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Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source

Unignorable carbon sequestration potential of afforested forests in the breadbasket of the Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]

Innovation (Camb)
Xie X, Zhao W, Wang Y, Jin H, Wu J, Yang Y, Wang X, Li ZL.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract It is clear that contemporary management education (ME) needs to be transformed to tackle complex social‐ecological crises effectively. However, the concept of transformation is often ill‐defined in the context of ME; while there is also a lack of understanding about what concrete transformation trajectories (also called scaling pathways) are ...
Laura A. Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

Physiology and the future of animals in shifting-sand deserts: living, moving and thermoregulating in the sand. [PDF]

Conserv Physiol
Mitchell D, Seely MK, Maloney SK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Strategies of photosynthetic physiology in response to karst habitats and rainfall allocation have maintained the morphology and function of Fraxinus malacophylla seedlings. [PDF]

BMC Plant Biol
Zheng S, Li L, Zhao Q, Zhang T, Gou R, Wang L, Wang Y, Shi S, Chen Y, Zhang C, Dong Q.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Trait‐based restoration in African dryland restoration projects: overcoming systemic and scientific barriers for a viable future

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction African dryland restoration continues to show low success rates despite major pledges, due to persistent water scarcity, ecological complexity, and limited use of trait‐based restoration (TBR). Functional trait‐based approaches, which match species selection to adaptive traits, could strengthen ecosystem recovery under arid ...
Paulina N. Naupu, Theo D. Wassenaar, Rolf W. Becker, Ezekeil Kwembeya   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Urban Expansion in Europe: A Literature Review of the Roles of Electoral Cycles and Climate Change

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract The urban population is growing worldwide; therefore, understanding the drivers of urban expansion is essential. To this end, this study conducts a systematic literature review followed by a thematic analysis, focusing on two main underlying drivers of urban expansion: climate change and electoral cycle.
Francesco Pagliacci, Na Haby Stella Faye
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling of fractional order DPG model insight global warming and pollution effect on desertification for control mechanism. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Farman M, Jamil K, Jamil S, Padder A, Ahmad H, Dehingia K, Bayram M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Apocalyptic Visions and Ecofeminist Narratives in Three Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Apocalypse that describes ‘end‐of‐world’ scenarios have been especially prolific in the past few decades since the climate crisis has prophesied the imminent destruction of natural and human habitats. Apocalyptic literatures present insights into the various problems that beset humanity currently and extrapolate the inevitable consequences ...
Chitra Sankaran
wiley   +1 more source

Differential responses of mineral-associated organic carbon and particulate organic carbon upon desertification of the Inner Mongolian grassland. [PDF]

Front Microbiol
Peng H, Dong B, Naren G, Ma L, Yu X.
europepmc   +1 more source