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From Alienation to Integration in Alcoholics Anonymous: A descriptive Analysis Using Dialectical Sociology of Religion

open access: yes, 1983
This thesis addresses itself toward two interrelated tasks. The first task is to provide an ethnographic description of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), the meetings and the members.
Csicsai, Rose
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Caring for forests between attitude and platitude. Social relationships with nature in industrial forestry in Äänekoski, Finland

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forests play a pivotal role in sustainability transitions. This article explores how people's relationships with forests, particularly how they care for or take care of them, shape and reflect broader tendencies and tensions in forest utilization and governance.
Jana Rebecca Holz
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer behaviour in a social context : implications for environmental policy

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper we summarise some of our recent work on consumer behaviour, drawing on recent developments in behavioural economics, in which consumers are embedded in a social context, so their behaviour is shaped by their interactions with other ...
Dasgupta, Partha   +3 more
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Co-sleeping as a contributor to early childhood caries: Behavioral pathways and clinical outcomes. [PDF]

open access: yesMedicine (Baltimore)
Bayón-Hernández G   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pastoralist views and positions on coexistence with large carnivores. An overview from conflict areas across Europe

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract While large carnivore expansion is a conservation success, it increasingly challenges pastoralism. Beyond economic value, pastoralism provides critical biodiversity and sociocultural benefits, recognized by the UN and the EU's ‘High Nature Value farming’ designation.
Valeria Salvatori   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The social life of miraa : farming, trade, and consumption of a plant stimulant in Kenya

open access: yes, 2015
This thesis traces the paths and trajectories that one substance - the plant stimulant Catha edulis (Forssk.), known in Kenya as 'miraa' - takes in the course of its 'social life' from production, through exchange, to its points of consumption.
Carrier, Neil
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Sharing landscapes with wildlife: Conflict and coexistence between high nature value pastoral systems and large carnivores

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract High nature value (HNV) pastoral systems, that is those maintained by herding, transhumance and extensive grazing practices, are recognised as cornerstones of European biodiversity, cultural heritage and ecosystem service provision. Yet these systems are currently under significant pressure from a range of economic, social and environmental ...
Katrina Marsden   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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