Militarization of borders: migration flows and the Schengen regime by Marta Zorko, Robert Mikac, Rory Yoder

“…This article explores the paradox of a globalized cooperative world that appears conducive to openness, yet simultaneously witnesses the proliferation of closed borders, physical barriers, and increased border militarization. …”
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Geographies of Design Innovation: Cultural Drivers and Global-Local Flows by Roberto Iñiguez Flores, Valentina Gianfrate

“… How might design principles and practices adapt their approaches to create innovation and attend to the diversity that characterize the contemporary world? This reflection leverages the involvement of a plurality of peoples each inhabiting different geographies, including voices from the fringes, outside the mainstream, to pick up on new trends, practices, and future references of globalization. …”
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Just Planning: What Has Kept the Arts and Urban Planning Apart? by Tom Borrup

“… The creative and cultural sector, including artists, creative entrepreneurs, cultural practitioners, and most nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, remain on the fringes of the larger enterprise of urban planning and city building. …”
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Assessment of Growth Characteristics, Diversity and Structure of Tree Species in Opara Forest Reserve, Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria by O. A. Ogidan, A. F. Aderounmu, A. A. Ekaun, O. A. Ogundana, R. T. Afolabi

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Dual-surface flexible THz Fano metasensor by Srivastava, Yogesh Kumar, Cong, Longqing, Singh, Ranjan

“…Terahertz metasensors reported so far merely exploit the fringing electric field on the top of the subwavelength resonators. …”
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Searching for Reconnection: Environmental Challenges and Course Changes in Spatial Development Along Shanghai’s Shipping Channels by Harry den Hartog

“…Waterways played a crucial role in the emergence of Shanghai as a cosmopolitan city and world port. Over the years the spatial and functional relationships between the city and ports and hinterland have been changing continuously. …”
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The agnostic's response to climate deniers: price carbon! by Van der Ploeg, R, Rezai, A

“…With the election of President Trump, climate deniers moved from the fringes to the centre of global policy making and need to be addressed in policy-making. …”

Innovative teaching of building technology to architecture students in the University of Malaya by Rao, S.P., Hashim, H., Arbi, E.

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“A TROUBLE SHARED IS A TROUBLE HALVED” THE ROLE OF DICTIONARIES AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN TRANSLATION TROUBLES by Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh

“…Translator training has dramatically increased the world over for the past decades. In Palestine, translator-training institutions are singularly increasing in strength to arm the considerably large and robust job market with qualified translators. …”
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The role of mirabilia in literature produced by courtier clerics in 12th century England by Idalia Smoczyk-Jackowiak

“…Finally, the inclusion of wonders from the Celtic “fringes of the world”, that is from Wales and Ireland, into courtly texts tied those territories more closely to the Angevin Empire.…”
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The agnostic's response to climate deniers: price carbon! by van Der Ploeg, F, Rezai, A

“…With the election of President Trump, climate deniers feel emboldened and moved from the fringes to the centre of global policy making. We study how an agnostic approach to policy, based on Pascal's wager and allowing for subjective prior probability beliefs about whether climate deniers are right, prices carbon. …”

Bathymetry Derivatives and Habitat Data from Hyperspectral Imagery Establish a High-Resolution Baseline for Managing the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia by Halina T. Kobryn, Lynnath E. Beckley, Kristin Wouters

“…The Ningaloo Reef, Australia’s longest fringing reef, is uniquely positioned in the NW region of the continent, with clear, oligotrophic waters, relatively low human impacts, and a high level of protection through the World Heritage Site and its marine park status. …”
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Constant Holocene Southern-Ocean C-14 reservoir ages and ice-shelf flow rates by Hall, B, Henderson, G, Baroni, C, Kellogg, T

“…In this study, we use paired U/Th and 14C ages of an unusual set of solitary coral samples trapped by fringing ice shelves in the Ross Sea to provide the first detailed study of Holocene reservoir ages for the Southern Ocean. …”

Mesoscale Shoreline Evolution on a Carbonate Sand Island: Anegada, British Virgin Islands by Anna Lisa Cescon, J. Andrew G. Cooper, Derek W. T. Jackson, Antoine Collin, Shannon Gore

“…Anegada, the easternmost island of the Virgin Islands group (Caribbean Sea), is a low Pleistocene carbonate platform surrounded by Horseshoe Reef, the world’s third-largest fringing reef. The western part of the island consists of an extensive beachridge plain (>40 ridges). …”
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Environmental Ethics and the Cambridge Platonist Henry More by Jonathan David Lyonhart

“…On the one hand, removing God from the world avoids pantheism but can inadvertently render the divine a distant, absentee father who cares little about what we do with the environment. …”
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Landscape transformation processes in two large and two small cities in Egypt and Jordan over the last five decades using remote sensing data by Riad, P, Graefe, S, Hussein, H, Buerkert, A

“…Research has tackled the physical expansion of urban growth and concomitant rural-urban transformation of land use in many parts of the world, but this phenomenon remained largely overlooked in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. …”

Fenomena Pulau Haba Bandar dan isu alam sekitar di Bandaraya Kuala Lumpu by Shaharuddin Ahmad, Noorazuan Md. Hashim, Yaakob Mohd Jani

“…Urban heat island (UHI) is not a new phenomenon for many of the mega cities in the world today. It is also experienced by most of the big cities in Malaysia since the last few decades . …”
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Building liveable cities in Asia in the twenty-first century research and policy challenges for the urban future of Asia by T. G. Mc Gee

“…The paper argues that the fact that Asia which contains almost 60 per cent of the world’s population and is presently engaged in engaged in a rapid phase of the urban transition that will involve the addition of more than a billion people to urban places over the next fifty years means it imperative that urban policies be developed that will create urban places that are sustainable and livable. …”
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Patrones de distribución y tasas de bioerosión del erizo Centrostephanus coronatus (Diadematoida: Diadematidae), en el arrecife de Playa Blanca, Pacífico colombiano by Gerardo Toro-Farmer, Jaime R. Cantera K., Edgardo Londoño-Cruz, Carlos Orozco, Raul Neira O

“…Sin embargo, la acción combinada de C. coronatus con otros organismos bioerosionadores y con algunos factores ambientales adversos para los corales, puede estar provocando un desbalance entre los procesos normales de contrucción-destrucción arrecifal en la Isla Gorgona<br>Regular sea-urchins are one of the main bioeroding organisms affecting coral reefs around the world. The abundance, distribution and bioerosion rate of the sea-urchin Centrostephanus coronatus, were determined in different reef zones of Playa Blanca fringing reef (Gorgona Island, Colombian pacific coast) during 1997 and 1998. …”
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Marginalisation et dépendance aérienne de l'Afrique sub-saharienne by Dobruszkes, F, Mwanza, H

“…</p> <p>Africa is clearly on the fringes of the world air system. Its internal and external air traffic does not carry much weight compared with the supply from the centre. …”