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africa’s leading historians disagree profoundly about
the colonial period. For one among them it was merely ‘one ... ultimate dissolution of the Colonial part of the British
Commonwealth.
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... give up
their ‘sacred cows’, and recognize that the successes of feminism, coupled
with economic change, make the restatement of original feminist goals
sometimes inappropriate. More complex gender ... freedom were
a convenient way of facilitating predatory male desires.
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The foment for social change, and the distinctiveness of women’s
unrest, is succinctly conveyed in Jill Neville’s Th...
... following equations:
Rice yield can find in following equations:
INTRODUCTION
As seen in Figure climate change,
desertification and loss of biological
diersity are intimately conected to
one another- ... implementation
CONCLUSION
9Vietnam climate change and variability are a part of global climate
change, if it occurs will definitely effect agriculture.
9In Vietnam the change and varia...
... in political and economic respects. Indeed,
following the mainstream interpretation of climate change,
assuming the human contribution to this change amounts
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... et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2009). This
is illustrated by one of the manifestations of
climate change, the increasing intensity and fre-
quency of natural disasters and extreme weather
events ... a ministerial meeting he
specially convened in New York:
If we are too slow to adapt to climate change,
we risk making disasters even more catastrophic
than they need to be. We must draw on the
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community about whether the upswing in hurri-
cane activity is caused by anthropogenic climate
change, meaning that it is likely to persist in the
future, or natural climate variability related ... therefore, advisable to con-
sider flexible infrastructure that allows for
adjustments to climate change, especially given
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the consid...