for Enhanced Food Systems Resilience
Resilience at the individual, community, government and global food system levels must be built in such a way that the economic, social and...
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Leveraging Data, Models & Farming Innovation to Prevent, Prepare for & Manage Pest Incursions: Delivering a Pest Risk Service for Low-Income Countries
Globally, pests (invertebrates, vertebrates, pathogens, weeds) can cause estimated annual losses of between 20% and 40%, but higher losses are...
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Food System in India. Challenges, Performance and Promise
India’s transformation of its food system from a highly deficient one in the mid-1960s to one that is self-reliant and marginally surplus now is a...
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Phosphorus Nutrition Enhancement of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Pastures
Nitrogen (N) is the most limiting plant nutrient in agroecosystems. The increasing use of N-containing fertilizers increases greenhouse gas emissions...
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Priorities for Inclusive Urban Food System Transformations in the Global South
This chapter is concerned with identifying: (i) challenges to food systems in Africa, Asia, and Latin America caused by urban development, (ii) how...