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Afro-descendant lands in South America contribute to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation

Communications Earth & Environment
Over 130 million people in Latin America identify as Afro-descendants, many of whom inhabit lands with potential to mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change.
Sushma Shrestha Sangat, Martha Rosero, Erik Olsson, A. Justin Nowakowski, Jonathan Drescher-Lehman, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Monica L. Noon, Nickolas McManus, Stephen G. Perz, Marcela Angel, Joana M. Krieger, Cameryn Brock, Bruno Coutinho, Christian Martinez, Leo R. Douglas, Curtis Bernard, Loes Trustfull, Daniela Raik, Sebastian Troëng, Kelvin Alie   +19 more
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A inclusão afrodescendente na era da informação

RDBCI: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação, 2013
O texto aborda o contexto das tecnologias intelectuais como uma necessidade premente para afrodescendentes enfrentarem um mundo de incertezas, esperanças e responsabilidades.
Mirian de Albuquerque Aquino
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An interdisciplinary review of the interplay of conflict, socio‐economic factors, and land cover and vegetation dynamics in Colombia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Colombia's forests play a crucial role in preserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, but they are currently facing severe degradation, particularly after the 2016 Peace Agreement. Our literature review highlights a growing research interest in this topic and demonstrates how interdisciplinary approaches combining diverse methods can enhance
Estefanía Muñoz, Jesús A. Anaya, Nicola Clerici, Lina M. Estupinan‐Suarez, Isabel Lopera, Solveig Richter, Alejandro Salazar, Carlos A. Sierra, Andrés Tangarife‐Escobar, Miguel D. Mahecha, David Montero, Pablo Palacios‐Rodríguez, Pablo Ramos, Santiago Botía   +13 more
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Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo, Berta Fernández‐Gallego   +1 more
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Afro-descendants, political exclusion and non-recognition in liberal democracies

, 2022
Este artículo intenta una reflexión sobre las estrategias de reconocimiento y participación política de la afrodescendencia. La participación política en los escenarios electorales es uno de los puntos de la agenda del movimientoafrodescendiente.
Valencia Caicedo, Katty, Antón Sánchez, John   +1 more
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The social construction of Afro-descendant rights in Colombia [PDF]

, 2016
Afro-descendant people make up around 30 per cent of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean, some 150 million people (IACHR 2011). In a context of mestizaje and the myth of racial democracy, Afro-descendant rights were not institutionalised in many Latin American states until the end of the 20th century. This reflected an invisibility at the
openaire   +1 more source

Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy.
Diego Silva Garzón
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Slavery and Afro-descendants: a proposal for teacher training

, 2017
: This article will seek to reflect on a series of experiences with elementary school teachers from the city of Buenos Aires concerning ideas on slavery and Afro-descendants in the colonial period and during the wars for independence. It is an account of
Marisa Massone (6153731), Manuel M. Muñiz (6153734)   +1 more
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Panorama de estudios sobre las poblaciones de origen africano en Colombia. Influencias, tendencias y contextos

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2010
The studies on Afro-descendent populations in Colombia have undergone substantial changes over the past few years due to an academic circle which produced them. However, they are also related to an evolution of the social and political contexts, changing
Carlos Agudelo
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The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
wiley   +1 more source