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When Norms Meet Markets: Environmental Governance and Digital Fast‐Fashion Platforms in Brazil
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental governance increasingly relies on consumer‐based mechanisms that assume that sustainability awareness translates into purchasing behaviour. This article investigates whether such mechanisms remain effective when consumption is organised through transnational digital platforms in contexts characterised by socioeconomic inequality.
Giovana Santa Rosa Lana +1 more
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A Systematic Review of Degrowth Food‐Systems, Framework Conceptualisation and Thematic Tensions
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Degrowth food‐systems offer ways to address inequity, poor health, greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss arising from globally dominant industrial food‐systems. In this study, a systematic review of degrowth food‐system research literature was conducted in the Web of Science on 7 February 2025 to identify descriptions of degrowth food‐
George Ellis +2 more
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DIGITAL CAPITALISM AND DIGITAL PUBLIC GOODS
Economics and Innovation Management, 2022 openaire +1 more source
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate transitions are widely presented as pathways toward decarbonization, green growth, and sustainable development, yet their social effects are mediated by labour‐market segmentation, regional dependence, institutional capacity, and unequal political voice.
Jacob Kwakye, Solomon Tawiah McBanasam
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Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing policy and scholarly interest in circular cities, limited attention has been paid to how private‐sector actors shape the governance of circular urban transitions across different spatial contexts. Existing research has largely focused on circular business models, technological innovation, and municipal strategies, while ...
Emmanuel Senior Tenakwah +4 more
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Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy.
Diego Silva Garzón
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Global Digital Capitalism: Mark Zuckerberg in Lagos and the Political Economy of Facebook in Africa
International Journal of Communication, 2019 In 2016, Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Lagos, Nigeria—the first stop on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa. The trip was a commercial endeavor, a digital capitalist exploration of the potential of Africa’s largest nation ...
Toks Dele Oyedemi
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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
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