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Participatory fuzzy cognitive modelling reveals leverage points for agroecological adoption in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Global institutions are increasingly calling for an agroecological transition of our food systems to promote sustainable farmer livelihoods, safeguard agrobiodiversity and foster socio‐ecological resilience to a changing climate. Yet adoption remains limited, and there is a paucity of research examining how local conditions enable and ...
Gabriela Marie Garcia, Quetzalcóatl Orozco‐Ramírez, Ximena de la Mora Bakjejian, Reyna Domínguez Yescas, Emilio Hernández Martínez, Patricia Balvanera   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Varied motivations for secondary forest reclearing among landholders make forest persistence challenging

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
wiley   +1 more source

Gobernanza para el desarrollo económico local: el caso COPRODESU [PDF]

, 2011
In the last decades, there has been a great interest of urban and regional economy for the influence of institutions and colective action in economic development. This change of perspective have come a long with a new concept involved, called governance.
Diez, José Ignacio
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Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha, Anselmo Nogueira, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Using incentive payments to promote human–carnivore coexistence

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract For many large carnivores, minimizing the financial burden they impose on local people is critical to their conservation. Incentive‐based programs that provide people with financial benefits for taking pro‐conservation actions or achieving conservation goals are a promising tool for promoting human–carnivore coexistence. Although the number of
Adam Pekor, Ingela Jansson, Ololotu Munka, William Ole Seki, Sally Capper, Bernard Kissui, Göran Bostedt, Camilla Sandström, Dennis Rentsch, Travis Gallo   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

El genuino y moderno desarrollo económico

Revista Escuela de Administracion de Negocios, 1989
RESUMEN El presente artículo  es el primero de una serie sobre el Desarrollo Económico. En éste se presenta la idea global de desarrollo, sus agentes, clases, cómo lograrlo.
José Antonio Meza Suárez
doaj   +2 more sources

What Job Would You Apply To? Findings on the Impact of Language on Job Searches

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether gender‐inclusive language in job advertisements can increase women's interest in applying for male‐dominated occupations. We implemented a discrete choice experiment with 5679 participants in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Each respondent evaluates multiple paired ads for the same job with job content
Ana Maria Diaz, Luz Magdalena Salas, Claudia Piras, Agustina Suaya   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sociedad, comunidad y desarrollo económico [PDF]

Ekonomiaz. Revista vasca de Economía, 2005
Los estudios sobre desarrollo económico e historia económica se han ocupado durante mucho tiempo de las relaciones entre las fuerzas transparentes y supuestamente anónimas de los mercados, reglas y burocracias así como de la pertenencia a grupos tales como comunidades locales, asociaciones o redes.
openaire   +5 more sources

From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Skills formation is a pressing issue for middle‐income countries given the pace of technological change. In Latin America, scholars point to the hierarchical type of capitalism and its segmentalist skills formation system as the main roadblocks to exiting the middle‐income trap.
Aldo Madariaga, Mariana Rangel‐Padilla
wiley   +1 more source