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Logologists everywhere welcome the appearance of a new dictionary, particularly if it fills a niche not occupied by ones already on the ...
Francis, Darryl
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Academic Responsibilities and Representation of the Ok Tedi Crisis in Postcolonial Papua New Guinea [PDF]
Since the start of the Ok Tedi mining project in Papua New Guinea in 1981, Broken Hill Proprietary has operated it. Weak environmental protection laws and a series of ecological disasters have endangered the greater Ok Tedi and Fly River socioecological ...
Hyndman, David
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the rise and collapse of the 2021 United Arab Emirates (UAE)–Israel–Jordan Water‐for‐Energy Deal, a landmark initiative that sought to exchange Jordanian solar energy for Israeli desalinated water. Presented as a breakthrough in regional cooperation and environmental peacebuilding, the agreement was brokered under the ...
Majed Abu‐Zreig, Hussam Hussein
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Rethinking fairness of business and human rights standards in times of challenge for climate protection: a new universal paradigm? [PDF]
Understanding the multivalent dimensions of the climate protection, including its ef¬fects on the rule of law, international and European intergovernmental organizations have de¬cided to act for rethinking the strategy of functioning business and human ...
Alina GENTIMIR, Ada-Iuliana POPESCU
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Abstract Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non‐humanist, non‐modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, provide tools to withstand the socio‐ecological crises associated with “the Anthropocene”.
Penelope Anthias, Kiran Asher
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Abstract This paper offers an alternative reading of decolonial geographies by examining how people make due in the context of colonial natures. Drawing on collaborative ethnographic research, we illustrate how everyday acts of reclaiming ancestral lands serve as practices of resistance that foment Enxet and Sanapaná resurgence in Paraguay's Chaco.
Joel E. Correia, Clemente Dermott
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Ecocide: from a war crime to an international crime?
in response to the relevance achieved in the last decade, this article explores the evolution of ecocide as a legal concept, from its origins to its contemporary status as a potential international crime, with the aim of assessing whether current ...
Jonatan Rigo-García
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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]
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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Abstract In this Counterpoint, we argue for the importance of social movements in responding to the climate crisis by challenging the taken‐for‐granted practices and policies of corporate capitalism. These challenges politicize what is seen as ‘common sense’ and show that there are alternatives to the dominant social order of fossil‐fuelled economic ...
Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright
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