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Colonial Sustainability: Tracing the Sustainability Industry’s Ecocidal Lineage from the Doctrine of Discovery

Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies
The concept of “sustainable development” fuelling today’s sustainability industry may be traced back to the turn of the 14th century. The Holy Roman Empire’s imperialistic expansions into Africa and the Canary Islands eventually morphed into a ...
Christina M. Sayson, Samantha Suppiah, Anna Denardin, Luiza Oliveira, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Ayabulela Mhlahlo   +5 more
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Jung, Yoga and Affective Neuroscience: Towards a Contemporary Science of the Sacred [PDF]

, 2018
Materialist and fundamentalist reductive ideologies obscure our capacity to directly experience the numinous. Thus, importantly, given the weight of the observable and measurable in orthodox science, and oftentimes a dismissal of both the soul and the ...
Whitney, Leanne
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Scenarios for the Functioning of the Kakhovka Reservoir Territory

Journal of Landscape Ecology
The destruction of the Kakhovka hydro-electric power station and the draining of the Kakhovka Reservoir caused several environmental and socioeconomic problems in the southern region of Ukraine.
Pichura Vitalii, Potravka Larysa, Stoiko Nataliia, Dudych Halyna   +3 more
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Criminalization of Ecocide Acts from the Perspective of Dogmatik

Halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦atynastar ža̋ne halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦u̇k̦yk̦ seriâsì
In the face of the globalization of risk society and the increasingly serious ecological crisis, the international community proposed to formulate the ecocide in the Rome Statute in response to the public’s physical security.
Ван Хунвэй
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Green Criminology in the Niger Delta of Nigeria: Why African Women’s Voices Matter

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
Oil spills in resource-rich areas in Africa have led to irreversible environmental degradation, resulting in social conflicts that have greatly affected women.
Zainab Ladan Mai-Bornu
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Bible Localization and the Politics of Memory and Oblivion [PDF]

, 2011
For centuries the Bible and its teaching have been used to construct identities in the Western world. Today the range of ‘legitimate’ identities is much larger than several decades ago.
Naimushin, Boris
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Forging a legal culture: criminal law enforcement in environmental protection amidst the sustainable development era

Clío
The research explores the challenges of creating a responsive legal culture in the environmental sector, focusing on Indonesia’s environmental legislation, specifically Law Number 32 of 2009.
Emy Handayani, Marzellina Hardiyanti
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The Rise of Obesity and Diabetes with the Adoption of A Western Diet: A Case Study of Native American Communities [PDF]

, 2014
Since the mid-1900s, rates of obesity and diabetes among Native American populations have been much higher than the rates of those disorders for Americans as a whole—and yet, before 1950 or so, diabetes was extremely rare among Native Americans.
McCoy, Martha
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The Cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor as a Basis for Ecological and Humanitarian Ethics [PDF]

, 2014
This paper explores the cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor and its relevance for contemporary ethics. It takes as it’s starting point two papers on Maximus’ cosmology and environmental ethics (Bordeianu, 2009; Munteanu, 2010) and from there argues ...
Dewhurst, Emma Brown
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