Societal and economic impacts of an influenza pandemic.

Invasive species, those that are nonnative and cause economic damage, are one of the main threats to ecosystems around the world. Ambrosia beetles are some of the most common invasive insects. Currently, severe economic impacts have been increasingly reported for all the invasive shot hole borers in South Africa, California, Israel, and throughout Asia. This 7-page fact sheet written by Demian F. Gomez, Jiri Hulcr, and Daniel Carrillo and published by the School of Forest Resources and Conservation describes shot hole borers and their biology and hosts and lists some strategies for prevention and control of these pests. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr422

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Book Reviews

Kurdish Studies ◽

10.33182/ks.v2i1.381 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 80-95

Author(s):

Ulrike Flader ◽

Vera Ecarius-Kelly ◽

Clemence SCALBERT-YÜCEL ◽

Michael M. Gunter ◽

Tozun Bahcheli ◽

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Keyword(s):

New Brunswick ◽

Economic Impacts ◽

Publishing House ◽

Rutgers University ◽

Ashgate Publishing ◽

Kurdish Question ◽

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Cengiz Gunes and Welat Zeydanlıoğlu (eds.), The Kurdish Question in Turkey: New Perspectives on Violence, Representation and Reconciliation, London: Routledge, 2014, 288 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415-83015-7).Almas Heshmati and Nabaz T. Khayyat, Socio-Economic Impacts of Landmines in Southern Kurdistan, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, 341 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-4438-4198-6).Estelle Amy de la Bretèque, Paroles Mélodisées: Récits épiques et lamentations chez les Yézidis d’Arménie (Melodised speech. Heroic songs and laments among the Yezidis of Armenia), Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013, 230pp., (ISBN: 978-2-8124-0787-1).Diane E. King, Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq, New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2014. 286 pp., (ISBN: 9780813563534).Michael M. Gunter and Mohammed M.A. Ahmed (eds.), The Kurdish Spring: Geopolitical Changes and the Kurds, Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2013, 344 pp., (ISBN: 978-1568592725).Derya Bayır, Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing House, 2013, 314 pp., (ISBN: 9781409420071).

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A Perspective from the Antipodes: Demographic Changes and their Economic Impacts in New Zealand

Scottish Affairs ◽

10.3366/scot.2008.0037 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 64 (First Serie (1) ◽

pp. 80-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jacques Poot

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Economic Impacts ◽

Demographic Changes

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Faith Tabernacle Congregation, the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic and Classical Pentecostalism in Colonial West Africa

Studies in World Christianity ◽

10.3366/swc.2020.0307 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 219-238

Author(s):

Adam Mohr

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

Influenza Pandemic ◽

Assemblies Of God ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Orthodox Medicine ◽

Massive Growth ◽

Small Branch ◽

Pentecostal Churches ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Apostolic Church

The 1918–19 influenza pandemic killed between 30 and 50 million people worldwide. In Sub-Saharan Africa, as Terence Ranger points out, the pandemic left an indelible mark, including the unforeseen emergence of anti-medical religious movements. None were as significant as Faith Tabernacle Congregation, the Philadelphia-based divine-healing church that spurred a massive revival in West Africa – and a network stretching from Ivory Coast to Nigeria – without ever sending missionaries. They evangelised through personal letters exchanged across the Atlantic, and Faith Tabernacle literature sent from Philadelphia to various leaders in West Africa. The 1918–19 influenza pandemic was the spark that led to the church's massive growth, from one small branch before the pandemic began in 1918 to 10,500 members and nearly 250 branches of Faith Tabernacle in West Africa at its zenith in 1926. After the church's rapid demise between 1926 and 1929, leaders of Faith Tabernacle established most of the oldest Pentecostal Churches in the Gold Coast and Nigeria – such as the Apostolic Faith, the Apostolic Church, the Christ Apostolic Church and the Assemblies of God (Nigeria). Classical Pentecostalism, therefore, is Faith Tabernacle's legacy in West Africa, while abstinence from orthodox medicine continued to be debated within these Pentecostal circles.

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