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Green Transition, Extractive Continuities: Lithium Mining and the Environmental Contradictions of Sustainability

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
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

Globalisation and the Reinvention of Andean Tradition: The Politics of Community and Ethnicity in Highland Bolivia

, 2002
Travelling and working beyond the boundaries of their traditional communities, rural populations in the Andean Highlands have never really fitted with earlier categorizations of peasants as easily definable, harmonious and isolated communities wholly ...
McNeish, John
core   +2 more sources

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
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of andean integration law, future Andean Community Law

Introducción: el marco normativo de la Comunidad Andina (CAN) ha previsto con claridad el principio de aplicabilidad directa de las normas comunitarias.
Blanco Alvarado, Carolina
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Exporting textile consumer products to Venezuela [PDF]

, 2000
Plan BThis Paper presents a comprehensive look at the issues involved in exporting textile consumer products (pantyhose - HS number: 6115.11.0000) from the United States to Venezuela.
Gomez, Gabriel
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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
wiley   +1 more source

Civil liability for environmental damage in the Andean Community.

, 2021
Ilustraciones, mapasLa creación de Comunidad Andina de Naciones (CAN) en principio estaba direccionada a la integración económica de la subregión americana de los países que conforman la cordillera de los Andes, sin embargo, por la importancia ambiental ...
Mesa García, Luis Guillermo
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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
doaj   +1 more source