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  1. Mineral Resources and Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Case of Ecological Fallacy by De Luca, Giacomo, Maystadt, Jean-François, Sekeris, Petros G., Ulimwengu, John M., Folledo, Renato

    Published 2012
    “…Instrumenting the variable of interest with historical concessions interacted with changes in mineral international prices, we unveil an ecological fallacy: Whereas concessions have no effect on the number of conflicts at the territory level (lowest administrative unit), they do foster violence at the district level (higher administrative unit). …”
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  2. Quantifying off-site effects of land use change: filters, flows and fallacies by Noordwijk, Meine van, Poulsen, J.G., Ericksen, Polly J.

    Published 2004
    “…If flows and filters are incompletely understood, policies may be based on fallacies. Whereas ‘fire-breaks’ act as filters in the lateral flow of the high temperature pulse of a fire, smoke from land-based fires can be intercepted only by rainfall acting as a filter and the external impact of smoke is determined by the atmospheric conditions governing lateral flow and chemical transformations along the pathway. …”
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  3. Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands in Semiarid and Subhumid Ecologies in India by Singh, Virendra Pal, Verchot, Louis V., Martius, C., Nayak, D., Rizvi, J.

    Published 2018
    “…Therefore, any significant improvement in soil quality improvement in short term seems an unrealistic and fallacious expectation. The rehabilitation of degraded lands through social and biological measures, e.g., respectively, protection from grazing and assisted regeneration of vegetation, seems to have better impact than the physical/mechanical means. …”
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    Book Chapter
  4. En studie av besöksantalet i tre tätortsnära skogar i Stockholmsområdet med hjälp av Radio Beam Counter : ett räkneverk baserat på radiovågsteknik by Lundin, Michael

    Published 2004
    “…The results of this study show the visitor frequency to three recreational forests located in the Stockholm region under a period stretching from the end of May to the beginning of October. Due to certain fallacies, the areas have not been able to be measured throughout the whole period. …”
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