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Interpreting Sustainability: A Cross‐Cultural Exploration Between New Zealand (Western & Indigenous) and Chinese (Urban) Consumers

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability is a globally promoted concept, yet its meaning is often shaped by cultural context. Existing research has largely been informed by Western‐centric understandings of sustainability, leaving limited insight into how sustainability is interpreted across diverse cultural settings.
Caixia (Ivy) Gan, Denise Maria Conroy
wiley   +1 more source

Encuentros impensados en la transición nutricional: agroecosistemas andinos en la Sierra central ecuatoriana

L'Ordinaire des Amériques
The nutrition transition model attributes the prevalence of overweight and obesity, linked to higher rates of morbidity and mortality, to a uniform and inexorable process in which rural societies, such as the Andean indigenous communities, abandon ...
Carlos Andrés Gallegos-Riofrío, William F. Waters, Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui, Lora L. Iannotti   +3 more
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Emergent Innovation in Systemic Programme Design: Retrospective Reflections on the Development of a Student‐Centred Masters in Systems Thinking

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
wiley   +1 more source

Repeated trends in altitudinal gradients of diversity: How habitat filtering and biotic interactions structure ecological communities

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study reveals that tropical butterfly communities show remarkably consistent elevational patterns of diversity and phylogenetic structure across regions with contrasting evolutionary histories, demonstrating how regional species pools and local ecological factors jointly shape biodiversity along altitudinal gradients.
Raphaël Fougeray, Arlety Roy, Christelle Penager, Guillaume Correa Pimpao, Ronald Mori Pezo, Léo‐Paul Charlet, Nino Page, Ombeline Sculfort, Stéphanie Gallusser, Marianne Elias, Melanie McClure   +10 more
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When Citizen Mobilisations Transform the Andean Foothills: the Case of the Group for the Defence of the Precordillera

Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2016
The Andean foothills found on the outskirts of Santiago are mainly private property. The management of this area has been an issue of conflict between residents and developers.
Consuelo Biskupovic, Caroline Stamm
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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Llamas, Barter and Travel Rituals: An Ethnographic Study on the Esquela Tusuy Dance of the Uchumiri Peasant Community, Condesuyos, Peru

Religions
The “Esquela Tusuy” dance is a cultural manifestation deeply rooted in the Uchumiri Peasant Community (Condesuyos, Peru), reflecting the intersection between traditional cultural practices and community identity.
Aleixandre Brian Duche-Pérez, Lolo Juan Mamani-Daza   +1 more
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Territorios hidrosociales en las geografías altoandinas del Norte de Chile: modernización y conflictos en la región de Tarapacá.

IdeAs, 2020
Using the perspective of the Political Ecology this paper analyses, for different historical periods, the processes of discursive and material production of the hydrosocial territories in the High Andean zone of the Tarapacá region, located in the center
Manuel Méndez, Hugo Romero
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Body Size Regulates Niche Overlap Asymmetry in the Subtropical Andes Rain Shadow: Isotopic Paleoecology of Oligocene South American Ungulates

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study provides the first isotopic analysis of Oligocene mammals from Quebrada Fiera, Mendoza, Argentina, filling a major gap in South American paleontology. It reveals a latitudinal gradient in aridity due to the Andean rain shadow and highlights the role of (semi)permanent water bodies in sustaining diverse herbivore communities. Additionally, it
Dánae Sanz‐Pérez, Santiago Hernández Del Pino, Esperanza Cerdeño, Manuel Hernández Fernández, Laura Domingo   +4 more
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Quand les mobilisations citoyennes transforment la précordillère des Andes : le cas d’une association de riverains à Santiago du Chili

Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2016
The Andean foothills found on the outskirts of Santiago are mainly private property. The management of this area has been an issue of conflict between residents and developers.
Consuelo Biskupovic, Caroline Stamm
doaj   +1 more source