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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
wiley   +1 more source

Proposal for the design of a sustainable rural bio housing inspired by the municipality of Paipa, Boyacá-Colombia

open access: yesArquitecno, 2020
Architectural development in Colombia has been concentrated in large cities and has been characterized by the implementation of methodologies adapted to consumption and that generate a disruption of the environment and depletion of resources. Sustainable architecture seeks to mitigate the environmental damage of housing through elements such as ...
Jennifer Balcucho Escalante   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Wild Organics: A Frontier Shift from Agriculture to Wildculture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
There is currently a twenty-first century “backflow” of the “organic” concept, from its agricultural heritage to wildculture. Wildculture includes all aspects and styles of hunting-and-gathering food harvesting.
Paull, John
core  

Social, Technological, Economic, and Policy Factors in the Circular Economy Transition in Brazil

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A well‐functioning circular economy (CE) integrates resilience across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. This study identifies key drivers and barriers to Brazil's CE transition through 20 semi‐structured interviews with stakeholders. Major sociocultural barriers include inadequate education and limited CE awareness, while growing
Alejandro Gallego‐Schmid   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governance for sustainability: learning from VSM practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose – While there is some agreement on the usefulness of systems and complexity approaches to tackle the sustainability challenges facing the organisations and governments in the twenty-first century, less is clear regarding the way such approaches ...
Espinosa, Angela
core   +2 more sources

Revealing Hidden Impact: Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprise Networks and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) offers strong potential for sustainable development in low‐income regions, yet its enterprises often operate with scarce resources, weak monitoring systems, and limited visibility. These constraints hinder both their capacity to demonstrate contributions to sustainable development (SD) and their own ...
Maria‐del‐Mar Magallón   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Ontology-Based Recommender System with an Application to the Star Trek Television Franchise

open access: yesFuture Internet, 2019
Collaborative filtering based recommender systems have proven to be extremely successful in settings where user preference data on items is abundant. However, collaborative filtering algorithms are hindered by their weakness against the item cold-start ...
Paul Sheridan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wetlands’ Ecotourism Planning in the Savannas of Colombia. Linking Remote Sensing and Biodiversity [PDF]

open access: yes
Ecotourism has become a practice of socio-environmental interest and a conservation strategy aimed at protecting environments with high natural interest, whose lack of planning can compromise the quality of the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to explore territorial planning methods, such as remote sensing techniques, as efficient tools in ...
Cardoso-Castro, P-P   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Prohibited Plants: Converging Sustainability Transitions and Local Development in ‘Left‐Behind Places’

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between sustainability transitions and local development through the case of Colombia's medicinal cannabis industry. It highlights how neglecting place‐specific needs and development expectations can hinder equitable transitions and reinforce existing socio‐economic disparities.
Diana Morales, Mónica Ramos‐Mejía
wiley   +1 more source

Brain and brain blood vessels histological description in autopsies of fetuses/neonates born to mothers with hypertension during pregnancy. A case–control studyResearch in context

open access: yesThe Lancet Regional Health. Americas
Summary: Background: Children born to women with hypertension during pregnancy have a two to threefold increased risk of developing cognitive disorders compared to children born to women without hypertension.
Johana González   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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